Yes, I think there’s been a bust-up. Pundits, Twitter saying crazy but I don’t think this is a simple football decision.
please log in to view this image hornetto Academy Graduate An absolutely rancid decision by an absolutely rancid club. Not because Nigel Pearson is the best manager in the world, although he's done a job here and didn't deserve to be humiliated in this fashion. He was commissioned to keep a team up who were 9 points adrift and looking hopeless in every department. I took issue with some of his management decisions but he fully deserved the last two games to finish the job and to part ways on decent terms if they didn't fancy him long-term. Unless something has occurred behind the scenes which we're not party to, then this looks like a contemptuous, grossly unfair and utterly disrespectful way to treat a manager. Now we're going to enter into a nigh-on impossible relegation battle with two inexperienced coaches in charge against two of the biggest clubs in the world. Apart from anything else, who is going to want to come here now? What credible and capable manager would consider coming and working for this laughing stock, knowing they'll be sacrificing their professional reputation at the altar of Gino's pathetic small-**** ego? I'm absolutely flabbergasted and for the very first time since we were taken over 8 years ago, I think we have the wrong people in charge. These aren't our values. This isn't what our club represents. I'd rather be a mid-range Championship side with local lads and a bit of team spirit instead of this miserable warehouse for foreign loans who'll never play for us and hapless last-chance mercenaries who don't give a f*ck about the club. I'd rather watch Joe Garner up front than have Andre Gray anywhere near my side, a homophobic wannabe "G" who flaunted lockdown rules, put his team at risk, has looked conference standard all season and yet still gets into the side ahead of younger, hungrier players. I'd rather sit in the cold on a Tuesday night at Southend then watch us treat managers like dogsh!t we can wipe off whenever our disgusting recruitment policy and our incompetent technical staff want to distract from their unfathomable incompetence. I'd rather see a team of Lloyd Doyleys every week then watch Deeney puffing around with a broken knee and a beer gut while Capoue naps in the centre circle. This is an absolute travesty of a season in an absolute travesty of a year. Give me something for the pain and let me die. Taken from Watfordfc forums (they don't mince their words there) - I couldn't have put it better myself !
I suspect something happened we don't know about .. If we we ever do? Got to say it's not a great look if not. Nothing on the Official site yet.
From the Watford Observer reporter Ryan Gray, Players were due to train at 3pm this afternoon. Instead they had a meeting with Gino at 2.30, not even staff members had been forewarned - Mullins and Stack took charge of the session
I doubt we'll ever find out the truth - every other sacking is still clouded in mystery as far as I'm concerned, with various rumours floating around, none of which have been officially confirmed. Like you I'm certain that something has been going on behind the scenes, and has been for a while now. The way the players have performed (or not performed) since the restart strongly hints at player unrest over something - or someone.
This is such bad timing...... How can a lesser coach inspire the team for two of the hardest games of the season??
There is a rumour circulating that Pearson punched Masina. No idea where it has come from, if there is even an iota of truth in it, but just how do these rumours start?
Personally, I think that's mostly nonsense - but everyone is entitled to their say I suppose. Having had a little time to think about it, I now tend to think that Gino had no option. Irrespective of past - or recent - history, the stark facts are we have ended up with two matches left and still possibly needing four points to save our bacon. In spite of two recent wins, the team performances have been abysmal - and the liklihood of gaining the points needed against two better-performing teams, one of which we can't even get a point from on a good day, were looking to be below zero with NP in charge.I'm not saying that they will be any better under Mullins, but they can't be any worse - and something had to be done.
Maybe someone noticed the bruise as he sat and watched the second half? I was surprised at Masina's below par performance on Friday - maybe words had been exchanged beforehand and things came to a head at the half time break?
It seems Shakesphere was asked to stay on so maybe was just a Pearson issue. A lack of discipline shown and general unrest. Must have been bad to sack him rather than just leave it a week and not renew his contract.
Or maybe Pearson believed this rumour and thought 'no way, Jose - no team of mine is playing in that'...
Just think, if Muff go down and Eddie resigns on principle he could be asked to come to us! And if we then stay up, Pearson would have been on a good bonus to keep us up and would have lost it. The lawyers will be laughing all the way to the bank.
I wouldn't be that happy to see Eddie in the dugout. He has been well supplied with money, but hasn't used it very well. There has been sporadic talk that Dyche feels he has taken Burnley as far as he can on limited funds so is waiting for the right offer. Would Gino eat humble pie and ask him to come back?
Still nothing officially. I know communication isn't great at the best of times but not even a line on the reports.
Sean Dyche has a safe job at Burnley and his CV is looking good - would he risk that to work for the Pozzos ? I very much doubt that. With our record it will now be very difficult to attract a manager of quality.
. Suggestions there are legal issues over bonuses if we stay up and compensation. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...me-watfords-third-sacking-of-season-8w2d3dvwb
Yes he does have a safe job, but there had been reports that he had had enough of trying to get by each season without any real funding. He still lives locally to Watford, so the long drive up north might make him think twice. His style of play I find uninteresting, but that is possibly because he has developed something to make the most of the players he can afford. As I said earlier today I don't know how you can say who will be a quality manager. GFZ gave us some lovely football, but didn't seem to know what to do when things went wrong. Slaviša Jokanović did well for us and also Fulham in the Championship, but failed at PL level with Fulham. I don't think there is a quality manager as such, but there are certainly those who because of a certain affinity with a club, the owners and the players can do well for a time. There have been very few such as GT or even Ferguson or Robson who stay for long periods these days
Wow, didn't see that coming. If the season started when Pearson took over you would be comfortable in mid table. Someone said he has a short fuse, I wouldn't know but he is a man of principle and will stand up for what he believes in, hence his dismissal at Leicester. Shaky goes where Nigel goes so no chance of him staying. Hope you stay up and there will be no shortage of applications for the job but gosh, you would want a good severance clause in your contact.
