we are 8-1 4th favourite for the drop..

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

All debate on this subject died at approximately 16.57, May 13, 2012. Roberto had taken all the flack, all the jibes, kept his mouth shut and built a team that won the title, showed mighty team spirit to win from 8 points down with 6 to play, 2-1 down in the second minute of stoppage time, having played some of the best football ever played in the PL. The owners got it right.

Absofuckinglutely!!!

 

[Frank the Yank]

The owners get so much shit in the press for sacking him. This thread shows why MH should have been have been sacked a year before he was, he was dire for us a truly awful manager, relegation zone at Xmas with svens squad plus robinho kompany zabaleta and SWP, crazy.

Just before the QPR match, whiskeynose was having another pop at the club for the 'unethical' sacking of Hughes.

Having someone lined up to take over from someone you are about to sack doesn't happen in any other industry now does it?

You know I bet Wolves would ahve been so unethical. Not saying they would have survived but they were an abortion under TC......

 

[kennycar]

The owners get so much shit in the press for sacking him. This thread shows why MH should have been have been sacked a year before he was, he was dire for us a truly awful manager, relegation zone at Xmas with svens squad plus robinho kompany zabaleta and SWP, crazy.

Just before the QPR match, whiskeynose was having another pop at the club for the 'unethical' sacking of Hughes.

Having someone lined up to take over from someone you are about to sack doesn't happen in any other industry now does it?

You know I bet Wolves would ahve been so unethical. Not saying they would have survived but they were an abortion under TC......

I don't know how they thought having the same management team only with one missing was better than what they had.

 

[CityCTID]

Good bump. Above all the reasons for Hughes sacking, just think of the Santa Cruz transfer... think of it and f##king weep.. Chasing him all year, signing him injured with a horrible injury record, for a huge fee, mental wages, and a long term deal... Possibly one of the worst value transfers in the history of football?

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE...




I'm still angry, how he get away with a few of it!!

 

[Bill]

All debate on this subject died at approximately 16.57, May 13, 2012. Roberto had taken all the flack, all the jibes, kept his mouth shut and built a team that won the title, showed mighty team spirit to win from 8 points down with 6 to play, 2-1 down in the second minute of stoppage time, having played some of the best football ever played in the PL. The owners got it right.

with half of sparky's players.

 

[city diehard]

All debate on this subject died at approximately 16.57, May 13, 2012. Roberto had taken all the flack, all the jibes, kept his mouth shut and built a team that won the title, showed mighty team spirit to win from 8 points down with 6 to play, 2-1 down in the second minute of stoppage time, having played some of the best football ever played in the PL. The owners got it right.

with half of sparky's players.

Which displays his piss poor management.

 

[Bill]

All debate on this subject died at approximately 16.57, May 13, 2012. Roberto had taken all the flack, all the jibes, kept his mouth shut and built a team that won the title, showed mighty team spirit to win from 8 points down with 6 to play, 2-1 down in the second minute of stoppage time, having played some of the best football ever played in the PL. The owners got it right.

with half of sparky's players.

Which displays his piss poor management.

yeh he bought so poorly didn't he.

 

[daztrueblue91]

with half of sparky's players.

Which displays his piss poor management.

yeh he bought so poorly didn't he.

Its not just about buying players though you also need to get the best out of them. The best example is Lescott he was awful under Hughes but under Mancini is one of the best defenders in the league.

 

[The Pink Panther]

with half of sparky's players.

Which displays his piss poor management.

yeh he bought so poorly didn't he.

Poor/useless - Bridge, Bellamy, Santa Cruz, Ben Haim
Benefit of the doubt on SWP and Adebayor
Came good - Vincent, NDJ, Lescott, Zabba
Needed - Given

There's £140 million spent on players there. The four good ones are still with us and when we sell Ade and Santa Cruz this summer we will probably have recouped £25-£30 million gross................ obviously

 

[brian the blue]

All debate on this subject died at approximately 16.57, May 13, 2012. Roberto had taken all the flack, all the jibes, kept his mouth shut and built a team that won the title, showed mighty team spirit to win from 8 points down with 6 to play, 2-1 down in the second minute of stoppage time, having played some of the best football ever played in the PL. The owners got it right.

with half of sparky's players.

Eh?

There are 3 players that regularly play that were signed by Hughes: Kompany, Barry and Lescott.

Kompany has turned out to be a great signing, but under Hughes he was poor. Hughes had him in central midfield and someone bumped a thread from 09 or 2010 with about 10 pages slating Kompany about how he isn't good enough.

Barry was a decent signing for a "respectable" price (considering his other buys) but Barry's performances didn't really pick up until Hughes had gone.

Lescott at the time was a shocking signing in my book. Not because I don't rate Lescott, just at the time he was in no way a £22 million pound defender. The whole saga of his signing was embarrassing, it lasted all summer with Moyes slagging us off and us getting ripped in the papers about tapping him up or whatever. The sad thing about it is, Hughes made an even worse "value-for-money" signing in Santa fucking Cruz. But, as with Kompany, as soon as Hughes left and Mancini took over his performances started to pick up and now Lescott looks a top defender.

Hughes was stupid enough to buy Given and try to farm Hart off elsewhere. He brought Tevez and his **** of an agent to the club and allowed them to run the show. The signing of de Jong was a poor one as well, de Jong had 6 months left on his contract and we paid £18 million pounds for him, he's not even an £18 million pound player if he had 5 years left on a contract. Adebayor is another example of a poor signing, he played well in his first 4 games and then gave up, another £25 million spunked down the drain, not forgetting his ridiculous wages which means we're not stuck with him.

Irrespective of how well we've done since, Hughes is simply a piss poor manager.