Watford owner Gino Pozzo is frantically trying to get third-choice striker Stefano Okaka off the books - but is asking suitors Fulham to stump up £2 million in loan fees for the Italian.

Okaka himself is stuck in the middle and has little idea where he will be spending the rest of the season, but staff above the now departed head coach Marco Silva have wanted him gone for some time.

Watford spent £6 million on the forward to bring back to England from Anderlecht in 2016, six years after a loan spell with the Cottagers from Roma, his first professional club.

In the grand scheme of things, £2 million will not present a massive drop in the ocean for Fulham. But to pay that amount for a half-season loan of a player who has barely featured all season may put them off the idea.