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Looks like he has been sacked.

Bookies have suspensded betting on it and on Robert Mancinni being the next manager. Apparantly he ws in the round today and City have called a press confrence for 19.30.

He was waving to the fans at the end of their game and look quite upset.

I think its a bit unfair, only lost 2 games all year i believe and despite all the draws they are still 6th with a game in hand.

I predicted this in an earlier thread somewhere. I did think he would last the season tho.

He had serious dosh, needed to be in the top two. 

Poor Leslie :(

threw away a lot of game they shuold have won with the money he had.
i like mark hughes but i dont think hes ready to manage a team fighting for a stop in the top 4 just yet

FWIW I think it must be hard to try and live up to the hype and spending. Rome wasn't buit in a day.

It took Ferguson quite a long time to get Man. U. back on track when he arrived, he might have been sacked.

thats the thing these days through, the way footballs run these days has changed a lot over the last 20 years, owners expect instant success, so theres a lot of pressure put on new managers. I feel sorry for hughes but for the resources he had he wasnt performing.

Sky are reporting he's been sacked with Mancini taking over.

on a some what different note.

Villa for the Premiership

come on the vila!

doesn't deserve the boot.paid some stupid money for players but they were never going to challenge for the league this season.

I think he's made some good solid signings. Barry, Lescott, Toure, Given, Bellamy

People have no patience these days.

Out of those signings only Given would be classed as "good" for me. The rest are just average premier league players.

Toure and Lescott are two of the most overated players in the premiership

Harsh. He's done a good job there.

was gonna say something similar to sam.given is the prems best keeper imo.the others aint top drawer players but solid signings agreed.fucking way over priced though.
take what toure and lescott for instance.both cost loads.vermalen cost 10 mill and is miles better than both of them

Barry is a top midfield.

Lescott hasnt really done that well at Man City but was quality for Everton

They are doing well, but yet another laughable attendance: 35,852

Agree. The money he's spent, they had to be there or there abouts and they ain't.

I said at the start of the season he would be sacked if they weren't in the top 4 by Christmas. Not surprisingly really. I expect he'll get another premiership job at some point though.

liverpool, they're a mid table team

I've said it before, but he has/had the hardest managerial job in the premiership. Whoever is there has to be succussful immediately.

Sky are reporting that a deal with Mancini was done on 2nd December, so it was just a matter of time before Hughes was replaced.

Pot Noodle football - "Instant success, just add money"

No no, they're a top 4 team this year - "guaranteed".

i hope Hughes has a go at a foreign league to gain some more experience.  Still think he'll be a top manager in the future.  Poor decision to appoint Mancini imo

oh ye, sorry i forgot. please accept my apology.

Maybe it's just me but eighteen months feels like a long time in football these days. 

A very interesting article in todays Telegraph,especially about the City Board and Gary Cook.

To have been using Mancini and Seedorf as a sounding board for transfers this year, is unbelievable!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/mancity/6853412/Roberto-Mancini-takes-over-at-Manchester-City-with-doubts-about-his-future.html

That article says their long-term target is Wenger. They're in dreamland. He wouldn't touch them with a bargepole. Especially when he could get the Real Madrid job by making a phonecall.

The way he sold them Toure and Adebayor at massively inflated prices gives you a good idea what he thinks of them.

"You can't Mark Hughes". I sign that appeared in a cup final that confused me for an hour. I was young and stupid. I'm not so young now.

Anyway back to the point. Wenger or no Wenger money can buy you success. But you have to get the right man for the job. Not sure they have that yet and not sure who they would get. A Mourinho type I think, but I'm sure he's holding out for the United job.

Gary Cook. Now there's a man who's just one letter away from a far more appropriate name

Doubtless a reference to the writings of the influential Marxist philospher Herbert Marcuse.

In his seminal 60's treatise on damaging nature of capitalism on the individual...One Dimensional Man...he foretold the treatment of the erstwhile Man City manager as a commodity, rather than a person.

I'll always be grateful to Brian Marwood for his diving header against the Shitheads.

I wouldn't be surprised if Hughes ends up at Liverpool.  Lets face it, the way things are going Benitez can't last much longer....can he?

Can they afford to sack him?

Two things keeping Benitez in a job:
1) They can't afford the pay-off. They're barely servicing the debt the fuckwit Americans landed them with to fund their takeover
2) In order to sack him, the fuckwit Americans would have to both be in the same room (or on the same phoneline) at the same time and actually agree on something

I'd be very surprised by that...Hughes's ManUre past surely would rule him out.

Long term i'd say that Everton would be a sensible move for Hughes,especially if Moyes takes
over from Fergie.Hughes had a season or two at Goodison at the end of his career.

As an alternative, Newcastle could be an interesting port of call,especially if they have money
to spend in the future. The rollercoaster springs to mind  :)

I hope this works out as well for City as Sacking Peter Reid some years back.

Relegation within 2 years & 3rd Division football again.


Presumably if Mancini doesn't make the Top 4 he will be out at the end of the season.

all jumping the bandwagon now? eh.  :-)

You decide

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/mancity/6853412/Roberto-Mancini-takes-over-at-Manchester-City-with-doubts-about-his-future.html

The people running Man City are such a bunch of clueless dongs. Just about the only thing left for them to do is hire Peter Kenyon.

The thing that is really getting my goat about the whole Mancini this is that it keeps being reported that he won three league titles while at Inter. He didnt. He won one, the other two were handed to Inter because of the misdemeanors of others. So in the true sense, he won jack-shit for those two years! Realistically he only won the league the next year because Juve had been relegated and AC docked points. He got lucky by being in charge of the third best team at a time when the other two were handicapped (By their own cheating, admittedly!!)

Its a little thing, but annoys the tits off me!!! (Sorry, slow day at work!)

What amazes me is that Mancini was quite happy to accept the job with Hughes still in place and wait around for Hughes to be sacked and walk straight in, I thought managers at least had ethics and although they may be interestedin the job actually wait until the present incumbent was sacked before accepting the job.

Sounds like Hiddink wasn't interested for this exact reason.

Surely the only surprising thing about Hughes getting sacked is that its taken so long. It was always going to happen with the amount of money being pissed away at the club - if you're spending that much you want someone a lot more glamorous than Hughes. Someone less Welsh as well.

Interesting,very interesting! More updates to the Mancini story...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/mancity/6853029/Manchester-Citys-deal-for-Roberto-Mancini-in-the-pipeline-for-close-to-a-year.html