Richard Hughes

DJ said:
I’m not sure your “old friend” helps your argument over managerial appointments as well as you think he does?
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Backed up by the recent article in the Athletic..

"Both Hughes and Blake wanted to source Howe’s replacement externally but time was in short supply that summer (of 2020) due to the short gap between seasons due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the former owner, Maxim Demin — who was keen to sell the club — had an eye on finances. Instead, Howe’s assistant Jason Tindall was promoted into the senior role."

So... Neil's long stated issue with Hughes was poor managerial decisions yet it turns out the only one that was really poor ... wasn't even his decision. The rest achieved what they were supposed to, or nearly did in Woodgate's case. Yet Neil is still dying on his silly hill.
 
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SlowDownDerek said:
Backed up by the recent article in the Athletic..

"Both Hughes and Blake wanted to source Howe’s replacement externally but time was in short supply that summer (of 2020) due to the short gap between seasons due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the former owner, Maxim Demin — who was keen to sell the club — had an eye on finances. Instead, Howe’s assistant Jason Tindall was promoted into the senior role."

So... Neil's long stated issue with Hughes was poor managerial decisions yet it turns out the only one that was really poor ... wasn't even his decision. The rest achieved what they were supposed to, or nearly did in Woodgate's case. Yet Neil is still dying on his silly hill.
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The only people dying on a hill are people that suddenly cling to online articles for truth when it suits them having rubbished them as not from the horse’s mouth when it doesn’t.
 
New Forest Cherry said:
time to put an end to this nonsense, have the minerals to admit you're plain wrong and issue a grovelling apology to hughes for all those infantile comments questioning his ability

there's a good chap
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Someone getting a job proves nothing other than in the world of subservient people who believe rich people are rich because they don’t make mistakes. There’s been many wealthy owners of football clubs who have made poor hires.

If he does a great job at Liverpool and if the squad here kicks on and doesn’t get hampered because we can’t sign players because we blew a wad overpaying vs talent and can’t recoup their value then I will admit I’m wrong.
 
Neil Dawson said:
The only people dying on a hill are people that suddenly cling to online articles for truth when it suits them having rubbished them as not from the horse’s mouth when it doesn’t.
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To be fair, I think your argument died in a ditch rather than on a hill. :tophat:
 
Neil Dawson said:
The only people dying on a hill are people that suddenly cling to online articles for truth when it suits them having rubbished them as not from the horse’s mouth when it doesn’t.
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You lack of self awareness is crazy.

To clarify my opinion... I've got no idea whose decision it was. Istabraq appears to know Tindall and he said it wasn't Hughes' decision to appoint him and the Athletic article appears to support that view. I don't give a toss who made the decision. It only ever came up as an example of how people in the actual game, who unlike you know what they are talking about on these things, clearly rate Hughes and therefore your silly campaign was a load of nonsense all these years.
 
Neil Dawson said:
Someone getting a job proves nothing other than in the world of subservient people who believe rich people are rich because they don’t make mistakes. There’s been many wealthy owners of football clubs who have made poor hires.

If he does a great job at Liverpool and if the squad here kicks on and doesn’t get hampered because we can’t sign players because we blew a wad overpaying vs talent and can’t recoup their value then I will admit I’m wrong.
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What it proves Neil, and it proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt, is that your relentless crusade to try and paint Hughes as a useless, incompetent rank amateur is a complete load of b*llocks.

FFP issues here will be down to the owner not Hughes. Hughes has been in post a lot longer than the current owner has been here spanking money and there was not a whiff of PL FFP trouble under the previous owner.
 
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Topfarrier said:
I haven't been that critical of Hughes but even his biggest fan wouldn't think his body of work here would warrant a top job in the PL........his link with Edwards is obviously why he got the job.
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I wouldn't argue with that. The question is does his body of work warrant Neil Dawson's multi-year campaign against the bloke? Not for me.
 
SlowDownDerek said:
You have a go at me for hyperbole yet you're putting words in my mouth. I've never said I particularly rate him and certainly haven't said he's one of the best in the world as you suggested in your last post... I've no idea how good or bad he is because, like you, I'm not privy to the ins and outs of the decisions he makes.

What I have said is that your relentless years long campaign to brand him as useless, incompetent and rank amateur is completely baseless and without merit. If he turns out to be as competent as Roy Hodgson then pretty much everything you've said about him will have been proven wrong whether he turns out to be at Liverpool's level or not.

Yes they do make mistakes but they rarely employ people who are clearly incompetent so to have three extremely wealthy people in a row make the same mistake on the guy you
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SlowDownDerek said:
You have a go at me for hyperbole yet you're putting words in my mouth. I've never said I particularly rate him and certainly haven't said he's one of the best in the world as you suggested in your last post... I've no idea how good or bad he is because, like you, I'm not privy to the ins and outs of the decisions he makes.

What I have said is that your relentless years long campaign to brand him as useless, incompetent and rank amateur is completely baseless and without merit. If he turns out to be as competent as Roy Hodgson then pretty much everything you've said about him will have been proven wrong whether he turns out to be at Liverpool's level or not.

Yes they do make mistakes but they rarely employ people who are clearly incompetent so to have three extremely wealthy people in a row make the same mistake on the guy you happen have a weird agenda against is quite the coupon buster don't you think?
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Neil Dawson said:
If he does a great job at Liverpool and if the squad here kicks on and doesn’t get hampered because we can’t sign players because we blew a wad overpaying vs talent and can’t recoup their value then I will admit I’m wrong.
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so he's still going to be responsible for potential future recruitment errors when he's long left the building because you've decided we'd overpaid on some of the current crop, even though bill runs the spreadsheet?

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I realise I’m in the minority here but I’m struggling to see what RH has achieved at DC that warrants the might of Liverpool to come calling. Other than his best mate is the new CEO it makes little sense. Good luck to the bloke. Made for life even with the payoffs these guys get.
 
If Edwards has employed him because Hughes is a mate from back to their Pompey days and Hughes isn’t up to the job, it would backfire on Edwards himself.

So think he would have thought very carefully before employing Hughes and did it from his transfer dealings at Dean Court, plus bringing Andoni Iraola to DC and from a business point of view, rather than Hughes being a mate.

Only time with give us that answer.
 
red_house said:
He's got the job, hopefully we can all move on pronto and not have every one of their signings go through the mill on here to try and prove some long lost point.
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Precisely. I hope Liverpool sink like a stone after Klopp goes because I don't like them and I hope all of Hughes' signings here do well because I want the best for AFCB. Richard Hughes is an irrelevancy now.
 
table said:
Oh, that's alright then. Out of interest what does one have with humble pie, is it gravy or custard? : )

I thought the surprise was if he went to a bigger club because although I'm as Cherry tinted as the next Cherry fanatic, I still think we're at least 2 good seasons away from being comparable to Liverpool : )

Ps I saw Humble Pie back in the late '70s, brilliant band live and Steve Marriot ( although clearly sloshed) was a great singer and frontman : )
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Table, I saw the Small Faces in the mid to late 70's at the Hammersmith. Steve Marriott what a singer, great show (though I heard later that they'd not practised much for the tour, I still enjoyed it). RIP Steve
 
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