Watford loan not going to plan – Player could be dropped to reserves during WC break

Sometimes a loan spell doesn’t go to plan and that’s certainly been the case for Watford’s Kwadwo Baah at Fortuna Dusseldorf this season.

The youngster moved to the German side at the end of July on a season-long loan deal in search of regular playing time that wasn’t on offer at Vicarage Road.

He’s yet to get that, though, managing just seven appearances in the 2. Bundesliga since his arrival from Watford in the summer.

His total is currently at 60 minutes, around 5% of the total available minutes so far and he’s only been afforded 29 minutes since the beginning of October.

It’s not what he or Watford would have been hoping for when he was sent out on loan and RP Online today state that it could be about to get worse.

They explain that Baah ‘has not yet been able to establish’ himself in the professional league and they may look to fix that during the World Cup break.

The plan at the club is to give those who are out of favour some ‘match practice’ in the Under 23s in the regional league and Baah falls into that category.

They say it is ‘quite possible’ that Fortuna will ‘give him the opportunity’ to ‘get in shape’ ‘in the regional league and, with any luck, ‘prove his skills there’ in the process.

In other words, they may use the 19-year-old in the lower leagues in the hope he can get form and fitness and prove an asset in the second half of the campaign, with his loan move from Watford having been something of failure so far.