Players have concerns over returning amid coronavirusAdrian Mariappa and two staff have tested positiveTroy Deeney was one of several Watford players who chose not to take part in small-group training on Wednesday, the day after three members of the club’s playing and coaching staff, including the centre-back Adrian Mariappa, were found to have tested positive for Covid-19.
Four groups of players, each of no more than five, trained at the club’s Hertfordshire base. Excluding Mariappa, who is isolating for seven days and will be retested before returning to training, Gerard Deulofeu, who moved into his physiotherapist’s house in
Spain before that country imposed its lockdown in an effort to accelerate his recovery from a serious knee injury, and those on loan when league
Football was paused, the club have 26 senior professionals, including three goalkeepers.