Dyche provides update on Sordell and Mariappa (From Watford Observer)
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Watford manager comments on Bolton Wanderers target Marvin Sordell and Adrian Mariappa
10:24pm Tuesday 31st January 2012 in Sport
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Watford manager Sean Dyche has confirmed striker Marvin Sordell is on the verge of joining a Premier League club.
Sordell was pulled out of tonight’s match with Millwall by owner Laurence Bassini around two hours before kick-off after bids for the striker by Cardiff City and an unnamed Premier League side, believed to be Bolton Wanderers.
Speaking immediately after the 2-0 win, Dyche said: “All I know is that a Premiership club are on the verge of making that deal permanent.”
He added: “I had been on the phone all afternoon and I wasn’t thinking anyone was leaving.
“But decisions have to be made that are not my decisions so you work with what happens and you be flexible.
“I thought the focus of the team tonight was fantastic and they got on with it.”
It looked as though vice-captain Adrian Mariappa was more likely to leave than Sordell this week after several bids from Newcastle United and Wigan Athletic.
The Watford manager was asked about Mariappa’s current situation.
Dyche replied: “I will tell you one thing – exceptional. To see someone have a day like him, although it is not over yet, with friends and agents ringing him, to see his focus tonight shows what he is - an immaculate professional.”
When asked how close Mariappa came to leaving, Dyche replied: “That is not my decision, that is the business end of the market so I don’t know until I have spoken to the owner and the board tomorrow.”
“Dyche was speaking at around 10pm and he was clearly aware of the time when addressing the media.
“There is an hour, one minute and 20 seconds left of the transfer window but I don’t know and I’m not watching the clock at all,” Dyche joked.
“I am going to lock him in a cupboard and turn all the phones off.”
“Understandably, Dyche stated it was highly unlikely that Sordell’s replacement would be found during this transfer window and that the loan market was more likely.
He said: “I have not been in a position to spend so it has been a case of waiting for imput into the club before I can look at output and with it coming so late in the day, obviously certain targets would have moved and certain things have happened.
"But that is life at Watford, we just get on with it and we use the resources we can to build where we can.”
Comments(39)
Stoney77
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10:33pm Tue 31 Jan 12
Please stay Aidy.
Estuary Hornet
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10:36pm Tue 31 Jan 12
Stoney77
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10:37pm Tue 31 Jan 12
WFC4ever
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10:45pm Tue 31 Jan 12
Dyche doesn't sound too happy and rightly so.
Means he's lost a key player without the chance to get anyone in.
Good that Deeney and Garner scored but what if they get injured..
Surely Mariappia will be staying..afterall the last thing we need is defensive changes to a settle back line.
Know we have to sell to help the club meet its target in terms of reducing debts etc.....but the danger is agents of guys like Murray (he has one..) will probably think I can get him a "cheap" move.
Stoney77
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10:52pm Tue 31 Jan 12
WFC4ever wrote:I think Murray turned down a move to spurs or something didnt he, in the summer? if he did then hopefully this means his agent has his best interests at heart. we've got Murray for at least a year and if he is as good as we all hope he is then he'll be the next young star to leave and help us sort out our finances. after that maybe it will be Whichelow or Mingoia, Hodson or even Assamobolonga or whatever his name is?!
Probably just as well for Bassini that we won tonight!
Dyche doesn't sound too happy and rightly so.
Means he's lost a key player without the chance to get anyone in.
Good that Deeney and Garner scored but what if they get injured..
Surely Mariappia will be staying..afterall the last thing we need is defensive changes to a settle back line.
Know we have to sell to help the club meet its target in terms of reducing debts etc.....but the danger is agents of guys like Murray (he has one..) will probably think I can get him a "cheap" move.
busheyhornet
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10:55pm Tue 31 Jan 12
WFC4ever
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10:57pm Tue 31 Jan 12
busheyhornet wrote:He did well v Spurs but then they all did I suppose!
For all we know Sordell may have asked to leave and Bas got the best deal he could. He hasn't exactly looked that interested in the last couple of games
I would say that Marvin can drift out of games and isn't the greatest hard graft worker like a Danny G so hope Bolton aren't expecting him to lead the line on his own.
derry pigweed
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10:58pm Tue 31 Jan 12
LOSSA
WHAT ARE YOU ON 5% COMMISSION?
Chris the Vic
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10:59pm Tue 31 Jan 12
£3m for Sordell is excellent value based on his last few appearances and not giving way to Mariappa, who rejected Wigan and wanted to go for a lesser fee to Newcastle. I am sure Mike Williamson, Adrian and Pardew will be sick but the chairman has held out for the right price.
We need to get the right money and I think WFC have done that. As for those like garston who feel we should hold onto our best, i agree but our attendances are awful, our budgets the lowest in the division so we have to sell.
We will grow under LB and we will get there now for a couple more loan players starting with Tommy Smith.
Napalm Pudding
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11:04pm Tue 31 Jan 12
Over to you, moronic swineherd of idiocy and crass infantile- half baked stupidity.
buck-stops
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11:07pm Tue 31 Jan 12
busheyhornet
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11:08pm Tue 31 Jan 12
jimbuctu
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11:29pm Tue 31 Jan 12
Napalm Pudding wrote:Quite right. Excellent business and Dyche's realism and positive spin on things is spot on for a club like ours. We do a superb job of making money out of the players we develop ourselves and purchase from lower leagues. Can you name another club who make £5 million per season profit on players? We struggle as it is, imagine where we would be without sales like these.
I would argue a sale was essential, they've drawn out the best price on one of the assets and we'll loan in the rest of the season. Nice win tonight, well done Sean, carry on mate you're doing a grand job.
Over to you, moronic swineherd of idiocy and crass infantile- half baked stupidity.
Oracledave
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11:34pm Tue 31 Jan 12
This always reduces the value as clubs set of offset the risk by arranging deals based on success over time - appearances, goals etc. Maybe we will find out the full MS details in due course !
Oh and great shame that Smithy scored that superb goal against Wigan, may persuade Hughes to keep him even with all the signings.
Michael Sills
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11:40pm Tue 31 Jan 12
I notice there has not been any slagging off of Loachy tonight.
Andrew1963
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11:47pm Tue 31 Jan 12
jimbuctu wrote:Crystal Palace and Southampton spring to mind and both above us in the league
Napalm Pudding wrote: I would argue a sale was essential, they've drawn out the best price on one of the assets and we'll loan in the rest of the season. Nice win tonight, well done Sean, carry on mate you're doing a grand job. Over to you, moronic swineherd of idiocy and crass infantile- half baked stupidity.Quite right. Excellent business and Dyche's realism and positive spin on things is spot on for a club like ours. We do a superb job of making money out of the players we develop ourselves and purchase from lower leagues. Can you name another club who make £5 million per season profit on players? We struggle as it is, imagine where we would be without sales like these.
WFC4ever
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11:54pm Tue 31 Jan 12
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Must be more than 3 million offered by Bolton then.
Southampton have be quite well funded in recent season and Palace always bring youngsters through and have better players than us anyway in certain positions.
llloydwithathirdl
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11:57pm Tue 31 Jan 12
D.unstable
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12:10am Wed 1 Feb 12
garston 'orn wrote:If you really must SHOUT, repeat yourself and general spout out 5hit on here at least do it when you have not had too many sherberts on a school night.
OFMG, THANKYOU LAURENCE, BIG BAZ BASSINI, IM DEFNEDED YOU AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME. SELL OUR BEST PLAYER FOR FAR BELOW HIS ASKING PRICE, AACCEPTING A DEAL FROM CARDIFF OF ALL PEOPLE. nO REPLACEMENT COMEING , YOUR NOW SAY MARIAPPA COULD LEAVE AS WELL= RELEGATION......... AND THANKYOU TAYLOR WHO SO MANY OF YOU IDOLISE, HES AN OLD MAN MORE INTERESTED IN STRICTLY THAN WATFORD, HE PROBABLY WANST EVEN THERE FOR THE MEETING, WASTE OF TIME GET A DECENT BOARD, WITH AN OWNER WHO CARES
I was trying to resist even comenting on the worst ever posting that I have EVER read on here (and their have been many), however I just could not go to bed without at least saying that you are an idiot and it's a good job that LB owns the club and not you. This is not a personal attack on your bad spelling or even your grammer, just on your idiotic random ranting.
Assuming the Marv deal has gone through 3-4 M is a good price for a player that has had 18 decent months at Championship level and let's face it although clearly has ability, often looks lazy. I would much rather hold on to Mapps than Marv until the summer. Tonight result showed that his contribution will not be missed and I am sure we will bring in a good loan or 2 to give us a few options up front.
For me this demonstrates good business and will help to continue to stabilise the club and push it in the right direction.
Good night.
Hornets number 12 fan
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12:18am Wed 1 Feb 12
onlyonerodthomas
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12:24am Wed 1 Feb 12
garston 'orn wrote:what a tool!!!! could'nt stop laughing at your post.
OFMG, THANKYOU LAURENCE, BIG BAZ BASSINI, IM DEFNEDED YOU AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME. SELL OUR BEST PLAYER FOR FAR BELOW HIS ASKING PRICE, AACCEPTING A DEAL FROM CARDIFF OF ALL PEOPLE. nO REPLACEMENT COMEING , YOUR NOW SAY MARIAPPA COULD LEAVE AS WELL= RELEGATION......... AND THANKYOU TAYLOR WHO SO MANY OF YOU IDOLISE, HES AN OLD MAN MORE INTERESTED IN STRICTLY THAN WATFORD, HE PROBABLY WANST EVEN THERE FOR THE MEETING, WASTE OF TIME GET A DECENT BOARD, WITH AN OWNER WHO CARES
onlyonerodthomas
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12:28am Wed 1 Feb 12
D.unstable wrote:very funny- i'm still laughing.the ofmg opening word made me lose a bit of wee!!!
garston 'orn wrote:If you really must SHOUT, repeat yourself and general spout out 5hit on here at least do it when you have not had too many sherberts on a school night.
OFMG, THANKYOU LAURENCE, BIG BAZ BASSINI, IM DEFNEDED YOU AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME. SELL OUR BEST PLAYER FOR FAR BELOW HIS ASKING PRICE, AACCEPTING A DEAL FROM CARDIFF OF ALL PEOPLE. nO REPLACEMENT COMEING , YOUR NOW SAY MARIAPPA COULD LEAVE AS WELL= RELEGATION......... AND THANKYOU TAYLOR WHO SO MANY OF YOU IDOLISE, HES AN OLD MAN MORE INTERESTED IN STRICTLY THAN WATFORD, HE PROBABLY WANST EVEN THERE FOR THE MEETING, WASTE OF TIME GET A DECENT BOARD, WITH AN OWNER WHO CARES
I was trying to resist even comenting on the worst ever posting that I have EVER read on here (and their have been many), however I just could not go to bed without at least saying that you are an idiot and it's a good job that LB owns the club and not you. This is not a personal attack on your bad spelling or even your grammer, just on your idiotic random ranting.
Assuming the Marv deal has gone through 3-4 M is a good price for a player that has had 18 decent months at Championship level and let's face it although clearly has ability, often looks lazy. I would much rather hold on to Mapps than Marv until the summer. Tonight result showed that his contribution will not be missed and I am sure we will bring in a good loan or 2 to give us a few options up front.
For me this demonstrates good business and will help to continue to stabilise the club and push it in the right direction.
Good night.
Henry VIII
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1:38am Wed 1 Feb 12
Excellent result tonight it must be said.
lutondown
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6:05am Wed 1 Feb 12
Applauding the way Dyche has had the rug pulled out beneath his feet, I actually feel sorry for him.
Sordell, lazy, not as good as Graham blah blah blah... Whatever he was our best player and TOP SCORER! FFS
So we reap what we sow, you sad bunch of losers that applaud mediocrity will be rewarded with just that....
Well done Sean and the team for tonight's win, it cant have been easy.
corbindallas
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8:19am Wed 1 Feb 12
jasonwatford
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8:19am Wed 1 Feb 12
allgood
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8:28am Wed 1 Feb 12
If they go a couple of games without scoring they will be back to being league two rubbish again. The main problem is we haven't got any alternatives.
corbindallas
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8:35am Wed 1 Feb 12
allgood wrote:True but let's see now Garner has a chance to prove himself, Deeney is clearly a confidence player and with the new loan winger it looks like we have someone back in the team to supply the front players and Murray seems to be determined to cement a first team place, we kept hold of our defence choice, so all in I would say this is an exciting time for the club onward and upwards now!!
Garner and Deeney Score and all of a sudden they are the answer.
If they go a couple of games without scoring they will be back to being league two rubbish again. The main problem is we haven't got any alternatives.
Chris the Vic
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8:58am Wed 1 Feb 12
We do not applaud mediocrity but we do appreciate the efforts made to pull us out of the mire both on and off the pitch caused mainly through three people who had even more arrogance than you, namely Homer, Boy Blunder and Hoofroyd.
Unless you have millions to throw at WFC, do not expect others to do so. So far LB appears to be doing a good job as does Sean and if that means whilst we financially stabilise that we have to sell our best players so be it.
As fans what we need to do is get behind those who are prepared to put in money and attend matches supporting the boys, not expect us to match Chelski, Etihad etc and go bust doing it. We are not a big club and must work to budgets and financial constraints.
Whilst you may feel sorry for Sean, what you should realise is that Sean knew what he was getting into and with his hard work on the pitch and his pragmatic views we will be in a much better situation at the end of 5 years and hopefully Sean will be with us still.
As for sordell he knows from his Fulham days how life can kick you and now he has a chance to treble his salary...all the best to him and what a good deal it was for us in our present position.
stevemag
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9:23am Wed 1 Feb 12
So why not say "he is not for sale !"
Unless of course the player wanted to go but then again Sordell did say earlier last week that he was not looking to leave and was happy at Vicarage Road
Seems all a bit desperate to me.
tonupchris
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10:14am Wed 1 Feb 12
onlyonerodthomas wrote:I've only just noticed the OFMG!! If anybody wants to know how not to write a post and make yourself look a bit silly the read this post. Trouble is the bloke is serious. I agree that this is the worst post ever, in fact so bad it's laughable
D.unstable wrote:very funny- i'm still laughing.the ofmg opening word made me lose a bit of wee!!!garston 'orn wrote: OFMG, THANKYOU LAURENCE, BIG BAZ BASSINI, IM DEFNEDED YOU AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME. SELL OUR BEST PLAYER FOR FAR BELOW HIS ASKING PRICE, AACCEPTING A DEAL FROM CARDIFF OF ALL PEOPLE. nO REPLACEMENT COMEING , YOUR NOW SAY MARIAPPA COULD LEAVE AS WELL= RELEGATION......... AND THANKYOU TAYLOR WHO SO MANY OF YOU IDOLISE, HES AN OLD MAN MORE INTERESTED IN STRICTLY THAN WATFORD, HE PROBABLY WANST EVEN THERE FOR THE MEETING, WASTE OF TIME GET A DECENT BOARD, WITH AN OWNER WHO CARESIf you really must SHOUT, repeat yourself and general spout out 5hit on here at least do it when you have not had too many sherberts on a school night. I was trying to resist even comenting on the worst ever posting that I have EVER read on here (and their have been many), however I just could not go to bed without at least saying that you are an idiot and it's a good job that LB owns the club and not you. This is not a personal attack on your bad spelling or even your grammer, just on your idiotic random ranting. Assuming the Marv deal has gone through 3-4 M is a good price for a player that has had 18 decent months at Championship level and let's face it although clearly has ability, often looks lazy. I would much rather hold on to Mapps than Marv until the summer. Tonight result showed that his contribution will not be missed and I am sure we will bring in a good loan or 2 to give us a few options up front. For me this demonstrates good business and will help to continue to stabilise the club and push it in the right direction. Good night.
Mickey Quinn, not so thin
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10:58am Wed 1 Feb 12
Mickey Quinn, not so thin
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11:17am Wed 1 Feb 12
Mickey Quinn, not so thin
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11:45am Wed 1 Feb 12
We can all insult people hiding behind a computer key board..... "
You mean, like calling people who disagree with you "a sad bunch of losers" ??
Yes - good point.
luther blissett
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12:40pm Wed 1 Feb 12
They have also both been in Admin so obviously haven't been run as well as us.
female hornet
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2:33pm Wed 1 Feb 12
mickallen57
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6:04pm Wed 1 Feb 12
strummerjoe
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6:21pm Wed 1 Feb 12
garston 'orn wrote:OFMG THIS IS PRICLESS! I DEFNEDED BAZ ALSO BUT HE HAS LET ME DOWN BIG TIM!!!!!
OFMG, THANKYOU LAURENCE, BIG BAZ BASSINI, IM DEFNEDED YOU AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME. SELL OUR BEST PLAYER FOR FAR BELOW HIS ASKING PRICE, AACCEPTING A DEAL FROM CARDIFF OF ALL PEOPLE. nO REPLACEMENT COMEING , YOUR NOW SAY MARIAPPA COULD LEAVE AS WELL= RELEGATION......... AND THANKYOU TAYLOR WHO SO MANY OF YOU IDOLISE, HES AN OLD MAN MORE INTERESTED IN STRICTLY THAN WATFORD, HE PROBABLY WANST EVEN THERE FOR THE MEETING, WASTE OF TIME GET A DECENT BOARD, WITH AN OWNER WHO CARES
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10:33pm Tue 31 Jan 12