Mark Hughes as manager

[Rascal]

You never learn.

Yet my conscience is clear

 

[bluealf]

Yet my conscience is clear

My reply was to the other poster tbf who thinks you didn't go because of Hughes

 

[Bigga]

I could never understand how ANYONE thought Twat Hughes was a good manager!

 

[talkativesprout]

I could never understand how ANYONE thought Twat Hughes was a good manager!

Not sure how involved in transfers he was but he wasn't the worst

 

[mad4city]

Not sure how involved in transfers he was but he wasn't the worst

Like you, I don't know the exact depth of Hughes involvement but an awful lot of transfers during his tenure seemed to involve clients of the agent, Kia Joorabchin.

I also don't know if KJ was Hughes agent or what but I am quite sure he unloaded some deeply average footballers (or in the case of Roque Santa Cruz, a no longer fit for purpose footballer) on City.

The fact that this practice stopped immediately after Hughes departure suggests to me that he was instrumental in the practice but again, I'm in no position to know for sure.

 

[talkativesprout]

Like you, I don't know the exact depth of Hughes involvement but an awful lot of transfers during his tenure seemed to involve clients of the agent, Kia Joorabchin.

I also don't know if KJ was Hughes agent or what but I am quite sure he unloaded some deeply average footballers (or in the case of Roque Santa Cruz, a no longer fit for purpose footballer) on City.

The fact that this practice stopped immediately after Hughes departure suggests to me that he was instrumental in the practice but again, I'm in no position to know for sure.

I believe RSC and Hughes shared the same agent. Wasn't there a "under cover agent" expose at the time in one of the papers?

just had a quick check and out of the 20 he brought in i'd say 5 1/2 didn't work out (Robinho being the 1/2 we weren't ready for him)

Jo -Shit

Robinho - too good for the team we had

Nigel de Jong - Wonderful signing just what we needed

Craig Bellamy - Splits opinion but i'm a lover of balls on the saw players

Wayne Bridge - took us for a ride but a decent player

SWP - say no more

Shay Given - Decent

Pablo Zabaleta - Hero

Vincent Kompany See Above

Tal Ben Haim - Can't remember him playing for us, didn't he break his leg?

Glauber - Got a great song out of him (proper weird signing)

Gunnar Nielsen - Backup keeper hard to tell

Emmanuel Adebayor - For that celebration alone

Carlos Tevez - Cult Hero

Joleon Lescott - Without his big square head there is no Aguerooooooo, decent

Roque Santa Cruz....Seriously dodgy

Kolo Toure...Steady defender

Sylvinho Can't really remember him but guess he was passed it, one for the dodgy category

Stuart Taylor- Legend

 

[mad4city]

I believe RSC and Hughes shared the same agent. Wasn't there a "under cover agent" expose at the time in one of the papers?

just had a quick check and out of the 20 he brought in i'd say 5 1/2 didn't work out (Robinho being the 1/2 we weren't ready for him)

Jo -Shit

Robinho - too good for the team we had

Nigel de Jong - Wonderful signing just what we needed

Craig Bellamy - Splits opinion but i'm a lover of balls on the saw players

Wayne Bridge - took us for a ride but a decent player

SWP - say no more

Shay Given - Decent

Pablo Zabaleta - Hero

Vincent Kompany See Above

Tal Ben Haim - Can't remember him playing for us, didn't he break his leg?

Glauber - Got a great song out of him (proper weird signing)

Gunnar Nielsen - Backup keeper hard to tell

Emmanuel Adebayor - For that celebration alone

Carlos Tevez - Cult Hero

Joleon Lescott - Without his big square head there is no Aguerooooooo, decent

Roque Santa Cruz....Seriously dodgy

Kolo Toure...Steady defender

Sylvinho Can't really remember him but guess he was passed it, one for the dodgy category

Stuart Taylor- Legend

Yeah, in fairness, it's a better than I remembered.
Still a bit of a mixed bag. I think your summations are a bit on the kind side (Adebayour & Ben Haim were flops too) but look, that's true of just about all managers.
Some proper legends included too though - and that's certainly not true of every manager

 

[BlueMoonday]

I believe RSC and Hughes shared the same agent. Wasn't there a "under cover agent" expose at the time in one of the papers?

just had a quick check and out of the 20 he brought in i'd say 5 1/2 didn't work out (Robinho being the 1/2 we weren't ready for him)

Jo -Shit

Robinho - too good for the team we had

Nigel de Jong - Wonderful signing just what we needed

Craig Bellamy - Splits opinion but i'm a lover of balls on the saw players

Wayne Bridge - took us for a ride but a decent player

SWP - say no more

Shay Given - Decent

Pablo Zabaleta - Hero

Vincent Kompany See Above

Tal Ben Haim - Can't remember him playing for us, didn't he break his leg?

Glauber - Got a great song out of him (proper weird signing)

Gunnar Nielsen - Backup keeper hard to tell

Emmanuel Adebayor - For that celebration alone

Carlos Tevez - Cult Hero

Joleon Lescott - Without his big square head there is no Aguerooooooo, decent

Roque Santa Cruz....Seriously dodgy

Kolo Toure...Steady defender

Sylvinho Can't really remember him but guess he was passed it, one for the dodgy category

Stuart Taylor- Legend

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.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Sylvinho Can't really remember him but guess he was passed it, one for the dodgy category

Scored a cracking goal v Scunny in the cup. The game where Knobhead Dirty Dan Walker thought he was amusing when he proclaimed it was Scunny v The Money. ****. Must be the name! Are all Dans cunts - Dan Roan Danny Murphy, Dan Neville, Danny Carragher,Dan Klippity?

 

[aguero93:20]

Shit rag ****.