Mark Hughes as manager

Keeper! said:
"Robinho - too good for the team we had"

Robinhio- mercenary twat only came for the money and gave up as soon as the pressure started, hugely overrated footballer.

Kolo Toure, finished when he left Arsenal and stole a living of us and the dippers.

Roque Santa Cruz, People have suffered jail time for doing less dodgy deals, Leslie topped up his pension pot good and proper with this one.
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The other two I’ll give, Toure had some cracking games for us. He was a huge step up in quality, more importantly he paved the way for the legend that is Yaya.
 
Keeper! said:
Leslie would never speak to Khaldoon, shows what a weirdo he was or more like he knew the big boss man would find him out very quickly.
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I never knew this to be the case. Hughes was just very unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was against his sacking at the time and felt he was treated appallingly by the club and a large contingent of our fans. However, that sacking turned out to be the best decision. He was never going to be the right man for the job, and our success since alongside his career decline shows it was the right call, and how far out of his depth he was managing a top half or even Premier League club.
 
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What of any significance did he achieve before he joined City cos he achieved nothing afterwards.

Apparently he was an awkward, arrogant bastard...typical rag !!

Bradford's his barra !!
 
manimanc said:
The way i see it is if Hughes was a decent manager he wouldn't be at Bradford City right now, no disrespect to Bradford by the way but its league two.
He wasn't very good with us, didn't do much at Stoke and wasn't very long at Fulham, QPR or Southampton.
His only decent spell was with Blackburn.
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I feel Hughes was always going to struggle at City because of his strong links to MUFC.
City fans forget that he played for other teams e.g. Chelsea and Barcelona.
However, he transformed the Wales national team into a professional, competitive side. Later managers, especially Gary Speed, built on this strong foundation.
His signings of Vinnie, Zabba & Mad Nige should be appreciated more...
 
the blue panther said:
His record for drawing from winning positions has stood the test of time.
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It didn’t help that the refs awarded soft pens against us several weeks running.

Hughes was just a stepping stone manager and getting Mancini in was fantastic. That said, I felt old that day we sacked Hughes in a snidey way and there wasn’t a murmur of protest.
 
BlueMoonday said:
Given got injured at Arsenal away. Gunnar Nielsen came on for the rest of the game and during the week we were allowed to make an emergency loan for Sunderland's back up keeper. Without Googling I can't remember his name.

Much to the fan's delight Glauber Berti came on as a sub during the last home game of the 08/09 season against Bolton (think we pumped them 6-0?). Think this was the same game as Pidgeonho.

Sylvinho was cracking under Mancini. Scored a screamer against Scunthorpe away in the FA cup.
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Marlon Fulop was the keeper we got.
Sadly he passed away very young.
27 years old I think he was.
 
CarlosTevez'sEnglishTutor said:
I was against his sacking at the time and felt he was treated appallingly by the club and a large contingent of our fans.
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Hughes had no tactical nous whatever, that 3-0 mauling at WHL the midweek before his sacking is still hard to forget. The ageing Sylvinho up against probably the quickest winger in the league at the time (Lennon) with bone-idle Robinho as his "protection" on the left wing. "Appallingly treated" - kept on too long, more like.
 
lancs blue said:
Hughes had no tactical nous whatever, that 3-0 mauling at WHL the midweek before his sacking is still hard to forget. The ageing Sylvinho up against probably the quickest winger in the league at the time (Lennon) with bone-idle Robinho as his "protection" on the left wing. "Appallingly treated" - kept on too long, more like.
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Sylvinho had played in the Champions League Final in the best football team ever just 6 months before this. He was a shrewd signing but unfortunately time waits for no man, his legs had gone.

Plenty more City managers have been soundly beaten at White Hart Lane since. For me it was the way Hughes was dismissed that made me feel for him at the time, very cloak and dagger by the club especially removing him on a matchday. There's no loyalty in football though, and Bobby Manc sorted the defence out almost immediately and ruffled the right feathers. In hindsight it was a good decision and appointment, albeit a similar ending to Hughes for Roberto, let's not forget that.
 
I didn’t want Hughes as our manager when he was touted and then announced but didn’t mind him when he was the manager too much. He made some really good signings and we played some brilliant stuff in some games and were exciting to watch at times.

We had a long run of shit results against Liverpool and Arsenal that went back decades. Hughes was the manager who started ticking off Arsenal from that list.



 
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Psychedelic Casual said:
We also went toe-to-toe with very good Chelsea and United teams a few times, under Hughes.




And he got us to our first semifinal in my lifetime.
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Never understood the sheer hatred for him. If it's because he played for Trafford's finest, why not the same for Denis Law, or Carlos Tevez, or Terry Cooke? And if it's because he underperformed as our manager, I could name quite a few others who were markedly worse.
 
jimharri said:
Never understood the sheer hatred for him. If it's because he played for Trafford's finest, why not the same for Denis Law, or Carlos Tevez, or Terry Cooke? And if it's because he underperformed as our manager, I could name quite a few others who were markedly worse.
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Wilson or Giggs debut his reaction to the goal , I fucking hate Mark Hughes proper dirty red **** can’t believe he managed us . I was gutted when he got appointed and near enough every game I went to weather we where winning or drawing I gave him shit if you where sat in 217 at the time you would remember me .
 
I will always remember that look in his eye during post match interview of City game the day before the Sheikh Mansour takeover...

Deffo a 'I know sommat you dont know' look.
 
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