Having already announced that he would be leaving Watford at the end of the season, Roy Hodgson will not be staying with the Hornets in the Championship.
Despite not being officially relegated, the Premier League side are on the verge of dropping back down to the second-tier, and they will need a new manager to try and steer them back to the elite.
That man, according to TuttoB in Italy, could be Enzo Maresca, currently unemployed after leaving Parma in November of last year.
For those who don’t know, the 42-year-old has some experience in England already, having worked as an assistant manager at West Ham for a year and a half between 2018-19 before taking over as Manchester City’s U23 manager for the 2020-21 season.
He also spent two years at West Bromwich Albion as a player between 1998-2000, meaning it wouldn’t take much for him to adapt (once again) on these shores.
Whether Watford end up appointing him remains to be seen, but TuttoB make it clear the Hornets are ‘thinking about the manager’, with the ‘first contacts started’ already.
It certainly wouldn’t be the first time Watford appoint an Italian manager, with Gianfranco Zola, Giuseppe Sannino, Walter Mazzarri and most recently Claudio Ranieri all working under the Pozzo family.
