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That's awesome. I love it when superstar footballers go and do something like that.

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Pigeon_Killer said:
I've got no idea. He plays **** football, he doesn't get results, he wastes a stupid amount of money and he loves himself :o
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Mate get a grip he done wonders for QPR, he saved them from relegation and everything.

Stoke fans should rejoice its the beginning of a great new era.
 
azza21 said:
Mate get a grip he done wonders for QPR, he saved them from relegation and everything.

Stoke fans should rejoice its the beginning of a great new era.
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PMSL yes he saved them from relegation but come the start of the season, he had them firmly at the bottom again;). Hes an utterly useless manager and good luck to Stoke..they could find themselves in a relegation battle next season:p.
 
I don't think Hughes is as bad as the negative press makes out.

He was good with Wales and Blackburn. The Citeh job came too soon for him at a difficult time in Citehs change from garbage to good. I think the one thing he lacks is the ability to spend money, he tends to do better on a tighter budget with solid players so Stoke should be up his street.

They won't be a top team under him (or anyone so that hardly matters) but he will do a solid job.
 
No1newts said:
I don't think Hughes is as bad as the negative press makes out.

He was good with Wales and Blackburn. The Citeh job came too soon for him at a difficult time in Citehs change from garbage to good. I think the one thing he lacks is the ability to spend money, he tends to do better on a tighter budget with solid players so Stoke should be up his street.

They won't be a top team under him (or anyone so that hardly matters) but he will do a solid job.
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He can most definitely spend money, he just can't spend it well or wisely when there is a lot of it available.
 
No1newts said:
I don't think Hughes is as bad as the negative press makes out.

He was good with Wales and Blackburn. The Citeh job came too soon for him at a difficult time in Citehs change from garbage to good. I think the one thing he lacks is the ability to spend money, he tends to do better on a tighter budget with solid players so Stoke should be up his street.

They won't be a top team under him (or anyone so that hardly matters) but he will do a solid job.
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Meh people have short memories and like to talk crap about everyone, seriously any manager has one bad season and suddenly everything else goes out the window.

he was great at Blackburn, put together an excellent squad at Fulham with some really top players, and only spent around 10mil first season at QPR and maybe 20mil this season, that isn't huge money for a team trying to rebuild to stay up, he didn't overspend on a single player and got some very good free transfer deals, Green on a free transfer isn't bad at all and Cesar is very good, Nelson was their only decent defender and people forget that Johnson got a season long injury, Zamora picked up a hip problem that means he's hobbling around as 1/4 of the player he was, after 3 great seasons he cost £4mil, hardly outrageous. He made some poor buys, but Bosingwa was a free transfer and had a serious injury this year, Park was 2mil but completely rubbish.

At City he got Kompany, Zabaleta, Bellamy(who was their best player till Mancini got shot of him) Tevez, Lescott, Barry, De Jong and Given who were all very important in going up the table and all except Bellamy/Given heavily involved in their title wins. He overspent on Adebayor/Kolo/Cruz/Jo, but three of those are decent players, contrary to popular belief Cruz didn't fail there(and has been very effective at both Spanish clubs since) he just got a season long injury and was never given a chance under Mancini at all, no chance to get back some form. Adebayor and Kolo aren't bad players either, ADebayor just has a major attitude issue but lets also remember he was good for them and they loved him till....... his team bus was put under assault by armed gunmen who almost killed him and his entire team... then he struggled to put together the rest of the season and then got ditched, he was very decent at Real, and unfortunately had a good season at Spurs, just not this season.

Robinho was actually brilliant till he got injured and was bought by the club anyway.

City were just always going to overspend getting better players than wanted to join a bottom half team, and they did, and they were always going to replace a serious amount of them when they hit top four, and they did. He bought a fairly decent portion of the team that won them titles.
 
The thing is though, Stoke do have money. I think they have spent nearly 100m over these past three years.

Stokes reason behind sacking Pulis was to go in a different direction...actually play football.
This means that they will need to get rid of a fair few players and bring in a fair few as well to do what Coates wants.

I can only see this ending badly for Stoke.
 
Probably get shot down for being nuts but I honestly believe we would have won that World Cup if only we'd got through that game :( didn't create one decent chance against 10 men though in about 25 minutes so didn't deserve to win sadly.
 
DM I don't care who he bought and how much he paid, it was the football he played and his complete lack of tactical nous and inability to coach players that for me means he deserves the criticism he gets.
Same thing happened at QPR, spent loads of money on players and couldnt do anything with them. Redknapp didn't save them from relegation but they certainly looked like they had more of an idea if what to do.

You give credit to Hughes for signing Zabaleta and Kompany etc and not one of them played under Hughes anything like they did under Mancini. Coincidence?
I think not.

I really do fear for Stoke, Hughes will go in there and try and change the team by burning in his best mates. Another relegation battle next year is on the horizon next year except this time they might go down.
 
As opposed to the incredible tactical nous and wonderful, attractive football Mancini played with his two defensive midfielders at home to the likes of QPR? :p
 
I'm not getting into that argument again but I think the stats prove we did play attacking football, not in the first season but the second and his final season.

Nothing wrong with having the best defence in the league and building your team from it.

I will admit that Mancini wasn't a tactical genius, no manager is. They all make mistakes with substitutions and starting 11s but he was a million times better than Hughes.
 
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