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Watford sack head coach Cleverley

London, May 6 (UNI) Watford have sacked head coach Tom Cleverley after the team failed to reach the Championship play-offs.
The Hornets finished 14th in the table after taking only one point from their last five games - a 1-1 season-ending draw with Sheffield Wednesday.
Former Manchester United, Everton and Watford midfielder Cleverley, capped 13 times by England, was appointed as interim boss in March 2024 following Valerien Ismael's departure.
He was then confirmed in the post on a permanent basis the following month.
The 35-year-old was in charge for 60 games in total, winning 20 and losing 26.
Sporting director Gian Luca Nani said: "The time has come for a change and to build on what
we believe is a young and talented squad that will have benefited from the experience of the Championship this season.
"It has been a privilege to work closely with Tom; to understand how he sees the game and his enthusiasm for everything here. He deserves to be recognised for this and I'm sure he will have
a bright future in the game."
The Hornets are now looking for their 10th permanent head coach since Nigel Pearson was
sacked in the summer of 2020 with the club facing relegation from the Premier League, the
BBC reported.
Cleverley was the first head coach to remain in charge for an entire season since Javi Gracia in 2018-19.
He was unbeaten at home in his first 15 league games as boss, but results took a downturn following a 2-1 defeat by Cardiff on 29 December and they only took five points from the next nine matches.
Reports in Spain earlier this season claimed former Villarreal head coach Jose Rojo Martin, known
as Pacheta, had been in talks with Watford to replace him.
In January, the club dismissed that as "pure speculation" and owner Gino Pozzo later said of Cleverley: "We are committed to support him and look forward to the challenges ahead together."
Speaking last week, Cleverley said that hopes of achieving a play-off place had been undermined
by injuries, particularly among the forwards.
"There's no difference in the number of goals we've conceded from pre-January to post-January, but the amount of goals we've scored has dropped significantly," he said.
He promised to learn the lessons of the campaign and added: "We spent 10 weeks in the play-offs [places], we showed real positive signs before the turn of the year and I think we can clearly identify where and why we've run out of a bit of steam.
"We've got an incredibly young squad, the average age is boosted up by one or two individuals, but apart from that it's largely under 25 and the majority under 21 at the minute.
"The experiences they will have had this year - some bad ones - to really develop and ultimately improve from is one of the really exciting positives from this season."
No Watford manager or head coach has lasted an entire calendar year in the job since Malky
Mackay in 2010.
Since being relegated from the Premier League in 2022, they have finished 11th, 15th and now
14th.
"There will be no further club comment until a new appointment has been made," a statement on
the Hornets website said.
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