WATFORD are the latest club to be linked with a mega-bucks takeover. We’re talking £440,000 here people. The club’s parent company Watford Leisure Plc has received the bid from Watford FC Ltd, a company financed by entrepreneur Laurence Bassini, who will provide £3.5m of working capital – enough to secure Watford’s mid-table Championship position for years to come.

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