[SIGNED perm] Yaser Asprilla

An EPL side will be willing to risk £5-6 million on his potential alone, assuming he won’t be ready to start for a season; I don’t see anyone going over £8 million for him based on what they will have seen from him thus far.

 

Proof he’s committed to stay?

 

No one is bigger than the club. If he wants to leave we need the right money or massive sell on fees and performance based add ons and I dont see a deal happening so late in the window. If he plays well this season then selling him in a year is the best outcome for both club and player.

 

That would be a fair enough if every post above was purely "if he wants to leave then sell him, I only want players who want to be here". But they aren't.

We can kid ourselves into thinking every player in our squad wants to be a Watford player for the foreseeable, but every single one of them would jump at the chance for a move to any PL club. Let's just hope Asprilla is sensible enough to realise his best hope of the move he wants is a season of playing regularly, developing his consistency.

 

Given Louza was dropped for poor attitude/being late and Asprilla started, seems pretty obvious to me that it's the players agent who is doing the talking and not the player himself.

What protects Watford right now is that we will have a price which is based on his potential - and no one will come close to that price.

 

As far as I can see, the only source for this is Alan Nixon at The Sun and it's a totally nothing article:

https://twitter.com/TheSunFootball/status/1695760573034578131?t=Ext8azRXa5DSq-99OV_cww&s=19

He hasn't got a good track record of calling Watford news and when you read the article itself, it's generic fluff. 'Asprilla is hoping for a Premier League move...'. I'd imagine a fair few players would be hoping for a Premier League move.

Can't imagine there's anything much in this other than recycling some of the reports from Colombia earlier in the window. Worth looking at the source and what he actually wrote before people decide Asprilla is too big for his boots and start slagging him off.

 

From what I remember, Alan Nixon is quite reliable for Watford news. However, the point still stands, I think it is agent talk rather than the player himself

 

Think he was at one point but don't think he's had any ins to the club for several years. Obviously doesn't mean an agent couldn't have got in touch with him but there is so little detail, I'd come down on the side of recycling from elsewhere on a slow news day...

 

Mad that he thinks he's good enough for a premier league club when he can't even get into the worst Watford side since the 90s.

See Joao Pedro for further details. Found out after 1 match!

 

Even if we get a massive fee, it won't be reinvested in the team so we as fans, gain nothing.

 

Gianluca Nani is touting Asprilla to try and push his price up this summer, but saying he could be the new Lynda Bellingham isn't going to help.

http://sportwitness.co.uk/watford-s...gham-hands-says-transfer-interest-widespread/

However, just to check I've searched through Bellingham's career and maybe our Sporting Director has a point.

Most will know Bellingham from showing she was different gravy to her peers when she stole the show in the long running noughts & crosses series, The Oxo Family. A somewhat repetitive programme, Bellingham continually controlled the middle of the board and finally moved to bigger and better things in 1999.

The now deceased Bellingham had a starring role in All Creatures Great and Small (Are Vetted By Bayat), a drama about the transfer dealings of our favourite unconnected agent.

Then there was the timeless documentary featuring the Vicarage Road medical team, Doctor Who (Is On The Treatment Table This Week?).

She then starred in Second Thoughts, a series about every players emotional mindset a month after signing for Watford. Funnily enough, Obbi Oulare also had a starring role in that one but was uncredited at the time. In the recently released DVD boxset the big striker is finally getting the recognition he deserves, good or bad.

And finally, she was in (Absolutely No) Faith In The Future (If I Stay At This Godforsaken Club For Another Minute), a follow up to Second Thoughts. Re-runs of this can still be seen on Ratford TV, a small independent station run out of Nigeria.

Bellingham, below, pictured with Stephan Glass when they appeared somewhat confusingly as partners on Strictly Come Dancing, is everything Nani wants Asprilla to become. Bizarre.

 

Genius move from Nani to compare Yaser to Bellingham given there's a five month age gap and one has been inconsistent but talented in the Championship and the other is one of the best players in the world at the biggest club and about to play a Champions League final.

 

Faustino? I thought he was Yaser’s dad, rather than his brother given the age gap.