He did. From the Brighton preview on the official site: https://www.watfordfc.com/teams/first-team/team-news-brighton-hove-albion
Abysmal negotiations by the club. Dawson, Livermore, Arter & Ward-Prowse. WTF is going on? We’ll soon get to a point where clubs won’t do deals with us. I wouldn’t be surprised if The Livermore deal broke down because West Brom told us to **** off after the insulting Dawson offer. Not a good window. We’ve stood still while others have progressed. I’ll be amazed if we’re not in the bottom three at the end of the season.
Gino doesn't care. As long as that sweet sweet TV money comes in. And the mass exodus that relegation will bring will net millions upon millions.
Thank the Lord the window has slammed shut, hopefully there won't be any more moaning.... at least until Saturday at 5pm.
Loans out, yes - loans in, no. And we can still sell to European clubs until 31st August as far as I'm aware.
Woe betide your lack of imagination... shame it's just a kid who'll be unlikely to even get off the bench for a while though.
We'll see how it plays out. The club likely believes (hopefully correctly) that the midfield situation is only an issue for a few weeks to a month. We have Doucoure (miraculously returned to health on deadline day after the healing of his never-named injury) and Capoue as holding mids, Hughes and Pereyra can play the attacking mid - and a variety of options out wide on both wings. Our fixture density is light for the first month and we should be getting everyone back during that time (except probably Cleverley). So, their view likely is that "Why pay 10+ million for a player who will be a bench sitter - likely for the whole season?" Realising that clubs are looking to get their slice of the Richarlison cash when they think we are desperate. The fact is, we probably aren't desperate. The club looks significantly better than last year all round the pitch - with the exception of striker - which is arguably the same (completely discounting Penaranda because - well - he's still doing his Claude Rains impression). We failed to get a short-term insurance player in midfield because we didn't want to get robbed. We got younger and faster at the back (which was our biggest concern) - and we now have competition and cover there. The only real disappointment is the failure to find a talent injection at forward - but we're far from alone there. I am hopeful that a healthy Deeney and more confident Gray, backed by a midfield that isn't spending the game in the defensive third because our defenders are all in hospital, will get more chances and convert a few more. I'm not planning on going out and dropping more than a fiver on that prospect, but I am hopeful.
So if Gray gets injured within the first 5 minutes of the Brighton game and is out for the season then we've got Deeney and Okaka up front for at least 4 months. In a team that were virtually incapable of scoring at the end of last season. God knows what happens if one of them then picks up a knock. Success? Ogo Obi? Gary Penrice?
No, I personally don’t rate any of them. Why are we going after them in the first place and more alarmingly, how did we fail?
Nah. Darius Henderson is still out there. Joking aside, it's Success, then presumably Penaranda... and in desperate times.. Folivi
Hopefully he gets it again in January, and again next July. Nasty little buggers those appendices. I hear they grow back often.
Yes but with a much greater chance of them signing him at the end of it. And him playing for them this season too so he can stay in the shop window in case they go down. He'd be behind all of our existing central midfielders if they were all fit.
I've not been following the announcements but these were the 10 outstanding transfers that could still have happened after the 5pm deadline.
I think Arter thought that Im not going to get much game time and also he should know that 90% of Hornets know him for the cxnt that he is and didn't fancy getting booed by the home fans as well as the away fans too.
Claude Rains??!! There's one for the teenagers!! Excellent!! 1930s actor references in a 'disappointing' transfer window thread!! I salute you, Sir!
Of course the window isn't actually shut. There will be plenty of moaning when Pereyra leaves for Torino.
I have one thought and one question: Will Udinese buy any players before their deadline that we would be interested in with a view to 'selling' or loaning them to us in January? only a daft cheating thought Secondly, under the old transfer system, we could play any players we owned through till the 1st September when the squads had to be filed at the EPL - I understand that is still the case even though the transfer window is shut, we will not have to operate to our 25 man squad until then. Can anyone confirm that? If so that is a definite benefit to us as we are a couple of overseas players over at the moment aren't we? Also we would know more about players returning from injury by then and about the form of fit players.
I think this was mentioned before and someone quoted a Warnock interview where he said that the 25 man squad needed to be submitted around the time of the first game.
