{"id":568551,"date":"2020-10-05T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=568551"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:24:22","slug":"udinese-sign-gerard-deulofeu-on-a-season-long-loan-from-watford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/05\/udinese-sign-gerard-deulofeu-on-a-season-long-loan-from-watford\/","title":{"rendered":"Udinese Sign Gerard Deulofeu on a Season-Long Loan From Watford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/watford\/\" target=\"_self\">Watford<\/a> winger <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/39583cfd\/Gerard-Deulofeu\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerard Deulofeu<\/a> has completed a move to Serie A side Udinese, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/05\/report-watford-winger-gerard-deulofeu-in-demand-on-deadline-day\/\" target=\"_self\">interest from elsewhere<\/a> across Europe.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 26-year-old has signed a season-long loan deal with the Italian club, who are owned by the same family as Championship outfit Watford.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Gerard Deulofeu Joins Udinese on Loan<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2139\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerardeulofeu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@gerardeulofeu<\/a> will spend the rest of the campaign on loan at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Udinese_1896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Udinese_1896<\/a> in Serie A.<\/p>\n<p>The magic man has scored some beauties for the Golden Boys!<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, Geri \ud83d\udc9b<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Watford Football Club (@WatfordFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatfordFC\/status\/1313214880678281217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Deulofeu Seals Serie A Switch<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Deulofeu joins fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/watford\/\" target=\"_self\">Watford<\/a> players <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/75f2c59f\/Roberto-Pereyra?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roberto Pereyra<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/14\/watford-sign-winger-ignacio-pussetto-from-udinese\/\" target=\"_self\">Ignacio Pussetto<\/a> at I Bianconeri.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Udinese sit 19th in Serie A following a run of three straight defeats, but the arrival of Deulofeu should help the club climb the table.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Positive Time in England<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Deulofeu has had an up and down career in England since leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona<\/a> back in 2015. Having spent the 2013\/14 season on loan at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton<\/a>, the Spaniard joined the Toffees on a permanent basis in 2015 following a loan spell at Sevilla.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He spent two more seasons at Goodison Park before spending a season on loan at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/ac-milan\/\" target=\"_self\">AC Milan<\/a>. Deulofeu returned to Barcelona before spending time on loan at Watford, where he made the switch permanent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During his time with the Hornets, he made 70 appearances and became the club&#8217;s first player to score a hat-trick in a 5-1 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/cardiff-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Cardiff City<\/a>, but was part of the side that suffered relegation from the Premier League. During his time at Vicarage Road, the Spaniard scored 17 times and provided 11 assists.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He will also be remembered for sparking the comeback against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/wolves-club-analysis-news-fixtures\/\" target=\"_self\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> in the FA Cup semi-final with a sensational chipped goal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He had injury-hit spells with both clubs in England and will be looking to put those setbacks behind him and start afresh in Italy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In other departure news for Watford, Adalberto Pe\u00f1aranda and Jerome Sinclair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watfordfc.com\/news\/official-loan-moves-for-penaranda-sinclair\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have both joined<\/a> Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia on loan for the season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"9yCxAsatTJp8fvx2n6zT1Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1194365690\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'9yCxAsatTJp8fvx2n6zT1Q',sig:'KpmZDI_S08Utaq7pUggwr5m65PC4fYS9112nZ7mRPus=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1194365690',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watford winger Gerard Deulofeu has completed a move to Serie A side Udinese, despite interest from elsewhere across Europe. The 26-year-old has signed a season-long loan deal with the Italian club, who are owned by the same family as Championship outfit Watford. Gerard Deulofeu Joins Udinese on Loan &nbsp; \u2139\ufe0f @gerardeulofeu will spend the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":568556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,33,32,30,5,25],"tags":[197,168,832,48,1179,1802,296,136],"class_list":["post-568551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers","category-championship","category-league-football","category-news","category-serie-a","category-watford","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-gerard-deulofeu","tag-serie-a","tag-transfer-news","tag-udinese","tag-watford","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}