Hughes For City???

[FaninOz]

Blown his chances of managing United now, I can't see United ever taking an ex City Manager on. The fans would never accept it.

[a1]

It's a statement I happen to agree with about Managers in general. In football terms, they're responsible for our points tally - how they go about it is up to them (unless, like at Citeh, you have Frank trying to make your signings). For this season, Megson deserves plenty of credit for managing a team that ultimately survived. 5/6 games out, when it looked like we might be heading for days out in Blackpool and Derby, there were plenty of people saying that it wasn't Megson's fault, it was mainly Allardyce's team with some Sammy Lee signings. The players attitudes were crap etc. etc. all of which I agree with, but none of which alters the fact that the buck stops with the Manager. He knew all that when he accepted the pay check.

I don't think it's any major secret, that I'm still undecided about Megson's managerial capability. I'm not actively seeking his dismissal (didn't join in the muppet demo's etc.), but if Blackburn offered us £4.2m for his services I wouldn't lose any sleep if we took the money. Not sure which of your options it falls into really. It just happens to be a statement that I agree with. So if Megson does well, I'll give him credit, if he does badly I'll give him a hard time.

originally i was prepared for colin todd 'meh'-ness ..

but he made some noises about bigheaded (?) people at forest thinking just coz they where at forest they were great "under brain clough it werent like this" and he seemed to be stating that we might go the same way if we didnt shape up. and generally saying things that were true , and generally coming off as an alright sort of person .. i began to think these rumours about him were secondhand stories from people (like at forest) that either didnt like 'work' (same sort of people allardyce would have bounced out) or didnt like him..

the west ham away game showed me he might know what he's doing.

the munich game for me could prove that he might be a genius.

i can see why the gartside/whatever-that-agents-called chose him , the sammy lee revolution mightve worked at liverpool.. But we needed a 5 big midfielders and clean sheet obsessed everyone up for it, playing their own part in the jigsaw , got to work your bollocks off just for that extra 5% coz these money teams will crush us by 4 otherwise, system.

i'd extend his contract by 2 or so years just coz if he gets 'it'. then why not ? might not be as good as allardyce (yet) but he's doing a good impression.. some of the players sed similar towards the end of last season when we werent winning owt..

all these mcleish/bruce/coleman/middle of road types all said no to it and TBH out of them i'dve probably prefered megson as he wanted to do it rather than taking a begging bowl to people who wouldnt say yes or no either way.

mcleish went down , coleman nearly did .

megson worked his arse off to get pretty good players here , the cahill story was pretty good indicator that we chose the right one. (think the taylor story was similar)

i still cant figure out why we stayed up , exactly , but its awesome that we did and megson mustve played a big part .

[Tombwfc]

Blown his chances of managing United now, I can't see United ever taking an ex City Manager on. The fans would never accept it.

I don't know, they seemed to take quite well to ex City (and Liverpool for that matter) player Sir Matt Busby.

[communistworkethic]

Blown his chances of managing United now, I can't see United ever taking an ex City Manager on. The fans would never accept it.

I don't know, they seemed to take quite well to ex City (and Liverpool for that matter) player Sir Matt Busby.

indeed.

They didn't worry about Brian Kidd being an ex-city player when he was alex's number two either.

Hughes is a Man U legend, if he turns city in to something like a decent team they'll accept him.

[Lord Kangana]

Blown his chances of managing United now, I can't see United ever taking an ex City Manager on. The fans would never accept it.

I don't know, they seemed to take quite well to ex City (and Liverpool for that matter) player Sir Matt Busby.

indeed.

They didn't worry about Brian Kidd being an ex-city player when he was alex's number two either.

Hughes is a Man U legend, if he turns city in to something like a decent team they'll accept him.

Didn't Kidd play for yernited aswell though?

[communistworkethic]

aye, as did Hughes, hence my pointed as to them not giving a shit