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Post by rickyqpr on Oct 3, 2021 12:36:40 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58778752Amazing how many managers they get through at Watford. First Prem managerial casualty of the season - Claudio Ranieri looking the next head on the chopping block. I wonder if they all get healthy pay-offs?
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Post by londonranger on Oct 3, 2021 20:38:33 GMT
They need some gifted players. Cant keep swapping managers. Put all your coin boxes together and buy Raheem Sterling. In Peps doghouse.
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 4, 2021 9:43:54 GMT
Ranieri apparently the successor
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Post by surreychad on Oct 4, 2021 10:48:15 GMT
can this approach be sustainable?. You can argue its been successful for chelski but they have also thrown a lot of money on transfers for each manager that comes in and have been relatively successful over the years since the mad Russian took over. I am not sure Watford can match that spending power?
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Post by rickyqpr on Oct 4, 2021 11:16:22 GMT
can this approach be sustainable?. You can argue its been successful for chelski but they have also thrown a lot of money on transfers for each manager that comes in and have been relatively successful over the years since the mad Russian took over. I am not sure Watford can match that spending power? My local team, so I know a lot of Watford supporters. It is a very interesting case study. You probably know that the Pozzo family also own Udinese and did own Granada as well. They have little interest in football and run the club as a business - for profit - now there is a novelty! They believe in buying players and selling on with a high mark-up - and have been clever at passing the poor acquisitions to their other owned clubs. Probably some clever bookkeeping along the way. Having secured promotion, they have spent next to nothing in the transfer market this Summer - in fact none of the promoted teams went mad this time. They have got through 9 mangers since 2014. Ranieri about to become their sixth manager in 25 months. I think they must hire with contracts that they can walk away from at little or no cost - they are too fiscal minded to pay-off managers. Their business model requires them to stay in the top flight though, so succeed or walk. Watford 's history of dodgy owners is as colourful as ours, so fans are 'happy' that the plan is Premier League at all cost. But most I know are unhappy about the 'Tinkerman' appointment, they are used to managers they have never heard of before! You would think it has to end in tears, but so far it has not. But I wonder how long Ranieri will last, and will there be time for a third appointment to save them from the drop. He flopped at Fulham. Time will tell.
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