Ted Hughes wrote:MANCIO4EVER wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:If I was a manager I'd want to manage in the PL. It's a much more varied & high profile environment than just about any other, offers a different type of challenge with almost every team & pays miles better. Hence almost every top manager wants to be here.
Very true, Ted. Just to say, it is not a case whether the current incumbent did prefer to challange himself on a six month basis odd, before even thinking to some f****g Juventus or awaiting for some fat opportunity otherwise. Well, at least a challenge at City!... :-)
Nonetheless, I'm not the first to stress the value of further qualifications extended to different ideas of footy.
It is neither a case that Roy Hodgson is one of the most respected coach Europe wide. He didn't need to come to Serie A to get a job: but he went, exchanged ideas, learnt and teached, in what is boring, slower but really the most challenging place for a strategist. Neither is a case if Pepe Guardiola, felt the need to spend a few part of his distinguished playing career at a Serie A club of lesser level: same as Bobby, he had been renowed to be already a sort of coach on the pitch and that sort of stage in the boring cynical accademy of all tactics had completed his qualifications.
Generally, if You look at all the most respected coaches in Europe (i.e of the world), You will notice a common thread: they all had experienced different ideas of footy in different environments.
That's fine if you can't get a PL job & need to rebuild your reputation but Hughes rep is still good here wheras, if he went to some average Italian or Spanish team, it's unlikely he'd enhance his reputation & it's easily possible he could be kicked out on his arse if results went badly. Then where would his career be? Meanwhile he'd be further away than ever from a top PL job.
If Hughes was to go abroad, the time to do it would be after a period of relative success here or alternatively if he can't get a job here or gets sacked again. The best thing he could do now imo is try to get another job in the PL & do it as well as he did at Blackburn, then if he wanted to go abroad, he would be able to go to a decent team.
Sorry Mate, I disagree.
My point is not about searching for a job, is about building up knowledge.
Reputation comes accordingly and I very much doubt that going to a middle table Club at La Liga or Seria A and acheiving normal/standard results would affect a profesional whatsoever, if that was the case.
Once a reputation is already established, getting further experience and qualificantion can only add and never deduct to such a reputation.
Once that said, I was talking in general and not about MH in particular and I am not suggesting he is urged or should feel urged to rush abroad to make experience. I honestly haven't followed his career (as a manager) so much to assess an intelligent opinion about. You are probably right in assessing that this his not the right moment to make that step.
