Andre Villas-Boas: 5 Clubs That Could Give Him A Route Back Into Management

4. Watford

AVB would show even more humility still by dropping down further to manage ambitious and Italian-owned Championship outfit Watford. Were it not for a Crystal Palace penalty earned by Wilfried Zaha and scored by Kevin Phillips in last season's playoff final, the Hornets might well be a Premier League club again.

Falling at the final promotion hurdle usually leads to two outcomes. Either a side bounces back or they fall away as Watford have done under the hugely popular Gianfranco Zola, who resigned on Monday. It's been two months since the Hornets won a league game and not since the end of September at Vicarage Road. Villas-Boas would inherit a team as far off the playoff places as they are above the Championship relegation zone. Watford need reinvigorating as their legion of loan players from last term are not performing as well since becoming permanent acquisitions. Again the bookies do not see him as a likely candidate to become Hornets head coach. AVB is a rank outsider at 50/1. Fellow fired man Steve Clarke and former Chievo and Palermo boss Giuseppe Sannino are among those who may be approached by the Pozzo family.