Yes but you can't believe twitter m8. Surest sign yet that he's definitely playing.....and coming in from the right.
Too good for us. Like GD he won't want his CV soiled by playing in the second tier. May come back if we get promoted.
Strange club to pick, given we were allegedly after Antov. Edit - ah course, it's Giaretta's old club
Obviously he needs to take some responsibility for his career nose diving but how bad a decision was that to take him out of Granada after his breakout season, ship him to Udinese, not play him, and then reset the clock on his Spanish passport, meaning we couldn't get him over here when we wanted him?
Clever (albeit desperate) move. Send him someplace where he has pretty much no choice but to focus on football. Literally the Last Chance Saloon.
As bad of a decision as that may have been, if he was putting the effort in it wouldn't have mattered.
£9.5 million off our balance sheet well spent. Just in Pozzo’s other pocket so no impact to our finances of course. Same reason we can buy Pussetto for £5million and then loan him to Udinese for no fee. All Pozzo. All good.
LOL the only thing worse than being the club that takes Penaranda AND Sinclair on loan, is being the club that signed Penaranda AND Sinclair in the first place.
I'd wiped Suarez from my memory - totally forgotten about him! Yep, Pervis too, AND he's been called up by Colombia for the next lot of internationals. edit: actually, being called up to Colombia would have been some achievement considering he's from Ecuador but yeah, called up for international football now.
Ambivalent about this really, clearly there were no takers, this was all we could do really. Would have liked to have seen what he could do in the Championship, but clearly since he he hadn't even made the bench in the league, he was never going to be in Ivic's plans. Still not grown up maybe?
Sad that he’ll seemingly never live up to the hype. I had hoped he could be a difference-maker a division below.
Yep, shambolic. Think it's pretty clear Penaranda is another 'what could have been' player. We ****ed him over somewhat with the situation you mentioned but at a certain point he has to take responsibility for his own career. Wasn't able to make his mark at Udinese, Malaga, Eupen, or here. No, he wasn't given many games but he must have worked under about 10 coaches by now, none of which thought he was worthy of a place in the starting line up, or even the squad.
Yep definitely mainly his fault. But sometimes momentum is everything for a young player and we killed it with that first Udinese move, I wonder if their coach even wanted him. Then injury scuppered any chance at Malaga and it's just got worse and worse. But still, overall his fault and he's gone from being a potential £40/50m player to someone that will probably scrape a career in second class leagues.
Agree with the sentiment here but the laughable bit is that he has already earnt more than most of us will in our lifetime, and will continue to do so as well, so not sure I have much sympathy for him when I suspect it is attitude rather than talent that has sidelined him. Wasted career but could still live happily ever after on the proceeds back home, assuming he doesn't spunk it all on drugs, booze ang birds.
I don't really know what to say to be honest. Peñaranda has gone from a kid with the world at his feet to falling into the footballers' abyss. A lack of discipline and poor decision making has meant he has wasted the last 4 years of his career, and with it, pretty much blown his chances of fulfilling his potential and becoming a talisman for Venezuelan football. We have to take our fair share of the blame for managing him so poorly. However, being an adult means that not only do you get you make your own decisions but you have to live with the consequences. Do you honestly think he's looking back on the last 4 years and thinking "I have worked really hard at my game and come on a lot as a footballer"? I don't think so. Most of all, I'm just sad really. Sad that his talent has gone to waste. Sad that we will never get to see the best of him. Sad that he has been treated like a piece of meat. Sad that he continues to be locked up within the prison that is the Pozzo empire. It's doing no one any good. He is still young enough to make something of his career, but he will never progress whilst under contract at Watford. All the loans in that world will not change that.
But presuming the money isn't going to have been sat in the bank, and your confidence in Pozzo actually identifying useful player, what difference does it make that the money went on players within the group rather than to other clubs?
