Miguel Arturo LAYÚN (2015) Midfielder
Miguel Arturo LAYÚN (2015) Midfielder (Full name Miguel Arturo LAYÚN PRADO) Born Córdoba, Mexico, 25 June 1988 Representative honours Mexico Full Watford Career Football League & FA Premier League: 16+4 appearances (1 goal) Football League Cup: 1 appearance Début: 1-3 away defeat v Huddersfield Town, Football League Championship, 10 Jan 2015 Final game: (as sub) 0-2 away defeat v Manchester City, FA Premier League, 29 Aug 2015 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 11; all competitions 11 Career Path Tiberunes Rojos de Veracruz (Mexico) (2006); Atalanta (Italy) (€625,000 2009); Club América (Mexico) (2010); Granada (Spain) (December 2014); WATFORD (undisclosed fee January 2015); Porto (Portugal) (€500,000 loan September 2015, €6 million permanent transfer July 2016); Sevilla (Spain) (loan January 2018) Football League & FA Premier League Career Apps Subs Goals League Status and Final Position 2014/15 WATFORD 14 3 Football League Championship (2nd tier) – 2nd of 24 (Promoted) 2015/16 WATFORD 2 1 1 FA Premier League – 13th of 20 The first Mexican to play in Italy’s Serie A, Miguel Layún represented his native country as a full-back in the 2014 World Cup Finals, but was used by Watford as an energetic midfielder in the second half of a season in which the club won promotion to the FA Premier League. He then went on to help Mexico win the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, in which Adrian Mariappa and Jobi McAnuff were in the Jamaica side that was beaten in the Final. Layún is descended from grandfathers of Lebanese and Spanish nationality, respectively. ****Watford will get 20 per cent if he is sold by Porto for a fee exceeding €6.5 million*** Lebanese paternal grandfather, Spanish maternal grandfather.
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