Just linked with Will Keane, L1 top scorer last season but 29. Supposedly would take £1m as he enters his final year with QPR and Sheff Utd also interested. Some Wigan fans thinks he’s just getting his agent to secure a new contract. Was superb last season but probably the only great season in his career. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/foot...ce=sharebar_native&utm_medium=sharebar_native
Scored 9 goals from set-pieces and 6 from open play crosses. Sounds about right for the targetman we're apparently after. But i'm far from convinced.
The two things you have to ask yourself when it comes to being linked to players is, is he out of contract, is he on Mogi Bayet’s books. If either is no, then he’s not coming to Watford.
Do you have a radar for him? Trying to work out if he matches his performance from last season whether he’d be a good fit. Either way, given the rest of his career and injury history that seems unlikely. Does have that cracking song though I believe - oh wait that’s Will Grigg.
Mogi doesnt get involved when we are in the championship apparently. Maybe the EFL rules are tighter than the Prem ones?
Dear lord. Hopefully this is nonsense, the summer is off to a terrible start if we sign some of these rumoured turds.
This guy's career is bizarre. Floated around Championship clubs barely playing any football (had started fewer than 50 games at the age of 27 and had only scored eight goals), then has somehow made 68 starts and scored 36 goals in the last two years in League 1. He's now 29, this video shows most of his goals this season which seem to be either decent headers or really scrappy tap ins: Really looks like a bang average player who has hit a late career purple patch so... welcome to Watford, enjoy your five year contract!
Can't see it tbh. I'd just call it lazy journalism. We're going to be linked with so many as always. Just bin this and move on.
Bearing in mind we'd have to pay actual money for him (a genuine goalscorer at L1 level won't leave for pennies even if his record before the last two seasons has been ****), I doubt this happens
He was excellent in the youth leagues, alongside his brother Michael (who has gone on to have a pretty good career). His finishing was really clinical. United rated Will and are surprised he didn’t have a better career. I think he’d have been a solid PL striker if he didn’t suffer a cruciate injury just as he was breaking through.
Am I right in thinking he was in United’s youth team at the same time as Josh King? We can swap one ex-Utd striker who doesn’t score for one who is equally as crap but with less pedigree? The great downgrade begins.
When we sign the equivalents of Sanchez, Gosling and Lazar you guys are gonna look back on the Keane/Lawrence rumours with fondness.
Yep. Sanchez had 2 good halves and Gosling did a decent half season rotation shift in return for us having to pay him another 2 years to contribute little. Will be a hugely encouraging for Pozzo to bring in another pair like that.
I admittedly know nothing about him beyond that video, but if it is a £1m and by the sounds of it Edwards plays to his strengths (loads of balls into the box) surely this wouldn't be an awful signing?
Gosling's goal against Norwich was huge, it was worth it just for that. We also know that Sanchez was only a short-term deal to cover for injuries etc. and he did the job.
Whoops I got him mixed up with Will Grigg. So I know even less about him not bad figures from a second striker or AM though.
A player that I actually have kept a close eye on, the Keane brothers are a friends of a friend through the Irish Gaelic foitball scene in Manchester. Will was tipped to go to the very top as a youngster at Man United and was smashing in goals for fun for Man United under 23's squad until he suffered an ACL injury playing in the England youth set up. He is a clever player and links up play well. Will doesn't even play as a an out an out centre forward all of the time and often plays in behind the forwards. 1 mill for a player that has scored 26 goals and has assisted six goals in 44 games wouldn't be terrible business.
Isn't he the poor guy who suffered a heart attack in training last season and was saved by his club manager and the doctor?
If gosling didn’t start against Norwich someone else would’ve, you can’t seriously believe one goal in a game that wasn’t even necessarily decisive (it’s not like it was a final) was worth paying him for two whole years to do nothing? Our fans are so easily pleased. Same bizarre view as saying Deeney was worth having in the side to score penalties.
Regardless of how important Gosling's goal was (we got promoted by 4 points in the end, so in theory we could have got promoted anyway, even though we wouldn't necessarily have gone on to win 2 of the last 3), I think Bournemouth got the better end of the deal since they got a younger player with more upside in Ben Pearson and got Gosling's (probably not insignificant) wages off the books, meanwhile Gosling participated almost nothing to our season, and is another year older next season...
