West Ham coach Slaven Bilic slams Watford for 'sick' decision to replace Flores

West Ham boss Slaven Bilic has hit out at Watford's decision to replace Quique Sanchez Flores despite achieving Premier League survival. 

Watford enjoyed an excellent start to life back in the Premier League after promotion from the Championship but a more difficult second half of the season has seen them fall to 13th place. 

Sportsblog360 understands former Inter Milan coach Walter Mazzarri have beeb tipped to will take over at Vicarage Road for the 2016-17 campaign, but Bilic labelled Flores' departure "sick". 

"It's crazy," he told reporters. "I'm sorry for Quique and I said it a couple of weeks ago before our game, when this was already a little bit in the papers - people were saying it's that kind of a job, or it's quite common. 

"Yeah, but it's not right, it's completely wrong. "He's done fantastically, he's had a good season. 

"When I came here it was like, Watford are among the teams that are likely to be candidates to go down, like every other team that comes up. 

"They were never in danger for most of the time, especially until January or February, they were top eight or top 10. 

"If you add to that that they play good football, and if you add to that that they were in a semi-final of the FA Cup by beating Arsenal away... they had a great season. 

"The whole place was not boring, the whole place was buzzing. The stadium, whole games, it was a season to be proud of. What it shows is that it is more important how you finish than how you start. 

"It's absolutely nonsense for me. I can't accept it. Nowadays it's very easy to find excuses for whatever you do. 

"And then we go like, 'yeah, it's normal, it's common in Europe, it's common in England'. "But it's completely wrong. It's sick, to be fair."