Hopefully a useful addition and improvement over the dull striking force we had last season. Welcome to the club Rhys.
Welcome Rhys. You see that thing made of white sticks and string? Putting the ball in that thing is normally a foreign concept for Watford players, so if you could do that a few times this season, that would be marvelous.
See that other building over there, with the big red cross? Yeah don't ever stub your toe or you won't play for next few months. Apart from that, welcome Rhys. Enjoy "Rookery Roar" although to be fair we didn't get that much last season.
What a smashing start to the summer window. A very decent piece of business. A striker who has scored plenty of goals over the last three seasons, but who may feel he still has something to prove at our level of the English game and therefore have plenty of hunger to succeed here. Very pleased with this, well done to all involved, and looking forward to more additions to come who will also fit the style Ismael wants us to play.
Will never quite understand this forum's approach to transfer threads, where some are closed within a few minutes of the formal announcement and others meander on for months on end with chat unrelated to any transfer!
Nice to see some immediate jealously from one of the Championship favourites... https://www.leedsunited.news/news/l...-confirm-arrival-of-28-year-old-goal-machine/ Whether or not that proves an accurate analysis, well the jury is still out.
Hopefully this means the back of Manaj, Fletcher and fingers crossed Bayo. But if Bayo stays his workrate has to increase dramatically.
Breakdown on his title winning Toulouse season. https://twitter.com/watforddata/status/1671925947283456001?s=46&t=RvPpjqECf_iGSuGzl2DI0Q
This guys YouTube video looks good, a striker who can actually strike the ball cleanly in various situations. Bar the injury concern I’m quite positive about this one
Our defenders taking the mick out of his finishing ability in the club's latest twitter video, where they ask the players walking on to the training pitch who they think will score the first goal of the season: Pollock "Rhys Healey, it's gonna come off his shin" Morris: "Rhys Healey off the nose" .
I don't think so - as I say, they seemed to be taking the pi55. Ngakia said Bayo. Porteous and Ince said Louza.
Must be wondering why he still hasn't been given a chance. If he doesn't get a game next week even as a sub, you have to wonder why he is here. Does he/will he get a game if Bayo get's injured?
Really would've liked to see him today considering Bayo was invisible. Not sure the physicality of the game would've suited him as a lone striker but being played alongside Bayo would've hopefully given the Stoke CBs something to think about. Would really like French or AL to ask Vi about him to find out whether he's just not fancied or whether there's still fitness issues that's keeping him out.
Turns out someone did on Friday and I completely missed it. Sounds like it's more fitness based than VI not liking him at least.
Healey has actually played in the Premier League, the Championship, Leagues One and Two, the Conference, the Scottish Premier and the top two divisions in France. Quite hard from that to work out exactly what his true level actually is.
1 goal from 10 matches in EPL. 1 goal in 11 Championship games and Cardiff only using him as a backup man, tells me his level isn’t in the top two English leagues.
A bit misleading to use games played, he played 63 mins of PL football and 283 mins in the Championship which doesn't make his record seem nearly as bad as you're trying to make out, especially considering it was so early in his career. Across his whole career (13318 mins, 93 goals) he averages a goal every 143 mins. Sure he didn't go straight from the Welsh league into Cardiffs PL team (or even their Champ team) when he was 18 years old - but who does? Players develop differently and at different ages - in any league where he's got regular minutes he's been clinical, he's in his peak age and has scored 46 goals in the last 3 seasons (excluding last season of course), I don't understand why people are so negative towards him considering he's barely kicked a ball for us yet.
In his 10 Championship appearances and 4 Prem appearances in his career to date, he's played a grand total of 344 minutes, hardly enough to judge him on! Or perhaps it is, and his 2 goals in 60 Ligue 1 minutes make him one of the hottest strikers on the planet
Yes I’m with you on this one @reids The most recent seasons of any player are surely what counts and over them he’s been a very decent prolific scorer, albeit in another country. If we are going to dwell on what he may have or not done for sides he played for 5-7 years ago, then by that logic we should be ecstatic about signing Livermore who was playing for England under Gareth Southgate at that time!
He was part of Cardiff’s squad for those two seasons and they played him just for a handful of times. That should tell all you need to know. We’re talking Cardiff, not Liverpool. He couldn’t get into a poor Cardiff side. He scores goals in the lower leagues and that’s fine. In League One his ratio was 1 in 3. I’m surprised people are actually thinking this guy is good. Sure, give him time to prove himself, but he’s not fit and I really don’t expect much from him even when he is. He’s nothing more than a chancer’s punt. Unlikely to come off, but what the hell, he’s free so we’ll role the dice and might get lucky.
