Brentford have completed the signing of Dango Ouattara from fellow Premier League side Bournemouth for a club-record fee.The forward has signed a five-year contract, with a club option of an additional year.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old recorded 18 goal contributions in 81 top-flight games for the Cherries, having joined in January 2023.<\/p>\n
Keith Andrews<\/a>, Brentford head coach, said: \u201cWe\u2019re really happy to get Dango in. He\u2019s someone that we were aware and surprised could be available and, once we knew that signing him might be a possibility, we really focused on trying to get him in.<\/p>\n \u201cWe liked his Premier League<\/a> experience, even at his young age, and he just hasn\u2019t found the rhythm yet because of a lack of consistent game time.<\/p>\n \u201cHe also suits the way we want to play – he has something that we were lacking in the forward line, and he will complement what we already have in the building.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fans will love him; he\u2019s the type of player that they will get off their seat for.\u201d<\/p>\n Phil Giles<\/a>, Brentford director of football, added: \u201cHaving sold Bryan Mbeumo<\/a>, we have been looking to add an attacking player to the squad, and we think Dango is the perfect addition. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been well documented that there has been more change over this summer than in recent years at the club; however, I\u2019m very confident that, in each case where a player has left us, we have managed to bring in an extremely strong replacement, and Dango is the latest example of that.<\/p>\n \u201cWe also have players such as Aaron Hickey<\/a>, Rico Henry<\/a> and Igor Thiago<\/a> who are fit and ready, and also players such as Frank Onyeka<\/a> who have benefitted from a loan last season, so I think the squad is looking very strong.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really excited to see Dango on the pitch and bringing his unique skillset to the team.\u201d<\/p>\n Born in the capital city of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Ouattara began his career in the academy system of Majestic.<\/p>\n In the Burkinab\u00e9 Premier League, he scored five goals in 11 games as a teenager, which sparked interest from European clubs.<\/p>\n Ouattara joined French side Lorient in the summer of 2020, spending his first season in the reserve team in National 2. <\/p>\n In his breakthrough season for the first team, the forward made 25 appearances in Ligue 1, scoring his first goal in April 2022 against Metz.<\/p>\n His form earned him a spot in the Burkina Faso side for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, scoring the winning goal against Tunisia in the quarter-final. That is one of 10 goals he has scored in 30 caps for his country.<\/p>\n Ouattara continued his good form into the 2022\/23 campaign, and he became a key man for Lorient as they pushed for European qualification.<\/p>\n He scored six goals in 18 games for the Les Merlus that term, also adding six assists, before joining Bournemouth in January 2023.<\/p>\n In his three seasons on the south coast, he scored 11 goals and provided nine assists in 88 matches in all competitions, which included a hat-trick against Nottingham Forest last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford have completed the signing of Dango Ouattara from fellow Premier League side Bournemouth for a club-record fee.The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-71868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}