Brentford owner Matthew Benham has revealed that the London club could have signed Eberechi Eze for just £4 million after gaining promotion to the Premier League six years ago.
Benham also disclosed that they had plans of purchasing Omar Marmoush on a free.
“We could have signed Eberechi Eze for £4m I think in 2019,” Benham was quoted on Euro Foot.”We could also have signed Omar Marmoush on a free about three years ago.”
“We could have signed both about £4m combined. The summer we got promoted to the Premier League, there was actually two players that scouted amazingly, amazingly well… one was Mudryk which was maybe a bit complicated if we signed, although we were quite close to signing him for a low fee, for about €20m. Eventually, he went for more like €80m though he’s currently serving a drug ban.”
On why Brentford did not end up signing Michael Olise, he added:”Then Michael Olise, his scouting was unbelievable, out of this world but we just got promoted and we weren’t used to the crazy agent fees in the Premier League at the time.”
“The agent fee for that one was so insanely high that we stepped away, even though there was part of us thinking ‘well, if you combine the agent fee and the transfer fee, it’s kind of not too bad,’ but the agent fee on its own was just so insane that we stepped away. There’s always going to be ones you miss out on.”
