Former Watford head coach joined our Deadline Day blog to answer questions about transfer windows, signing players and his time at Vicarage Road
“I was involved in every one of them. How can a manager not be involved? I don’t get it. Just the basic economic aspect of wasting money signing players a manager doesn’t want. There’s a structure to the recruitment team, but whether there’s a fee, they’re free or loans, there has to be a positive effect on the first-team squad. That was what I always tried to do in transfer windows.”“I’ve done all sorts, right up to the final minute.
”“Eating pizza and watching Sky Sports! That was it, every time, at about 6pm we’d get pizza and we’d be sat round the TV with a phone. There’d be me, the chief exec, the club secretary and the head of recruitment. We’d just be waiting to see what happened. Sometimes you’d get to about 8pm and realise nothing was going off, and you’d pack up and go home. Other times you’d be chasing deals until beyond the time the window shuts.
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