Football : Season 2025/2026

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Originally Posted by Carth

Watford managers falling off . . and back on . . the roundabout

They occasionally last longer with us...


Although we could do much worse than Dyche and have already done this season.


Nobody would be given the time Ferguson had at Utd these days - not even at Utd. They probably would be in a much better situation if they had kept Moyes for a few years given they were on the decline anyway. Maybe Arsenal if they had kept Emery (given what he has done at villa) would have worked out better than sacking him for Arteta, although Arteta hasn't done badly it took them a few years to become challengers in the league, and it seems Emery could have done that too.


Although the two we have sacked were justifiable (Nuno for his behaviour, and Ange for well simply being terrible) it seems that most of the time now a manager doesn't get the time to build without the threat of the sack and often the first sign of bad results the clubs pull the trigger on them.


I don't like spurs but there's already been talk this season of them sacking Frank which also seems silly to me because 2 years of Ange can't be undone in months. He had time at Brentford away from the spotlight to build a team and get it promoted and the organisation both on and off the field took years to get in place (quite a bit was the club). If the club is on board with the manager and want him to repeat then he needs time.


Going back to Utd it was clear at the end of the Ferguson years they were in decline, Ferguson was also good at organisation off the field so they had replacements lined up and towards the end this didn't happen so well, Moyes needed the time to sort those issues out as well, but they just chopped around various managers some of them being the best out there (LvG, Mourinho) and none of them did anything because the club needed more. I thought Watford usually got away with it because they managed to get similar managers for the squad and playing style, when the Pozzos came in and got rid of Dyche for Zola he lasted just over a season, then they went up in 2014-5 with 4 managers, they had 3 the last time they went down from the EPL and since then now looking for their 8th manager. I don't think they have really had any lasting more than 2 years. It's clearly not working these days and why would anyone let alone a manager in work go there?