The Pink Panther
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Damocles said:Hughes has personally impressed me as a manager. I didn't really know that much about him before his Blackburn days as I didn't pay that much attention to his Welsh side.
He has shown that he is a manager who believes that the best teams, are the fittest teams and the most disciplined, which I happen to agree with. His training and coaching methods look to me, like they are moving the club in to a new realm of fitness and professionalism.
I'm not sure if he is the right man for the job long term, but if he carries on the way he has been going, I'd certainly back him. The main thing now, is to ensure that people are not jumping on his back too early, Rome was not built in a day. It doesn't matter how much we have spent, as if you look at percentage of clubs wealth, we've spent less than every other team in the league. Gelling players takes time, and I don't think the fans will give him that. Hopefully though, Al-Mubarak and Cook look pretty savvy, and they seem to know the score as far as timeframes for improvement are concerned. He needs this season to bed his team in, and next season to push for glory.
I was reading an article today in one of the papers and it was going on about City/United rivalry going back since the early 70's. It also listed year by year over the last ten how much both clubs has spent. We are now only £30M ish behind the rags.