{"id":603543,"date":"2025-11-30T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603543\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:03:13","slug":"watford-name-asking-price-for-former-celtic-academy-star-rocco-vata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603543\/","title":{"rendered":"Watford name asking price for former Celtic academy star Rocco Vata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Rocco Vata was tipped to be the next star to come through the Celtic academy but decided to continue his career elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/rocco-vata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vata<\/a> made six appearances before moving south of the border to join Watford, where he has grown to become a first-team regular.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Ireland star has naturally begun to attract some attention from other clubs and could be on the move for a big-money deal.<\/p>\n<p>Aware of his talents, Watford are demanding a hefty price for the midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>         Do Celtic need to offer more first-team chances to their academy players?     <\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links multi\">\n<li>Vata\u2019s games for Celtic: 6<\/li>\n<li>Goals: 1<\/li>\n<li>Assists: 0<\/li>\n<li>Total minutes: 69<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>      Watford confirm asking price for Rocco Vata<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/transfers\/fabrizio-romano-says-ex-celtic-star-rocco-vata-now-attracting-interest-from-european-clubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vata recently changed agents<\/a>, which could suggest a big move is coming sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old is being watched by Premier League clubs and according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-15337701\/crystal-palace-fulham-watford-rocco-vata.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Daily Mail<\/a>, Watford are valuing the wide man at \u00a320m.<\/p>\n<p>His contract isn\u2019t up until 2028, so has plenty of time to decide on his future, while Watford know that they can command a healthy fee for the Ireland international.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"739\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2242658903-1024x739.jpg\" alt=\"Rocco Vata celebrates scoring for Watford\" class=\"wp-image-330358\" \/>Photo by Richard Heathcote\/Getty ImagesRocco Vata is a Watford regular<\/p>\n<p>After making the decision to leave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a> in search of playing regular football, life has worked out well for the 20-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>His debut season saw Vata score five times and he currently has two goals from 10 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The winger\u2019s rapid rise has been briefly halted due to injury but, if he returns and makes an instant impact, the interest will only increase.<\/p>\n<p>  Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n<p>Receive a digest of our best Celtic content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocco Vata was tipped to be the next star to come through the Celtic academy but decided to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,189220,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-603543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-rocco-vata","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115639262998888447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}