Matej Vydra is in limbo ahead of transfer deadline day

Matej Vydra will not ask to leave Watford despite being denied chance to make his club Premier League bow for a fourth time yesterday.

The Czech international striker is desperate to be given a shot at playing in the top flight of English football with the Hornets but his fate now rests in the hands of Gino Pozzo. The owner is yet to inform Vydra’s representative whether he is prepared to sanction his move away from Vicarage Road after Quique Sanchez Flores has, by leaving him on the bench three times and out of the squad altogether in the other, made it abundantly clear he does not feature in his immediate plans.

Amid interest from half-a-dozen Championship clubs, two teams in the Bundesliga and one in Turkey, Vydra’s agent, Ondrej Chovanec, has flown into London and is in Watford for the final two days of the transfer window. Pozzo is an expert negotiator and is likely to use the number of takers as leverage to drive up a loan fee and secure the best possible deal for the 23-year-old who has scored 36 goals in the Championship and one who won the league’s player of the year title in 2012/13.

Pozzo will only sanction a deal once a suitable replacement is found, leaving Vydra in limbo. The salary awarded to the striker in the five-year-contract he signed in the summer could only realistically be met by the more ambitious clubs in the Championship, including those, like Hull City, who have the parachute payment money as part of their spending power. If Vydra is allowed to leave, a loan deal, with an option to make the deal permanent, is set to be the most likely outcome. It will, we are told, be a wrench for Vydra to leave Vicarage Road, especially after he recently purchased a house in the area.

Click below for a reminder of what Sanchez Flores had to say about the possible outgoings at Vicarage Road.

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