One of our new signings reaching out to one of our fans whilst they are suffering . https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/s...d-signing-kamara-makes-heartfelt-gesture-fan/ A nice touch and shows he has a heart to think about the fans.
Yes, I saw that. I thought Rose had gone to Turkey now? It was obvious that Gosling had lost his legs right back at the first match of the season but what is interesting is that Nkoulou gets a space over him despite injury which suggests he may get fit sooner than later.
It would be interesting to know what the electricity bill is at the Vic with all those additional floodlights and the grass growing lamps.
Yaser Asprilla will be staying at Envigado (which was his wish) for the next six months before joining Watford. I think that he must already have a work permit (as was claimed by Colombian sources) because I am sure that he would have been sent out on loan to Deportivo Cali (playing in the Copa Libertadores) or to Udinese if he still needed to gain points for a work permit to play in the Premier League.
Go go Joe Hungbo - scored a late first half equaliser for Ross County against Dundee to keep his side five points clear of bottom place.
Watford starlet Yaser Asprilla will remain on loan at Envigado for the next six months, it has been announced. Watford attempted to get the player a work permit after his transfer was made official last month, however overseas players now need to accumulate a total of 15 points from six different performance-related categories in order to be granted a permit and Asprilla does not yet meet the threshold.
Are you quoting from Ryan Gray's article in the Watford Observer, oldfrenchhorn? I am not convinced that Gray is always fully informed about what is happening at Watford. For example, he reported that Watford had no interest in signing Kalu when the player was first linked to the club, but a couple of weeks later Kalu did sign for Watford. An article in Sports Witness (referring to the Colombian journalist Pipe Sierra) takes a different slant and reports that it was a request from Asprilla himself to stay at Envigado because he wanted a little more playing time with his first club before completing his move to the Premier League. There is no mention of a work permit issue in the Sports Witness article. A number of Colombian sources (including the journalist Alexis Rodriguez) have previously claimed that - on Thursday, 27th January 2022 - Yaser Asprilla obtained a work permit to play in the Premier League for the 2022-23 season and that he no longer needed to join another club in order to gain the required points to obtain a work permit. These sources reported that there were ongoing discussions between Watford and Envigado about whether Asprilla should immediately come to Watford or whether he should stay with Envigado for another 6 months (which was the player's preference). Watford may have applied for Asprilla to be given a work permit on the grounds that he is an exceptional young talent (supported by the fact that he is the second youngest player to ever be selected for the Colombian national team). The original plan was that Asprilla should join - on loan - Deportivo Cali (a Colombian team in the Copa Libertadores) or Udinese in order for him to acquire the necessary points to qualify for a work permit so it would not make much sense to now allow Asprilla to stay a further 6 months at Envigado if he still does not have a work permit.
You may be right. I was going by the statement put out by his existing club. The Colombian side announced his return to the club with a statement on their website that reads: "We are pleased to announce that Envigado Fútbol Club has reached an agreement with Watford in England, so that Yaser Asprilla, the pride of the Cantera de Héroes, will continue at his home for the next six months. It is a pleasure for the Orange Family to continue counting on the class and talent of a bastion of its seedbed." That sounds very much to me that he was going to Watford, but something changed. I have read several different ways in which the required number of points can be gained, and some thought he might have enough, while others didn't. Certainly the business model that used to work so well for the Pozzos, bringing players into the EU where they could get experience and points, has now gone out of the window.
Asprilla does not yet appear to meet the criteria to obtain the minimum 15 points for a work permit, but he could have gone on loan to Udinese where he would gain the necessary points for a work permit because Serie A is a top ranked league. Alternatively, he could have moved on loan to Deportivo Cali and played in the Copa Libertadores, which would also provide the necessary points. I have read that it is possible that Watford appealed for a work permit on the basis that Asprilla is an exceptional young talent. He will now stay an additional six months with Envigado: there is nothing in the statement from Envigado which contradicts anything which I have written, but - in fact - it actually seems to confirm the Colombian sources.
A number of Colombian sources (including the journalist Alexis Rodriguez) have previously claimed that - on Thursday, 27th January 2022 - Yaser Asprilla obtained a work permit to play in the Premier League for the 2022-23 season and that he no longer needed to join another club in order to gain the required points to obtain a work permit. It now appears that they were wrong, and the WO was not far off the mark. The WO article is qualified, with the "does not yet meet the threshold."
I do not know for certain, but I beg to differ with your opinion. Why is Asprilla not moving to another club in order to obtain the required number of points (as originally planned)? Nothing will be gained by staying at Envigado for six more months. He would not be so far from home if he had joined Deportivo Cali (who were keen to sign him on loan for six months) and he would be able to gain the necessary points by playing in the Copa Libertadores. Curiously Asprilla was neither in Envigado's team nor on the bench for the important game against Deportivo Cali yesterday. Do you have any other evidence that the Colombian sources were wrong? My understanding of the quote from the Watford Observer ("does not yet meet the threshold") is that he does not yet have sufficient points to qualify for a work permit. I have read that there are cases where work permits can be granted to exceptional young prospects (who have not yet reached the required number of points) and he was the second youngest player ever to appear in the Colombian national team. I have already pointed out that Ryan Gray (Watford Observer sports journalist) is not always fully informed about developments at the club and I have given one example of when he was incorrect (but I do remember that there have also been a number of other occasions when he has been wrong). Only time will reveal the truth of the matter.
I am afraid we are both taking snippets of information and trying to work out what is going on due to the lack of information coming out of the club. The shame is that due to the virus no fan's forums have been held, when such questions would have been asked. A great deal has been done by the club in many different ways to keep the bond between fans, community and club together, Maybe a zoom type forum could have been organised.
Unfortunately, not even Ryan Gray (Watford Observer) nor Adam Leventhal (the Athletic) are always kept informed by the club. I think that - in this instance - that Watford are not releasing any information, but that snippets of information are trickling out of Colombia. I am not sure how much more would be revealed to supporters through a zoom type forum. The questions appeared to be carefully controlled and were not always directly answered in the last 'At Our Place' online featuring Scott Duxbury. I got the impression that it was more of a public relations exercise by the club rather than a genuine attempt to create a fans' forum.
My understanding is that he has the work permit now but that he preferred to see out the season at home and Watford agreed because even though they named him in the squad they were unlikely to use him in the current predicament. His international call-up and debut helped considerably. Ha! Now I have said that he was named in the squad with a squad number, I can't find it but I'm adamant I saw it at the time of the squad announcement.
And in our family her is a star already. Gave his shirt to our grandson, and had a great smile whilst doing it. However, we are also grateful to a 20 something fan who lifted our grandson up and pointed to him to attract Kamara's attention. As our grandson has to go to a school full of Burnley fans tomorrow, he will be buzzing - never mind the result !
