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Interesting notion. If he does not come for any of the players he brought to LR, that is pretty much tantamount to an admission of gross error of judgement in the first place. If he does come for them, that's Christmas come early for us. There is, of course, the third possibility that he will take the likes of Barton, Park etc and they may actually do well enough. That would be galling for us. It is going to be fascinating to see what unfolds.
That must be one of the most amazing quotes I have ever read! Whoever was saying Hughes could hypnotise Chairman wasn't joking.
I honestly can't believe it. After the worst start to a season is premier league history he lands a premiership job! Stoke must see something we didn't. He will probably do a good job for them now, knowing our luck.
From the BBC Website. New Stoke City boss Mark Hughes, who was sacked by Queens Park Rangers in November, with the club bottom of the Premier League: "I don't regret QPR. It was difficult. I have touched on the fact a lot of managers have gone in there and found it difficult. "Their turnover has been historically high. It was difficult and mistakes were made - I made mistakes that I will learn from. "It is a regret because given more time I would have be able to turn it around. To be honest we tried to run before we could walk and I hold my hands up."
From the BBC Website. New Stoke City boss Mark Hughes, who was sacked by Queens Park Rangers in November, with the club bottom of the Premier League: "I don't regret QPR. It was difficult. I have touched on the fact a lot of managers have gone in there and found it difficult. "Their turnover has been historically high. It was difficult and mistakes were made - I made mistakes that I will learn from. "It is a regret because given more time I would have be able to turn it around. To be honest we tried to run before we could walk and I hold my hands up."
He could well argue, and he may well be right, that he gave these players a very lucrative opportunity and they let him down (after all that's what Harold has been saying, in essence) so why would he come back for any of them? I think he'll do ok at Stoke, and I think he'll end his career in management with a better all round record than Harold (but no, I don't want him back, he was wrong for us and cursed). I'm just fascinated to see how long Harold and many posters on here will be using him as an excuse for poor QPR performances. In a sense we are lucky to have our very own demon that means we don't have to take any responsibility for the **** thats happening now - the only one who stands up to be counted is Fernandes. Barton was signed by Warnock by the way. As were Ferdinand and SWP.
Fair enough. Do you think Harold knows what the phrases "I made mistakes" and "I hold my hands up" mean?
I for one can't fault anything of what he says there. Fair enough on him. He will do well at Stoke, a club where the foundations is in place for a solid defence and not in the need of wholesale changes. I will not be surprised to see Hughes get it right at the Britannia.
Hughes ready to raid QPR for winger in swap deal for Stoke striker By Paul Warburton May 30 2013 QPR are set to lay the groundwork for an audacious swap deal that sees Peter Crouch on his way to Loftus Road â and Junior Hoilett headed the other way to Stoke. The Potters will unveil former Rs and Fulham boss Mark Hughes as the new man at the Britannia this morning, and Sparky plans to hit the ground running with a City team built in his own image that could include a player he bought twice. Back in west London, there is no shortage of admirers for a striker coveted by manager Harry Redknapp. Indeed, both Crouch and the Rs boss were at Tottenham and Portsmouth together, and Harry had a despairing go at bringing the Ealing born-and-bred player back to west London in January. That move foundered, but twice-relegated Hoilett has no desire to play in the Championship after he escaped doomed Blackburn last summer â and Stoke are in need of a winger. Like the Redknapp-Crouch relationship, Hughes was the manager who paved the way for Hoilett to make the breakthrough with Rovers in 2008 before reuniting with him a second time last summer. The sticking points could be 32-year-old Crouchâs £80k-a-week salary and any transfer fee vaguely approaching the £10m Stoke paid for the England international in August 2011. But Redknapp admitted already he was looking to add at least a couple of âlegendsâ to a squad of up-and-coming players as the club bids to bounce back to the Premier League at the first attempt. The giant forward started his career at Tottenham, but was bought by the club he supports when Rangers boss Gerry Francis paid £60,000 for Crouch in 2001 before he moved to Portsmouth for £1.5m just a season later. Read more: Fulham Chronicle http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/lo...r-stoke-striker-82029-33404812/#ixzz2UltCIl3O
Great, let's get rid of one of our few young players and get in a 32 yo. At least he won't be coming here to retire early like the other ****ers
A good, short term, deal. Crouchy would be good, next season; Hoilett could be good, next season. Rodney and DJ/Remy would be excellent.
Crouch would be great in the Championship and I'd have been happy with him at the beginning of last season in the EPL. He's a supporter and still has some years in him. As far as I know, he's not often on the injury list?
I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking this is not a positive move for the club. Swap a young and undoubtedly good player for someone heading swiftly towards the end of their career. Harry should be working on coaching Hoilett back to his best form, not shunting him off up North. To my mind it ably demonstrates Harry's ultimate limitations as a manager - complete laziness and lack of imagination - he simply resorts to buying the same players over and over again - and it's either because he can't be bothered to do anything more, or he is incapable of doing anything else. Meanwhile the players he repeatedly signs grow older and less able to withstand the rigours of the game. Should we really limit ourselves to an ageing striker who didn't set the world alight last season? Is he capable of the rigours of a 46 game Championship season? Is he really going to be keen to dig in and fight on a freezing night in Barnsley when he is more likely keen to be spending his time out and about at the fashionable capital nightspots with his WAG? Sounds like just another payday to me, and I thought TF was past all that. The definition of madness is doing the same things over and over, and expecting a different outcome. Sounds like our 'Arry all over.
There's the difference ... the exact pinpoint but Hughes had to say that because it was the simple truth
