We couldn't afford Vialli claims new chairman

Last updated : 30 September 2002 By HornetsMAD
Vialli failed to get Watford back to the Premiership and was sacked in the summer because of financial problems at the club.

"I think it was perhaps a misjudgement and it won't happen again. But I still think at times last year we saw some lovely football," said Simpson.

"If we had been able to afford Luca, who knows what he might have achieved in two more years?

"He didn't get the chance he needed because we couldn't afford him.

"Maybe if we'd been wiser we'd have done things differently but we did it for the good of Watford.

"It was a punt and it didn't work."