Frank delivers fresh Toney transfer verdict as Man Utd join Arsenal, Chelsea in race for £80m striker

Brentford head advisor Thomas Frank is pining to withhold Ivan Toney among religiosity from Manchester Joined, Chelsea and Arsenal.

Toney was one of the standout strikers in the Premier League last period as he racked upward 20 aims in 33 appearances.

The England international is yet to utility for the Bees this term as he is offering a 9-month ban for betting offenses.

The onward is ascertained to render his rejoinder in January yet he may have currently dabbled his last video game for Brentford. Arsenal and Chelsea have been heavily affixed via him in present months yet Dude Utd have currently presumably joined the race to indicator the £80m-rated opponent.

Ago in September, Frank authenticated that Brentford would certainly be eager to sell Toney for the “correct rate” in January.

“So far we’ve simply marketed one in the Premier League, that was David Raya – or that’s a funding yet understandably will certainly be a sale in the future, I guess,” Frank claimed on Paradises Sports’ Monday Night Football.

“I reckon every bar in the planet are a advertising bar except five or six bars. We are a advertising bar, if the correct rate is there.

“I reckon if it’s the correct time for the player to go, from my point ofview that’s not my judgment that would certainly be Phil [Giles, director of football] or Matthew [Benham, Brentford’s owner] in the end, after that I reckon if they have arose nicely via us, been on the barbecue, and currently they’re authenticated fantastic enough to participate in the apex bars, after that I reckon it’s the correct thing, if it’s the correct rate.”

Now Frank is adamant that he “doesn’t ache to lose” Toney.

“Everybody saw what he did last year. It’s not like he penniless a leg or did his ACL, so he’s match and understandably even a digit more enthusiastic to render service triumphes. I’m recommended he will certainly be utterly on it,” Frank claimed in an seminar via The Requirement.

“I don’t ache to lose him. I hope, and reckon, he’ll be a Brentford player on February 1.”

Frank owns been affixed via a ordinance away from Brentford himself and he owns admitted that he owns refuted bargains since he cannot investigate a bar who “tote out everything more outlined” than the Bees.

“Yeah, I have”, Frank added once checked if he owns received bargains from unlike other bars. “But I changability I’ll locate a bar that does everything more outlined than Brentford. I’ve obtained a fantastic day-to-day spiritedness, which is horribly important. What will certainly happen in the future, I don’t realise. I’m horribly enthusiastic — that could be under, that could be someplace else.

“If it rotates out that I someday ordinance, it’s since I fingered that was the correct judgment. But there’s also much I ache to boost under.”