Stimacked Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Apparently the Ponzo family have confirmed their takeover. Watford set to be a feeder club for Udinese. Desite Dyche doing well last season. looks like Zola will be moving in. Can see Dyche going and joining Cardiff alongside Malky if he is booted out. Where does this leave us. Last season Metgod described us as a bottom 6 budget club or something like that. Donny and Cov and probably bankrupt Pompey would have all fallen into the same bracket budget wise probably. They havr been replaced by three clubs with Cash to spend. Huddersfield and Wednesday have already been making signings. Charlton are rumoured to be after Shackell so obviously have owners who are willing to show more ambition than ours. Assuming Forest get bankrolled by that Kuwaiti bloke. Who is left at the bottom of the pile ready to trade in our key player ! Apart from us maybe Barnsley and Peterboro and maybe Palace and Millwall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramexpat Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 [url=http://www.tribalfootball.com/english-premier-league/chelsea]Chelsea and [url=http://www.tribalfootball.com/italian-serie-a/napoli]Napoli legend [url=http://www.tribalfootball.com/english-championship/west-ham-united/gianfranco-zola]Gianfranco Zola is set to take charge of [url=http://www.tribalfootball.com/english-championship/watford]Watford. The Pozzo family completed its takeover this week and appointed ex-Brescia and West Ham director Gianluca Nani as technical director. That Hammers partnership could be reunited, as former [url=http://www.tribalfootball.com/english-championship/west-ham-united]West Ham United manager Zola is tipped to become the new tactician. Italian media report that Zola will put pen to paper on Tuesday for a four-year contract with [url=http://www.tribalfootball.com/english-championship/watford]Watford. [url=http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/chelsea-legend-zola-be-confirmed-watford-manager-3321061]http://www.tribalfoo...manager-3321061 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i84est Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Think Watford could be the Dark horse this season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Think Watford could be the Dark horse this season I don't, in fact I think it'll be spectacularly bad! Sean Dyche was perfect for them, brilliant manager whereas zola is a figure head and joining a family that don't come over with the best reputation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 They're dyching with death getting rid of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DcFc Dyycheee Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Seen as Sean Dyche has the same last name as me, this is sad news... :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Tibbs Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Zola struggled with a half decent WHU team, can't see him pulling up any trees at Watford unless they loan out Di Natalie and co.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsmini Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I don't think watford will do anything, just because they get new owners who bring a new manager does not automatically mean they will be better than us. Mid table next season at the most Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Clough Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Zola has been confirmed as manager according to the Mirror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Dyche just been sacked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Teale Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 He did quite a good job there bringing youngsters into the team and with no money in one season. In sure he will get another job. Didn't watford go the Italian way before with no success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBW Ram Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Very harsh on Dyche and his backroom team. I hope they get fixed up sharpish and fancy Dyche will eventually go on to manage one of the less fashionable premier league clubs. Not sure I'm so confident Zola will do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramshankered Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Even though Dyche talks with a permanent frog-in-his throat and has a radioactive goatie, I still feel a lot of sympathy for him over this scenario. He did a decent job last season and deserved better. No doubt he'll go to a lower league club and do well there. Still, Zola is from all accounts a very nice chap, so I wish him the best of the luck in his new role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Ram Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 He did quite a good job there bringing youngsters into the team and with no money in one season. In sure he will get another job. Didn't watford go the Italian way before with no success Didn't Vialli and Wilkins have a few weeks in charge a few seasons ago ? Feel quite sorry for Dyche, but that's the nature of the beast now, look at Houghton at Newcastle, never did anything wrong there and found himself out on his ear. Hope Dyche get's another crack at management somewhere soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i84est Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Quote from stimacked "Watford look set to befeeder club to udinese" are you being serious what players do Watford have that regular champions league team udinese want. Answers on a postcard please. Surely Watford will be offered all udinese surplus players and youngsters as I believe they can't play professionally in italy til they are 18 I think so all in all don't think they will do to badly out of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Granada also became a feeder club to Udinese a few years back.. In that time they won promotion and stayed up in La Liga based on bringing through talented youths from Italy.. Will it work for Watford? I'm not sure, but they've got nothing to lose as they weren't in a position to challenge for promotion anyway.. Also, Zola is a sound choice.. He played decent football at WHU and performed a minor miracle in keeping them up with all the injuries and players sold that they had.. WHU improved their squad the following season, got a few of their key players back to full fitness yet still went down showing that Zola in fact did a decent job there.. Watford finished above us last season, and whilst we appear to be getting weaker they appear to be getting stronger.. We're both midtable sides, so it will be interesting to see where we both end up at the end of the season.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramexpat Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 [size=3]WATFORD FC confirms the appointment of Gianfranco Zola as First Team Manager.[/size] [size=3]The 46-year-old Italian has signed a two-year contract at Vicarage Road.[/size] [size=3]"Everyone knows how Gianfranco Zola likes football to be played," said Watford's Technical Director Gianluca Nani of the appointment.[/size] [size=3]"I think Watford's fans can expect an exciting and attacking style from his team. Gianfranco represents this project perfectly."[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 I've been a fan of Zola for a long time and believe he can go long way as a manager. Hope he does well at Watford except against us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimacked Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 They are likely to have given Zola a decent budget to play with unlike our tight board. They have one of the most productive Academy set ups. Think their Academy has produced 50 players who have made their profssional debuts. Thats where they edged us out last season. Doubt we will be able to compete with them if Zola is also given extra Italian and Spanish loanees and a budget to bring in his own players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i84est Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Ssn gossip page has the linked to del piero and inzaghi. Imagine if we were linked with them think this forum would be on meltdown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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