{"id":39829,"date":"2017-08-10T05:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T05:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=39829"},"modified":"2017-08-10T05:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T05:18:09","slug":"burnleys-gray-joins-watford-club-record-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/burnleys-gray-joins-watford-club-record-move.html","title":{"rendered":"Burnley\u2019s Gray joins Watford in club-record move"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Burnley\u2019s Gray joins Watford in club-record move<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Striker Andre Gray has joined Watford from Premier League rivals Burnley for an undisclosed club-record fee, his new club announced yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The 26-year-old Englishman has signed a five-year contract and is reported to have cost Watford around \u00a318.5 million (RM103 million).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;Watford FC is delighted to announce the signing of striker Andre Gray for a club-record transfer fee,&#8221; Watford said in a statement on their website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Watford announced the transfer via a video on their Twitter page styled as a sequence from the video game \u201cFootball Manager.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Gray appeared at the end of the clip and said: &#8220;Hello, my name is Andre Gray. I am delighted to have joined Watford and cannot wait to get going.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Gray joined Burnley from Brentford in a \u00a39 million move in 2015 and scored 33 goals over two seasons at Turf Moor, including nine in the Premier League last season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The pacy frontman scored 23 goals in the previous campaign when Burnley were promoted from the Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">On Tuesday, Watford completed the signing of Brazilian forward Richarlison from Fluminense for a reported fee of \u00a313 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Gray and Richarlison follow Nathaniel Chalobah, Kiko Femenia, Will Hughes and Daniel Bachmann in arriving at Vicarage Road, while Tom Cleverley&#8217;s loan move from Everton has been made permanent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source-\u00a0http:\/\/www.themalaymailonline.com\/sports\/article\/burnleys-gray-joins-watford-in-club-record-move#f29H3R3UjRWIpZzU.97<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/burnleys-gray-joins-watford-club-record-move.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burnley\u2019s Gray joins Watford in club-record move Striker Andre Gray has joined Watford from Premier League rivals Burnley for an undisclosed club-record fee, his new club announced yesterday. 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