If Matej Vydra and Watford FC had a Facebook relationship status then yesterday it would have changed. It would now read: It’s complicated.

But how did it get to this point? And so quickly. Yes, Vydra didn’t feature in the Hornets’ opening two Premier League fixtures but that’s hardly reason to hastily end a relationship that took three years to make official.

On July 1 it was announced the Czech Republic striker had signed a five-year deal with the Hornets after joining the club permanently from Udinese.

He had previously spent two seasons on loan at Vicarage Road but, finally, he was a Watford player.

“I call this my team,” the 23-year-old said this summer. He was feeling settled.

Once pre-season began an obvious problem arose. Quique Sanchez Flores adopted a 4-2-3-1 formation. It is a system that doesn’t suit Vydra in the slightest.

He isn’t built to play as a lone striker and was ineffective when used out wide during his one season stay at West Bromwich Albion. Where would he fit in?

On the opening day of the Premier League campaign at Everton’s Goodison Park we got an answer. The substitutes’ bench. It’s where Vydra watched the game from. The only time he graced the pitch was during the warm-up.

It was the same story against his former club on Saturday. With Watford struggling to break through West Brom’s defence fans were calling for Vydra. Flores again decided to leave him sitting on the bench.

In fairness to the Spaniard the game wasn’t conducive to Vydra’s talents. So often we’ve seen him breaking into space behind the opposition defence and scoring. That space wasn’t there on Saturday as West Brom played a deep defensive line.

If Vydra is frustrated then fair enough. He is desperate to play, we’re told. Enter Nottingham Forest.

Perhaps sensing Vydra would be unhappy after being left on the bench they approached Watford and enquired as to whether the Hornets were willing to loan out the striker. Take a short break from the relationship, if you will.

Forest were met with a firm no from Watford. It’s a position sources told us this morning the Golden Boys maintain. At this moment they are not willing to let Vydra leave. He is firmly in club’s plans.

Flores may have said yesterday he wouldn’t stand in the way of players who want to depart but, ultimately, he doesn’t have the final decision. He is only part of a committee which decides transfers.

So Watford don’t want Vydra to go. And - according to his outspoken agent, who as usual wasted little time in talking to the press - Vydra doesn’t want to leave Watford.

The man Vydra has to impress then is Flores. It isn’t the first time he has been charged with proving a head coach wrong. He did it with Slavisa Jokanovic last season and eventually earned the Serbian’s trust.

It won’t be easy, especially as his first-team chances appear limited. But if Vydra can prove to Flores that he deserves a place in the starting XI then there is no reason that relationship status can’t be changed again.