Vydra's agent expects permanent Watford move despite interest (From Watford Observer)

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  ChunkeyMonkey wrote:
  Interesting debate to be had at the centre of this discussion, who holds the power? The player, the club, or the owners?
  
  The quoted party for this story is the players agent, he has position to protect and a player to trumpet about.
  
  To me, a big part of the reason that MV is doing so well is that GFZ has the resources and the skills to have put together a really good team in very quick time that plays to MV's strengths, in particular the layoffs from Deeney catching the defence square enabling MV to be one on one with the keeper. MV may well have been fourth or fifth striker at Udinese but here he is number one and banging them in. Credit where it is due.
  
  The owners control of the three clubs, and particularly how that operates seems to be pivotal. Whereas a year ago at WFC it was hand-to-mouth operations and sell a player to survive, now we can hand out 5.5 year contracts and take the players to Spain for some warm weather training. That all has to be funded from within a structure that I for one know little about. I am not concerned about not knowing, just recognising that that is how it appears to work.
  
  At the moment we use the loophole of international transfers effectively. If The governing body close the loophole then perhaps it will be more important that the registrations are transferred to the club the player plays for. Onward sale in the future may also have cross border tax implications (boring I know but relevant to the overall business). In the meantime the agent knows, the player knows, the manager knows and the owners know and yes we all know that it is in all of our interests that MV is a Watford player.
  
  Enjoy the ride. We appear to have professionals looking after our interests.

  I agree it is an interesting debate over who holds the power and who ultimately decides who goes where in the Pozzo Empire. I don't think Vydra will make a decision on staying/signing with us until he knows which division he will be playing in next season. Neither Vydra or the Pozzos will want Vydra playing in the Championship next season so if we don't go up, maybe they will cash in or send him back to Udinese. This does open up the debate over where the power lies. For example if we get promoted but are languishing in the bottom half of the table but Udinese are flying and verging on a champs league spot, do the Pozzos simply instruct a selection of our best players to move to Udinese to assist with champs league qualification and thus a shed load of cash for the Pozzo's?
  
  Regardless of all that I really blimming hope he signs for us!!"
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