The Athletic. Hello I'm Mark Chapman welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast Adam Crafton

with us once again coming up all you need to know as Watford

Saxe, Cisco Munoz and appoint Claudio Raniering, the athletics Adam Leventhal and James Horncastle

have all the background from inside the club.

And our Liverpool writer Simon Hughes joins us to discuss the future of the star performer at

Anfield yesterday Mo Sala. Let's start by talking about the news that Watford

this weekend Sackler manager Cisco Munoz, the former Lester and Chelsea manager Claudia Ragnieri

lined up as a replacement by the club's Italian owner Gino Pozzo.

So Adam Crafton is with us as is the athletics Watford writer Adam Leventhal and our Italian football writer James Horncastle always a joy when you have two guests with the same first name.

So let's start with Adam L. shall we? In some ways you

predicted this didn't you with with the article on the athletic that

international breaks are worrying times for

Watford head coaches. Yeah I mean I was a little bit of the of the grim

Reaper just sort of sneaking up towards yeah the game leads, but you know the context of some of the

performances this season have sort of been edging towards this happening in the international

break because if you look back at the you know the results that they've had so far

It was a great day against Aston Villa on the opening day sunshine happiness fans back all that sort of, and they played well and it was a big performance.

But second half, they almost let it go.

The other points that they've picked up so far, they beat Norwich, but everyone beats Norwich apart from Burnley. And they picked up a point against Newcastle when they could quite easily have lost, you know, three, four or five nills. So then following that up with the game against leads and the way that they they performed it was disorganized, there didn't seem to be much tactical depth to the whole thing and this isn't about personality because Shisko Munoz is a lovely guy, solid

bloke, did well last season, got them up, did his job, but now it's just that the performances the fact that they haven't really hung together particularly well or shown that incremental

Advancement that the board wanted that's why they've had to act and that and that's the key thing is it because a pundit or people that don't know what for go, here they go again.

Yeah. But what for were very clear in their statement I thought that, you know, it wasn't it wasn't where they are in the table it wasn't the fact that they'd lost at

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