Friday has given us a bit of a headache.
Not because it’s the last day of the week, but because there have been so many twists and turns in this Pape Gueye to Watford transfer that it’s hard to keep up or believe any of it is happening.
For those who join us on article three of the day on the matter, the young midfielder was announced as the Hornets’ latest signing on Wednesday, only for his lawyer and new agent, Pierre-Henri Bovis, to come out on Thursday stating he felt there were discrepancies in the deal his client signed earlier this year.
It has also since been reported that Gueye ‘no longer wants’ to join Watford, ‘fearing’ he will be loaned out to Udinese immediately after his arrival.
RMC Sport now have an update on the situation, with more quotes from Bovis, who feels the five-year contract, agreed under the supervision of the player’s former agent Bakary Sanogo, was signed back in January under ‘especially strange conditions’.
Down Watford’s end, the English club maintain to have ‘done nothing wrong’, with the contract validated by both the FA and the Premier League, which makes any attempt to do anything ‘more difficult’.
As for the loan, a source close to Watford ‘assures nothing is acted, that the possibility exists but that it’s impossible to know what the market will be like considering the current situation’.
It’s also claimed that two other sides, one Italian and the other Spanish, had agreed pre-contracts with Gueye as well, but those were done before January 1st, rendering them illegal, and the pair ‘feel cheated’ in this case.
There is hope that a settlement of sorts can be found between all three parties (Gueye, Le Havre and Watford) without needing to go in front of the courts, but RMC Sport say the Hornets ‘are expecting’ Gueye to show up for the coming 2020-21 season, and that he is under contract with them.
What a mess…
