Watford to sack Flores

Kerrydude1981

Hard to understand what Watford do be at,surely the goal this season was to stay in the PL

Goal achieved = Sacking

LuckyLloyd

I'll be honest, initially thought this crazy but on closer inspection it's an understandable and forward thinking move. They are currently experiencing relegation form so a change makes sense.

L'prof

This is ridiculous! Spoiled by their performances in the 1st half of the season. Did enough to finish around midtable, 1st Watford team to stay in the league after promotion and this is the thanks that he gets. Sometimes you just have to laugh!

DeanAustin

Personally, I think it's a bit harsh - he's done well to keep them in the league.

But I wouldn't call it crazy or ridiculous. You can easily see the reason the owners have made the decision and they may yet be proven right.

NukaCola

SantryRed wrote: »

The FA Cup run wasn't that great at all, bar Arsenal:

1-0 Newcastle (3rd Round): Poor performance, win due to Wijnaldum trying to pass the ball back to Elliot and not seeing Deeney, who rounded Elliot and finished with ease.

1-0 Forest (4th Round): Poor performance, scuffed clearance from a cross by a Forest defender leave Ighalo with a 10 yard finish that any PL striker should take.

1-0 Leeds (5th Round): Poor performance, probably the worst own goal of the season as a Leeds defender tried to hook it clear and put it in his own goal.

2-1 Arsenal (6th Round): Best performance of the season probably. Up there with the Liverpool home game. But it was an anomaly in the second half of the season.

1-2 Palace (Semi Final): Terrible performance against an out of form Palace side too. We never looked like getting back into it, and when we did, we gave it up again 5 minutes later.


Honestly, there's too much sentimentality in English football. We were living off Deeney and Ighalo's partnership in the first half of the season, with absolutely no attacking impetus or style to our game. The second half of the season makes me think that the start of next season would start the exact same. Being in the PL is worth £100m a year, there's no place for even 10/15 games wrong. All you have to do is look at Villa giving Sherwood the job or Sunderland with Di Canio. The board almost felt they had to, and Villa ended up relegated and Sunderland survived last as per usual!

I really do think it's the best decision for all and no doubt he'll get a wonderful send off on Sunday for the fantastic season we have. But football is a business at the end of the day and I've seen nothing since January that does not suggest we would be in the relegation zone come next May.

What did you expect exactly? If this is the opinion the majority of Watford fans they'll be very hard to please. The way your complaining you'd swear Watford had a great squad capable of fantastic football........your complaining about a FA cup run saying every performance bar one is "poor/terrible", its almost beyond belief and smacks of a spoilt brat attitude.

Over performance first half of the season has clouded a lot of opinions here. This squad is poor bar 2/3 players.

Watford have had some success with their model so best of luck to them but I wouldn't be surprised to see them going backwards next season (hopefully).

rob316

They are in desperate form for the last 5 months, better to upgrade on him now than wait for 10 games in next season and find themselves in a relegation battle.

Corholio

Still not sure it's the right way to go. People are mentioning the end of season form as if next season starts next week or something. I'm sure there would have been quite a few changes again at Watford during the summer and I believe a manager should have the chance to put right any weaknesses that is there having mostly been successful during the period. I think for the amount of change that was there last summer he did very well to make a solid team and have all that good early season form that ended up keeping them up.

MagicIRL

So that's Watford winning the league next season so.

SantryRed

Ex-Sampdoria, Napoli and Inter manager Walter Mazzarri looks set to be taking the job. Another good coup for a club our size. 3-5-2 could be on it's way back too Been a staple of Watford bar last year since the Pozzo family took over.

Harry Palmr

Espanyol have a new manager