Ex-manager Gianfranco Zola believes Watford are unsettled
Former Watford boss Gianfranco Zola believes the club's players will be unsettled by the recent managerial changes.
The Hornets sacked Billy McKinlay after just eight days at Vicarage Road. He succeeded Oscar Garcia, and his reign is the sixth shortest in English football history.
Slavisa Jokanovic, who is the club's fourth manager in six weeks, won the Serbian league and cup double with Partizan Belgrade and has since managed in Thailand, Bulgaria and Spain.
Zola steered Watford to the Championship play-off final during his reign and the 48-year-old's departure last year heralded the start of Beppe Sannino's nine-month spell at the helm.
The Championship side currently sit in third place in the Sky Bet Championship, despite the departures of Sannino, Garcia and McKinlay this season, but Zola admits there needs to be a period of stability following Jokanovic's arrival.
“Obviously in the last few months there have been a lot of things going on and that doesn’t help even if you have a good team, you need to have things settled,” he told Sky Sports News HQ
“It is a good team certainly. They have very good players A few people have asked me about it [Watford] but I can only speak well of it. I had a very good opportunity and good time there.”
“I hope it will happen for them because it is a good club.”