Watford captain Troy Deeney has taken to Twitter to send his well wishes to injured midfielder Mauro Zarate, after the Argentine suffered a cruciate injury in Saturday's draw with West Ham.

The former West Ham player required lengthy treatment after catching his foot in the Vicarage Road turf and was stretchered off eight minutes into first-half injury time, and now looks likely to be unavailable into next season.

Zarate was only playing in his third Watford game since signing from Fiorentina in January, and had looked the best player on the park in the opening half against the Hammers, his former club.

Deeney tweeted today:

His message followed one from David Gold, West Ham joint chairman, who also passed on his well wishes to the club's former player:

Hammers captain Mark Noble and defender Aaron Cresswell both sent their own messages of support as well: