Championship

ISMAEL BIDS TO BUILD AT HORNETS

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The LeaguePaper Team
27 August 2023

By John Lyons

KEY MAN
IMRAN LOUZA Watford

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BIG HOPE: Watford have signed striker Mileta Rajovic from Swedish side Kalmar and, Inset, boss Valerien Ismael
PICTURE: Alamy

TIME and Watford managers have hardly been cosy bedfellows in recent years, but that’s exactly what Valerien Ismael wants to get the Hornets buzzing again.
In taking the reins in May, the 47-year-old Frenchman became Watford’s eighth head coach in the last three years. His arrival follows a dispiriting couple of years at Vicarage Road.
A depressing relegatio...

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