Former Manchester United striker, Mark Hughes, or “Munich bastard” to his fans, has come across all cocky in the press. Dear dear, it seems all the money, fame and back-page stories have gone to his head.
Apparently Hughes doesn’t have to speak in the press to raise his profile, like Sir Alex Ferguson and Rafael Benitez, because he’s used to be centre of attention thanks to his playing career.
Sadly for him, whilst the likes of Ferguson and Benitez have scooped plenty of honours in their time as manager, ol Sparky has failed to win anything…
“I have never had to court publicity myself because I played for top clubs,” said Hughes, referring to his years as a player at clubs like United and Barcelona. “I was reticent to say too much at all when I was playing. The truth is I never had to, because my performances generated headlines anyway. I was good at what I did and that was enough. That has been my way for 45 years so I don’t think I will suddenly become one for mind games. But other managers feel that their profile has been raised and they have to do that. Maybe it is because they have not played at a certain level. I’m aware managers are saying things about us at the moment but I see that as trying to ease pressure on themselves – that is predictable.”
Who does he think he is? Cristiano bloody Ronaldo? Talk about an over inflated ego. Can you imagine Giggsy talking like this in ten years time? Christ. Sparky was a cracking player and is on plenty of reds’ favourite all time players lists, but what the fuck is this cocky over-confidence about? He really has become a bluenose. All talk, no substance. Whilst they brag about signing money-hungry cunts, who are all going against their word for City’s riches, Hughes is bragging about his playing career, when sadly, his managerial career leaves little to be desired.
As a player
Mark Hughes – 22 years – Striker
League titles: 2 (United)
FA Cups: 4 (3 United, 1 Chelsea)
League Cups: 3 (1 United, 1 Chelsea, 1 Blackburn)
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 2 (1 United, 1 Chelsea)
UEFA Super Cup: 1 (United)
Total trophies: 12 (8 United)
163 goals in 606 games
Sir Alex Ferguson – 17 years – Striker
League titles: 2 (1 St Johnstone, 1 Falkirk)
Total trophies: 2
170 goals in 317 games
As a manager
Mark Hughes – 10 years
Total trophies: 0
Sir Alex Ferguson – 35 years
League titles: 14 (11 United, 3 Aberdeen)
FA Cups: 5
European Cups: 2
League Cups: 3
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 2 (1 United, 1 Aberdeen)
UEFA Super Cup: 2 (1 United, 1 Aberdeen)
Intercontinental Cup: 1
FIFA World Club Cup: 1
Scottish Cup: 4
Scottish League Cup: 1
Total trophies: 35
Total trophies after ten years: 7
Total trophies after ten years in England: 9
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The man is a fuckin tool. The Sparky we loved is long gone, replaced by this fool! He and Tevez deserve each other
Man! You r the stats guru!
And to sum up, how many trophies if it wasnt for SAF
Fuck off Sparky.
Loved him as a player, and always had a eye on what he did as a manager, as I do all ex reds.
He went to massive citeh, well, fair enough, but the daft blue cunts have won nothing for years and are spending millions on journeymen and greedy fuckers. Barry, I wont to play in the champs league, and greedy players Arse Wenger has seen the sense to get rid. As for the 2 face, 5 goal, argy fucker.
Well suited themlot.
£5 to charity Huges will be on the dole next may.
Please can we not slag Sparky off? He was one of my favourite players, I cried when Atkinson sold him and I cried when SAF sold him and I nearly cried when he took over at the lunatic asylum. Of course he is going to talk himself and that fucking mess of a club up, but until he actually says something specific and slates us or one of ours publicly lets just remember the good times………..
I find it interesting that Sir Alex actually has a better striking record than Mark Hughes (scored more goals in just over half the matches), especially in light of the fact that nobody really talks about Sir Alex’s playing career. On the other hand, much has been made of Mark Hughes’ playing days; and now he’s come out to talk about it too. Very interesting indeed.
most of the trophies are at united and as the stats show fergie was a more prolific striker.people were saying that he could replace fergie and i wanted that to happen but nt anymore.the fucking twat. hnpe he and city rot and are dumped at the wastelands.
I don’t think what he said was particularly cocky – it’s true. He was good at what he did. You can’t really compare Fergie’s league titles as a player to Hughes’ – they were in the second division.
mancaroon,
The only 2 times I have felt the loss of a player like a relative passing away was sparky being sold the first time and winker this summer.
Was made up when Sir Alex brought him back.
He should recall he had the white hanky treatment at Barca.
He would do well not to big himself up and trying to belittle Sir Alex with his 35 trophies, FSW, who has a few himself and the likes of Wenger.
He has won nothing as a manager, so has it all to prove.
Good players dont become the great managers, you only have to look at our own Sir Bobby Charlton, Bryan Robson and many others out there, even Shearer, while many of the great managers were mediocre players.
His playing days are done, he has to prove it all, and not what he did years back. And he should have a word or two of thanks to Sir Alex who enabled him to win what he did.
@mancaroon
Nah, sorry mate, he already IS slating us and ours off.
Your love for him is obviously obscuring the reality.
He’s a bitter now.
Sad, but true.
@ Its in my blood Said,
sorry mate, I haven’t heard him publicly slate us…….he certainly hasn’t named us specifically or have I missed something. I just can’t slate a guy that scored the best goal in THAT 5-1 drubbing, that great goal in Rotterdam and put in performances like the one against Stoke(?) in the FA Cup when Schmeical got sent off. Tevez deserves all the vitriol he is getting the little Frey Bentos eating poison dwarf, but not (in my humble opinion) Sparky.
hughes lost all those memories wen he joined the blue shit. True legends live and breathe through the club. Robbo would never of turned traitor, neither would keane, becks, scholes, le king or any other legend who genuinely cared for the club.
@ sppibsihmkcrkg
so by that rational we should no longer talk about and celebrate the exploits of Denis Law?
or Peter Schmeical?
@mancaroon
I know what you’re saying my friend but those memories of him are fading fast. The total lack of respect shown to SAF (who, as others have mentioned was responsible for many of the trophies he won as a player)transcends into a lack of respect to United and United fans.
Compare his behaviour to that of Bruce.
Football is no different to other aspects of life itself, in that if you surround yourself with negative people day in, day out, you become the same way. You hear something often enough and you end up believing it.
Hughes is surrounded by hateful bitter bluenose bastards.
He’s become one.
its a shame what he is becoming and to be fair he probably didnt forsee it but like other posters have said on here his once red blood is now turning blue and that permanant smug cat thats got the cream look on his face is starting to irritate me
the ‘sparky’ we once loved is no more
What an ass! Hope he gets sacked before december.
@Its in my blood
I know i know………..my head says he is now a proper bertie, but my heart won’t let me hate him. think I’ll just have to pretend Sparky the player and Mark Hughes the manager are two different people!!
I loved him as a player but recently he has become very career minded and will tread on anyones toes to get where he wants to go, which is a shame.
He will always be a hero to me as a player but like Keane have to look at him as a manager differently.
Mountain – Molehill
Relax lads it’s just the usual rhetoric spouted by managers, don’t read too much into it.
mancaroon thought you’d bring that up! Schmeichel still hurts. Still can’t believe he did that to us! I suppose over time the wounds may heal, but at the end of the day, when you talk of these players they all betrayed us by going playing for the dark side and that will always be associated with them. I appreciate hughes years for us but he’s broke that bond with the fans by being associated with the blues. Every player who plays for us or them is aware of the fans and the clubs feelings towards the other team. Just don’t think they can expect us to look at them with the love we had for em before. But law is a legend! Like i said, maybe in time!
I loved Sparky as a player and would always feel uncomfortable slagging him off, even now, but I do find the tone of his comments these days very grating, including this bragging stuff about being such a good player. Maybe this would be a good time to remind him of how poorly he played for Barcelona, despite having the backing of someone as sympathetic as El Tel (Venables). I always thought there was something a little bit feeble about the way he allowed himself to be sold to Barca in the first place, a move he didn’t ever have his heart in. I find now there’s a certain ‘whistling in the dark to keep your spirits up’ quality about the way he’s conducted himself since he’s splashed out all this cash for City, knowing he’s sure got to deliver, and quick. I detect the same core anxiety about whether he’s really up to it that made him just accept it so meekly when United sold him in ’86. He tries too hard to be all calm and cool, as when defending that dreadfully ill-judged Tevez poster, which really was demeaning for a club with any aspirations to be seen as a major player on the world stage. I’d call it a massive error…
Schmikes was past it and came back right at the end of his career for a pay day at shitty like Cole.
whether he were past it or not, he still shouldn’t of gone. Did he just expect us to be blind to it?
As soon as he stepped through the door at the council, he lost all respect from me. Plus he’s turning into a right smug twat. Come back when you have won half of what fergies done without the aid of a sugar daddy, then you can talk. Blue twat.
Like Law?
@ sppibsihmkcrkg
Christ, even I had cast from my memory the fact Cole ended up the as well. Jesus, now I am depressed!!
I think the problem comes about because for most footballers playing for or managing any given club is JUST A JOB (notice I did say most before you all jump on me….I am aware of the exceptions). For us fans OUR team is our life, it is our passion, our ups and downs, our joy and our heartache. For these players/managers it appears to be a paycheck or the way they earn their living. Think about your own job, would you turn down a job and more money at a rival company? I certainly wouldn’t.
I named my dog after him. He’ll be turning in his grave now!
Since getting all the Sheikh money his manner has changed a lot. He’s talking about other teams and other players they might want to buy openly, without even getting permission from the clubs..
but so far he has resisted soeaking ill about our club or manager, but it’s only a matter of time..
Anyway he’ll be back down to earth at the end of the season when they don’t make the top 4 and he’s looking for a new job…
Seriously, i don’t give a damn about this guy. No point talking about him. I feel we are not related anymore.
Nah, not taking the bait.
Mark Hughes is still one of my boys.
Sparky must have been talking about the Fat Spanish Waiter.
SB
It all looks good after you’ve been the greatest national coach Wales ever had, doesn’t it? I think we all respect him for giving 100% as a United player, but, just as with the two Argentine rent boys, avarice, greed and the lust for power know no limits. Sparky may have missed the point when Kaka and Buffone told him and his club to stuff it. He certainly ignored the money shot Adebayor publicly put in his eyes by desperately courting every top four club in Italy, Spain and France before finally signing. Even if he does win, as was exemplified in the case of another hubris-ridden egomaniac in Jose Mourinho, he will always a couple of losses and a pubic hair away from being given the bullet. But there’ll always be that Wales job…!
The issue with Hughes is that he is under pressure, people in that position react differently I remember O’Leary when he was the manager of Leedscum spouting off in the same way and making a fool of himself, it feels bad simply because Sparky was one of our own.
He is trying to put himself at the top of his own Xmas tree as he has a lot of big ego’s in the dressing room and trying to stamp his authority, but sadly it is alienating the fans who truly cared about him us, so fuck him.
whats the source for this scott?
cant really see hughes coming out with something like this myself but you know what im like, dont believe anything untill i see it from the persons mouth
anyway for tonigh anyone know if vidics fit
my line up would be
foster, fabio ferdiand vidic evra, valenica carrick flecther nani, rooney berbatov or owen…was going to put anderson but last season he was dreadful, i love the guy, his first season was class but last season and lately apart from that free kick i dont know whats happened to the boy
mancaroon, it’s different than being offered a job. But think ur point helps illustrate mine. It should be more than a job if ur going down as legend of the club, it should run through ur blood. If it’s just a job and you don’t feel that ur betraying the fans, then you haven’t got the legacy and history of the club in your veins. I know wat you mean bout how they see it, but can you ever imagine bruce going there? Can you imagine him saying it’s just a job? No because he is a legend. And i’d forgot bout cole as well.
Sparky should shut his fucking mouth. I’m tired of hearing this thick Welsh faggot running his mouth. I bet he won’t make it to January in charge of city. Everyone knows that the Welsh are bellow average intelligence anyway. Fuck Wales and fuck Mark Hughes.
Judas cunt! Hope he gets fired this season as citeh finish 10th.
Fuck him for and the horse he rides in on!
JimJones, you’re an idiot.
JimJones, that name is kind of Welsh sounding I must say.
jimjones hates ryan giggs? what a dope!
I grew up on Hughes. I loved his scissor kicks and as a kid I always tried to copy him. My back hurt more than the ball, that’s for certain. Loved him, loved him, loved him. As a little nipper he was my hero, along with Robbo and Giggs. I still respect Robbo even after he managed against us. That will be the same for Ryan when he takes over another team in a few years. Hughes? Nope. Lost respect for him after he acted like a tool at Blackburn never mind at City. He’ll be sacked this season. Him and Pellegrini to go, and United to win a double; good bets I reckon.
Sounds like he’s cracking up, very out of character. I’ll give him while January then to be replaced by Kinnear.
sorry to come out of topic, are doing the game LIVE??
Hughes is always whining, whilst Fergie makes comments that predominantly come across as pointed observations, everything Hughes says seems to be an overly cynical snipe or moan about some perceived injustice…He needs counselling because it seems he really believes the whole world is against him, when in reality it’s only the rest of England.
It’s sad but true… sparky’s a blue
He did go to chelski after all
1st time Hughes has had money to spend. Give him time and he may well be a superb manager. Seems to have rattle bacon face already and isnt biting at all….
Jake, You mean like calling City a small club (only after last year slaughtering Benitez for saying that Everton were a ‘smaller club’)
Whether you like it or not City are now the richest club on the planet and that certainly doesnt make them small anymore. They get into the CL and the tide will turn very fast as these Arabs seem to be there for the long term
Sean, try getting into the Europa Cup first you deluded blue cunt.
Sparky great player for united, boy if u think ronaldo had some ruff tackles, check wat sparky took in his day. As manager, well ain’t done shit. Has to give it the billy big balls, he’s under some pressure. The Arabs got money to burn and will drop city wen needed. They got a billion pound budget for marketing. City is only a marketing campaign for publicity of Dubai et al, for wen their oil runs out (which is sooner than it’s neighbours). U know sparky wud be cussing city if he were anywhere else. As for u boys with issues on nationality, utd have had great players from all over the world, but they were utd players and we don’t give a flying fuck where they’re from so long as understand wat putting that shirt on means. See u at wembley were we’ll show the rentboys
i love sparky when he play for united. love the character and the spirit. just hope he dont slack united or saf. one thing new for me is saf record on his goalscoring. wowww i never knew he was so good as a striker.
common guys let sparky out of the subject. he was a player and played for us bcame a legend. stop there, now he is a manager and managing our rivals. liked him as a player, hate him as a manager. having said that sparky should learn how to respect ur master from steve bruce, bryan robson, steve cowell, roy keane, sparky dont forget wot u r trying use to manage a club ideas of the great master. as i am a fan of u and a supporter of red devils always dreamed about to see u in OT leading red devils not the council accomadated jobless cows but u put us front of berties to laugh at us. at last LIKED U AS A PLAYER, HATE U AS A MANAGER
@SEAN, U CAN SAY WOT U LIKE ABOUT UR RABBIT HOLE. BUT MANUTD IS THE TOP VALUED CLUB IN THE WORLD ESTIMATED £1.7B WORTH, NOT EVEN REAL MADRID(2ND IN THE LIST) IF U WANT TO ACHIEVE THAT ARABS HAS TO SPEND £50B, THA AMOUNT ROMAN PUMPED IN TO CHESLKI DIDNT EVEN MAKE THEM WORTH YET. DREAM ON BERTIES
He is a United legend, and i think i can understand he needed to say that because he needs to. So i would let him do what he feels he needs to do there, as a learning curve, and i would accept him with open heart if he comes here later as our manager.
WTF?!?!?!?!? what’s going through Sparky’s head??? talk about an ego!!! the guy makes me laugh, he comes out saying all this but the guy, as a manager, is no fit to even clean SAF shoes. Let’s see how many trophies he can win with half a dozen strikers, well, that’s not really his fault, he only seems to be able to attract the money grabbing football mercenary player type, and it just happens to be that the ones in the market were all strikers.
There seem to be this virus going around in Eastlands that neutralizes peoples ability to shut up… I know for sure Tevez and Sparky have got it!!! grow up, have something to say? say it on th pitch with your football… if you can!
They just got some Arabian “Sugardaddy” that’s giving them the money to buy everything they can and they suddenly feel better than us… sorry Sparky, but history, glory, trophies and class are not for sale!!!
P.S: Sparky, have fun with Tevez, with all those strikers, it seems like he’ll spend more time on the bench and less on the pitch than he ever did with us, good luck for when he realizes this and starts slagging you, Gary Cook and your Arabian Sugardaddy in national media!!! ’cause we’ll be watching, and god dammit we’ll be laughing!!!
Sean you are a cunt and City are a small club. Who cares how much money they have, the fact is they haven’t won a major honour for 33 seasons and this season will be the 34th – based on that stat City are a small club.
sparky has become sparkshit working for manchester shitty..shitty would probably win titles with highschool boys to be their opponent..Fuck ManShitty