Mark Hughes AGAIN!!

AustrianAndyGull · Post by **AustrianAndyGull** » 29 May 2013, 19:37

My only question is why?

Mark Hughes did well with the Welsh national side and really well at Blackburn but then bombed at Man City, Fulham and failed dismally at QPR. Now i'm not saying that he is a bad manager but i AM saying that he no longer deserves the chance to manage at Premiership level. He should drop into the Championship and learn how to achieve success once more before making the step up once again otherwise this continual failure in his managerial career will not end. He may very well do a great job at Stoke but i feel there are more deserving candidates out there who would love this chance. It is just another case of the usual suspects being banded about all the time and most of them have failed. I see the sense in giving a manager a second chance, hell i still hope Ling gets another job and turns his new side into a slick attacking unit and achieves success, i doubt it but he deserves a second chance. Hughes has has 3 other chances after Blackburn and failed in them all so it astounds me why Stoke would want him as their new boss.

Post by **Scott Brehaut** » 29 May 2013, 20:18

Not sure I would class his time at City as a failure. In fact my fanatical City supporting mate (one who actually hails from Manchester)

thought that "Bluesy" was hard done by when he got the push. He was building a very good team at the time.

Look at some of the players he brought in:

Kompany
Wright Phillips
Robinho
Bellamy
De Jong
Barry
Tevez
Kolo Toure
Lescott
Viera

Granted, he was given the money to spend, but I think he (mostly) did well with the money he had.

However when he left Fulham citing that he wanted to go to a "bigger" club, I lost a shed load of respect for him. The guy now deserves every bit of crap he gets

AustrianAndyGull · Post by **AustrianAndyGull** » 29 May 2013, 20:21

Ok so he failed at Fulham then and QPR BIG TIME so even on that basis he surely must have to drop a division to restart his managerial career.

AustrianAndyGull · Post by **AustrianAndyGull** » 29 May 2013, 20:22

Where's me f*cking spongebob gone too?!!!

chunkygull · Post by **chunkygull** » 29 May 2013, 21:41

AustrianAndyGull wrote:Where's me f*cking spongebob gone too?!!!

"WHERE'S YA SPONGEBOB GONE (where's ya spongebob gone)"

=D

AustrianAndyGull · Post by **AustrianAndyGull** » 29 May 2013, 22:16

Post by **Scott Brehaut** » 29 May 2013, 22:36

Not sure - seems that others are missing theirs too.

OllieGull · Post by **OllieGull** » 29 May 2013, 23:02

He spent 32m on Robinho, 25m on Adebayor and 17.5m on Santa Cruz, he really knows how to use money wisely.

stevegull · Post by **stevegull** » 29 May 2013, 23:06

Didn't Andy's name used to be orange? I realise I've been gone for a week but too much has changed!

I actually thought Man City made a mistake sacking Hughes as he would have kept some of those egos in check much better than Mancini did. But i'm not saying he would have been as successful as Mancini in terms of trophies. However I do agree with Scott in that I lost a lot of good feeling towards him as a person when he walked out on Fulham due to their 'lack of ambition'. What a fanny.

He started to believe his own hype and thought he was better than being a mid-rate side. Learn your trade and then move on to a big club, you fool. You rarely gain managerial success by jumping from club-to-club. David Moyes has earnt his chance at Man Utd by building a team in his own image at Everton. He developed and adapted through that and is now deemed ready for a 'big' job.

Hughes did fail dismally at QPR though. He signed terribly overpriced players that were too old for that money and he gave them bumper long-term contracts. He was taken to the cleaners. Did he even sign anyone under 30?

I agree with Andy in that it might even be better for his own personal managerial development to step down a level and get to grips again with how he wants to run a club.

ferrarilover · Post by **ferrarilover** » 30 May 2013, 00:00

I wouldn't give that **** a paper round. Worst manager in Premier League history. To point to his Man City record as evidence of his talent is nuts. My dog could manage Man City and she'd win a shit load more silverware than Retard Hughes will if he manages until he's 1000 years old. Spending a trillion pounds on 18000 players doesn't make you a manager.

Lovely player, a worse manager than Gareth Southgate.

Matt.

Post by **Scott Brehaut** » 30 May 2013, 00:30

OllieGull wrote:He spent 32m on Robinho, 25m on Adebayor and 17.5m on Santa Cruz, he really knows how to use money wisely.

Anybody could pick a manager and name some expensive duds.

yellowforever · Post by **yellowforever** » 30 May 2013, 17:01

Did he actually fail at Fulham? I recall him doing ok.

The major failure was at QPR, which was inescusable considering the money spent.

usagullmichigan · Post by **usagullmichigan** » 30 May 2013, 19:13

He did well at Fulham

Post by **Scott Brehaut** » 30 May 2013, 21:39

Yeah, I think he got them to 8th in the league (could be wrong). I lost respect for him when he left them citing the whole "I want to manage a bigger club" b******s.

Post by **Gulliball** » 31 May 2013, 00:34

Hughes only signed three players at Fulham though. He took over a good Fulham side after Hodgson went to Liverpool and wasn't there long enough to make a huge difference.

He jumped ship for the money at QPR and was a total failure there, so it's a risky move for Stoke.

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