Watford CEO and chairman Scott Duxbury says he wants to debunk a reputation of the club as "unstable" following the well-documented turnover of managers in recent years.

The former West Ham CEO spoke to the BBC this week and gave a frank account of how he and owner Gino Pozzo see the Hornets development as a club - with head coaches expendable and stability further up the foodchain a priority.

Duxbury believes Watford's path to success - which has brought them Premier League survival for the first time - has been forged by consistency in other roles around the club, such as that of sporting director Filippo Giraldi and others.

He told the BBC: "I think the lifespan [of a manager] is two years. They will either move on to bigger and better things or there will be problems and then you will look to move on and look in a different direction.

"If you take that pragmatic approach, and history suggests it is the right approach, then I think it is only common sense you build a stable environment around the club so that if a coach does move for whatever reason, success or failure, the actual club and infrastructure around it remains so you can transplant in another coach to continue the development.

"We have shown over the past five years that the model works and we are actually a stable football club. It is just a sensible use of resources. It stops a club being derailed if a coach moves on for whatever reason."

Duxbury spoke in glowing terms of head coach Marco Silva, who has taken to Watford like a duck to water.

He revealed that the Hornets don't allow their players days off during the season - which will raise eyebrows considering their recent injury record - as they prioritise high-intensity training, just as Silva does during matches.

But he also reserved some praise for the Hornets' star player this season, Richarlison, who already has three goals under his belt following a summer move from Brazil.

"We just move very quickly and efficiently out of all the targets for that particular position," he said. "Richarlison was the one we could close quickly so we took a view we would close what was closable rather than waiting and looking at other options."