[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.