by Tredder »
02 Oct 2012 15:17
facaldaqui I've always wondered about Hughes's credentials. He did better than most managers with Wales for a bit, yes. At Blackburn, he showed he was a competent manager, no more. Difficult to assess his achievements at City: Mancini has done better with the same resources. Hughes showed at City that he is capable of bad buys. He didn't do great at Fulham--just about competent again; Hodgson did better there. He failed to reverse things much at QPR last year.
I raised my eyebrow when he said at the end of the season, to drive home that the relegation struggle was not his fault: "This won't happen again". But he had already made errors of judgement: dropping Helguson was one, I thought. Surely Helguson would have done him more good than Cissé.
Ultimately, he will be judged on this season, these are his players, mixed in with a smattering of NW's, it doesn't take a football genius to see that leaking comedy goals every game isn't going to gain you points, as for the age thing, if you're good enough you'll do ok, Nelson has been immense, and i think should be made captain, lead from the back and not from a marketing perspective.