Interesting Interview in the Mirror of all places

[m27]

Brilliant. Cut from the same cloth as Capello and look how much he has achieved. If you can't hack it, do one. I like it.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I'm very impressed with the things he has said there. Setting a culture and only having people who fit that culture is how you get the best from a business. If you have one or two bitching about "management" and the rules it corrupts from within.

 

[KentBlue]

Hughes is stamping his authority all over the club, which is exactly what we needed after the lax regime of Sven.

He comes across as a bit of a disciplinarian, not going to take any rubbish from anyone, etc. Which in my view is a good thing: there can only be one boss of the team and all the while Hughes is in charge the players will do as he tells them to.



The more I read about him the more convinced I am he can lead us to future glories.

 

[m27]

I'm very impressed with the things he has said there. Setting a culture and only having people who fit that culture is how you get the best from a business. If you have one or two bitching about "management" and the rules it corrupts from within.

Which is exactly why people have to remember that it isn't like Football Manager on their PC. Elano may have had bags of ability but Hughes, his right hand men and the rest of the squad have to deal with him on a daily basis. If he, or any other player for that matter, isn't adhering to the rules everyone else is, they have to be dealt with. If the poor attitude persists, then they are out of the door.

Sven turned a blind eye for too long and the bad feeling in the camp grew to unmanageable levels (this isn't just a woman about Elano by the the way). It's only now Hughes is slowly getting a grip because of the mess he was left with.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Yep, m27. In bsuiness it is sometimes called a "FIFO" culture.

Fit in or fuck off.

 

[KentBlue]

Elano may have had bags of ability but Hughes, his right hand men and the rest of the squad have to deal with him on a daily basis.

This was precisely the point I used to try and make when everyone was slagging off Hughes over the Elano saga. We as supporters only get to see what's happening on the surface. We don't see what happens behind closed doors.
There was also an element of 'Elano's-a-legend-Hughes-is-an-ex-rag' thing over the whole issue. I felt then that the manager has to act in the best interests of the club, and he has to be seen to be doing exactly that.

Gifted player that he undoubtedly was, there was definitely something unsettling about his presence at the club, and therefor he had to go.

 

[Citysmith]

I like Hughes idea of having a work shop with the players and getting them to decide on matters, this empowers the player into the decision making and can hopefully add to ethos of a team/unit.

As long as he has final say which he does this is a clever piece of psychology.

 

[bluevengence]

heres the rest of the interview..... <a class="postlink" href="http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/oliver-holt/Mark-Hughes-the-Big-Four-have-it-all-their-own-way-article197973.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion ... 97973.html</a>

Manchester City boss Mark Hughes last night claimed the Premier League's Big Four enjoyed a string of hidden advantages that protected their stranglehold on English football.

City and Spurs are leading this season's assault on the traditional domination of the Champions League spots by Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal.

But Hughes suggested anyone trying to break the elite's grip on power also had to fight 'a reverence' for top clubs and managers like Sir Alex Ferguson from referees and the authorities.

"You have to be careful because you cannot go around questioning the integrity of people trying to do their jobs," Hughes said.

"But if you are talking about games involving Liverpool, United, Chelsea and Arsenal, they are big games with huge profiles and if decisions are incorrect, there are consequences. Key decisions become hugely significant.

"Maybe there's a different mindset with the top four. They have had the benefit of a high profile over a long period and there is maybe a bit of gravitas in that.

"Maybe there's also a bit of reverence from the powers that be in terms of their relationship with the personality involved in those clubs.

"The referees don't exactly get sucked in to it but it's there. It's not tangible - you can't grab hold of it - but there is something out there and that is another thing we have to break down."

Hughes has led City to a superb start to the season and they lie fifth in the Premier League, just five points behind leaders United with a game in hand.

But they could be even closer if they had not been denied a point in the Manchester derby by Michael Owen's controversial winner deep in stoppage time.

"There was a certain inevitability about that goal," Hughes said, "because I have seen it happen so many times before.

"People have talked about Sir Alex having his arm around Alan Wiley in injury time but in fairness he couldn't influence the amount of time with the fourth official. If he had had his arm around the referee I might have had a real issue with it.

"Sir Alex is a huge name and a huge figure in British football and I'm sure referees like to regale people with accounts of conversations they have had with him and top players.

"I'm sure it goes down well over a pint in their locals. It's a human nature thing so you have to accept it."


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Their exchanges before this season’s Manchester derby may have given the impression that Mark Hughes and Sir Alex Ferguson had developed a healthy mutual contempt.

But Hughes dismissed that suggestion yesterday and said his relationship with the Manchester United manager was far better than it had been when he played for him at Old Trafford.

“As a player, I didn’t have a personal relationship with Sir Alex,” Hughes said. “I was thankful that he picked me more often than not and because of that I felt I needed to produce for him.

“I did that so that we both became successful but I was never sat in his office having cups of coffee and discussing football or the issues of the day because that wasn’t me.

“Since I became a manager myself, I would suggest my relationship with him is much better. It is certainly better. It had to be better because I never had one before.

“I have never really seen him as a mentor in the way that certain other managers in the Premier League seem to do but I don’t really have a mentor. Maybe that’s a failing in me. I tend to trust my staff when it comes to advice.”

Hughes also dismissed criticisms by Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger that the wealth of City’s Arab owners gives the club an unfair advantage.

“You could say it’s unfair that the top four have had £20m extra to anyone else by getting into the Champions League,” Hughes said. “We have an owner who wants to invest and invest in the right way.

“There is a perception that money is no object here but that is not the case. I have a budget. It may be bigger than most budgets but I still have constraints put on me. It is not scattergun.”

 

[m27]

More brilliance. To state that he's saying all the right things would be the understatement of the century.

 

[ibennett63]

Mark Hughes blue & white army.