The Watford Courier
Squad15 Mar 2027
Ezri Konsa damages knee ligaments — 37 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match13 Mar 2027
14 unbeaten for Watford
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Watford did not have in the autumn.
Market15 Mar 2027
KuPS come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Watford did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Bazoumana Touré beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Jonathan Macaulay is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Market15 Mar 2027
One of our own: Jack Carter joins the Watford first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jack Carter is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Mar 2027
One of our own: Andrew Turner joins the Watford first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrew Turner is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Mar 2027
One of our own: Matthew Wilson joins the Watford first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matthew Wilson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Watford training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edo Kayembe is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Edo Kayembe
- The dugout Watford keep their word to Ezri Konsa
- The dugout The form table has caught Lukáš Horníček