Watford do not expect to bring anyone else in when emergency loan window opens (From Watford Observer)

Watford do not expect to bring anyone else in when emergency loan window opens

10:40am Friday 5th February 2010 in

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Malky Mackay does not expect any new arrivals at Watford when the emergency loan window reopens on Monday.

The final few days of the January transfer window saw a fair amount of movement, with a number of players leaving on loan and the arrival of the dominant centre half fans have been waiting for.

Only last week Mackay said he might have to wait until the emergency loan window reopens to sign the defender he desperately wanted, but the surprise capture of Martin Taylor on a free transfer means the Watford manager does not now expect any new signings in the coming weeks.

The Watford boss said: “I would probably say that will be it. But I am not going to commit to saying no. Unless something comes up and I think we can do something that doesn’t cost too much, then you never know.

“But my immediate thoughts are we did great business in this transfer window in terms of the players we got and the balance of the squad.

“You are always on the look out for good players and if you can get them then you get them but the team spirit in the group here is second to none at the moment.”

Heidar Helguson, Henri Lansbury and Tom Cleverley’s loan spells were all extended by early last month and Watford made three permanent signings in the January window.

Along with Taylor’s arrival from Birmingham City, youngsters Will Buckley and Stephen McGinn have both joined from Rochdale and St Mirren respectively and are two players yet to come into the side.

It was also a positive window for reducing the squad size and wage bill.

The departure of high earners Nathan Ellington and Mat Sadler will help save the club money and Scott Severin and Rob Kiernan have joined Kilmarnock until the end of the season, with Marvin Sordell going to Tranmere Rovers on a month’s loan.

Jure Travner, Jordan Parkes, Billy Gibson and Lewis Young are four other players who Mackay is keen to see loaned out to gain first-team football.

But, as for arrivals, it seems unlikely anyone else will move to Vicarage Road, despite Mackay’s desire to add more experience to his squad.

He said: “We still have a young and inexperienced squad but there is a limit to the finances we have and credit to the people who have allowed us to be able to do these pieces of business.

“We have got youngsters in here who are here for the future so there is no expectation for immediate impacts from certain people. They have to get into the way we work at the club.

“They are a great group and the spirit is fantastic.”

Watford were on the brink of administration in December but the pending £7.5m rights issue seems to have helped ease the pressure on the Hornets’ board.

The club still need to reduce its wage bill and raise working capital before June but Mackay believes the club is making progress.

He said: “The fact we are part of a Plc means our business is public and it goes out to the stock exchange. A lot of clubs aren’t and are privately owned and people don’t realise the ten, 15 and 20 millions of pounds of debt these clubs have. We don’t have that and are nowhere near that now.

“I think a recent stats table put us in the top six or seven clubs in health in the division right now.

“I think the calmness that is in the club recently, in terms of the people running it and the way the club is in transition, it is credit to them.

“We need the club to survive. There are a lot of clubs teetering on the brink and we need to survive and go forward.

“It may go forward a little bit at a time, in baby steps, but we hope to do the best we can with the resources we have and this group is giving me everything they have got.”