Pozzo: 'Zola should be Watford's new coach' (From Watford Observer)

kingofpop wrote:
Giampaolo Pozzo said: "We have always been convinced of Zola. I have known him for some time. He had already come to Udine when he was a player with Napoli. He is a serious and capable technician. With (the right) opportunities and resources he can do well."

Like he did well at West Ham????

Well done to Sean, hope he can get another job very soon.

KL Massive wrote:
I am gutted about SD - a good reliable player that has worked his way up to being an excellent manager - my favourite since GT.
Also have had the pleasure to meet him and can confirm he is a true gentleman.
I prefer evolution to revolution; SD should have been given next season...

lutondown wrote:

kingofpop wrote:
Giampaolo Pozzo said: "We have always been convinced of Zola. I have known him for some time. He had already come to Udine when he was a player with Napoli. He is a serious and capable technician. With (the right) opportunities and resources he can do well."

Like he did well at West Ham????

Well done to Sean, hope he can get another job very soon.

First season finished 9th in Prem, is that failure? He didn't get the chance to finish his second year.
Don't condemn him before he gets going
Sorry for Dyche, like Hornet Cornet, I was one of his doubters but I was way off the mark.
Never nice to see anyone undeservedly lose their job, more so when he's a young English boss. Good luck Sean, I'd send you my hat but you were so good I ate it.

corbindallas wrote:

KL Massive wrote:
I am gutted about SD - a good reliable player that has worked his way up to being an excellent manager - my favourite since GT.
Also have had the pleasure to meet him and can confirm he is a true gentleman.
I prefer evolution to revolution; SD should have been given next season...

I'm with you there, like Buckler and co gave SD a chance in the end, I will also with Zola, I hope Zola proves me wrong but he has not achieved anything yet and I am not exactly ecstatic over his pending appointment! I am extremley happy the Pozzo's have brought the club for the record but not impressed with their early PR routes so far.

lutondown wrote:

corbindallas wrote:

KL Massive wrote:
I am gutted about SD - a good reliable player that has worked his way up to being an excellent manager - my favourite since GT.
Also have had the pleasure to meet him and can confirm he is a true gentleman.
I prefer evolution to revolution; SD should have been given next season...

I'm with you there, like Buckler and co gave SD a chance in the end, I will also with Zola, I hope Zola proves me wrong but he has not achieved anything yet and I am not exactly ecstatic over his pending appointment! I am extremley happy the Pozzo's have brought the club for the record but not impressed with their early PR routes so far.

So the clappers become the slappers and vices versa! Lol
After Bas's shambolic PR that was resolutely defended by some it seems some of those pro Bassites are to give Pozzo no chance.
Let's remember, these guys are in Italy and speak Italian, to their native press, nothing wrong with that as I see it, they-have been
more forthcoming than a certain Stanmore businessman

corbindallas wrote:

lutondown wrote:

corbindallas wrote:

KL Massive wrote:
I am gutted about SD - a good reliable player that has worked his way up to being an excellent manager - my favourite since GT.
Also have had the pleasure to meet him and can confirm he is a true gentleman.
I prefer evolution to revolution; SD should have been given next season...

I'm with you there, like Buckler and co gave SD a chance in the end, I will also with Zola, I hope Zola proves me wrong but he has not achieved anything yet and I am not exactly ecstatic over his pending appointment! I am extremley happy the Pozzo's have brought the club for the record but not impressed with their early PR routes so far.

So the clappers become the slappers and vices versa! Lol
After Bas's shambolic PR that was resolutely defended by some it seems some of those pro Bassites are to give Pozzo no chance.
Let's remember, these guys are in Italy and speak Italian, to their native press, nothing wrong with that as I see it, they-have been
more forthcoming than a certain Stanmore businessman

Yes but actions speak louder than words for the previous owner, so let's see what the new ones bring with em, the Pozzo's speak English don't they so why can't they talk, even the Udinese website is available in pigeon English, mamma mia, what's da matter you, shuddupa your face!

In GT We Trust wrote:
I would have preferred SD to have been given a chance, but the new owners have every right to bring their own man in as they obviously have their own way of working so I will support him too.

The silver lining for SD is that he will be due a severance payment and, based on last season's performance, he will walk into a new job - both of which he thoroughly deserves.

KL Massive wrote:
I am gutted about SD - a good reliable player that has worked his way up to being an excellent manager - my favourite since GT.
Also have had the pleasure to meet him and can confirm he is a true gentleman.
I prefer evolution to revolution; SD should have been given next season...

corbindallas wrote:

In GT We Trust wrote:
I would have preferred SD to have been given a chance, but the new owners have every right to bring their own man in as they obviously have their own way of working so I will support him too.

The silver lining for SD is that he will be due a severance payment and, based on last season's performance, he will walk into a new job - both of which he thoroughly deserves.

Not sure SD will see it that way, but hey ho new broom and all that. The issue I have is the Championship and Premiership are two very different leagues and Zola has only had proper experience in the Premiership, you never know SD may be his assistant for smooth pogress???

corbindallas wrote:

In GT We Trust wrote:
I would have preferred SD to have been given a chance, but the new owners have every right to bring their own man in as they obviously have their own way of working so I will support him too.

The silver lining for SD is that he will be due a severance payment and, based on last season's performance, he will walk into a new job - both of which he thoroughly deserves.

Not sure SD will see it that way, but hey ho new broom and all that. The issue I have is the Championship and Premiership are two very different leagues and Zola has only had proper experience in the Premiership, you never know SD may be his assistant for smooth pogress???

buckler wrote:
Had Dyche been offered the Birmingham job this would now be irrelevant!

lutondown wrote:

corbindallas wrote:

In GT We Trust wrote:
I would have preferred SD to have been given a chance, but the new owners have every right to bring their own man in as they obviously have their own way of working so I will support him too.

The silver lining for SD is that he will be due a severance payment and, based on last season's performance, he will walk into a new job - both of which he thoroughly deserves.

Not sure SD will see it that way, but hey ho new broom and all that. The issue I have is the Championship and Premiership are two very different leagues and Zola has only had proper experience in the Premiership, you never know SD may be his assistant for smooth pogress???

You know Corby, I hope that is the case, it makes perfect sense for continuitys sake.
I liked Zola as a player and an excellent ambassador, and I like the way Dyche learnt on his feet.
And Dyche would have no problems understanding Zola, anyone's easier to understand after Fatty MacPie

akureyri wrote:
Q. (from Corbindallas) Why is the Italian news channels being told first what is happening with a English club?

A. Does that matter, we are receiving more in three days than the last year and three months.

akureyri wrote:
Q. (from Corbindallas) Why is the Italian news channels being told first what is happening with a English club?

A. Does that matter, we are receiving more in three days than the last year and three months.

bobolongo wrote:

KL Massive wrote: I am gutted about SD - a good reliable player that has worked his way up to being an excellent manager - my favourite since GT. Also have had the pleasure to meet him and can confirm he is a true gentleman. I prefer evolution to revolution; SD should have been given next season...

Totally agree. SD deserves his chance. Not just on ethical grounds. The fact that everyone seems to now think we will be a premier league team next season will put a lot of pressure on Zola who is inherting a team and a fanbase who have massive respect for SD. There are plenty of examples of championship takeovers which have gone nowhere. The Pozzos are taking a big risk getting rid of him. Patience fellow horns!

corbindallas wrote:
Cripes have you seen Udinese's managers track record, they don't seem to last more than a year and longest was 3 years and in 2010 they had 3 different managers during the year, think Sean has got out just in time, theres no loyalty around the job!

abbotshornet wrote:
News just in Marvin Sordell to play for team GB in the Olympics.

akureyri wrote:
Q. (from Corbindallas) Why is the Italian news channels being told first what is happening with a English club?

A. Does that matter, we are receiving more in three days than the last year and three months.

wfc lad wrote:
am i the only one thats glad to see dyche go?

Goldenboy1960 wrote:
Be careful what you wish for everyone. As much as I lke Zola as a guy and footballer, a Manager he hasn't been. He has no experience of the Championship and what is required. An look at Duxbury's record for bringing in players. I fear for our season and if he's anythiny like Vialli or as he was at West Ham then we will find Iwelumo at right back and we will be getting our backsides slapped trying to play pretty football in a Division which will take the mickey. When are people going to learn from past experiences. Chasing rainbows everyone....

tiger bay wrote:

Goldenboy1960 wrote:
Be careful what you wish for everyone. As much as I lke Zola as a guy and footballer, a Manager he hasn't been. He has no experience of the Championship and what is required. An look at Duxbury's record for bringing in players. I fear for our season and if he's anythiny like Vialli or as he was at West Ham then we will find Iwelumo at right back and we will be getting our backsides slapped trying to play pretty football in a Division which will take the mickey. When are people going to learn from past experiences. Chasing rainbows everyone....

That is possibly the most ignorant post ive ever read!! Just because Zola's Italian you hope he's not like Vialli?? Id be more worried if he was like Hoofroyd...Pretty football?? Did u not watch Blackpool, Fulham, West Brom, Swansea etc..pass there way out of this very average division??

tiger bay wrote:
Dyche appears to have been treated shabbily and i wish him luck for the future, but......personally, i am sick and bored to death watching manager after manager employing dinosaur kick and run football at Watford. Hopefully we can now watch the game as its meant to be played, pass and move on the deck. As i said earlier..good luck Mr Dyche, please take Doyley with you, as i suspect and pray Zola wouldnt use him as a ballboy. We can use the Spurs match as a goodbye as well as a testimonial to the worse 'footballer' EVER to make a living from the game. Cheerio Lloyd x

Hornet Cornet wrote:
tiger bay you are utterly clueless. do you know that? i fear not.

hot off the Italian press. Sophia loren has allegedly said "hornet cornet , phwoar" . true.

corbindallas wrote:

akureyri wrote: Q. (from Corbindallas) Why is the Italian news channels being told first what is happening with a English club? A. Does that matter, we are receiving more in three days than the last year and three months.

Yes it does as this is a English club in a English league and it is disrespectful to the fans who support the club to haveto search out info on what's going on at thier club, remember without us they are nothing! As I said action speak louder than words ad that's the answer to your not hearing anything for the last year and 3 months, open your eye's, why ya speka so bad, wats a matter you, itsa nicer place ??!!

cliff46 wrote:
I don't think Goldenboy1960's comments are too wide of the mark.
If our club is now reasonably financially secure then I am happy.
But Dyche has demonstrated that he understands the championship, Zola will have to go through a substantial learning
process.
We already lose £3/4M a year, Baz has already sold most of the
players that have good Market value, so I wonder how the new owners will react when they see losses increase as they pile on high additional management/executive costs.
Our average attendance level
currently puts us comfortably in the poorer half of the championship table. If Zola and the team make a wonderful start and there is a substantial increase in attendances it will
restricted by the limitations of our three sided ground.
I can only see the losses reducing in the immediate future if there is a substantial increase
in season ticket prices etc.

Lutondown and SA, among others were big enough to admit they when they were wrong about Dyche, I very much hope I similarly have
to retract all of my above
comments in due course.

smalon wrote:
Tiger bay, Doyley may not be a great player but to label him the worst footballer ever is just b*ll*cks.
He's not even the worst Watford player from recent teams or do you never actualy go to watch the team?
All the best SD, onwards and upwards the mighty Horns!

Terry Dactile wrote:
I love our club because it has a soul. A bit of it was lost for me when we sacked Ray Lewington If Dyche gets the boot, due to some jolly come lately Italians, who will come and will go again it will be a sad day for our club. Zola will only have a very short time to improve everything, because I for one believe he is the wong man, with no understanding about what this club I have loved for nearly forty years is all about. The spirit of this, our club is the fans not yours Pozzo, before you leak more stuff out in the Italian press. Things will turn quickly against you if you dont respect the fans and the spirit of this our club.

There was only one Scully wrote:
I do hope that this is all Italian tabloid rubbish! Zola may have been a decent player but as a coach he is not got it! This all reminds me of those terrible days of another Italian coach who, came and nearly destroyed this club. SD should be retained and I for one will be voting with my feet if this sham is allowed to happen with Zola as team coach.
Its a political and puppet move by the Pozzo family to have one of their own! Not at all convinced so far! Ask the staff!

lutondown wrote:

There was only one Scully wrote:
I do hope that this is all Italian tabloid rubbish! Zola may have been a decent player but as a coach he is not got it! This all reminds me of those terrible days of another Italian coach who, came and nearly destroyed this club. SD should be retained and I for one will be voting with my feet if this sham is allowed to happen with Zola as team coach.
Its a political and puppet move by the Pozzo family to have one of their own! Not at all convinced so far! Ask the staff!

I do hope you returning is local newspaper rubbish.
You dour little Scotty dog, woof off

mrbankrupt wrote:
What is wrong with some of the so called supporters on here?
For all we know Zola might end up becoming the best manager we ever had,only time and results will tell.
One thing i do know it's the most exciting start to a watford season for years.
Just to remind the moaners, if bankrupt was still here there might not of been a start to any season.

Henry VIII wrote:
I feel so out-of-sorts right now. The Baz era has ended and like him or loathe him we ended up better than when we started. Now we have a new family who it appears genuinely love the game and have a proven record of taking two football clubs and making them both successful, that cannot be denied. As people, we are often scared of change, the newness, the uncertainty. There is also the excitement, yet for some unknown reason I cannot get excited about Zola as our potential next manager. It is nothing to do with past experiences and I do think he is a good guy, maybe it is because he has a 'name', and Watford FC is not really a place where names like to hang out. I do not like the fact that SD is probably on his way out, but that is the sad reality of football, it is purely a business, but for us fans, who woke up one Christmas morning as kids to our first Watford kit, our view about everything associated with this club is emotionally driven, I do think that we care a little more than some of the glory hunter big club fans, and we want things done the Watford way, you could say the Taylor way, for if nothing else there was a true gentleman with dignity. It is tough when those calling the shots are beyond your control,so for now Pozzo family, I thank you for helping our club, I know it is in sound interests but I will just have to hope that your managerial and backroom appointments are as sound as your previous business moves. I just do not cope well with regime change, that's all. Good luck everyone...

lutondown wrote:

Terry Dactile wrote:
I love our club because it has a soul. A bit of it was lost for me when we sacked Ray Lewington If Dyche gets the boot, due to some jolly come lately Italians, who will come and will go again it will be a sad day for our club. Zola will only have a very short time to improve everything, because I for one believe he is the wong man, with no understanding about what this club I have loved for nearly forty years is all about. The spirit of this, our club is the fans not yours Pozzo, before you leak more stuff out in the Italian press. Things will turn quickly against you if you dont respect the fans and the spirit of this our club.

Yeah the Watford ultras will stop wearing their bobble hats
Forza Pozza, Forza Zola
Goodbye moaners, Go north there's a nice little club fifteen miles up the road for you all
Forza hornets

southernhornet wrote:
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There may be trouble ahead!!!!

Yardy wrote:

mrbankrupt wrote:
What is wrong with some of the so called supporters on here?
For all we know Zola might end up becoming the best manager we ever had,only time and results will tell.
One thing i do know it's the most exciting start to a watford season for years.
Just to remind the moaners, if bankrupt was still here there might not of been a start to any season.

For zola to be the best manager ever he'd have to achieve a great deal to surpass what GT has achieved.

And if he was that good chances are he'd only last a season and a half at our club then he'd be snapped up by another bigger club.

Yes I agree LB may have been a chancer but he's a business man and he saw WFC as a business opportunity only.

Terry Dactile wrote:

lutondown wrote:

Terry Dactile wrote:
I love our club because it has a soul. A bit of it was lost for me when we sacked Ray Lewington If Dyche gets the boot, due to some jolly come lately Italians, who will come and will go again it will be a sad day for our club. Zola will only have a very short time to improve everything, because I for one believe he is the wong man, with no understanding about what this club I have loved for nearly forty years is all about. The spirit of this, our club is the fans not yours Pozzo, before you leak more stuff out in the Italian press. Things will turn quickly against you if you dont respect the fans and the spirit of this our club.

Yeah the Watford ultras will stop wearing their bobble hats
Forza Pozza, Forza Zola
Goodbye moaners, Go north there's a nice little club fifteen miles up the road for you all
Forza hornets

Just because you dont have blind faith doesnt make you moaner. This is both an exciting and worrying time. No-one yet knows anything much other than stuff disrespectfully leaked to foreign press. This is our club not a plaything or rich foreigners. I for one will still be supporting this club long after this crowd are long gone. All I want is things done the right way. By the way if anyone took any notice of you and your alter egos meglamanic view that you can decide who can and cant support this wonderful club, then you would be watching a sunday league team by now and a certain non-league team would have sell out every week. Now go back to your homework little fella.

Blissett'sRevenge wrote:
It isn't personal, it's just business. Like everyone else, I appreciate Dyche and value what he accomplished for us this last season but suggestions that he be retained on a trial basis or for half a season or out of loyalty are examples of thinking with the heart and not the head. Similar arguments were made in favor of retaining Kenny Dalgleish at Liverpool when Henry acquired that club and we all know how it ended up. The Pozzos are a completely new ownership animal for us. They aren't running the club out of a childhood loyalty to the colors or a sense of nobless oblige or to make a quick buck. They are smart, clear-eyed businessmen who intend to operate our team like a business to maximize both its success and their revenues. Dyche has proven that he can take a bunch of middling players and get them playing with commitment and cohesion so that we can safely achieve mid-table mediocrity. I'm not belittling that - it is a real talent that many managers do not have - but that is no longer our model or our ambition.

The Pozzos have a plan. They are going to put their people in place to implement that plan which is what they should do. Yes, that is a cold attitude. Yes, it will disappoint those of us who see Watford as a “family club” and think that this is somehow more (or less) then a business. I sympathize but I think that misses the point. Those of us who are sufficiently mental to read and write on these forums are going to continue supporting the club no matter who is the manager while the majority of the casual and potential supporters couldn’t care less. The long-term growth of the club depends on success on the pitch and on the balance sheet. The Pozzos think we have a better chance of succeeding with their people in place. Fair play to them.

Bush Hornet wrote:
IF the plan comes together for Premiership success, will we be as unloved as Chelski? I know the Pozzos don't just buy success with ill-gotten millions but if this works out then others will hate us and say we're no longer a real club. I guess I'll have to live with that but I'm not gonna judge any Hornet who struggles with this change

Dino1982 wrote:
Hmmm, I think we should all calm down not panic. The new owners have great back ground are careful when it comes to spending so should be ok.

Give everyone a chance. SD did a great job towards the mid end of the season, but we must remember some of the football played before that was the worst I had seen in a long time.

We keep talking about the Vialli era, but was it all his fault? Surely the board at the time new what budget they had and just couldn't really believe someone like Vialli would come to the club to manage, so promised him whatever they could.

If I remember rightly to get him to leave they took all his staff away to get him to go on his own accord as to not to have to pay him off!

Zola may or may not be the right man or be a great manager at this club, but lets give him a chance and treat him as the Gent he is. He has the right heart and back ground, is a humble man who never came across as flash. He is a family man and perfect it that sense for a club like ours.

I am sure the new owners will want to improve everything at the club including facilities. The fact that they do not own the actual stadium in Udine because its council owned means we may get a better ground here.

We could end up with some good loan players also.

Lets be positive and remember siamo una bella squadra!!! con grande tifosi!!!

Forza Gli Orns!!!!

mrbankrupt wrote:

Yardy wrote:

mrbankrupt wrote:
What is wrong with some of the so called supporters on here?
For all we know Zola might end up becoming the best manager we ever had,only time and results will tell.
One thing i do know it's the most exciting start to a watford season for years.
Just to remind the moaners, if bankrupt was still here there might not of been a start to any season.

For zola to be the best manager ever he'd have to achieve a great deal to surpass what GT has achieved.

And if he was that good chances are he'd only last a season and a half at our club then he'd be snapped up by another bigger club.

Yes I agree LB may have been a chancer but he's a business man and he saw WFC as a business opportunity only.

Sorry Yardy but if you think Bas was a business man your living with the fairies.
I,ve asked for 15 months on here to name his companies & no one had an answer.
Anyway he is well gone.
No more Bas talk until the Pozzo's spill the beans.

Terry Dactile wrote:
I love our club because it has a soul. A bit of it was lost for me when we sacked Ray Lewington If Dyche gets the boot, due to some jolly come lately Italians, who will come and will go again it will be a sad day for our club. Zola will only have a very short time to improve everything, because I for one believe he is the wong man, with no understanding about what this club I have loved for nearly forty years is all about. The spirit of this, our club is the fans not yours Pozzo, before you leak more stuff out in the Italian press. Things will turn quickly against you if you dont respect the fans and the spirit of this our club.

There was only one Scully wrote:

lutondown wrote:

There was only one Scully wrote:
I do hope that this is all Italian tabloid rubbish! Zola may have been a decent player but as a coach he is not got it! This all reminds me of those terrible days of another Italian coach who, came and nearly destroyed this club. SD should be retained and I for one will be voting with my feet if this sham is allowed to happen with Zola as team coach.
Its a political and puppet move by the Pozzo family to have one of their own! Not at all convinced so far! Ask the staff!

I do hope you returning is local newspaper rubbish.
You dour little Scotty dog, woof off

No, lets just say I have inside knowledge. We're doomed, if Zola is made coach my small friend!

Chris the Vic wrote:
So Sean sacked a most inauspicious start for the new owners.

Whilst Zola qualifies as Italian, a brilliant player he failed even with Steve Clark as his coach. I wish the new manager well but I dont think it will happen. is his middle name Vialli?

By January it may be time for the Posers to make Sean an offer he cant refuse.

Mickey Quinn, not so thin wrote:

Chris the Vic wrote:
So Sean sacked a most inauspicious start for the new owners.

Whilst Zola qualifies as Italian, a brilliant player he failed even with Steve Clark as his coach. I wish the new manager well but I dont think it will happen. is his middle name Vialli?

By January it may be time for the Posers to make Sean an offer he cant refuse.

No more quaint cuddly little old watford. This is the fast lane and these guys will be ruthless in getting what they want. Italian or not, if GZ doesn't deliver he will be replaced. There should be more success on the field but it may feel a little less like its "our club". Hold on tight...

Mickey Quinn, not so thin wrote:

Chris the Vic wrote:
So Sean sacked a most inauspicious start for the new owners.

Whilst Zola qualifies as Italian, a brilliant player he failed even with Steve Clark as his coach. I wish the new manager well but I dont think it will happen. is his middle name Vialli?

By January it may be time for the Posers to make Sean an offer he cant refuse.

No more quaint cuddly little old watford. This is the fast lane and these guys will be ruthless in getting what they want. Italian or not, if GZ doesn't deliver he will be replaced. There should be more success on the field but it may feel a little less like its "our club". Hold on tight...

Mickey Quinn, not so thin wrote:

Chris the Vic wrote:
So Sean sacked a most inauspicious start for the new owners.

Whilst Zola qualifies as Italian, a brilliant player he failed even with Steve Clark as his coach. I wish the new manager well but I dont think it will happen. is his middle name Vialli?

By January it may be time for the Posers to make Sean an offer he cant refuse.

No more quaint cuddly little old watford. This is the fast lane and these guys will be ruthless in getting what they want. Italian or not, if GZ doesn't deliver he will be replaced. There should be more success on the field but it may feel a little less like its "our club". Hold on tight...

Hornet Cornet wrote:
SD sacked? Let's hope that the Pozzo's know what they're doing as, if it gos wrong, they will not be popular. Fingers crossed. SD - you're a superstar, keep your head held high

4boys wrote:
Shaun Dyche, Shaun Dyche, Shaun Dyche, Jeez people get over it, these are the most exciting times for our club since GT took over.
Get behind our new management, and just enjoy the better football your going to see.
Don't prejudge, wait and see, of you can't wait go somewhere else. You are soooooo boring, boring boring boring, and don't deserve what we have coming.
I for one am over the moon
Come on you Horns

Mickey Quinn, not so thin wrote:

4boys wrote:
Shaun Dyche, Shaun Dyche, Shaun Dyche, Jeez people get over it, these are the most exciting times for our club since GT took over.
Get behind our new management, and just enjoy the better football your going to see.
Don't prejudge, wait and see, of you can't wait go somewhere else. You are soooooo boring, boring boring boring, and don't deserve what we have coming.
I for one am over the moon
Come on you Horns

News is less than an hour old and already you've forgotten how to spell his name !

The king is dead, long live the king, as long as he does actually sign up !!

Harrydownunder wrote:
I for one am rather excited about having a big name manager. Its the start of an exciting era. Unfortunately, loyalty in football has long gone. Its a business now! We need to welcome the new owners and the new manager not whinge and moan. FFS.

Colin West's mullet wrote:
oops, apols for the double post.

Colin West's mullet wrote:

Mickey Quinn, not so thin wrote:

Chris the Vic wrote:
So Sean sacked a most inauspicious start for the new owners.

Whilst Zola qualifies as Italian, a brilliant player he failed even with Steve Clark as his coach. I wish the new manager well but I dont think it will happen. is his middle name Vialli?

By January it may be time for the Posers to make Sean an offer he cant refuse.

No more quaint cuddly little old watford. This is the fast lane and these guys will be ruthless in getting what they want. Italian or not, if GZ doesn't deliver he will be replaced. There should be more success on the field but it may feel a little less like its "our club". Hold on tight...

when was the last time it felt like 'our club'?

Blah blah family club blah blah community blah blah fans forum ...the worst thing about being a Watford fan is having to share it with all the moaners who refuse to accept a good thing when it happens.

a new owner with a plan, money & a tried & tested formula (that works!!!!!) for MAKING TEAMS BETTER AND GETTING THEM PROMOTED AND WHO IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN SO IMPRESSED WITH OUR ACADEMY THAT HE WILL NO DOUBT INCREASE ITS BUDGET...you can keep your 'quaint cuddly little old Watford' - where has it got us? To a state where Mr Tumble can buy us when he's on benefits. We don't even have a complete stadium FFS, and we have to let bloody Rugby Henrys share our ground. I remember how proud I was when the Rous went up - now look at The Vic - it's a disgrace.

No axe to grind with Dyche. he looks to have a reasonable Championship/League 1 Managerial career ahead and good luck to him. But he was never, ever going to get us back into the Prem. The Pozzos will - whether that's with Zola or soemone else. And that's better than being a glorified 'poor old Luton' in my book.

Mickey Quinn, not so thin wrote:

mrbankrupt wrote:

Yardy wrote:

mrbankrupt wrote:
What is wrong with some of the so called supporters on here?
For all we know Zola might end up becoming the best manager we ever had,only time and results will tell.
One thing i do know it's the most exciting start to a watford season for years.
Just to remind the moaners, if bankrupt was still here there might not of been a start to any season.

For zola to be the best manager ever he'd have to achieve a great deal to surpass what GT has achieved.

And if he was that good chances are he'd only last a season and a half at our club then he'd be snapped up by another bigger club.

Yes I agree LB may have been a chancer but he's a business man and he saw WFC as a business opportunity only.

Sorry Yardy but if you think Bas was a business man your living with the fairies.
I,ve asked for 15 months on here to name his companies & no one had an answer.
Anyway he is well gone.
No more Bas talk until the Pozzo's spill the beans.

I must correct you Luton, my new best forum friend. He IS a businessman, just not a very good one.

If you want to know his other companies, current and past , just do a companies house search. Costs just a couple of ££s.

garston tony wrote:
Sad to see SD go but that is football these days apparently. All the best to him (couldnt they have found a role at the club for him, if he wanted one that is)?

Just scanned through the post but would say that I wasnt anti LB but just because I queried the Pozzo's releasing a statement in the Italian press before ANYTHING over here does not make me anti them either. As i said i'm quite excited about the future, I was just trying to point out if LB had done something similar there would have been a line of people waiting to attack him.

And despite some previous comments, we did hear quite a lot out of the club. Sometimes it didnt make sense mind you! But at least we were told first that SD had been made manager for instance this time last year, and didnt hear it via the Stanmore news or whatever its called

Chris the Vic wrote:
So Sean sacked a most inauspicious start for the new owners.

Whilst Zola qualifies as Italian, a brilliant player he failed even with Steve Clark as his coach. I wish the new manager well but I dont think it will happen. is his middle name Vialli?

By January it may be time for the Posers to make Sean an offer he cant refuse.

Hornet Cornet wrote:
..and yes, I spellt the larst word rongly

Hornet Cornet wrote:
SD sacked? Let's hope that the Pozzo's know what they're doing as, if it gos wrong, they will not be popular. Fingers crossed.

SD - you're a superstar, keep your head held high

watford1881 wrote:
I may be in a minority when I say this but I'm glad SD has gone.. He's style of play is the worst seen from a Watford team for many a year in my view... The one good game I think we saw at the Vic was the match against Leicester.. SD failed to play the one player with any flare in Craig Forsyth... He was by far our best player for the tiny amount of games he played... SD never made subs when needed or had any plan b in his locker... I'll be glad when we start passing the ball a bit more & entertaining again.....

D.unstable wrote:
I met her in a club down in Old Soho
where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Cherry Cola
C-O-L-A Cola.

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance.
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said, "Lola"
L-O-L-A Lola, lo lo lo Lola

Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy,
but when she squeesed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my Lola, lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo Lola

Well, I'm not dumb but I can't understand
why she walks like a woman and talks like a man
Oh my Lola, lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo Lola

Well, we drank champagne and danced all night,
under electric candlelight,
she picked me up and sat me on her knee,
She said, "Little boy won't you come home with me?"

Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy,
but when I looked in her eyes,
I almost fell for my Lola,
Lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo Lola

I pushed her away. I walked to the door.
I fell to the floor. I got down on my knees.
I looked at her, and she at me.

Well that's the way that I want it to stay.
I always want it to be that way for my Lola.
Lo lo lo Lola.

Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world,
except for Lola. Lo lo lo Lola. Lo lo lo Lola.

Well I left home just a week before,
and I never ever kissed a woman before,
Lola smiled and took me by the hand,
she said, "Little boy, gonna make you a man."

Well I'm not the world's most masculine man,
but I know what I am and that I'm a man,
so is Lola.
Lo lo lo Lola. Lo lo lo Lola.



Always think of the above song when I think Zola, hopefully because the name is similar not that he is a transvestite.

Surely Chelsea must have had a song taken from this for him.

JonBoy wrote:
We're in the Gian Franco Zola Society

Andrew1963 wrote:

watford1881 wrote:
I may be in a minority when I say this but I'm glad SD has gone.. He's style of play is the worst seen from a Watford team for many a year in my view... The one good game I think we saw at the Vic was the match against Leicester.. SD failed to play the one player with any flare in Craig Forsyth... He was by far our best player for the tiny amount of games he played... SD never made subs when needed or had any plan b in his locker... I'll be glad when we start passing the ball a bit more & entertaining again.....

If you think Craig Forsyth has more flare than Murray. Deeney was a better player than Forsyth and neither will be playing for us again!

watford1881 wrote:

Andrew1963 wrote:

watford1881 wrote:
I may be in a minority when I say this but I'm glad SD has gone.. He's style of play is the worst seen from a Watford team for many a year in my view... The one good game I think we saw at the Vic was the match against Leicester.. SD failed to play the one player with any flare in Craig Forsyth... He was by far our best player for the tiny amount of games he played... SD never made subs when needed or had any plan b in his locker... I'll be glad when we start passing the ball a bit more & entertaining again.....

If you think Craig Forsyth has more flare than Murray. Deeney was a better player than Forsyth and neither will be playing for us again!

Deeney had zero flare or any class.. He was a trier but that's it... Murrey only came in towards the end of the season so he needs to show it in a whole long season... The first thing the new manager needs to do is sign someone with pace... We have zero pace..... COYH....