Maduka Okoye has revealed why he is open to a loan move from English Championship side Watford, where he has failed to justify the reason why the club bought him in the summer.
Signed from Sparta Rotterdam for a club record fee for a goalkeeper in the region of €7m, the 23 year old who was the club’s player of the season in back to back years in the Dutch Eredivisie has played just one game since his move to the English side.
Lately, the goalkeeper who has 16 senior caps for Nigeria has been relegated to the role of third choice under coach Slaven Bilic, but it seems it’s connected to his desire to leave the club on loan when the January transfer window opens.
Speaking about his future at the club, Okoye explained why he is keen on leaving on loan when the January transfer window opens but didn’t mention where he will likely be at for at least till the end of the season.
“Sports-wise it hasn’t worked out as I had hoped, but we’re sticking to the plan . No, it’s certainly not easy. It’s quite tough, I have to tell you very honestly. At Sparta I played every week and now I’m on the couch, that was something I had to get used to. Then you come home with a different feeling than when you play every week, take balls out of the goal and get compliments. But that is also football and is just part of it”, he told Voetbalprimeur.nl.
“We’ll see what happens. My contract runs until 2027, so anything is possible. Maybe I will be rented out, or not, I don’t know yet. The Eredivisie? Yes, that sounds like something to me “The clubs in the Netherlands know me well from Sparta and know what they can do with me. We’ll see. For now I’m just focusing completely on Watford and the games we’re going to play.”
