Jannik Schuster is in line for his first league start, having come off the bench to replace the injured Nathan Collins last weekend.
Aaron Hickey joins him in the backline this afternoon, with Michael Kayode named on the bench.
Yehor Yarmoliuk and Jaidon Anthony also start, with the latter facing his former club, while Gustavo Nunes is included in a first-team matchday squad for the first time this term.
Vitaly Janelt will captain the west Londoners on Saturday afternoon.
Brentford (4-3-3): Kelleher; Hickey, Ajer, Schuster, Lewis-Potter; Sangaré, Janelt, Yarmoliuk; Anthony, Thiago, Schade

#start #afternoon

They replace Mathias Jensen and Dango Ouattara, the latter of whom is named amongst the substitutes.
Joining Ouattara on the bench are new signing El Hadji Malick Diouf, who signed for the west Londoners on a permanent deal from West Ham United earlier this week, and Fábio Carvalho, who will make his first appearance since sustaining an ACL injury in November if he features.
Brentford (4-3-3-): Kelleher; Kayode, Ajer, Collins, Lewis-Potter; Sangaré, Janelt, Damsgaard, Anthony, Thiago Schade
Subs: Valdimarsson, Schuster, Hickey, Henry, Yarmoliuk, Ouattara, Wilson, Carvalho, Diouf

#ouattara #diouf #carvalho

Brentford made it a miserable start to the Premier League season for Roberto de Zerbi's expensively rebuilt Tottenham Hotspur side with an emphatic 3-0 victory at The Gtech Community Stadium.
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#brentford #start #premier

The Detroit Lions continue to make changes behind the scenes as Brad Holmes strengthens the personnel department that has helped reshape the franchise.
According to Justin Rogers of Detroit Football Network, the Lions have promoted Dwayne Joseph, Rob Lohman, Joe Kelleher and Mark Olson to new roles within the organization.
Joseph is now vice president of player personnel, while Lohman has been elevated to vice president of roster operations. Kelleher moves from ***** istant director of pro scouting to director of pro scouting, and Olson has been promoted to ***** istant director of college scouting.
Joseph joined Detroit in 2024 as director of scouting after previously spending five seasons as the Las Vegas Raiders' director of pro personnel and four seasons as Philadelphia's director of pro scouting.
His promotion gives him an even larger role in a personnel department led by Holmes and ***** istant general manager Ray Agnew.

#director #kelleher

Executives at GXO Logistics said its transformation strategy is beginning to pay off as the company reported its strongest commercial quarter in three years and expressed confidence that growth will accelerate into 2027.
During the second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday before the market opened, CEO Patrick Kelleher said the company has moved beyond leadership changes and strategic planning into execution, with commercial momentum, artificial intelligence deployments and operational improvements beginning to translate into financial results.
"This quarter marks five years since GXO became an independent public company," Kelleher said. "The foundation established over the past five years combined with new leadership and a new strategic agenda are now translating into results. We're seeing real momentum build behind our strategy and we're still in the early innings."
Greenwich, Connecticut-based GXO Logistics (NYSE: GXO) is one of the largest pure-play contract logistics providers in the world. It has more than 970 facilities totaling approximately 200 million square feet, with a global workforce of more than 130,000 people.
The company released its second quarter earnings after the market closed on Tuesday.

#years #kelleher #strategy #commercial

Liverpool made several alterations to the squad last summer.
Richard Hughes bid farewell to plenty of ******* le-winning stars - including Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz, Caoimhin Kelleher and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Deals were concluded for replacements and upgrades - including Alexander Isak, Hugo Ekitike, Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong.
Unfortunately for the Reds they got worse - not better - and slumped to a fifth-place Premier League finish. Those failures cost Arne Slot his job as he was simply unable to get the best out of his new signings on a regular basis.
And now it's been claimed that one of those new faces is being offered around just ONE year after his arrival.