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Oghenekaro Etebo will return to Stoke City at the end of the loan deal which terminates in days from now as Watford will not activate their option to sign midfielder permanently from the Potters, Megasportsarena.com understands.
The Hornets will campaign in the English Championship next season and are preparing to clear out players they think are either surplus to requirements, or will bring in money needed to help balance the books ahead of the season.
One such player who the club do not envisage as being part of their future plans is Nigeria’s Etebo, who has been on loan from Stoke during the current campaign.
Following a promising start to life at Watford, a quad injury forced the Nigerian midfielder to miss out on months of football, after which he has been more or less consigned to the sidelines.
Watford have an option to sign the player permanently should they wish to, but they do not think he will be needed.
The new head coach Rob Edwards is set for talks with club chiefs in the coming days, during which the current playing squad will be discussed. He was present at Vicarage Road for Sunday’s 5-1 defeat to Leicester City to see his new club play in person for the first time since his appointment.
He will have one more opportunity to judge some members of his squad this weekend, away at Chelsea, before he takes the reins.
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