BRENTFORD co-director of football Rasmus Ankersen says the Championship club will be eyeing promotion again next season but won’t be governed by short-term thinking after appointing unheralded Dutchman Marinus Dijkhuizen as head coach.
Dijkhuizen replaces the popular Mark Warburton - who guided the Bees to the playoffs last season - at Griffin Park next term.
And while Warburton’s departure irked some fans, Andersen insists that doing away with conventional wisdom can see Brentford pushing for promotion again next term.
He said: “There’s a lot of sayings in football: why would you fix something that’s not broken but we think it’s important all the time to try and improve things and that also sometimes involves changing things that seem to be working.
And while promotion remains the goal, Ankersen claims that Dijkhuizen will not come under pressure if Brentford struggle in the early stages of next season.
He added: “It would be stupid not to try and do better than last season. And doing better than last season is being in the race for promotion again.
“We definitely think that’s possible but football is a random game.
“There are no guarantees but we aim high. If we fail this year we will aim high next year but it’s a club with big ambitions.
“Obviously we want to do better than last season.
It would be stupid not to try and do better than last season.
“He [Dijkhuizen] definitely has our support.
“Football can be very black and white.
“I think one of football’s biggest problems is that you make decisions on a temporary variation in results. The short-termism is causing a lot of bad decisions.
“We want to look in our performances in a wider perspective.
Speaking about what appealed about Dijkhuizen, Andersen added: “We wanted a coach that was open minded, who had shown he could create results by thinking differently.
“Brentford is not a football club that is going to win by spending more money than the competition. We need to win by out-thinking the competition.
“He’s an innovative, open-minded person, who at the same time embraces the club’s ideas, he also brought his own ideas to the table which we can learn a lot from as well.