Sack race 2021/2022

[degsy]

Its always the Watford manager

This

 

[cpfc1905]

Such a bizarre club, genuinely feel for the fans, imagine being subjected to those owners.

They love it, make excuses for it all the time. As soon as they're in a bad run of form they're calling for New Bloke Out

be a shame if it caught up with them

 

[EverTheOptimist]

Watford owners are plain strange, Udinese since they owned the club have 16 managers in 18 years as well, must be an even worse ratio at Watford.

I hope them and Udinese go down this season.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Lets hope we don't get dilly ding dilly donged when Big Claudios bhoys rock up to Goodison

 

[Martin Alvito]

Watford owners are plain strange, Udinese since they owned the club have 16 managers in 18 years as well, must be an even worse ratio at Watford.

I hope them and Udinese go down this season.

Works for Abramovich. Doesn't seem to work for anyone else.

The lesson would seem to be that a club can get away with having a revolving door if they buy and sell enough talent, but not otherwise.

 

[EverTheOptimist]

Works for Abramovich. Doesn't seem to work for anyone else.

The lesson would seem to be that a club can get away with having a revolving door if they buy and sell enough talent, but not otherwise.

Yeah so strange how Chelsea are immune, it's like a twilight Zone anomaly, Abramovich has no qualms about sacking a manager's during a season because they have still won stuff, no qualms about sacking after a winning season either.

Winning the CL both times after they sacked a manager halfway through a season. lol

They hired Hiddink twice in a caretaker role and i think they won one of the domestic cups, Rafael comes in for a few months and wins the Europa League.

Conte wins the Fa Cup, the PL the previous season and they sack him a week after the final, Sarri wins the Europa in his only season and he's sacked the following week.

It's amazing.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Yeah so strange how Chelsea are immune, it's like a twilight Zone anomaly, Abramovich has no qualms about sacking a manager's during a season because they have still won stuff, no qualms about sacking after a winning season either.

Winning the CL both times after they sacked a manager halfway through a season. lol

They hired Hiddink twice in a caretaker role and i think they won one of the domestic cups, Rafael comes in for a few months and wins the Europa League.

Conte wins the Fa Cup, the PL the previous season and they sack him a week after the final, Sarri wins the Europa in his only season and he's sacked the following week.

It's amazing.

I think it's because he's always got pieces moldering on the bench that are more suited to whatever the new guy wants to do. Tuchel came in, shuffled some personnel and made a formation switch to solve their defensive issues, and they immediately turned into world-beaters because it's a bear to beat a team that can net once or twice and almost never concedes.

He didn't even need a window to do it, because they've got talent to burn. He did need to shore up goal-scoring for a 38 game campaign, which is why they spent big to bring Lukaku back. They really, really needed a #9 that could keep them from leaking points to lesser resistance.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

Once again I blindly backed the Watford manager to be the first and won. Didn’t even know his name!

 

[marsh]

Strange owners them Watford ones, it's not like they'd lost 7 out of 7 and were bottom. They aren't even in the bottom 3

 

[barneygumble]

Strange owners them Watford ones, it's not like they'd lost 7 out of 7 and were bottom. They aren't even in the bottom 3

Had a quick look on a Watford forum, and even though they came up, they wanted him gone before the end of last season. The majority said he was tactically naive, and just felt he was fluking results.

Maybe there's a little bit of logic in it.

 

[Carloblues]

Begs the question who in their right mind would want the Watford job? Just know your gonna be sacked in less than 12 months anyway.

Feller got them promoted in his first season and got them around where they would want to he in the league and still gets the chop.

Odd ball owners

 

[The binman chronicles]

Once again I blindly backed the Watford manager to be the first and won. Didn’t even know his name!

Time to lump those winnings on Ranieri getting the sack before anyone else too.

 

[kithnou]

it's not like they'd lost 7 out of 7 and were bottom. They aren't even in the bottom 3

Big ambitions clearly at Watford

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

I was so sure Arteta would be first, luckily, I'm no betting man

 

[Martin Alvito]

Strange owners them Watford ones, it's not like they'd lost 7 out of 7 and were bottom. They aren't even in the bottom 3

A club would truly have to be a basket case to outrace Norwich to the bottom this season.

Ranieri isn't even a weird appointment, to be honest. He's likely better than the present manager, and his history shows he doesn't mind being a short-timer. Watford would be hard-pressed to find a better fit.

Given the stakes of relegation, I can't much fault their ownership for throwing a good-sized chunk of manager salary at the problem. As insurance policies go, this one is pretty cheap. They might be underestimating how dire the current bottom three really are, but odds are someone will get one of them playing well by midseason.