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Watford's Lee Williamson finally completes transfer to Championship-rivals Sheffield United
3:59pm Thursday 18th June 2009
Lee Williamson’s drawn-out transfer to Sheffield United has finally be completed for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £500,000.
Williamson’s transfer to Bramall Lane has been on the cards for a couple of weeks but has not been completed as the midfielder was out of the country on his holidays.
Watford CEO Julian Winter confirmed Williamson was keen to move to United regardless of who the new Hornets’ manager would be.
Williamson, who had a year left on his contract, was a first team regular at Vicarage Road in the first half of the season but fell out of favour with Brendan Rodgers and was loaned out to Preston North End, who were also interested in his signature.
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WFC4ever, Watford says...
4:37pm Thu 18 Jun 09
Wellhung wrote:Agreed..
Good business!
Clearly was going had Rodgers still been here but I do remember Malky played him in a different role during his time as care-taker so thought he might have got more of a chance but money talks and anything around 500k is a decent fee.
He was on a fairly high wage as well (7.5k)
GrahamTaylor, Watford says...
4:43pm Thu 18 Jun 09
Ilford Pete, Ilford says...
4:58pm Thu 18 Jun 09
Hexham Hornet, HEXHAM says...
4:58pm Thu 18 Jun 09
GrahamTaylor wrote:Good business, decent fee. Trouble with saying who we would like to go is that we need to have an offer for them first. I hope the fee will go towards bringing new players in and the drop from the wages bill will give MM some flexibilty in the wage structure.
Don’t disagree this is good business but there are players I would rather have seen go first – Sadler, Useless, Banguara
FromDiv4, Local says...
5:01pm Thu 18 Jun 09
Hexham Hornet wrote:Agree, you can only sell the players others want to buy.
GrahamTaylor wrote: Don’t disagree this is good business but there are players I would rather have seen go first – Sadler, Useless, BanguaraGood business, decent fee. Trouble with saying who we would like to go is that we need to have an offer for them first. I hope the fee will go towards bringing new players in and the drop from the wages bill will give MM some flexibilty in the wage structure.
It will still be good if we give away some of the high earning, low perfoming players.
a1derek, St Albans says...
5:15pm Thu 18 Jun 09
MartC, says...
6:24pm Thu 18 Jun 09
Must say though, I liked Williamson and thought that he had so much more to offer - shame that we will no longer get to see that.
johnowatford, MILTON KEYNES says...
7:13pm Thu 18 Jun 09
ab11uk, watford says...
7:37pm Thu 18 Jun 09
he was our best permenant midfielder and one of our top goalscorers. 500k cant buy you anything.
this club gets worse
luton hornet, luton says...
7:57pm Thu 18 Jun 09
ab11uk wrote:How was he one of our top goalscorers?
how on earth is this good business? he was our best permenant midfielder and one of our top goalscorers. 500k cant buy you anything. this club gets worse
he only got something like 3 goals in since we bought him.
500k can buy a decent player from lower division look at mike williamson he was cheap and is very good
or it could be put towards the wage bill
the sniper, watford says...
8:23pm Thu 18 Jun 09
johnowatford wrote:Hopefully put the fee towards keeping Tommy Smith,am glad he's gone and JJ O'Toole is returning.
Very good business-he was useless at free kicks most of the time that he was allowed to take them. Hope we can keep Tommy Smith though.
Watch him bang in a 30 yarder against us in the 2nd game......which is more than he ever did for the Horns.Good deal all round for us,£500,000? Are you sure Blackwell!
WFC4ever, Watford says...
9:15pm Thu 18 Jun 09
(It depends what sort of player you want..or think we can afford really?
Williamson wasn't one of our top goalscorers...infact his goals this season came under Malky and I remember a free kick at Plymouth but not much else.
Now had we sold a Smith or Priskin for 500k then you would have a point.
Most fans know we are in bother off the pitch and need to raise funds from somewhere.
Believe me 7.5k a week for a player who wasn't playing for us much after Rodgers came in is too much!
nothing, liskeard says...
9:16pm Thu 18 Jun 09
martin62, abbots langley says...
9:34pm Thu 18 Jun 09
VoR, Watford says...
10:47pm Thu 18 Jun 09
ab11uk wrote:Yes, certainly worse under this new bunch of carrot crunchers.
how on earth is this good business?
he was our best permenant midfielder and one of our top goalscorers. 500k cant buy you anything.
this club gets worse
your middle paragraph defies all logic....
He was pants, went missing when it got tough, didn't score more than a handful of goals, in and out of the side, no better than we already had and his hair was too curly.
I think Sheff Utd just buys our players for the sake of it, certainly more upset with Tony Currie going there that's for sure.
derry pigweed, northampton says...
11:35pm Thu 18 Jun 09
VoR wrote:Yes and your Chums sanctioned his signing and wages!
ab11uk wrote: how on earth is this good business? he was our best permenant midfielder and one of our top goalscorers. 500k cant buy you anything. this club gets worseYes, certainly worse under this new bunch of carrot crunchers. your middle paragraph defies all logic.... He was pants, went missing when it got tough, didn't score more than a handful of goals, in and out of the side, no better than we already had and his hair was too curly. I think Sheff Utd just buys our players for the sake of it, certainly more upset with Tony Currie going there that's for sure.
Voice of Retard?
JoelCanning, Northwood says...
7:24am Fri 19 Jun 09
bownie, watford says...
10:51am Fri 19 Jun 09
GrahamTaylor, Watford says...
1:08pm Fri 19 Jun 09
Gimpson and Cashton got a hard-on sat in an exec box with all those Premiership chairman and gambled the family silver all on one number. Naming rights LOL, I think we should name the ground after the pair of them… how about Sh!taridge Road cos from where I sit we haven’t got much of a ground to look at. If you cast your mind back that was the first promise Homer made us and was exactly what Cashton was employed to do, develop the stadium, yet you blame the Russos?
500K for an average player is good business, at best he is box to box but has no end product to speak of, if it’s a choice between the two I would rather keep O’Toole, but fear he will go as well. Hex It’s not just about what offers you get the players also has to want to leave and WFC are you over the odd why bother. Nobody is going to take on a stupid contract in todays, market not in the championship.
Those expecting the money to be reinvested don’t count on it pay off the creditors. WFC will deal in loans free transfers and the odd 100K deal here and there, sorry to disappoint. Smithy next boys £1.5M I believe.
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Wellhung, Bletchley says...
4:08pm Thu 18 Jun 09