(Reuters) – Watford’s Emmanuel Dennis is not going to play within the Africa Cup of Nations after Nigeria missed the deadline to name him up and though the striker wanted to go he’s comfortable to keep and help the membership, supervisor Claudio Ranieri mentioned on Friday.
Earlier this week, Ranieri revealed that Nigeria missed the deadline to inform Watford of their intention to choose Dennis, giving the Premier League membership the facility to determine whether or not to launch the 24-year-old striker for worldwide responsibility.
Dennis has been Watford’s finest participant this season with eight targets and 5 assists within the league. His identify was not included in Nigeria’s revised 28-man squad nL1N2TG0DG introduced on Friday.
“I knew they had been talking, the (Watford) board and Nigerian board, and I settle for each determination they discover. For me, it is completed,” Ranieri advised reporters forward of Saturday’s residence sport in opposition to Tottenham Hotspur.
“They have a variety of gamers they usually modified the supervisor they usually modified every thing. We had been prepared to give them the gamers, however they did not do that. The two boards spoke and for me it is okay, I’m solely the coach and I settle for every thing.
“Now I spoke with him, after all he wanted to go to play, but in addition he wanted to help Watford.”
When requested if Watford had been being disrespectful in direction of the match by refusing to launch Dennis, Ranieri mentioned: “No, no, we respect everyone.”
Injury-hit Watford are seventeenth, two factors above the relegation zone however with two video games in hand over the underside two sides. Ranieri mentioned they might herald reinforcements when the January switch window opens.
“My focus is just on Tottenham. When we end that match I’ll converse with the board to strive to discover the precise resolution for the workforce,” he added.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris)
