Watford have joined West Ham, Bournemouth, Crystal Palace and Sunderland in being linked with former Leeds – now St Etienne winger Max Gradel
The Ivory Coast international scored 19 goals from out wide last season, including 13 in his last 12 appearances but whilst LeEquipe reports that Bournemouth have reached an agreement with the player, they have yet to match St Etienne’s €10m (£7.2m) asking price.
Gradel wants a move back to England saying: “I want to play in big competitions and push further. I will sit down at the table with St Étienne representatives to discuss and see if they harbour even greater ambitions for next season.
“Then I will take my decision. England welcomed me, adopted me, made me feel confident and allowed me to realise my dream of becoming a professional footballer. This country is my heart’s desire. That is no secret.”
Christ talk about going into meltdown over a rumour lol… I doubt it’s true as the all seeing eye Bradders the wise ain’t said anything and I’ve not seen a 72 hour countdown clock on West Stats Till I Die….
I read this in London24 yesterday as well.Just us getting mentioned in the story as having been linked with him before.No dramas,we aint going for him im sure 😉
If we are being linked with players of this standard still, we haven’t gone forward at all. Again no disrespect to Bournemouth etc but we shouldn’t be in the same ‘race’ for players. Bournemouth will have only one target this season & that is to stay in the premier league. Our targets are Europe & top 6/8.. COYI
Hugh was merely saying we’d been linked with him and not saying he was going to insist the board sign him or he’d kidnap their loved ones lol
Haha,whats wrong TRB,did the missus forget to do you yorkshire puds with your roast beef at lunch time.Calm down ffs 😀
Hugh, this is rubbish and you know it! This is a good page…..so don’t tarnish your growing reputation, please. Some of the reports that Sean contributes are laughable….so don’t you start!
Gradel is not Premier League standard…… so let Palace or Bournemouth have him!!
This is such an old running story,load of sh*t 😉
Seems like we’ve been after/linked with this bloke longer than the old bill were after Ronnie Biggs,I’d assumed he must’ve retired by now lol
Not worth £5 million let alone £10 million and has turned us down before,there are better wingers out there for half the money,
£4 million more buys you a Argie International with star quality,