{"id":600176,"date":"2021-08-26T18:19:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T22:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=600176"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:19:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T22:19:28","slug":"brentford-matthew-hoppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/26\/brentford-matthew-hoppe\/","title":{"rendered":"Brentford Hold Talks With Schalke for Forward Matthew Hoppe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcgrathmike\/status\/1430940740939620362?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike McGrath has reported<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/15\/irrepressible-sergi-canos-headlines-brentford-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Brentford<\/a> have held talks over a potential deal for Schalke forward Matthew Hoppe, and want to bring the player in before the summer transfer deadline arrives on August 31.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BrentfordFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BrentfordFC<\/a> have held talks over deal for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Schalke?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Schalke<\/a> forward Matthew Hoppe, other clubs also considering <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#USMNT<\/a> player who has \u20ac8m valuation<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike McGrath (@mcgrathmike) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcgrathmike\/status\/1430940740939620362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Schalke Forward Matthew Hoppe Wanted by Brentford<\/h2>\n<h3>US International Likely to Leave<\/h3>\n<p>Brentford appear to be in pole position to land Matthew Hoppe after holding talks with Schalke over an \u20ac8 million deal. The forward is likely to leave the club after they were relegated to the second division of German football after three decades at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>The relegation has added to the club\u2019s financial worries and, therefore, it may be possible for a cut price deal to be negotiated for the United States international striker.<\/p>\n<h3>Young Talent<\/h3>\n<p>Last season saw Hoppe grab six goals in 22 appearances in the Bundesliga where he caught the eye of several of Europe\u2019s top scouts. Schalke\u2019s relegation has merely accelerated the potential departure of a player, who started his career via the residency academy programme at Barcelona based in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>The six goals that Hoppe scored made him the club\u2019s top scorer last season. His goals included a superb hat-trick against Hoffenheim in January 2021, which was a highlight in a very dark season for Schalke. Any player scoring a hat-trick in a top league has undoubted talent at their disposal.<\/p>\n<p>Hoppe has pace and is good at holding the ball up as well as being versatile in the air at just over six feet tall and would give Brentford additional options up front as they look to build on a positive start to life in England\u2019s top division. Together with last season\u2019s Championship Golden Boot winner, Ivan Toney, Hoppe can form one of the deadliest partnerships in the bottom half of the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"MkTvYoVXQZBoU7PcabawSQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1330642674\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'MkTvYoVXQZBoU7PcabawSQ',sig:'ZJV6I09q6YfRgkRJ2lvI5osiaRc8UG3K0NPAOvKRsjE=',w:'594px',h:'373px',items:'1330642674',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph\u2019s Mike McGrath has reported that Brentford have held talks over a potential deal for Schalke forward Matthew Hoppe, and want to bring the player in before the summer transfer deadline arrives on August 31. #BrentfordFC have held talks over deal for #Schalke forward Matthew Hoppe, other clubs also considering #USMNT player who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":600200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8684,7188,28,1],"tags":[8854,269],"class_list":["post-600176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-brentford","category-rumours","category-transfers","category-uncategorized","tag-matthew-hope","tag-schalke"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}