Relegated English Premier League side Watford are not finding it easy and their bid for an immediate return to the English Premier League from the English Championship.
The team have had to endure a poor run of form and also injuries to key players. At a point they went on a run of four straight games without a win and it led to the sacking of their coach. Slaven Bilic has been appointed to turn things around.
Despite all that has taken place at the club with several players getting a run of games in a bid to arrest the slump, there is still no spot in the team for one of the celebrated signings at the club. He is out of favour Nigeria international winger Samuel Kalu.
Kalu hasn’t had the best of time since his move to the English side as he has played just five games, four in the English Premier League and one in the Championship. Injuries and poor form haven’t been nice to him, so bad that he is now seen as yesterday’s man at the club. As a matter of fact he was told he is free to leave the team in the summer but had no offer to leave.
“Watford had the luxury of apparently not even needing to put their 25-year-old Nigerian international winger on the bus to Blackpool. At roughly £13,500 per minute of first-team football since joining from Bordeaux for £3m, that’s expensive and unsuccessful recruitment at its very finest”, Andrew French wrote in his article for Watford Observer while speaking on the woes of the team.
