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brooklandsblue2.0 said:I think he needs to feel loved by the manager(like he clearly was by Hughes) If he goes I wish him all the best, as I do with ANY city player who has not shit on the club.
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Stephen Ireland has blamed Mark Hughes, the former Manchester City manager, for leaving him short of confidence in the period before Hughes was replaced by Roberto Mancini.
Ireland, who is expected to feature in tomorrow’s FA Cup fifth-round tie at home to Stoke City, said that his form suffered at the start of the season because Hughes insisted on playing him out of position to accommodate Carlos Tévez’s arrival. The Cork-born player was ushered on to both wings and even deployed as a holding player in competition with Nigel de Jong.
“I was being played out of position,” Ireland said. “Maybe as a holding midfielder, left wing, right wing. It is not me. You have to adjust and think, ‘I have to do it’, but if you want the best out of me, you have to play me in my best position. Then I can be myself because the chains are off. But the last six months under Mark Hughes was very frustrating for me.”
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