“Showed his talents last season” – Watford enter four-team race to secure Liverpool transfer agreement: The verdict

This article is part of Football League World’s ‘The Verdict‘ series, which provides personal opinions from the FLW writers regarding the latest breaking news, teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…

Watford are the latest Championship club to enter the race to sign Liverpool defender Sepp van den Berg. 

As per the Daily Mail, the Hornets are one of four second-tier clubs interested in bringing the 20-year-old to their club on a season-long loan.

Burnley, Blackburn and Sheffield United are the other interested parties.

This update came after reports from Alan Nixon, via Patreon, claimed that Blackburn were leading the race to bring the Dutch youth international back to the second tier.

Van den Berg has spent the last season and a half on loan in the Championship with Preston North End, making 50 appearances in all competitions for the club across the 2021/22 campaign.

With the above in mind, we asked some of our writers here at FLW for their thoughts on whether van den Berg would be a good addition at Vicarage Road.

I think it could be.

I think Van den Berg has shown that he is a very astute young defender in the last couple of seasons, with some really good loan spells at Preston North End.

Fans of Preston were hugely impressed with what he produced for them and naturally wanted him to come back, though it looks as though he could end up elsewhere this summer.

Watford are obviously aiming to be in the promotion race this season and I think Liverpool will want that for the defender, so that could give the Hornets the edge here.

It’s hard not to think that van den Berg wouldn’t be a good signing for most in the Championship.

One of the biggest compliments you can pay him is that the Preston fans love him