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Championship > Watford
First Team: Mart Poom, Jay DeMerit, Danny Shittu,
Alhassan Bangura, Jobi McAnuff, Marlon King, Nathan Ellington
Reserve/Youth Team:
As a club who have just been relegated from the Premiership, Watford still
possess a side with enough quality to be a force in the Championship. Couple
this with a decent 1.5m transfer budget and it should be possible to achieve the
boards aim of automatic promotion.
In goal, Mart Poom is a quality goalkeeper who should be able to deal well with
even the best strikers in the Championship. The defensive unit would be the one
slight cause for concern. Despite having quality centre backs in DeMerit and
Mackay, they don’t have particularly good cover in the full back areas, with
Stewart and Mariappa being average players.
They have a great deal of quality in the midfield department. The likes of
Banguara, McAnuff, Mahon and Francis should form a strong unit across the middle
and the young Argentinean loan player Aloi also possesses some talent. Watford
should have enough quality in their midfield to do well in this division without
any major changes needed. However, it might be an idea to get rid of weak
players such as Williamson as a cost cutting exercise.
Watford boast one of the most potent attacking units in the division. Any one of
the likes of King, Ellington, Henderson or Priskin should be able to score
enough goals to help you mount a promotion charge, it will just be a matter of
finding the best partnership.
Overall, anything other than automatic promotion would be seen as a failure for
Watford. They have one of the strongest squads in the league as well as a decent
transfer kitty with which to add reinforcements. Watford managers can
realistically target a title win.
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