Watford sign 8 players from Udinese

Is this any surprise?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23374082

 

@FourthOfficial_ 10m
Watford confirm the signing of 7 players from Udinese...

@FourthOfficial_ 5m
Udinese just buying players Watford want and then moving them to Watford on a free transfer to avoid the foreign loan loophole

@FourthOfficial_ 2m
The main problem is how Watford are bending rules to avoid FFP regulations that all other clubs have to work within

@FourthOfficial_ 1m
Watford can't buy the players themselves due to FFP, Udinese and Granada buy them and then sell them on a 'free' to Watford

 

It's a joke this. There ought to be some legislation about how many clubs you can own. If our owners had to go through the fit and proper persons test, then this lot should have to. Makes a mockery of the whole thing

If they have already been through, then it's not fit for purpose.

What is really odd is the Watford fans who now severely dislike us, because they beat us. Wierdos. Bad winners

 

Good job FA, really sorted out that issue!

 

As couldnt give a **** about Watford. Its just a club cheating that I dont like

 

really really winds me up this. Just as the new FFP and parachute payments will kill the football league,m this kind of bollocks is ruining things for england. It seems its not just at work that foreigners are denying young english guys a chance but its in football too. Why the **** would you be in Watfords academy when you know ten ****ing italians will be turning up in your place. Cheating bastards.

 

Well it was OK when King Power was handing Sven a blank cheque book or giving Pearson money to outbid rivals by giving players ridiculous contracts - can't see how you can complain when your owners are just as guilty

 

Well it was OK when King Power was handing Sven a blank cheque book or giving Pearson money to outbid rivals by giving players ridiculous contracts - can't see how you can complain when your owners are just as guilty

no mate, it wasnt ok and this is in any case a different point. Firstly they are making a mockery of the system, a so-called 'embargo'and also the point I made about bringing through home-grown youngsters. If they were spending money from their owners then so be it but this is dodgy in the extreme.

 

At the end of the day, the money WAS spent by their owners - why buy players you already own, giving their agents a nice wedge in the process?

 

... completely different - we've done nothing different to clubs like Man United, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool etc i.e being bankrolled by a rich owner - something which has never been challenged until the advent of FFP which now imposes restrictions - so it was very much a case of 'caveat emptor' - the 'risk' lying with rich owners of not getting their dosh back.

By contrast, the ruse(s) that Watford have used are deliberately contrived with the prime purpose of circumventing existing rules ...

Now don't you think it's time to get over your bitterness at being out bid on Chris Wood? - you must be knackered by now given how many anti-Leicester bandwagons you've jumped on - not to mention the splinters in your arse (oops I just did) - try to let it go.

 

Not an anti-Leicester band wagon, and the way that Wood deteriorated after 3 weeks of Pearsonism it appeared we got lucky not signing him,
I just can't see why Leicesters are the only clubs fans (it seems) that are upset about how Watford are conducting their business.
**** all to do with Leicester, they are only putting themselves on a level pegging with you after 5 years of spending money which was far more than your turnover - get over it

 

Nothing to get over - I'm not particularly bothered with what they do - but there is a distinct difference - hence my post.

 

just the eight? pathetic... #smalltime

 

Maybe a distinct difference, but outcomes are exactly the same - you both have/had expensive squads that are way over what the turnover of any normal business would allow!

 

Oh dear oh dear oh dear - more examples of mouthing off pub talk rather than conducting proper research of your own...

'So called embargo' - if you bothered to read up on it you'd realise that it wasn't as though we were given a selection of embargoes from which to choose. Enough has been written in the public domain regarding the type and intention behind it - do some research.

'Not bringing through home grown youngsters' - total rubbish. We currently have eight home grown youngsters in the squad - and last season used more than any other team in the Championship bar Middlesboro.

'If they were spending money from their owners..' - but we are. Again, a little research will tell you how many of these signings are free transfers and how many are for undisclosed fees. Jumping to conclusions isn't to be recommended...

Still, can't let the facts get in the way of a good whinge, can we.

 

2 were undisclosed and the rest were free

Uche Ikpeazu - Reading to Watford - Free
Lewis McGugan - Nottingham Forest to Watford - Free
Cristian Battocchio - Udinese to Watford - Undisclosed
Daniel Pudil - Granada to Watford - Undisclosed
Diego Fabbrini - Udinese - Watford - Free
Cristian Battocchio -Udinese to Watford - Free
Almen Abdi - Udinese to Watford - Free
Gabriele Angella - Udinese to Watford - Free

 

Many years ago, Watford signed seven players from Leicester in one close season. It didn't do us any good, mind.

 

Players come to Watford because they get a chance to progress their careers and know that if they are good enough it will earn them a move to a bigger club as Watford are known to be a selling club.

Also they like the way Watford play, rated by many as the best footballing team in the championship last season.

The above facts were also given by Uche Ikpeazeu when he left Reading Accademy to join Watford and by the way he bagged himself 28 goals last season which included 5 hatricks!!!. So the fact is we do give young players chances because we can't afford to give has beens fat salaries to do nothing like your club has.

Now when it comes to Leicester City, your football was not as good last season, perhaps it will be better this but unless your anouncing a new sponsership with Kleenex grow up, enroll in some further education courses to stimulate your grey matter so as learn the full facts before you spout off such tosh!!!

 

My point TC is that most major football clubs in the world - with the possible exception of in Germany - are run on those very grounds ... Watford's circumvention of transfer / loan rules is very different ... as their financial statements will demonstrate ... presumably they have no real debt (or asset value) on the balance sheet for these 'acquisitions' - whereas all the other clubs will have considerable debt to the owners but also the legal ownership of the asset (players) ...

 

Even you arent stupid enough not to see the difference surely?

No one would have a problem if Watford was up front about it and paid for their own players regardless of what they pay. Its using 3rd parties to cover the fees which is cheating