Jose Holebas has announced his retirement from football, ending a lengthy and successful career as a player.
Jose made 124 appearances for Watford, scoring 6 times, collected 41 bookings & was sent off once.
Enjoy your retirement Jose! 🐝
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All good things have to come to an end.
3 back to back seasons scoring 20+ goals in the Championship
2 promotions to the PL
47 premier league goals
FA Cup final
Thank you for everything you’ve given our football club over the years. We love you
@T_Deeney
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are in line to receive £2.19m from Manchester United after a deal was agreed with Borussia Dortmund to sign Jadon Sancho
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Source: Telegraph
Roy Hodgson 🗣
“Sarr is very highly-rated, as is Louza. Louza’s second-half performance against Brighton convinced me that he should be in the starting XI today and he certainly didn’t disappoint.
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Former Hornet, Dapo Mebude has been rushed to hospital after suffering life-threatening injuries in a horror car crash in Belgium.
Our thoughts are with Dapo 🙏🏼💛
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Valérien Ismaël on Emmanuel Dennis 🗣️
“He put a great mentality into the deal to make sure he can come to join us. He’s making a lot of sacrifice, which shows big mentality and that’s why we’re pleased that he’s in.”
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Vakoun Bayo 🗣️
I feel very good, happy to be back and to score because I’m hungry to show something and scoring is the best way to show something, so I’m very, very happy.
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Ryan Porteous on the travelling Watford fans 🗣️
“They were fantastic again and they have been making noise throughout the 90 minutes of every game. They have welcomed me in very well and I’m loving it here.”
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WTE was never the best footballer & yes, he had mistakes in him. But you could never question the love he had for our football club. He was the voice behind the scenes in 20/21 which helped us get promoted. Wishing him all the best for the future 💛🐝
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Massive Congratulations to Xisco Munoz on being appointed the new manager of SD Huesca.
Huesca are currently 12th in the Spanish Segunda Division.
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📅 ON THIS DAY
1 year ago today, academy product Tobi Adeyemo scored his first professional goal for
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in a 2-0 home win against Blackpool.
What a special moment 💛
James Morris 🗣️
“I’m absolutely buzzing! The fact we’ve come away with the three points is obviously the main thing, and the fact it was my full league debut made it even better.
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Since Val kept the players in the dressing room an hour after the Sunderland game,
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have collected 18 pts in 9 games.
1-1 Cardiff (A)
1-0 Sheff Wed (H)
0-1 Swansea (A)
2-2 Millwall (H)
0-0 Huddersfield (A)
5-0 Rotherham (H)
2-0 Leicester (A)
3-2 Norwich (H)
1-2 Hull(A)
Cucho Hernández scored 2 more goals for Columbus Crew last night. He has now scored 3 goals in 2 games 🔥
This goal is identical to the one he scored against Villa on his debut
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have agreed to sign our next player from South America, this time it's 20 year old Colombian defensive midfielder Elan Ricardo.
The fee is £900k
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Watford are still current leaders in the nutmeg race (20) in Europe’s top five leagues, just one ahead of Rayo Vallecano and Real Madrid.
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Emmanuel Dennis has been named in Nigeria's provisional squad for the Africa Cup of Nations that kicks off in Cameroon.
A training camp will be held in Nigeria to prune down the list of invitees to a maximum of 28 players.
[ via ]
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ON THIS DAY 📅:
1 year ago
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dismantled rivals L***n Town 4-0 at The Vic.
Kienan Davis, Troost Ekong, Joao Pedro & Ismaila Sarr amongst the goals.
It’s been hard to keep up with all the
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signings so far, so here’s a recap:
Imrân Louza > £9m
Emmanuel Dennis > £3.6m
Mattie Pollock > £270k
Kwadwo Baah > £100k
Danny Rose > Free
Ashley Fletcher > Free
Dapo Mebude > Free
Josh King > Free
Peter Etebo > Loan
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Imran Louza 🗣
“It hasn’t been an easy period for me on a personal level, but all the work I’ve put in to help my knee is finally paying off. I felt good on the pitch, I managed to help my teammates and hopefully I can keep that up now.”
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Blackpool are currently enduring the longest winless run in the Championship, with the Tangerines going nine games without a win.
ENTER WATFORD..
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Tom Cleverley’s goodbye message to WTE 🗣️
“Gonna miss going to battle with this guy! No matter it times were good or bad he would stick his chest out and fight for the club. All the best my mate”
[ Tom Cleverley’s Instagram]
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No surprise to report to you that Cucho scored again this morning for Colombus Crew.
This now means Cucho has scored 4 goals in 3 games for Colombus.
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Can we just appreciate how good of a save this is from
@BenFoster
If this was Alisson or Ederson people would still be talking about it.
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Watford are interested in taking Southampton striker Adam Armstrong on loan.
Armstrong, was prolific for Blackburn in the 2020/21 Championship season scoring 28 goals in 40 matches.
[ via
@TheSunFootball
]
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EUSTACE TO SWANSEA 🦢
Former
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skipper John Eustace is set to be announced as the new Swansea City Manager today
We wish John all the best in his first managerial position 🙌🏼🟡⚫️
Imrân Louza introduced himself to the premier league today, was superb from minute one.
Kucka will find it difficult to get his spot back.
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Joseph Hungbo 🗣 “The plan is to make an impact at Watford. I am hungrier than ever.
“I feel the season has been a real stepping stone in my career, and hopefully I can take that to Watford and see what happens from there.”
[ Via
@pressjournal
]
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Domingos Quina on returning back to
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"My understanding, from when I spoke to Xisco, is I'm back to play, that's the way I see it. Of course, it's down to me as well to produce goals and performances, but the plan is for me to play.
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At 38 years & 329 days old, Ben Foster is the oldest visiting goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet against Man Utd at Old Trafford in the Premier League.
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Jake Livermore 🗣️
“I’m really enjoying my football. I’ve worked under Valérien before - it’s a slightly different philosophy from what we did before, but the same principles remain. I love the changing room, it’s a great set of boys, the fans are really welcoming.
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Financial experts are working with heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua over an investment opportunity with Watford Football Club. 👀
(
@AdamLeventhal
)
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Watford are keen on signing Reading striker Lucas Joao
The 28-year-old has scored 29 goals in 63 appearances for The Royals.
[ Via
@FootballLeagueW
]
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have agreed a deal of €800k for Elan Ricardo from Equidad.
Ricardo, 20, is a central midfielder and has made 22 senior appearances for Equidad in the Colombian First Tier.
[Source:
@MauricioGPF
]
Watford are interested in signing 22-year-old Chelsea centre-back, Malang Sarr.
He spent last season on-loan at FC Porto where he made 27 appearances.
Malang hasn’t been called up by Senegal for AFCON
[
@Santi_J_FM
]
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Former Watford Manager Gianluca Vialli has passed away at the age of 58, after a five years battle with pancreatic cancer. Our thoughts go out to his family & friends at this difficult time. R.I.P 🙏
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