Quique Sánchez Flores has signed a two-year contract at Watford that, it is understood, does not include a break clause next summer.

He will start work today having returned to the Premier League club who released him in May 2016 after only 11 months in charge. At that time the club were able to exercise a break clause in his contract at the end of a season in which Flores had guided Watford to 13th place, their best league finish for 29 years, and an FA Cup semi-final.

Flores, 54, has replaced Javi Gracia, who was disappointed to be dismissed on Saturday after he led the club to a first FA Cup final in 35 years and 11th place last season. However, Watford feared the