Hughes sacked?

[sweet potata!]

Shocking decision imo. Best young British manager.

Would you be happy with him at Anfield if Rafa were to be relieved of his duties?

GTFO!!!!

[Murph1984]

Shocking decision imo. Best young British manager.

Would you be happy with him at Anfield if Rafa were to be relieved of his duties?

GTFO!!!!

lol was just coming to edit in "apart from the United connection" obv,but based purely on managerial ability/potential?

[sweet potata!]

Shocking decision imo. Best young British manager.

Would you be happy with him at Anfield if Rafa were to be relieved of his duties?

GTFO!!!!

lol was just coming to edit in "apart from the United connection" obv,but based purely on managerial ability/potential?

Well i dont like him for obv reasons so that in turn makes me think he aint that good a manger tbh , all in all i would not give him the job in a million years

[Acidmouse]

I dont think he's a great manager yet, he has proven nothing. But sacking him now is lame.

[Jamier-Host]

Announcement @ 7.30


Mancini,who is reported to be @ Eastlands today is 1/6 to replace him

Not seen the markets but be careful with the wording.  A few have been stung with "next permanent manager" after piling in to the obvious "next" manager when someone steps in just til end of season and then decides not to carry on.

[The Baron]

Shocking decision imo. Best young British manager.

Would you be happy with him at Anfield if Rafa were to be relieved of his duties?

No but then as I said on the Liverpool thread I'm not sure how big a manager we could actually attract these days!

[The Baron]

Shocking decision imo. Best young British manager.

Are you taking the Piss?

I think he is so piss, and so very much over rated. How he survived so long at man city i have no idea. He is a championship manager

Nope.

Word is from players like Giggs, Bellamy etc that his methods are well up there with some of the best in the business and even the top foreign coaches rate him, and most players and happy to die for him on the pitch. I think he's spent too much and not bought amazingly well (going for EPL experience mostly - which is no bad thing you would think) but the guy is young as managers go and obviously doesn't have a huge knowedge of people who have been in the game 15+ years.

The joke is replacing him with someone who was Sven's understudy and only won the Italian league due to the match fixing scandal!

[Scottish Dave]

Shocking decision imo. Best young British manager.

Are you taking the Piss?

I think he is so piss, and so very much over rated. How he survived so long at man city i have no idea. He is a championship manager

Nope.

Word is from players like Giggs, Bellamy etc that his methods are well up there with some of the best in the business and even the top foreign coaches rate him, and most players and happy to die for him on the pitch. I think he's spent too much and not bought amazingly well (going for EPL experience mostly - which is no bad thing you would think) but the guy is young as managers go and obviously doesn't have a huge knowedge of people who have been in the game 15+ years.

The joke is replacing him with someone who was Sven's understudy and only won the Italian league due to the match fixing scandal!

^^^^^^^

Clearly not, after watching them this season, i don't think anyone wants to play for him, let alone die for him on the pitch.

[The Baron]

Shocking decision imo. Best young British manager.

Are you taking the Piss?

I think he is so piss, and so very much over rated. How he survived so long at man city i have no idea. He is a championship manager

Nope.

Word is from players like Giggs, Bellamy etc that his methods are well up there with some of the best in the business and even the top foreign coaches rate him, and most players and happy to die for him on the pitch. I think he's spent too much and not bought amazingly well (going for EPL experience mostly - which is no bad thing you would think) but the guy is young as managers go and obviously doesn't have a huge knowedge of people who have been in the game 15+ years.

The joke is replacing him with someone who was Sven's understudy and only won the Italian league due to the match fixing scandal!

^^^^^^^

Clearly not, after watching them this season, i don't think anyone wants to play for him, let alone die for him on the pitch.

Yeah true but this is down to who he's bought, ie Robinho, Adebayor etc. Those with a winning mentality fight for him.

Anywho great news for Liverpool fans imo!

[Royal Flush]

The joke is replacing him with someone who was Sven's understudy and only won the Italian league due to the match fixing scandal!

lol ok, couldn't be more wrong.

[AndrewT]

The thing with Man City is that they had all this money to spend, but the really, really good players, the ones who always give 100% are already at genuinely good teams and won't want to go to a team like Man City.

Therefore the players Man City ended up with are the ones whose heads are turned more by ££££ than by winning things - the lazy ones.

There's not much a manager can do to motivate these guys because they're only really interested in the money.

[Scottish Dave]

The thing with Man City is that they had all this money to spend, but the really, really good players, the ones who always give 100% are already at genuinely good teams and won't want to go to a team like Man City.

Therefore the players Man City ended up with are the ones whose heads are turned more by ££££ than by winning things - the lazy ones.

There's not much a manager can do to motivate these guys because they're only really interested in the money.

This

Its why Guys like Kaka and Eto'o turned them down for rumoured to be ground breaking wages in the regions of £300k-400k per week! cos they would rather be a winning clubs for less money

[Horneris]

The thing with Man City is that they had all this money to spend, but the really, really good players, the ones who always give 100% are already at genuinely good teams and won't want to go to a team like Man City.

Therefore the players Man City ended up with are the ones whose heads are turned more by ££££ than by winning things - the lazy ones.

There's not much a manager can do to motivate these guys because they're only really interested in the money.

This. Excellent point.

[bobby1]

The thing with Man City is that they had all this money to spend, but the really, really good players, the ones who always give 100% are already at genuinely good teams and won't want to go to a team like Man City.

Therefore the players Man City ended up with are the ones whose heads are turned more by ££££ than by winning things - the lazy ones.

There's not much a manager can do to motivate these guys because they're only really interested in the money.

This. Excellent point.

+1

In the grand scheme of things it is another worrying example for English football.

Turn the tables around and ask this question. If Mark Hughes is one of the best young English managers in the game would he have a chance of taking over at a big Italian club should they sack their manager?

All that has happened here is that Man City have swopped a promising young English manager with a promising young Italian manager, the trend seems to be widespread in our game now and English managers dont get the credit they deserve and overseas managers get some kind of reverence before they have really proven anything in our game.

[Murph1984]

The thing with Man City is that they had all this money to spend, but the really, really good players, the ones who always give 100% are already at genuinely good teams and won't want to go to a team like Man City.

Therefore the players Man City ended up with are the ones whose heads are turned more by ££££ than by winning things - the lazy ones.

There's not much a manager can do to motivate these guys because they're only really interested in the money.

This. Excellent point.

+1

In the grand scheme of things it is another worrying example for English football.

Turn the tables around and ask this question. If Mark Hughes is one of the best young English managers in the game would he have a chance of taking over at a big Italian club should they sack their manager?

All that has happened here is that Man City have swopped a promising young English manager with a promising young Italian manager, the trend seems to be widespread in our game now and English managers dont get the credit they deserve and overseas managers get some kind of reverence before they have really proven anything in our game.

Well he's Welsh for a start.

And perhaps English managers would be held in higher regard if any of them actually bothered to try an be great at management,most of them just rely on getting jobs off the back of what they did in their playing careers.

Very few English players or managers have got the balls or foresight to go and play/manage abroad to expand their horizons and benefit from different footballing cultures,noooooo sure the footballing world begins and ends with the premiership doesn't it