Astonishing amount Watford have spent on sackings revealed with owners’ 21st manager Tom Cleverley at risk of axe

WATFORD person coughed up astir £20million connected managerial sackings implicit the past 5 seasons.

The Championship nine is known for its deficiency of patience and existent brag Tom Cleverley is edging closer to their ruthless revolving door.

Watford person had 19 antithetic managers since Gino Pozzo took implicit successful 2012 - including 3 past season.

But Cleverley is astatine hazard of becoming the 21st redundancy, arsenic Quique Sanchez Flores spent 15 months astatine the nine crossed 2 antithetic spells.

But it costs money to perpetually prosecute and occurrence managers.

The club's accounts person often been deed by termination payments for sacked managers.

Pozzo was forced to fork retired £1.1m to Valerien Ismael and his unit erstwhile helium dismissed him aft 10 months successful charge.

That fig is importantly down from the £7.8m paid successful 2021-22 erstwhile Xisco Munoz, Claudio Ranieri and Roy Hodgson were each axed.

That exceeded the £6.76m successful matchday gross the nine brought successful for games astatine Vicarage Road during that full campaign.

In all, it means Watford person squandered astir £20m successful colony payments implicit the past 5 seasons.

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And Cleverley is astatine hazard of becoming their next causality, contempt the information that Watford beryllium eighth, conscionable 1 constituent disconnected the play-off places. 

On Thursday, talkSPORT claimed the Hornets were acceptable to adhd the Englishman to their agelong database of managerial redundancies.

Spanish media outlets reported that Pacheta, who formerly managed Villarreal, is simply a contender to regenerate the erstwhile Man Utd midfielder.

But Watford then issued a bizarre statement regarding Cleverley's future.

Rather than announcing Cleverley had been axed, the nine confirmed helium would beryllium successful charge of the adjacent crippled against Coventry.

While Cleverley's broadside are well-placed for a promotion push, they person won conscionable 2 of their past 8 Championship fixtures.

The concerning run, which stretches backmost to December 15, prompted rumours that helium whitethorn not beryllium astatine the helm for overmuch longer. 

But 97 per cent of fans privation Cleverley to past his enactment of execution, according to a canvass tally by a Watford Observer reporter.

Meanwhile, Watford’s £58m gross past play is immoderate £90m little than the heydays of beingness successful the Premier League during 2018/19 term.