[SIGNED perm] Ismaila Sarr - club record fee

Yeah, the point seems to be the nasty chairman told people we were going to challenge for everything but actually it turns out we're still little old Watford. And people are very shocked to discover little old Watford are in fact still little old Watford and are not very happy about it. That seems to be gist?

As you've asked for it Burnsy, maybe you can explain how exactly the club should manage your expectations? What should they communicate to you and others that isn't already absolutely 100% crystal clear from the last 6 years of Pozzo ownership, the published financial accounts, our general standing in the game, our relatively low crowds and what is actually a very respectable (and comfortable) 4 years on the bounce at PL level? Bare in mind this message has to be delivered to people who presumably know football pretty well, have seen the pitfalls for clubs that overspend or accumulate expensive squad members to no real benefit and surely know 90% of what they read in rumour columns is completely fabricated nonsense generated by agents and journalists. I think "we want to win everything we can and will give everything we've got to do that" is just about the right message for Duxbury and others to give.

 

Not sure how reliable, but apparently Palarse have sanctioned Zaha's sale and will go after Sarr.

http://www.zampirampira.com/2019/08...-eagles-hijack-watford-deal-for-ismaila-sarr/

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/adamleventhal/status/1159451626698092544

It’s happening - you can all stop mewling now

 

Miles Jacobson

@milesSI

A good couple of days.

Another cryptic tweet that probably has nothing to do with Sarr, but it's deadline day and i've gone senile.

 

I have got a weak heart condition and I can’t handle the excitement of deadline day. I am going back to sleep

 

I hope not, I hate eggs. Like Everton level hate for eggs.

 

Nothing to say it's anything to do with Sarr. Could be anyone. Another U23 judging by the 3 or 4 people in the room ?? More than 30 mins since that post, I expect just to drum up clicks....

 

For crying out loud, will somebody just say 100% if it’s happening or not!

 

Bergwijn very unlikely according to Leventhal. Says the players has other options.

 

Apparently Bayern Munchen were sniffing around him last year.

 

Ok, here you go:

"100% if it's happening or not!"

 

That picture was posted just after 8am about when Javi was due to do his pre-scheduled press conference.

 

Tommy Smith?

 

Ok who is this girl?

https://twitter.com/EmmaCB_/status/1159148732455280641

 

Priskin is back !

 

U23 indeed.

 

It’s just Javi’s standard pre-match presser. Hardly surprising there aren’t many there to get the lowdown on Watford vs Brighton on deadline day.

 

That's Emma Conybeare. She's one of the new style DJs that are models that just press play. She goes to Watford games but I'm not sure how much she understands or cares.

She followed me on Instagram for a while and then stopped for no reason.

I'm not bitter or anything.

 

That's obviously just Javi's presser

 

I'm so out of touch, I've never heard of her.

 

Conybeare, bouncing here and there and everywhere,
High adventure that's beyond compare,
She's Emma conybeare.

 

Thank you. Finally somebody actually ITK

 

100% not happening at this stage, but still a 10% chance we could change that over the next 2 hours. We'll know more soon. I've been told we'll have clarity within 72 hours.

 

I'm getting bored of this game now.
I'm actually going to start some work now and just check at the end of the day whether he signed for CP and what the published fee was. If it was below £30m I will cry a little. If it was over £40m I will shrug my shoulders and move on.

 

It’ll be undisclosed and you know it.

 

Do you have a patreon/premium snapchat? Do you sell your bathwater?

 

For you, I'm even available on Kindle.

 

Come on guys - let's take this thread to 2000!

 

The chain indeed went into administration this week.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/08/05/spud-u-like-goes-administration-45-years/

Btw, the photo is an interesting time capsule. When people who'd grown up in B&W gradually became colour, although in a rather brownish way.

 

Has a medical been carried out? Players are assessed when they return from the offseason - so they can use that (according to SSN - not specifically about Sarr)
Have personal terms actually been agreed? No idea.

If neither have been completed then it's unlikely to happen.

Of course, his agent could have agreed terms on his behalf and they can do the medical in France.

Oh I don't know...leave me alone.

 

Wow! I haven't seen a SUL since the one in Wembley closed in the late 80s

 

**** this, I'm signing him on Football Manager.

 

He'll join Iturbe/Gibbs/Perotti/Alcacer/Townsend/Boufal in the list of historic targets that both ended in failure + got the forum riled up.