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Cleverley was surprisingly sacked by Watford after the end of the season, much like Ruben Selles was by Hull.

Tom Cleverley has been told to steer clear of any potential approach from Hull City by Lee Hendrie.

The Tigers have started to rival their Championship nemesis Watford for who can be the most bonkers when it comes to managerial decisions.

We don't need to run through the ridiculous pace at which the Hornets go through bosses, but Hull are starting to mount a charge for pole position in the wacky world of coach cullings.

Three managers have been sacked in the space of roughly a year by the higher-ups at the MKM Stadium, with the latest being Ruben Selles, who was brought in to keep them up, which he did, but Hull felt they needed to make a change in order to "move the team forward in line with our ambitions."

Tom Cleverley told to avoid any Hull City approaches

Like Selles, Cleverley was surprisingly sacked by his superiors after the end of the 2024/25 campaign. After news that City were considering replacing the Spaniard first emerged, it was then said that they had nobody lined up ready to take Selles' spot.

Cleverley is one name who has featured on the bookmakers' early shortlist for the Tigers top job.

If an opportunity for Cleverley were to arise at the MKM, Lee Hendrie has exclusively told FLW that he sees no reason why the ex-Manchester United midfielder should take it.

Hendrie said: "Hull have obviously sacked Selles, so who's going to be the one to replace him? Tom Cleverley has already been linked with the football club.

"Listen, for me, it puts it on an even scale with what Watford do. I keep saying this, but what Liam Rosenior did at the club, giving him an opportunity and then nearly getting there, I think that's where they should have built. They didn't stick with Liam and went down another route that they felt was better to go down.

"Chopping and changing managers just doesn't help a football club. We've seen that with Watford. They've declined, Hull have declined in league status, and I'm not sure that Tom would really look to go into that. He should still be holding the reins at Watford, but he's not and that's why I think he'd be going to a similar sort of situation.

"Yes, maybe to bolster his managerial career if there's nothing else that he can pick from, but I just think he'd be going into a dark cave of being in the same sort of situation of what he's had with Watford."

Tom Cleverley must avoid Hull City

For all the obvious reasons, going from the Hornets to Hull would be like going from being on fire to being drowned: you're just not going to survive for very long, no matter what.

Oddly enough, though, if Selles goes to another Championship outfit, which is a highly likely scenario given that teams have already "shown concrete interest" in the 41-year-old, according to Mike McGrath, and he were to succeed, like Liam Rosenior has done at RC Strasbourg, being sacked by the Tigers inexplicably would become a bit of a badge of honour; a hallmark which proves you are actually a good coach - they just don't know one even when one is in their own dugout for months on end.