The Owners

[Anonymous]

I guess tonight I am asking the same question as I did when I first started this thread...

Where are our owners in amongst all this?

There's a resigned acceptance creeping into certain players performances at times. After the investment over the last year, that is criminal.

Our owners realise we are on target for a top 6 finish, you know the target that they set, all this bullshit of them wanting top 4 or else is just that, bullshit, some fans have been blinded by this top 4 media crap, give your heads a shake.

I admire your bravado, but unfortunately, it means little right now.

Tevez, Barry, Adebayor, Robinho, Lescott, Toure, et al did not join this club, to finish 6th this season. That's why they all keep talking about fighting for the league, not for a top 6 finish. If we start falling further away, the cracks will only get bigger...

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Damned if they do, damned if they don't. The consensus was hughes had to be given time and the large majority of people agreed which swayed the knee jerk decision of replacing him early on in his tenure....... i agree however that now is the time for them to show they have a clue on the playing side, as well as business. Its just all stale, and the worrying thing for hughes is, was literally told in the last hour that his royal highness was at his 1st game today.......... i hope to god he was as the collective vibes from fans was this is becoming increasingly difficult to stomach, he genuinely has no plan B. I've supported hughes to the tilt, but i'm firmly now in the hughes out camp.

 

[*singingtheblues*]

Damned if they do, damned if they don't. The consensus was hughes had to be given time and the large majority of people agreed which swayed the knee jerk decision of replacing him early on in his tenure....... i agree however that now is the time for them to show they have a clue on the playing side, as well as business. Its just all stale, and the worrying thing for hughes is, was literally told in the last hour that his royal highness was at his 1st game today.......... i hope to god he was as the collective vibes from fans was this is becoming increasingly difficult to stomach, he genuinely has no plan B. I've supported hughes to the tilt, but i'm firmly now in the hughes out camp.

Que?

 

[markblackford]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MR SHIEK MANSOUR SACK THE WELSH ONE AND I WILL GO TO MOSQUE EVERY WEEK

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Damned if they do, damned if they don't. The consensus was hughes had to be given time and the large majority of people agreed which swayed the knee jerk decision of replacing him early on in his tenure....... i agree however that now is the time for them to show they have a clue on the playing side, as well as business. Its just all stale, and the worrying thing for hughes is, was literally told in the last hour that his royal highness was at his 1st game today.......... i hope to god he was as the collective vibes from fans was this is becoming increasingly difficult to stomach, he genuinely has no plan B. I've supported hughes to the tilt, but i'm firmly now in the hughes out camp.

Que?

just been told in the last hour, if its wrong then so be it.

 

[Soulboy]

Que?

just been told in the last hour, if its wrong then so be it.

Same guy who told you Mourinho was taking over last summer? ;}

 

[M9 Blue]

Khaldoon was on the screen celebrating the goal,but i think the extra security would have been the giveaway had the good sheik been here.The rumour was the Chelsea game i think.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

just been told in the last hour, if its wrong then so be it.

Same guy who told you Mourinho was taking over last summer? ;}

funny guy,

 

[Dyed Petya]

With regard to the OP, doesn't it also depend on the availability of a credible replacement willing to take the job? For instance, it was rumoured that City tried in the spring to persuade Mourinho to move to the club last summer - as mentioned in media outlets and on here at the time, and as has been repeated in The Times recently. If that's true, it indicates that they were willing to can Hughes, but only in favour of someone they thought was the right guy, and as that didn't come off, then they stuck with MH to allow him a chance to prove himself.

If, hypothetically, they were to decide tonight that they're now are dissatisfied enough to give him the boot, then would there be any point in doing so if it simply meant someone on the staff and not (I assume) part of the so-called Taffia minding the shop? Would Brian Kidd in charge to the end of the season really be a better option?

One thing that changed very recently, however, was that suddenly the prospect of a sharp exit for Guus Hiddink from his current job suddenly became real. Had Russia qualified for the 2010 World Cup finals, there's no way he'd have become available until next summer. I speculated on the night they lost in Slovenia that if he'd be interested in our job (even for six months only), it could (if the owners share the view of him that many of us have) spell trouble for Hughes if results didn't improve. That would still seem to me to be a possibility.

Based on no inside knowledge whatsoever. Just an analysis of something that might be possible based on facts in the public domain.

 

[*singingtheblues*]

Que?

just been told in the last hour, if its wrong then so be it.

Hmmmmm...

If that's the case it certainly wouldn't have done Leslie any favours.

Hopefully Sheikh Mansour can now overcome the fear of appearing as though he was made in the Abramovich mould, and just do the correct thing and act swiftly before another season becomes a victim of Leslie's consistently dire management.