Nathan Baxter

Goalkeeper - Watford
28 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Nathan Baxter

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The Watford Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

6 goals as Watford and Ipswich Town go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Watford and Ipswich Town, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

The step up is real for Jonathan Macaulay

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match

Watford come up short against Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Edoardo Bove gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Late improvement for Nathan Baxter

At 27 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑4 defeat, delivered by Michael Matthews to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Kwadwo Baah runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

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.

Squad

Yannick Agnero finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Watford have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

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The Watford Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Tobi Adeyemo agrees terms with Harrogate Town

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Watford people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Mady Camara arrives at Watford in a $6.4M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Watford have paid $6.4M for Mady Camara, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Transfer targets

Watford bid $7.1M for Samuel Essende

The offer went to Young Boys this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Kévin Keben turns Gillingham down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad

Edoardo Bove stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Edoardo Bove and Watford agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Edoardo Bove in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Watford this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

$6.4M for Mady Camara, and Watford supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Mady Camara from PAOK for $6.4M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ben Nelson

Watford asked and Leicester City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Max Smith for 15 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Watford will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

In brief