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Post by sharky on May 27, 2013 22:52:21 GMT
........and here it is. Come on Stoke, get Sparky off our wages please!! Enter the dragon: Stoke close to naming Mark Hughes as manager after sacking fellow Welshman Pulis 27 May 2013 22:31 Weekend negotiations leave the former Manchester City boss hopeful of reaching a deal within the next 48 hours Black Mark: Hughes failed at QPR, but that hasn't put Stoke off Matthew Lewis Mark Hughes is closing in on a surprise return to management with Stoke. Hughes held negotiations with the Potters' hierarchy over the weekend and is hopeful of sealing a deal within 48 hours. Stoke confirmed last week they had made an approach, and Hughes has clearly done enough to convince chairman Peter Coates to make him favourite to replace fellow Welshman Tony Pulis. Hughes had been regarded as an unpopular choice among fans after his turbulent reign in charge at Queens Park Rangers ended in the sack in November. But the former Wales, Blackburn and Manchester City boss built a strong reputation before his QPR misadventure, and is determined to jump back into management. Hughes is expected to be offered a 12-month rolling contract to be Pulis' successor. Brighton boss Gus Poyet and Wigan's Roberto Martinez have been the other leading candidates. But Malaga and Everton, looking to replace Manuel Pellegrini and David Moyes respectively, also want Martinez, while Poyet is locked in a legal battle with Brighton. That has left the way clear for Hughes, who will want to bring long-serving assistants Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki with him and will be expected to work closely alongside Stoke's technical director Mark Cartwright. Cartwright, who was appointed last year, is seen as vital in Stoke's new set-up by Coates and Hughes will work in tandem with the former agent. Stoke will step up their bid to make an appointment on Tuesday, with a view to completing a deal quickly.
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Post by simonr on May 28, 2013 8:18:32 GMT
The Daily Telegraph thinks so too (Gerry Francis has left)
By John Percy
10:30PM BST 27 May 2013
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Hughes could be appointed at the Britannia Stadium as Tony Pulis’s successor this week following negotiations with the Stoke City hierarchy over the weekend.
The former Queens Park Rangers manager has spoken to chairman Peter Coates and Tony Scholes, the chief executive, and is understood to now be the leading contender to take charge, despite opposition from a number of the club’s supporters.
Hughes is expected to agree a 12-month rolling contract and is keen to bring long-serving assistants Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki with him if appointed. He will work closely alongside existing technical-director Mark Cartwright.
Stoke have no first-team coaches left on the staff after David Kemp, Gerry Francis, Mark O’Connor and Adrian Pennock all left the club in the wake of Pulis’s exit last Tuesday. But Cartwright, who was appointed last year, is seen as a key figure in Stoke’s future by Coates and Hughes will work in tandem with the former agent.
Roberto Martínez was also being considered for the position but seems certain to leave Wigan Athletic for either Everton or Malaga. Roberto Di Matteo, meanwhile, has distanced himself from the job, and there has been no move for suspended Brighton manager Gus Poyet.
That leaves the field open for Hughes, who is keen to repair his reputation in the Premier League after his dismissal from QPR in November. Stoke will step up their bid to make an appointment tomorrow, with a view to completing a deal before the weekend.
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Post by Macmoish on May 28, 2013 8:26:55 GMT
I think they'll do ok. I think he'll be more like his time at Blackburn and Fulham than at QPR
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Post by blatantfowl on May 28, 2013 9:08:34 GMT
This is brilliant news for us if it comes together
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Post by Macmoish on May 28, 2013 9:44:02 GMT
And the first thing Hughes does is...Sign Green ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 9:59:47 GMT
Can't help wondering if it might not have been financially better for the club to have kept hold of Hughes.......
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Post by Jon Doeman on May 28, 2013 12:13:25 GMT
Can't help wondering if it might not have been financially better for the club to have kept hold of Hughes....... That's a yes. We gambled & failed. He would've resigned after a few more games getting abuse anyway.
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Post by saphilip on May 28, 2013 13:48:59 GMT
Good luck Stok- that's all I can say. Most useless coach in QPR's history - and when you have the likes of Waddock, Harford & Mullery as contendors that says a lot.
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Post by nomar on May 28, 2013 14:02:53 GMT
And the first thing Hughes does is...Sign Green ;D Why? He already has Begovic and next season he will have Butland too. I think Hughes will do well there. Lets face it, we were a shambles even before Hughes
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 14:12:11 GMT
Good luck Stok- that's all I can say. Most useless coach in QPR's history - and when you have the likes of Waddock, Harford & Mullery as contendors that says a lot. Kept us up last season, or have you forgotten that?
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Post by sharky on May 28, 2013 14:18:27 GMT
Good luck Stok- that's all I can say. Most useless coach in QPR's history - and when you have the likes of Waddock, Harford & Mullery as contendors that says a lot. Kept us up last season, or have you forgotten that? Nope, but utterly and completely stuffed up this season. I haven't forgotten that either!!
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 14:44:45 GMT
Kept us up last season, or have you forgotten that? Nope, but utterly and completely stuffed up this season. I haven't forgotten that either!! But is he the most useless manager in QPR history? I think not.....
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Post by Macmoish on May 28, 2013 14:58:44 GMT
Ah but hindsight... At the time, thought axing Hughes was our chance of survival and lot of money at stake... And thought Redknapp was best chance of saving us - and had a very good chance of doing so. I was WRONG
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Post by nomar on May 28, 2013 16:05:10 GMT
Ah but hindsight... At the time, thought axing Hughes was our chance of survival and lot of money at stake... And thought Redknapp was best chance of saving us - and had a very good chance of doing so. I was WRONG The Redknapp gamble was pretty much the same as the Warnock gamble, in my opinion. On both occasions I felt that a change was necessary if the club was to stand any chance of Premier League survival. In Hughes case it worked. In Redknapp's it didn't. But the difference was that Hughes took the club over when it was just hovering above the relegation zone so all he really needed to do was keep us where we were and we would be safe. Redknapp came in after a record breaking 16 games without a win to start the season. Its all well and good for people to say he had enough games to save us but that underestimates the seriously fatal damage that only gaining 4 points from a possible 48 had already done to our survival chances. We were in a virtually impossible hole to get out of and had to make up ground on 3 other teams, which is something Hughes never had to do. If we'd have kept Hughes there seemed no chance of survival. Redknapp offered at least some small ray of hope that a turnaround could have been achieved. With hindsight you could argue that we'd have been no worse off keeping Warnock after all. But the fact is that none of us will ever know how the 2011-12 season would have ended if we had have kept Warnock. Looking back now is pointless though. It time to look forward and think about what we can do not what we could've done. Last season's results don't count anymore. We start on the same number of points as every other team in the Championship.
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Post by Macmoish on May 28, 2013 22:31:30 GMT
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Post by sharky on May 28, 2013 23:30:10 GMT
When he gets to Stoke maybe he can take some of his Rs signings there. Bosingwa, Park and Granero spring to mind!
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2013 10:24:07 GMT
When he gets to Stoke maybe he can take some of his Rs signings there. Bosingwa, Park and Granero spring to mind! Amazing that some still think that Park was a Hughes signing....
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Post by blatantfowl on May 29, 2013 11:57:43 GMT
When he gets to Stoke maybe he can take some of his Rs signings there. Bosingwa, Park and Granero spring to mind! Amazing that some still think that Park was a Hughes signing.... The aspiration to have a high profile South Korean may have been TF's but Mark Hughes was the manager at the time. Do you think that MH actively resisted the signing of Park? Without the benefit of hindsight I think MH was quite happy to sign Park. I can remember thinking it was a good signing at the time, at least in footballing terms if not financial.
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Post by Macmoish on May 29, 2013 12:11:32 GMT
I think to be fair, Fernandes has said "Ah it was all Hughes fault" - and I'm to blame for letting him...
But if Park was a Fernandes signing, he should take responsibility
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Post by magyarangol29 on May 29, 2013 12:35:22 GMT
Brilliant!! That's bottom position sorted then. Just have to worry about 2nd and 3rd bottom now ;D
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Post by Macmoish on May 29, 2013 12:47:15 GMT
I dont think so. I see Hughes having a solid time - as he did at Blackburn and Fulham
Anyway Chelsea are going to finish bottom ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2013 12:50:29 GMT
Amazing that some still think that Park was a Hughes signing.... The aspiration to have a high profile South Korean may have been TF's but Mark Hughes was the manager at the time. Do you think that MH actively resisted the signing of Park? Without the benefit of hindsight I think MH was quite happy to sign Park. I can remember thinking it was a good signing at the time, at least in footballing terms if not financial. Air Asia setting up flights to Korea at the same time, talk of a new stadium and 40000+ South Koreans in London. Yes MH was manager at the time, but I think it was more a TF signing than a Hughes one. Was Hughes happy to sign Park, I guess he was, but then again so were the majority of fans (just as they were with the majority of Hughes signings). Hindsight is a wonderful thing.....
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Post by sharky on May 29, 2013 13:51:48 GMT
MH allowed a team that on paper was a mid table team to become a dysfunctional bunch of no hopers.
Stoke beware!
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Post by nomar on May 29, 2013 18:10:09 GMT
The aspiration to have a high profile South Korean may have been TF's but Mark Hughes was the manager at the time. Do you think that MH actively resisted the signing of Park? Without the benefit of hindsight I think MH was quite happy to sign Park. I can remember thinking it was a good signing at the time, at least in footballing terms if not financial. Air Asia setting up flights to Korea at the same time, talk of a new stadium and 40000+ South Koreans in London. Yes MH was manager at the time, but I think it was more a TF signing than a Hughes one. Was Hughes happy to sign Park, I guess he was, but then again so were the majority of fans (just as they were with the majority of Hughes signings). Hindsight is a wonderful thing.....
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Post by Macmoish on May 30, 2013 6:35:14 GMT
Appointed - Three Year Contract. And so many of us thought he'd be out of football www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/story-19131617-detail/story.html#axzz2UfFbwBTJThe Sentinel
Three-year deal for Mark Hughes as new Stoke City era beginsSTOKE City chairman Peter Coates is confidently backing new manager Mark Hughes to lead his club into an exciting new era. Hughes has agreed a three-year contract to replace Tony Pulis as boss, just nine days after his Welsh compatriot was shown the door at the Britannia Stadium. ​Mark Hughes is set to sign a three-year deal with Stoke City today. Mark Hughes is set to sign a three-year deal with Stoke City today. Hughes, who is due to be unveiled at a press conference today, will be joined by his trusted backroom team of Mark Bowen and Eddie Neidzwiecki following a clear out of Pulis's entire management team. Coates said the 49-year-old Welshman was the unanimous choice of an interviewing panel consisting of himself, son and major investor John Coates, and Stoke City chief executive Tony Scholes. "I was very impressed when I met him," Coates revealed in an exclusive interview with The Sentinel last night. "You clearly don't appoint somebody you don't feel you can get on with. "We had a very good meeting and he responded well to anything asked of him. "He was interviewed by myself, John and Tony Scholes. The decision was unanimous because we were all very impressed." He said Hughes arrives in the Potteries armed with an impressive managerial CV, but did acknowledge there could be some opposition from fans. "I look at results," he said. "He's also a thoughtful, intelligent man with an intense desire to win. "We had lots of inquiries about the job, including some very interesting names, but we decided Mark Hughes was a fit for us. "His record speaks for itself. He has done excellently by anyone's standards, but we also understand that whoever we choose, some people will disagree and I don't have a problem with that." Coates believes Hughes will come to Stoke – as their 21st manager since the Second World War – with a point to prove after being sacked by QPR last November following heavy expenditure on a new squad. "Because that's one piece of his career that hasn't gone well, I think he feels this is a chance to prove what a good manager he is." Coates accepted that any opposition to his appointment would drum up Hughes' failure at Loftus Road, but he insisted that experience should be placed into context. "Those who focus on QPR, that's fair enough, but they should look at the bigger picture and see what he has achieved throughout his career. "He did very well with Wales and then at Blackburn," he stressed. "At Manchester City there was a change of ownership and I don't think anybody can say Mark didn't do a good job there. "Then at Fulham he had a very solid season and they were very pleased with him as manager there. "At QPR the facts are he took over from Neil Warnock and kept them up. I believe his record in the second season was better than Harry Redknapp's after he took over from Mark. "So there at QPR you had three very well respected managers who all had a difficult time at a club that was in transition with new owners and a new administration." Coates said the three-year deal with Hughes – rather than the fashionable 12-month rolling contract – was a statement of the club's intent to give him time and breathing space. "We want to give him time and opportunity," he explained. "We had seven very good years with Tony Pulis, and if we have seven similar years with Mark we will all be delighted." Read more: www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/story-19131617-detail/story.html#ixzz2UktOSf2nFollow us: @thisisstaffs on Twitter | thisisstaffordshire on Facebook
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Post by kenthoop on May 30, 2013 8:25:37 GMT
Can't believe that arrogant Welsh prick has got another job,all I can say to stoke fans is good luck because you are going to need it ,one of the worst managers to ever grace loftus rd ,no doubt he will take the rest of his crones with him ,stoke fans should get ready for life in the championship with that prick in charge that is where they are going ,enough said urrrrrrrrrrs
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Post by paulmason on May 30, 2013 8:50:53 GMT
I bet he does very well there. The players he signed killed him, the team and our PL dream, but he will learn from that and move on.
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Post by Macmoish on May 30, 2013 10:08:11 GMT
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Post by Macmoish on May 30, 2013 10:14:03 GMT
10:54 stokecityfc.com: Welcome to stokecityfc.com as we bring you live updates from new manager Mark Hughes' first ever press conference. 10:58 stokecityfc.com: Stoke City Player camera's have already sat down with the new boss - so keep your eyes peeled for that interview, which should be online shortly. 11:02 stokecityfc.com: Peter Coates: We have thought long and hard about this decision, and we have the man that we feel is the right fit for this Football Club. We have given the decision a great deal of thought, and we have analysed to death Mark's career. We are satisfied that his cv is very, very impressive. 11:03 stokecityfc.com: Peter Coates: We have analysed everything he has done, and we feel that he has a remarkably fantastic record as a manager. We looked at what he did at Fulham, and Blackburn in particular. They are similar Club's to us in many ways, and we feel that he is coming here into a similar environment. 11:06 stokecityfc.com: Peter Coates: There is no new direction here at the Club. What we are trying to do is have a professional structure for the scouting and recruitment of players, to give the manager the best opportunity of bringing in the right players. To clarify, Mark will have the decisive say on who goes in and who goes out, in terms of players. 11:07 stokecityfc.com: Mark Hughes: I am absolutely delighted to be here at Stoke. The Coates family have given me this opportunity and I am really grateful. They have looked at my career as a whole, and I am delighted to have the opportunity of working with great people. 11:07 stokecityfc.com: Mark Hughes: You need good people behind you, and I know I have that here. The Club is incredibly close to the community, and that is something I am looking forward to getting involved in too. 11:09 stokecityfc.com: Mark Hughes: I don't regret moving to QPR. A lot of managers have gone in there and found it difficult. It was tough, and mistakes were made. I made mistakes and other people made mistakes too. I was given the task of keeping them in the Premier League and thankfully I did that. Twelve games later though I lost my job, because we didn't get the results we wanted at that time. 11:09 stokecityfc.com: Mark Hughes: If I am honest, we all tried to run there before we could walk, and that was the mistake that we made. 11:10 stokecityfc.com: Mark Hughes: I've had something like 270 games as a Premier League manager, but people do tend to look at the last year or so. If anything it gives me greater determination to go out there and prove people wrong. 11:11 stokecityfc.com: Mark Hughes: I have always been at Club's with good expectations, and it is something that I enjoy. Maybe occasionally it has hit me on the backside because my ambitions have been too high. I am determined to move this Club forward. 11:11 stokecityfc.com: Mark Hughes: Tony enjoyed huge success here, and because of that I have a better chance of succeeding here. He has left a very good Club behind him. He has done a wonderful job here.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2013 10:24:04 GMT
Stokes training ground appears to be a shed.....
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