As Slaven Bilic becomes Watford’s fourth manager this calendar year, will a manager ever be given time at Vicarage Road?

You do have to wonder whether the Pozzo family will ever learn from their mistakes. In May of this year, Rob Edwards was promised time. He was given just 11 games and four months in charge.

Edwards follows Claudio Ranieri and Roy Hodgson through the Vicarage Road exit door. What springs to mind initially is a familiar feeling, so familiar that the uproar becomes less and less. Vicarage Road has become a graveyard for managers, which begs the question, what does the future hold for Bilic?

Will Bilic get time?

History tells us he won’t. Perhaps that is part of the pull, to be one of the very few to be given time by Watford’s ruthless owners. It’s a slightly insane pull, but for a manager like Bilic who has nothing to lose and everything to gain this might just work.

Following his dismissal at West Brom, Bilic started a new challenge in the Chinese Super League with Beijing Guoan. Bilic lasted just 29 games in charge, winning 9. Many will point to his underwhelming time in China as a sign he is not the correct appointment. If he can’t get it right in China what hope does he have at Watford?

Managerial Graveyard

Since becoming involved with Watford in June 2012, the Pozzo family have appointed and sacked 16 managers. Bilic becomes their 17th managerial appointment and likely destined for the same fate as his predecessors.

Watford need stability, chopping and changing managers is a formula that doesn’t work. It may provide short term success but long term it’s disastrous.

Managers will obviously want to buy players who fit their style of play and system. Players who buy into their philosophy. Changing managers so regularly leaves the new man in charge with players who were attracted to the club by completely different ideas.

Constant changes mean players have to adapt to a different style of play, training schedules and how to act around their new manager. It leaves a team without an identity because no manager is afforded any time to establish one.

The Watford owners are probably already looking at Bilic’s replacement. Until Watford give a manager time to put his stamp on things, the club will not move forward.