hughes had no chance

[monkey-trousers]

they have always wanted mancini, he very nearly came in at the start, they have'nt sacked hughes because of bad results, they have sacked incase he wins all the games over the xmas period or worse won the carling cup. they would have been a laughing stock had they got mancini in after we finish 4th and win a cup.
yes even more than they are now.

i want mancini to do well, i have nothing against him, i'm glad kidd is there too, i want city to win every game and every cup and mancini is no mug.

city though have made me ashamed to be a blue.

i never thought that was possible.

I think this is the case. I always suspected that Hughes was just holding the reins until the right man came along. Unfortunately, football is now big business where sentiment means nothing. The club is going through a massive reconstruction and it is very rare that the people that lay the foundations are the same people that carry out the main build. I think that Hughes has done a decent job so far, but if he didn't go before the january transfer window and we continued to stutter, we may have regretted not getting rid and perhaps missing a great opportunity to crack the sky 4.

 

[BELFAST_BLUE_BOY]

With De Niro on this one....ashamed to be a Blue is how I feel....other things happening here and Hughes was on a loser from start no matter what!

 

[ibennett63]

they have'nt sacked hughes because of bad results, they have sacked incase he wins all the games over the xmas period or worse won the carling cup.

The reality is that had Hughes won just 3 or 4 of the 8 draws, he'd have been unsackable. He had his chance and failed to take it, which is a shame. Let's just hope Mancini is the answer.

Spot on.

 

[ChesterRdBlue]

If that was the case then hughes has had a fair crack of the whip to make sure he couldn't be replaced, he simply failed and was replaced. Get over it, he wasn't good enough and now we move on.

You can't say that because he is was still on course to achieve top four and you can't say we wouldn't have done that or won the carling cup because he WASN'T given the chance to be a success or failure.If they were going to do it it should have been in the summer.As de niro said they sacked him now incase we won our very winable games coming up,and Hughes finally had the striker he wanted from the start playing and we looked much better for it.A league cup semi that we also have a good chance of winning and they knew well that if we beat Utd to reach the final it would be very hard to sack him.

We had a very winable run of games which included Wigan, Fulham, Birmingham, Burnley, Hull nad Bolton and we picked up 6 points, simply not good enough and the board acted whilst they had the chance to rescue it. He was given the chance in that if he had won some of those games we'd be in a better position and he wouldn't have been sacked. Added to that I personally thought we were going backwards in the last few games and think the board were correct in their statement by saying "Sheikh Mansour and the Board felt that there was no evidence that the situation would fundamentally change".

 

[Dubai Blue]

If that was the case then hughes has had a fair crack of the whip to make sure he couldn't be replaced, he simply failed and was replaced. Get over it, he wasn't good enough and now we move on.

You can't say that because he is was still on course to achieve top four and you can't say we wouldn't have done that or won the carling cup because he WASN'T given the chance to be a success or failure.If they were going to do it it should have been in the summer.As de niro said they sacked him now incase we won our very winable games coming up,and Hughes finally had the striker he wanted from the start playing and we looked much better for it.A league cup semi that we also have a good chance of winning and they knew well that if we beat Utd to reach the final it would be very hard to sack him.

That's one way of looking at it.

The other way would be that they realised that our last run of very winnable games resulted in a succession of draws and they didn't want to risk a repeat as that would effectively end our hopes of reaching their targets for this season.

 

[1894]

Quite clearly, the Carling Cup was not going to save Hughes job. The prestige of Champions League is where's it at for the owner. I've seen the light.

I think we all know now.

Forget top 6, Carling Cup or FA Cup, its CL qualification, nothing less.

 

[bluegower]

Looking back at Robinho's sudden change from flirting with other clubs to announcing he wants to stay "five ..ten years" ...and then his careless display at spurs ... and walking off down the tunnel ... he knew about Mancini.

 

[monkey-trousers]

Quite clearly, the Carling Cup was not going to save Hughes job. The prestige of Champions League is where's it at for the owner. I've seen the light.

I think we all know now.

Forget top 6, Carling Cup or FA Cup, its CL qualification, nothing less.

Correct.

Big business invests in big club to perform on the biggest stage.

 

[Craig]

You can't say that because he is was still on course to achieve top four and you can't say we wouldn't have done that or won the carling cup because he WASN'T given the chance to be a success or failure.If they were going to do it it should have been in the summer.As de niro said they sacked him now incase we won our very winable games coming up,and Hughes finally had the striker he wanted from the start playing and we looked much better for it.A league cup semi that we also have a good chance of winning and they knew well that if we beat Utd to reach the final it would be very hard to sack him.

We had a very winable run of games which included Wigan, Fulham, Birmingham, Burnley, Hull nad Bolton and we picked up 6 points, simply not good enough and the board acted whilst they had the chance to rescue it. He was given the chance in that if he had won some of those games we'd be in a better position and he wouldn't have been sacked. Added to that I personally thought we were going backwards in the last few games and think the board were correct in their statement by saying "Sheikh Mansour and the Board felt that there was no evidence that the situation would fundamentally change".

Well we hardly looked like we'd gone backwards yesterday,ok we defended poorly but we looked miles better going forward and Hughes finally had the players he wanted who had the fight in them to win the games that we had been drawing.We will never know because he didn't get a fair chance.

Look at fergie and utd and don't say well he never spent as much money because he spent shitloads but it takes TIME.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Hughes had no chance, because the team weren't organized into a defensive unit and leaking goals. (some of his team selections were baffling) if you think the board were picking the team then you could be right! but I don't think they were.



There is only one question I'd like to ask the board, "Did they sell Dunne over MH head" because if he planned a defence for this season with Dunne playing a part, that would have been a good reason for why the back 4 don't look right.