Thomas Frank enters the room and has just a meeting with his coaching staff, analysts and the performance director Ben Ryan of the club. The subject of the meeting was to discuss next season, although there is a lot to play.
“I invited everyone to look back a little in the season,” he says Sky Sports. “We looked at the good pieces of what we were doing this season and then start looking at how we can improve.
“I know we have five more games to go, so I know that this season can be good. It can be very good. It can be exceptional.”
Brentford is outsiders for a European finish after a difficult weekend, even though they did not play. If the eighth or ninth next season could be enough for continental football, they would have been damaged by late victories for Fulham and Brighton, Plus Crystal Palace that reaches the FA Cup final.
It means that the trip from Thursday to Nottingham Forest, Live on Sky Sports, should almost be won if Brentford should remain in the race for Europe. “We have to get a result there,” says the Brentford boss.
“It is definitely a good season, whatever happens, it would of course be a bit flat if we lose the last five! But we won't do that. We won't do that, I'm pretty sure!”
The bees travel to a Boskant that undergo the season of their lives, even despite a recent blip in results. If the side win of Nuno Espirito Santo will climb back, they will climb back to third place – which is far from their situation last season.
Thursday's match on the city is between the teams that ended 16th and 17th in the Premier League in the previous term. Brentford finished seven points for the side that were promoted to the top flight a year after their own championship play-off success.
Forest has much more in their corner than Brentford – a huge fan base, inheritance and reputation with the history of winning European cups under Brian Clough. But is there a reason why Brentford cannot replicate what Bos is currently doing in the near future?
“No,” says the club's head coach. “But I think you can only do that for one season.
“It is difficult. Do you want to become a European club, but what is a European club? Is that every year? If so, it depends on the size of the club, where the budget has to be reasonably linked to it. Talks money.
“The good for us is culture, strategy, hard work, clear principles and playing style – all those things that we do pretty well. It can increase your level – and it has increased our level.
“But I think we can have one top season. Then there will be others where it will be good – but not enough to push in that top European company.”
One of Frank's most important mantras is the need to “add layers” every season. “Whatever happens,” he says. You hear the Danish coach say that sentence a lot during the season. “It's hard to go from A to B, it must be a process.
“We added layers in three of the four seasons in the Premier League. We could have done the third season, but the injuries have hindered us.”
And those layers are clearly on the field. Firstly, Frank made a shift this season to only play a back four. “I was bored that I had played a back five,” he says.
But there are also individual signs that layers are added, not only the collective growth. It did not go unnoticed how New Brentford players tend to start slowly and then grow out.
The £ 20 million from Keane Lewis-Potter van Hull was initially considered a waste of money, but he now blooms to the left, even with Rico Henry Fit again. Kevin Damage is a much better player than two years ago on his arrival, while Nathan Collins had an error disturbance debut campaign in previous term, but now the first name is on the team magazine.
“Two things are very important,” says Frank about this trend. “We are patient, what a word is that you can't say too much in football.
“You work with people, they are not robots. They have to feel confident, familiar and all that. Of course they have to perform, but that patience is the key.
“We bought those players for a reason – because they are good enough and they have shown that and more.
“And the other is that we are really good at developing players!”
So who is the next one on the list? Frank brand Igor Thiago, Fabio Carvalho and B-team player Yehor Yarmoliuk as the next to get through. “That could be the next three to give me the headache. That is the worst part of this task, I can only choose 11!”
But trusts a future success on keeping the best stars, in particular Bryan Mbeumo, who got into the Ivan Toney Void by scoring 18 Premier League goals this season. “And count,” says Frank.
Brentford is not afraid of selling top talent with David Raya and Toney who have moved in recent years – but there is a difference with Mbeumo. The bees had already signed Mark Flekken prior to the departure of Raya to Arsenal, while Toney was not involved with the team when he left for Saudi Arabia, an internal bladder softener with Yoane Wissa.
“I am the head coach, I want my best players to stay forever,” says Frank. “I know that Bryan is very happy to be here in Brentford, he blooms, is doing well and plays fantastic. What will happen in the future? I don't know.
“I have often said: we are a sales club. But at the same time we have to strengthen that there are 10 clubs in the world that do not sell clubs.
“So, of course, if the right price – and that is going to be expensive – is coming, then I know for sure that the club will be open for it. But I am very happy that it is here, and I am convinced that Bryan will still like to play football here.”
But is there a point in the coming seasons where that could change? “There could be,” Frank replied. Brighton – who sold hundreds of millions of talent, mainly to Chelsea, finally decided last summer to hold their stars – and invested nearly £ 200 million in summer signings.
“We only walk behind Brighton for a few years. About four years in that development, if we took them as an example,” says Frank.
“There have been absolutely situations in the past where we said no when clubs have hit our door.
“I expect that this will be the same in the future, where we say: no, we are not selling, we want to keep the players and continue to develop the team, or it is not the right time for the player to continue to something else.
“We are in a fantastic time in the history of Brentford, I am sure the fans enjoy it and I will certainly enjoy it. And I think we can push even more, so we have to do that.”
There are signs that Brentford will be firm again this summer, because Mbeumo is not the only player who is linked to a summer exit.
Forest made an offer for Mbeumo's partner in Crime Wissa during the January transfer window, while there was interest in damage to Borussia Dortmund. Both sagas could resume in the summer.
In the meantime, reports from Germany have connected goalkeeper Flekken with a move to Bayer Leverkusen, while the shape of Mikkel Damsgaard – which has 10 assists in his name, this term, the same count as Bruno Fernandes and one more than Cole Palmer – can bring interest.
“If we sell players, I expect this to be very little,” says Frank.
“This is a group where some of these players have been together for a while, but there has also been change that I also think is good and healthy.
“I expect more or less the same team for next season.”