Is Mark Hughes Mental?

[Barmy_in_Palmy]

from Football365

Mark Hughes is expected to accept an approach from Newcastle United to become the club's latest manager later this week.

He has a great thing going at Blackburn, an ever increasing reputation, why the fuck would he want to go to the black hole that his newcastle, its where good reputations go bad.

Silly silly man.

 

[Defsta]

from Football365

He has a great thing going at Blackburn, an ever increasing reputation, why the fuck would he want to go to the black hole that his newcastle, its where good reputations go bad.

Silly silly man.

Well Souness did same thing, he was doing good job at Blackburn but fucked everything up with Barcodes and now it seems that it's same who they hire, they will fuck it up with Barcodes :think:

 

[llamafarmer]

Newcastle's problems go much deeper than the manager. I agree it would be a stupid move from Hughes, who has done very well at Blackburn. He'll at least a year to get Newcastle to the same level as his current club!

 

[idlepete]

I bet he turns them down.

 

[Dougal]

I bet he turns them down.

It does seem like the fashionable thing to do, I mean, who wants bagpuss’ rejects?

 

[Legend10]

I think Hugheswill accept if offered and Blackburn let him.

What more can Hughes really do at Blackburn other than wait possibly for the Utd job if and when it comes along.

Or he can go to the barcodes who have money, an ambitious chairman and 50000+ fans.

Somebody sometime is going to go to Newcastle and do a good job, if I was manager of Blackburn and had the chance to go to the Toon I'd be up there like a shot.

 

[Phantom]

I hope he turns them down.

 

[David St Hubbins]

He will need his head testing if he goes there, a team full of shit...and they'll need more than the chairman's money to turn them around.
I nearly pissed myself when i saw the Keegan/Shearer dream ticket on the back of the paper, desperate doesn't cover it, a manager with no bottle & a charisma-less pain in the arse...
On second thoughts, let the bastards get em' in :razz:

 

[Tickers]

I'd take the Newcastle job. Fluke a Carling Cup win in the 18 months before they realise you're not Alan Shearer and you'd be a fucking hero to 50,000 Brown Ale-fuelled mentallists who do hero worship very well indeed.

 

[Kendall]

money

much like Ramos winning 2 Uefa cups, pushing Barca & Real all the way in the Spanish league and then leaving a club he got to the CL for, well, us.

 

[Bill_Oddie]

F365 had an excellent piece (that I've padded out below) in their 'Winners and Losers' section, where they postulate that unless Sparky takes this gig he won't become Man Utd manager.

The reasoning is that Blackburn won't be top 6 without vast pots of cash. And even then no decent players will want to go there. And the Villa, Spurs, Everton, Pompey, and Man City jobs won't be up for grabs in the next 18 months. By that time, he'll be considered akin to Alan Curbishley as a guru of mid-table mediocrity, which isn't what MU are all about.

So yes it's a risk. But its one he has to take if he wants to acheive his dream.

 

[joey55]

I think it's a good job to take. I'd say they can be turned around as we were in 2004 when Jol took over. They have a decent squad, it's just unbalanced. They'll have money to spend this window and in the summer. Mike Ashley and Mort seem like decent guys, who have their heads screwed on. People can criticise for sacking Allardyce, but he simply wasn't Ashley's choice. I think it's a great time t take over at Newcastle. Expectation is lower than it has been in years, yet arguably the main problem (the old board) that has been holding them back, has now gone.

 

[Blotto]

Taking the managerial position at Newcastle is like becoming the drummer for Spinal Tap. If the board and excs don't get you, the fans surely will--53 years without a trophy (if I'm not mistaken) and they are convinced that they could not only slay every Prem side (except Manure, of course :grin but seem to believe that they have a tradition, no, an aura like that of AC Milan or Real Madrid.

Newcastle (fans/club/etc) is here-------their manager is here-----------and reality is here. Didn't exactly come out right, but you get the point: the managerial position is a terrible place to be. They fucked up, they should have kept Big Sam.

 

[SpurSince57]

The big plus is that Shepherd has gone. If he'd still been there it would have been an insane move.

 

[SpurSince57]

But according to l'Equipe, Houllier is now the No.1 target.

 

[PT]

Hoddle?