Zola resigns from Watford

[Rhys Lightning 63]

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!?! Football has OFFICIALLY gone mad

[west kowloon white]

WBA (or one of the other vacancies)bound,perhaps not mad?

[Burt]

Resigned rather than fired...

And they have been on a very poor run of form. Were it not for the storming start they had, they would be bottom 3.

[cusackdribble]

Good to see someone with a bit of integrity - resigning rather than waiting to be fired and then taking the inevitable pay-off that goes with it. Unless, of course, they have paid him off and just orchestrated the whole thing to make him look like a man of integrity.

[Lighthouse]

If only we had waited longer to sack Jol.


Yes I am kidding.

Although I do think Zola is an exciting manager and has his teams plying attacking football.

[ToodlesMcToot]

Good to see someone with a bit of integrity - resigning rather than waiting to be fired and then taking the inevitable pay-off that goes with it. Unless, of course, they have paid him off and just orchestrated the whole thing to make him look like a man of integrity.

You're assuming, of course, that he resigned because of his record with Watford and not because there are now two open positions in the PL.

[jarv]

Yes, football has gone mad, it is all about the money!!!!! It will only get worse as far as I can see.

[cusackdribble]

As yes, hadn't thought of that Toodles!

[twang]

They have won one in eleven (lost 6 and drawn 4) and are supposed to fight for promotion. I doubt many at Watford are happy with that return so I don't really see how this is the proof of football's madness...

[Two Ton Ted]

I repeatedly hear what a superb manager Zola is but at West Ham and Watford he's hardly pulled up trees.

A great player doth not always maketh a great manager.

[gezkc]

Much of Watford's success last season was down to being able to field half the Udinese squad on loan.

I could be wrong, but I think the loan rules were tightened up for this season. If that's the case, it would certainly have played a part in their disappointing/more realistic results this season.

[Harold Shand]

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[valdeingruo]

Much of Watford's success last season was down to being able to field half the Udinese squad on loan.

I could be wrong, but I think the loan rules were tightened up for this season. If that's the case, it would certainly have played a part in their disappointing/more realistic results this season.

You are correct, it looked like there was overwhelming support from the league to close that particular loophole in the transfer system.

[mojo]

They simply signed them up instead of having them on loan :

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11686/8831102/transfer-news-watford-sign-eight-players-from-udinese-and-granada

[Julius Geezer]

They missed Vydra's goals and Deeney has been out of form.

For some reason (probably issues behind the scenes) they have played like a different team this year.

3 straight home defeats without a goal is always going to set alarm bells ringing.

Especially a side with promotion credentials.