Brentford identified Andrews as Frank s successor

"Keith Andrews is the main candidate for Brentford. There is no agreement yet, nor is it soon, but it is a very similar appointment to Brentford because it will be an internal appointment.

" He has been working on Thomas Frank's coaching staff since last season, mainly as a set piece coach, but he has done much more than that, and he has been highly praised as a coach and future coach for the club. "They have internal appointments records in Brentford. Frank himself was Dean Smith's assistant, then took the helm and had a huge success.

"If you look back at Mark Warburton, who was Uwe Rossler's sporting director before taking over, 11 years ago he got them to the Championship for the first time from the League One." "So they do have a record of promotion from the inside, kind of like Liverpool's old boot room policy, they've found the quality of taking over in Andrews."

"It's very important for clubs like Brentford, they've had such great success and now establishing themselves as a Premier League club, and they have to have that continuity, too."