The last thing we need is somebody else upsetting the refs which Barton would do!] I cannot see Barton working well with our overseas players somehow - got the sense he thought they were to blame for the failings of QPR.
The president of Genoa has said Diego Perotti and Andrea Bertolacci could be joining Watford, even if Andrea Bertolacci is part owned by Roma and they want to buy out Genoas part of the contract. These rumours are from fantagazzetta for Diego Perotti and tuttomercato for Andrea Bertolacci. Will the cut oranges at half time be replaced by espresso and a piece of panettone?
I sometimes wonder if these other chairman/owners use the Pozzos to sell off players they don't want..
Gestede linked again. I don't see this one. Why would we be interested? He will not be cheap and with no top flight experience. All our strikers are better.
http://footballleagueworld.co.uk/watford-launch-second-bid-for-blackburn-rovers-striker/ http://footballleagueworld.co.uk/wa...terested-in-move-for-championship-midfielder/
A bit of an update on the rumours I have seen, and I may have missed some, with some sort of source checking, anything in bold has happened. We are up to 50 players linked to the Hornets, which is never going to happen, many are the easy cut and paste from relegated to promoted clubs . Green is in, red is out, blue is what actually happened and black anything else club related ie Matěj Vydra staying. So far only Giedius Arlauskis and Sebastian Prödl on the playing side and Enrique Sánchez Flores have proved correct. Season end to 20150517 01. Šime Vrsaljko - Sassuolo TMW Here in The City 02. Derik Osede- Castilla Daily Express 03. Cristian Sapunara - Porto t.co 04. Gabriel Torje - Konyaspor t.co 05. Adnane Tighadouini - NAC Breda HITC 06. Paul-Jose M'Poku - Standard Liege Daily Mirror 07. Micah Richards - Fiorentina Daily Express 08. Michael Essien - AC Milan The Sun News Now 09. Will Hughes - Derby County ? 10. Jem Karacan - Reading The Sun 01. Lewis McGugan - Sheff Wednesday WOb 02. Diego Fabbrini - Birmingham BBC 03. Lloyd Dyer - Birmingham BBC 11. Joe Bennett - Aston Villa ? 12. Antonio di Natale - Udinese ? 13. Younis Kaboul - Tottenham Hotspur The Sun 14. Adlene Guedioura - Crystal Palace ? 15. Juanfran - Betis Balompie ? 04. Slavisa Jokanovic - Sunderland Daily Mail Dick Advocaat stayed 05. Slavisa Jokanovic - Newcastle United Daily Mail Steve McClaren appointed 16. Giedius Arlauskis - Steaua Bucharest Gazetei Sporturilor 17. Mirko Pigliacelli - Frosinone Calcio from Italian sources 18. Mauricio Isla - Juventus from Chilean sources 19. Jan-Arie van den Heijden - Vitesse Arnhem 20. Fabio Borini - Liverpool via Udinese 20150518-20150524 21. Kieran Trippier - Burnley Daily Mail 22. Matthieu Flamini - Arsenal Daily Star 06. Slavisa Jokanovic - Leeds United hereinthecity.com 07. Slavisa Jokanovic - West Ham United hereinthecity.com Slaven Bilic appointed 08. Ikechi Anya - Celtic Daily Mirror 23. Anthony Mounier - Montpellier Daily Star 01. Luke O'Nien - released 02. Marco Motta - released 03. Vujdan Savic - released 24. Francesco Guidolin - Udinese newsnow 25. Thomas Huertaux - Udinese tuttomercato.web 26. Adrian Mariappa - Crystal Palace Daily Mirror 14. (2) Adlene Guedioura - Crystal Palace Jon Marks 27. Bakary Sako - Wolverhampton Wanderers ? 28. Michail Antonio - Sheffield Wednesday ? 29. Abdoulaye Diaby - Lille OSC tribalfootball.com 30. Enrique "Quique" Sánchez Flores - unattached Daily Mail 20150525-20150531 31. Adrian Ayew - Marseille twitter? Daily Star went to Swansea City 32. Rudy Gestede - Blackburn Rovers Daily Mail South Wales Evening Post 33. Papakouli Diop - Levante superdeporte.es 34. Daniele Dessena - Cagliari tuttomercato.web Watford Observer 35. Luca Cigarini - Atalanta tuttomercato.web 36. Virgil van Dijk - Celtic HITC (swap for Ikechi Anya) 37. Henri Bedimo - Olympique Lyonnais footmercato 38. Sebastian Prödl - Werder Bremen HITC Daily Mail WOb 39. Charles Kabore - Kuban Krasnodar ? 40. Dwight Gayle - Crystal Palace London24 20150601-20150607 4. Matěj Vydra - staying Udinese tuttomercato.web 41. Benjamin Stambouli - Tottenham Hotspur l'Équipe Getfootballnewsfrance HITC 42. Curtis Davis - Hull City ? 43. Ali Adnan - Udinese WOb 44. John Guidetti - Manchester City talksport 20150608-20150614 45. Diego Perotti - Genoa club president and fantagazzetta.com 46. Andrea Bertolacci - Genoa club president 47. Scott Arfield - Burnley footballleagueworld Watford observer 48. Alex Mejía - Udinese twitter 49. Steve Leo Beleck - Fiorentina ? 50. Haris Vučkić - Newcastle United hereinthecity
These are so many we could have two teams in the leagues as well as the players in the promotion team playing in the Premier League.
That is some list, bet the agents are laughing ATM. Didn´t Gomes also sign? Shows that rumpurs are just that sometimes!
Something I saw in a number of places was that Swansea City are preparing a bid for Odion Ighalo, to the tuen of £8 million. They chased him two years ago (aparently) with Wigan. Odion has some other ideas about this proposed move: http://www.soccernet.com.ng/2015/06/swansea-ill-be-at-watford-next-season.html
I noticed on Twitter a lot of Watford fans/pages started following but couldn't find anything about him signing. One of the few in the Udinese squad I would like over here seeming Pereyra and Muriel are already leaving (oither than Vydra, of course). Although think I would take Faraoni back too if we are struggling for RBs
Watty Obs is suggesting Anya may be subject of a £2m bid by Celtic - am I alone in thinking that would be a joke fee? And there is talk of £6m for Blackburn's Gestade - sorry - didn't he cost them about £200k 18 months ago? Can't see Pozzos thinking either of those are good deals.
