I feel sorry for the supporters of Stoke City. Hughes will mess your team up, he could not pick a good team with unlimited cash. He stands NO chance with no money.
He is a POOR judge of football talent and has NO man management skills. I hope I am wrong but it looks like the board at Stoke City are going for a cheap option by bringing in Hughes, NO one else wants him.
Good luck for next season.
See you in the championship.
posted on 31/5/13
Other than QPR where has he done badly?
He did an excellent job at Blackburn, avereage at City and not given enough time and did well at Fulham.
Take off QPR from his list and you see he has done a decent job.
He has little loyalty biut he isn't a bad manager. Not great but not terrible like most people on here are making out.
posted on 31/5/13
Tell that to the QPR supporters. He brought in 14 new players and could not make a team. I think someone needs to tell him it's a TEAM GAME. as a player he was an individual and as a manager he thinks that's the way football is played.
Good luck
posted on 11/6/13
..and not given enough time and did well at Fulham.
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He voluntarily left Fulham..
posted on 11/6/13
Never rated Hughes and his management record since landing the Man City job has been nothing short of abysmal.
At City he had unlimited funds to spend, including £32.5 million on Robinho and £22 million on the very average Lescott and he must have spent well over £150 million in total and could still only manage a tenth place finish, before he was sacked with a record of only 36 wins in his 77 matches.
His next club was Fulham, where he could only muster 14 wins in his 43 game stay, before he resigned. Fulham's owner Al Fayed said of him afterwards "a strange man" and a "flop" and also added that he rescued him from becoming the "forgotten man of football" after he was sacked by Man City.
Then onto QPR, where his 34 game reign produced a paltry 8 wins and basically condemned them to relegation, which even Harry Houdini Redknapp's arrival couldn't rectify.
In total he's overseen 154 games at his last three clubs and only managed 58 wins, even though he's been allowed to spend a sh-t load of cash.
So, don't anyone tell me that Hughes is even an half decent manager, because his record proves otherwise and I reckon Stoke will have a very real survival battle on their hands next season.
posted on 14/6/13
Mirf
well said.
Hughes is a terrible manager and unlike-able as a man. Some may think that irrelevant, but its really not... as we will no doubt see in about 6 months
posted on 28/6/13
Ron the Don, you are a QPR supporter. Let's be honest, your team and the way they went about investing in it was a joke. 14 new players. You think it was all down the Hughes, but we also saw Rednapp also flop at QPR. Hughes did well enough to keep you up the previous season. To be honest with you, it would have been better if you had went down that season. It would have given you a lot more scope to build the team than the current shambles it is now.
Fulham were dire and he came in and helped them out. Al Fayyad was just bitter he left. Hughes was wrong to think himself bigger than the club. He should have stayed and rebuilt his career there.
The City job was always going to take some time before the team came together, unlucky for him Mancini came in when it did.
I can understand the bitterness from Fulham and QPR fans.
You said "In total he's overseen 154 games at his last three clubs and only managed 58 wins, even though he's been allowed to spend a sh-t load of cash."
He spent a sh-t load of cash at City (who were always going to spend sh-tloads) and QPR. The fact that QPR and Fulham are bottom half teams will mean he wouldn't have won much matches anyway.
We will see if Hughes is a terrible manager or just decent with Stoke. If he has them in the bottom five and struggling than yes, you can call him a bad manager. If he does well, will you call him half decent? I doubt you will.