And now with their careers finished and your new prem contract almost in the bag, roles could be reversed.
I'd happily have another Prodl or Britos in their prime. Don't pretend you have any idea how good this guy is other than the fact that he's on Barcelona's books. He may be the dogs ****** but you can't be sure after 12 senior games.
In their prime? we never had either of them in their prime and they were ok for a team trying to stay in the league. If we realistically have any ambition of achieving top 10 or pushing for Europe then we need better than ok. Our current experienced centre backs are just about good enough to stay up in the championship. I'm not against signing an experienced centre back but I do think that this is where we should be looking to make our marquee signing this year. For me signing Todibo would be a win win, he's only going to get better and would likely be available for a relatively low fee, fits the Pozzo model perfectly. BUT he will need a solid experienced centre half next to him, something we do not currently have.
Why do you think he will be available for a low fee from Barcelona ? Prodl and Britos were both in their prime when they joined. Now they're/there/their not. I'm more interested in signing this "solid experienced centre-half next to him" that you speak of. Do you really think we will be splashing out to push for Europe ? You saw our last accounts, yes ?
Sadly based on what the PL team have told me what the salary will be (when the job is advertised in the next week or so) the girls will need to be buying me drinks!
Because they buy a lot of young players and not every one makes the grade to play for their first team. Still can be easily good enough for us, also Barca have a track record of letting young players go for low fees with buy back clauses so that they have a proper chance to develop rather than rot in the reserves. I don't think we need to splash out for Europe, in my opinion with a better defence last season we would have taken 7th. Midfield and attack is fine, lets spend what we do have on a couple of centre backs.
I agree. Prodl and Britos were great in the first season. Cathcart was younger as well. It’s complacent neglect that we have allowed our central defence to fall into disrepair. Going back to the equivilant of our 2013/2014 unit would be a step forward.
I think Abdi is or was married to an absolute stunner then and couldn't have looked less interested in the girls (who weren't really attractive anyway), think he was just wingmanning Ekstrand.
Adam LeventhalVerified account @AdamLeventhal 5m5 minutes ago Update on #WatfordFC interest in Jean-Clair Todibo of Barcelona - understand that he’ll start pre-season with Barcelona & decision regarding future (retain, sell or loan out to Watford or other) won’t be made until after then. Therefore doesn’t look like it’s happening imminently
De Ligt seems to be stalling on making his decision on a transfer, with PSG now strongly rumoured, so this could well be a consequence of that with Barca now less sure of landing him.
I have to say Leventhal is just saying the exact same thing the Spanish newspaper said originally. It was always said the player would be going back for pre-season before a decision was made.
He’s already got a deal that runs another 2 seasons but a 2 year extension till he’s 35 wouldn’t surprise me.
Has this **** not " rumoured to be signing for us, before being called off, then does sign on loan but gets injured in first game, returns to host club before signing for Leicester and trning out to be ****" yet
Sounds like the player will need a lot of convincing to come to Watford. http://sportwitness.co.uk/watford-knocked-door-player-hes-not-sure-premier-league/
What sort of a crap attitude is that? Clearly he's not seen the state of our current CBs. Either that or he's somehow actually dreadful. If the rest of the above is true, it doesn't seem surprising. Shame.
Well he’s barely had time to register what would have been the giddy dream world of signing for Barca and now he’s being asked if he wants to sign for us. It’s like pulling Jennifer Anniston only to find she wants to set you up with her mother.
I don't, but then I'm Watford through and through. This guy seems to be a plastic. Probably only comes to our Cup Finals
It's a "no" from WFC. https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/s...air-todibo-will-not-join-watford-this-summer/
If he doesn't think he can beat out the likes of our CBs, then he almost assuredly lacks the cajones to play CB in the PL. It's a man's league. The boy needs a month in the Championship to toughen him up.
To be fair to the lad, he’s probably a cultured ball-playing CB. He’s likely looked at our current style and seen how the current CB’s dispose of the ball quickly (and usually long) and thinks it’s not enough to swap Barcelona for Watford for. Can hardly blame him.