With Watford and Udinese owned by the same family, it’s never a surprise when the two clubs exchange players, whether it be via full transfers or loans.
The latest duo to make the switch from one to the other were Matheus Martins and Hassane Kamara, both sent to Vicarage Road to get some game time under their belt before returning to Italy at the end of the season.
The worry for Udinese at this moment in time is that Slaven Bilic has now been sacked at Watford, replaced by Chris Wilder, and that could be either detrimental or beneficial for the two players
We’ll start with the left-back, who has actually played a lot over the past few months, making 25 appearances in the Championship, picking up two assists along the way.
The Ivorian ‘has a great desire to be able to a drive in the top flight of Italian football as a protagonist’, likely to take over from Destiny Udogie, who will be heading to Tottenham.
Still, his knee issue should be sorted sooner rather than later, and then the hope will be that Wilder decides he wants to use him in Watford’s very important run in.
As for Matheus Martins, the situation is far more precarious, as all hopes are now on the new manager to revive his Vicarage Road spell.
He hadn’t been used in the past two weeks, with no sign of an injury, but the website do add that ‘hopefully, with the arrival of a new manager, the results will change completely’, and the young Brazilian can get back to playing, helping Udinese along the way.
