Duxbury wants new boss to recapture Hornets identity

Watford chairman and chief executive Scott Duxbury believes that the club’s new head coach will come in and hep the Hornets re-establish their identity.

Outgoing boss Walter Mazzarri was informed that his services wouldn’t be required next season prior to the final game, which ended up as a 5-0 home defeat to Manchester City.

The Hornets will now have a new man in charge at the start of a campaign for the third year in succession.

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Duxbury defended the club’s record of sacking managers and implied that Mazzarri did not fit the club’s long-term goals.

“We are doing a lot of good stuff off the pitch, in the community, and in the past year that has been lost a little bit, we’ve lost a little bit of our voice,” said Duxbury.

“The new coach will come in and give us that identity, that voice, about what a lot of people at this club are doing and we’re not getting the credit for, for a number of reasons.

“Every campaign, we have started and finished with the same coach. There have been many teams who have reacted, because results have forced them to do that, we’ve never done that.

“At the end of the season, we have made a sensible, rational analysis of where we want to go in the next season, and that has resulted in a change.

“During the season, we have backed the coach fully, we would never interfere with team selection.

“We have long-term goals and we would like the coach to be aligned to that.”