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Post by halewoodblue on Dec 11, 2018 13:17:23 GMT
Deulofeu came on as a second-half substitute last night and had his former side in a little bit of trouble with his incisive passes. But he made his biggest impact after the final whistle had blown, when he went on to applaud the Goodison Park fans and also gave away his match shirt. Not sure thats a good thing. Which blue wud want a scruffy meff watford shirt. Alsi he waa largely poo when he was here and still has the lungs of a 80yr old who cant complete 90 min
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Post by rugbytoffee on Apr 28, 2019 19:16:11 GMT
Watford star Gerard Deulofeu had a two-page interview featured in Saturday’s edition of Spanish newspaper AS.
The player recalled his entire career, from his start at Barcelona, to his time at Everton, Milan and finally the Hornets.
Deulofeu was quickly asked if he’s having the best time of his career at the Vicarage Road, and the player couldn’t disagree with it.
“Yes, yes. For sure, one of the best,” Deulofeu told AS. “The statistics say it, but the game also says it, and everything that I contribute to the team. I remember a season at Milan that was also very good, but it’s true, I’m finding it great. “It has been a long way, it hasn’t been easy. I spent the preseason injured, without playing a game, and also eight league games without participating. I started to earn a place in October, after a lot of work because the fifth metatarsal injury is very complicated.
“It has taken a while to adapt to being a striker and above all to the characteristics of Watford, a team that plays very directly. I must take advantage of the second balls, rebounds, like the second goal I scored the other day, long balls…” Regarding the adaptation to the Premier League, Deulofeu recalled his time at Everton. He says he had no problems when playing under Roberto Martinez, but things weren’t very good when Ronald Koeman was in charge.
“The time at Everton with Roberto Martinez I consider it good, because I was very young, I learned and played a lot, and with Roberto Martínez most of the days I was happy. We had a good game.
“But in Koeman’s time I didn’t play and in the end I didn’t even get called up. I am an ambitious player and I can’t be on the bench. So I decided to go on loan to Milan where I recovered happiness, confidence, good play. When I am organised, in confidence, in a team where I am given freedom… both in the game and in the results you can see that I contribute a lot to the team.”
Deulofeu has also talked a little about his time at Barcelona, but claims that he doesn’t really like thinking of the past.
“It was a beautiful time, because I spent many years there, but also complicated because I was very young, you went to the Camp Nou and… they are stages that you have to share with Ballon d’Ors, with the best players in the world, and when you are so young it’s a little difficult. You need a little confidence, and the only one who explained something to me was Guardiola. Many things are needed to succeed there. It couldn’t be and it stays that way. You can’t live from the past. If you live from the past you are dead.”
After playing for Everton, Milan and Watford since leaving Barcelona the first time, Deulofeu is again being linked with a summer transfer.
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Post by rugbytoffee on Nov 22, 2019 12:00:15 GMT
Gerard Deulofeu has brushed off rumours that he is angling for a move away to Watford and back to AC Milan.
Quotes from the Spanish forward's agent had sparked rumours that he was pushing for a return to Serie A, but the player said that, although he is flattered by offers from other teams, he is happy in Hertfordshire and focused on achieving Premier League survival.
"No, no. I'm really quiet here, I'm really happy and we are just focusing on that period, in that bad period in Watford and myself," he said.
"Personally I have to help Watford to go out of the bottom of the table and all the players we have to make an effort for this. For a player, I'm proud to listen to all of these offers, like last year, this year, but my focus is here, in Watford and I'm really happy.
"Every training, every game here in Watford is different than other teams what I have been because it's a different style and the game is more direct and we don't have the ball possession too much. I have to adapt myself in Watford and that's what I'm doing last season and this season, so I'm really good - last season was I think the first in my career scoring 12 goals, I think it's a lot and I'm happy here and I have to adapt myself to that shape and that style."
After a difficult start to the season that saw the Hornets go 11 games without a win in the league, Deulofeu is concentrating on making sure the rest of the season is completely different, whether he manages to replicate his scoring last season or not.
"I think here in the Premier League, it's not how you start, it's how you finish," he said.
"You can see last season, we always stayed in the seventh, eighth position and we ended up in 11th, so you have to fight for every game, but finally it's how you finish, not how you start. We started badly we know and we have to change that.
"The team doesn't mind who scores because the most important is finally when you check the table and you see Watford at the bottom, it doesn't matter who scores, just you want to get the three points to get out of that bad period. "
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Post by rugbytoffee on Mar 1, 2020 19:04:05 GMT
Watford are set to be without Gerard Deulofeu for the rest of the season after Nigel Pearson confirmed the winger has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
The Spaniard was stretchered off in the first half of yesterday’s 3-0 victory over Liverpool after twisting his knee following a challenge with Virgil van Dijk.
Deulofeu was in clear distress after sustaining the injury and the Hornets head coach told Sky Sports News this lunchtime that scans had revealed an ACL injury.
Pearson said: “Unfortunately for us the scan results really show he is probably going to be out for the rest of the season.
"The initial scan results show that he has got an ACL (injury), which is a really bad thing for us because he has been such an important player for us.”
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