Brentford's B team are what remains after the Championship club chose to scrap its youth academy in May 2016. And so, with a peculiar fixture list that reads like the who's who of European football mixed with the who's that of the London game, the B team play out their season. Brentford is a B team by name that has developed a reputation in Europe for bringing its A game. Racic was drafted in to first-team training just five days after joining the B team. The 17-year-old said: "It's a big gamble and I could have stayed where I was comfortable, but with the B team I think there is a better pathway to the first team."

Source: BBC January 16, 2019 14:12 UTC