I have never rated Hughes as a manager and am not surprised he has refused to resign. Do you guys think he genuinely believes he can turn your club around or is his refusal to do the honourable thing a cynical attempt to screw as much as he can from Fernandes because Hughes knows he is unlikely to work again after the inept performance of the last 10 months?
Its all about money, he knows hes lost the players and more importantly the fans. It will be another Steve Kean if he stays. He has zero honour.
His future employment options depend largely on how things go at QPR. If the club want to get rid then he will have to make it worth his while with a high compensation package as he might not get a job anytime soon. Should he manage to string a few results together and last until Christmas his market value would rise a bit but only if we stop losing and avoid relegation will he be sure of getting a decent job once he leaves Rangers. I don't know any other Premier league club who would chance Hughes if he gets sacked with us on the bottom of the table or after we have been relegated. It's going to be tricky for TF and the board as they need to balance promises made (stability) against financial realism (cost of relegation compared to compensation package for Hughes). The worst case scenario is that they offski Hughes and his back room staff and get someone else in who demands a war chest in order to survive (much the same as Hughes did when he replaced Warnock) and we still get the drop. What then? Sack the next poor sap too? I wouldn't want to be TF right now.
Difficult to say really, I would say his not a quitter but Fulham dis-proves that, perhaps he actually does believe he can turn it around but I tend to lean towards the tarnished reputation argument. I'd like to read Managers and Players contracts, I can't see why they can't be sack for poor performance without a large pay out. As to the new manager I would have thought in the interviews it would be made clear to them how much would be available in January, I don't think TF is silly enough to try and buy his way out of this.
He will never get a good job again if he doesnt resign. Why would anyone employ him when they know he wont walk away if his record is terrible. The only way a club will want him is if they know he will not want a payoff if he does terrible.
He will never get a good job again unless he can turn QPR around. After walking out on Fulham and bombing at QPR this year, he's tarnished his reputation too much. It's either turn it around over the next month, or end up taking a job in the Championship (at a club which likely could not afford Hughes' entourage).
He will never turn it around so he will not be able to get a job because the new club will know hes just there for the pay off. He will become a Dowie, Magilton, Hart type who cannot get a proper job. Especially as hes on massive wages.
I don't disagree with that at all and I'm certainly not defending Hughes, just saying that for Hughes a wafer thin chance of turning QPR around is preferable to the certainty of his career fizzling out. That is why I would be surprised if he resigned.
Perhaps Africa beckons Hughes? I see there are currently a few managerial vacancies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_national_football_team_managers
Contractual. Money. Whatever he worked out through Joorabchian with us, is BIG TIME dosh, which he would only get a percentage of if he were to quit himself. He would only get a big pay if he maintains a certain level of results or if he gets sacked, the latter of which TF is too scared to do at the moment. But the thing about football is, is that these sorts of inept monkeys do always find work. It takes a special kind of monkey to do the manager's job, and that's why there have only been so many former good players who have become good managers as well. It may take Hughes 20 more years to become a good manager, and he's using us as a vehicle to get there.
The problem is wages right? Yet you all want arry in yes? How much do you think he will be on? Less than Hughes? No, he wont. What if it doesn't work out with arry, will you expect TF to pay out massively again then to terminate his contract? If the fans sway the chairman into sacking Hughes, there is no way in hell he will go for another expensive manager imo.
He's waiting for Coleman to cock up the Wales job, thats the only one open to him after he has completely cocked up at Loftus Road.
Honour doesn't enter into the equation. How many of us would walk away from a job with nothing knowing full well that if we stuck it out we'd get a nice juicy payout? It's all about money! As for finding another job with a damaged reputation, in my opinion he'd be in no hurry to find employment, and people in football seem to have very short memories!
