Quique Sanchez Flores doesn’t feel Watford’s mentality towards him will change and is focusing on enjoying the remaining three games of the Premier League campaign.

The Hornets’ head coach refused to say if he wanted to remain with the club prior to Saturday’s game with Aston Villa and the questions about his future, unsurprisingly, continued following the dramatic 3-2 victory which mathematically confirmed the club's top-flight status.

Although Watford have said no decision will be made on Flores’ tenure until they’ve held talks with the head coach at the end of the season, the 51-year-old appeared increasingly resigned to mounting claims that a break clause in his two-year contract will be activated when he spoke to reporters from Monday’s newspapers after Saturday’s win.

He said: “I think if anything was to change my mentality or anything’s going to change the mentality of the club, if my future depends on the last results of course I don’t have a future with this team, but I’m not sure exactly. I was talking with the owner [Gino Pozzo] for two hours during the week and we are at the same point that we were before the semi-final of the cup.

“For me the most important thing when I came here was to keep this team in the Premier League. It’s done, it’s brilliant the work of the players because we didn’t suffer and we have a lot of points and now it’s amazing we have three more matches in the Premier League and mathematically we are completely safe.”

Flores pointedly suggested a manager or head coach needs time to build and evolve a team, citing the example of Southampton who have only changed bosses twice since Nigel Adkins got them promoted from League One.

“What I think is it’s not easy to create a style, it’s not easy to create a model in eight months or ten months,” Flores said. “You need to make mistakes, you need to choose the players well, you need to do a lot of things. If you want to think about some teams like Southampton for example is working really well the past five years because they take time to change.”

Asked if he felt he deserved the opportunity to build on what he has achieved at Vicarage Road this season, Flores responded: “I respect a lot all the managers, I respect all the clubs but I think I have the CV to justify something or to keep me in something. I think my CV is very good and I think I don’t need to justify anything about that. So I respect every single team, I respect every single coach but I know what I deserve.”

With Watford’s top-flight status now confirmed, it was put to Flores that it would be a good idea to sort out his future now, rather than wait until the season is over.

“I am completely calm, I am completely focused on the three matches we have to play,” he said. “I am completely happy and my target now is to enjoy the rest of the season. I enjoy a lot the last nine months, of course I am going to enjoy the last month, I’m going to enjoy it a lot. My experience with Watford I’ve had up to know is I enjoyed it a lot. I didn’t suffer, I respect all the people who are working with Watford, I feel the respect of Watford fans. So I don’t need to talk about anything, I don’t need to change anything and just enjoy.”

Asked if reporters would be seeing him in August, Flores said: “I’m not sure, I don’t know. I don’t think about that. I’m just thinking about finishing well and getting good results for the players and the fans. I’m not thinking about my future because I am happy in my life. I have an amazing family. I feel love for this club so my future is safe, my future is lovely.”

And if he does leave Watford, would Flores like to continue working in England with another club?

He said: “I’m not sure about the future in football, it’s impossible to know. I work every time to win the respect of the people around football. Here and in other countries, I always want the respect. For that what we are working with the staff to work very hard and we focus on our work.”