Mark Hughes ; I Am Exactly What Is Needed Now. Mediocrity has Surrounded Manchester City for Too Long... Having Kaka at City Wasn't Intimidating; Top Stars Are so Much Easier to Control...

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WHAT some would now term the acceptable face of Manchester City is peering out from beneath grey hair and making a passionate case to be given a job. Unfortunately, such is the madness of modern football, the post he would appear to be applying for is the one he currently occupies.

'I am exactly what this club needs at this time,' Mark Hughes says, the words spilling fast from a man with a fair deal to get off his chest. 'A lot of people wouldn't fancy this job, because it is hard. It has been more difficult than I thought because you have got to drive a club from the bottom to the top. It is far easier to arrive in a few years' time, maybe, when they are on the brink of getting there.

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Mark Hughes ; I Am Exactly What Is Needed Now. Mediocrity has Surrounded Manchester City for Too Long... Having Kaka at City Wasn't Intimidating; Top Stars Are so Much Easier to Control...

'You know, some managers are fire fighters, some are developers some take a successful club some take a successful club and continue its success. I develop: the team and the club. I get involved at all levels, in the details, in what is acceptable and what is not. And everywhere I have been my way has worked.

Mediocrity has surrounded Manchester City for too long and if we don't get these foundations in now, the project is built on sand and it will not be sustainable.'

Hughes is not one for picking fights, so no names are mentioned. Even so, when h...

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