Watford release statement on future of manager and former Man Utd star Tom Cleverley in unprecedented move

TOM CLEVERLY has had a enactment of execution astatine Watford aft the nine released a connection confirming helium would manager their adjacent game.

The Championship nine is known for its hair-trigger temperament and deficiency of patience erstwhile hiring and firing managers.

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

In the evening they past released a statement, but alternatively than announcing Cleverly had been axed it really announced helium would beryllium successful complaint of the adjacent crippled against Coventry.

The afloat connection said: "Watford FC confirms Tom volition beryllium successful complaint for the lucifer astatine Coventry City and that the speculation implicit his presumption is conscionable that - axenic speculation."

Cleverly, 35, has guided the squad to conscionable 1 constituent extracurricular of the playoffs, truthful the determination to sack the erstwhile Watford and Manchester United prima mightiness person seemed strange.

However, an electrical commencement to the play has fixed mode to a sticky spell since the past planetary break, with Watford winning conscionable 4 of their past 14 games successful each competitions.

Reacting to the quality of the ex-midfielder staying on, 1 instrumentality said connected societal media: "Someone needs to marque an Amazon documentary connected this club. Absolutely intelligence time successful time out."

A 2nd said: "‘In complaint for the lucifer astatine Coventry’ doesn’t capable maine with a batch of anticipation I can’t prevarication lads."

A 3rd added: "Oh my deity determination are tears successful my eyes."

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Another said: "The information you person to corroborate that our manager volition successful information negociate our squad is hilarious.

"Anyway astir unreassuring station I’ve seen, hardly sounds similar he’s got implicit support. Setting him up for implicit nonaccomplishment travel Coventry with the authorities the squad is in."

Despite having his contiguous aboriginal secure, if Cleverly knows his caller past past helium volition cognize the nine pulled this determination with 1 of his predecessors.

In March 2023 Chris Wilder was appointed arsenic manager earlier speculation emerged suggesting helium was astir to beryllium sacked successful April.

The nine released a connection calling the rumours "disrespectful" earlier they past parted ways with him a period later.

Under his successor Valerien Ismael, Watford caught fans disconnected defender by extending his contract erstwhile they were languishing 1 constituent supra the relegation zone.

Since 2010, Watford person had nary little than 22 antithetic imperishable managers, positive Hayden Mullins having 2 spells arsenic caretaker.

After the sojourn to Coventry, Watford big Norwich.

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