Watford has immediately said goodbye to manager Slaven Bilic, the club announced on Tuesday. The reason for the dismissal is the meager series of results that the club has recently achieved under his leadership. Bilic’s successor will be the club’s tenth (!) manager in less than four years.
“The Hornets won only once in the last eight games in the Sky Bet Championship under the Croatian head coach,” Watford made clear in a statement on his website. “Since Christmas, only three wins have been won.” places, but after the lesser series of results, it is currently ninth, but there is still the prospect of participation in the play-offs for promotion to the Premier League, trailing number six Norwich City by four points.
Watford FC confirms the departure of Head Coach Slaven Bilic and his coaching staff.
— Watford Football Club (@WatfordFC) March 7, 2023
“We are all ambitious to succeed this season, so something new is needed quickly while the chance of promotion is still real,” says technical director Ben Manga about the reasons behind the coach’s dismissal. “Now that the winter transfer window is over, changing the manager is the only option left to generate new energy for the games to come.”
“The management would like to make it clear that it is grateful to Slaven for the work he has done during his time at the club,” Watford said. Since September 2019, Bilic is already the ninth manager to be fired by the club. Earlier, the club said goodbye to Quique Sánchez Flores, Hayden Mullins, Nigel Pearson, Vladimir Ivic, Xisco Muñoz, Claudio Ranieri, Roy Hodgson and Rob Edwards.