CB Fry

Sensible appointment. Let's hope he can do the business. Go on my son.

Confirmed by Blackmore

I'm hearing it is going to be announced shortly.

Imbecile.

Your typical supercilious, pompous nonsense. Get over yourself.

He turned Wales from genuinely nothing under Bobby Gould into potential qualifiers including defeat of Italy. The performance of the two managers either side of him show how well he did. And your "okay" at Blackburn included finishing 6th, 10th, 7th. When he finished sixth he achieved exactly the same points total as Koeman did when he finished sixth. Did Koeman only do "okay" for us? City he took to previously unknown heights in the Prem era but in a time of complete revolution at the club. He took Fulham to eighth in his one season, so what's your point there?

He also finished top ten with Blackburn and Fulham and Man City. I think apart from his last full season at Stoke, he's finished top ten in every single full season he's ever managed in the Premier League.

It's only experts on Swedish football who have a deep and thorough understanding of the Swedish football scene and have evaluated and contextualised his performance against his peer group of Swedish football managers over the last decade. Definitely not just people who have read an article in a weekend paper and vaguely remember he played for us a couple of times. Definitely not that.

Silva wouldn't come here now, ditto Bosz, absolute pie in the sky. Sanches Flores in employment and turned down Stoke, not coming. Wilder also in a job and zero experience in the Prem, and he's not going to walk out on SUFC right now. And Potter is the worst example of hipster flavour of the month I think I have ever seen, fuc king ludicrous. Why don't you recommend Rikard Norling or Magnus Pehrsson or Özcan Melkemichel instead, they all did better than Potter in the Swedish league.

In other news, lovely result for Hull City tonight who are pulling away from trouble. Pleasing.

Quite right. Some absolute garbage written on here on Hughes who has an enviable record in this division. Anything like the impact he had at Fulham or Blackburn or Stoke or Wales and we're laughing.

We've done well if we only sign Hughes for the rest of the season.

Was a dreadful signing for us, so he'll be better off not mentioning it in his website unveiling interview.

It's been an entire day. Mark Hughes (or whoever) and their agent are allowed to negotiate, they're allowed to make us squirm a bit. We're also allowed to interview more than candidate. We'll have someone in before the weekend no bother - we won't go on national TV with Jaidi and Kelv leading them out.

We'll have to give him at least a year and a half contract, probably two and a half. If I was Mark Hughes that's what I would ask for. No one is going to take an eight game deal.

We're still taking our medicine for completely fu cking up the season. In a way we don't deserve an exciting appointment - we've left it too late and we're reaping what we've sown.

Hughes feels like the inevitable appointment. Personally feel he is perfectly capable of keeping us up. Not exciting but competent. Needs a strong start. I don't think we'd have got Silva anyway, he's going to hang on for something better. And Bilic would have been okay short term, but genuinely prefer Hughes to him.

It is and will be less lucrative.

He's about to take one of the top seeds to the World Cup. He's not about to jack that in to coach Nathan Redmond.

Sounds like the kind of weird corrupt stuff you read in Private Eye. I love reading about corrupt stuff in Private Eye.

See you later you absolute bellend.

Personally I am looking forward to the ITK leaking and rumour mongering of a high profile manager we have absolutely no chance of hiring but still spend four weeks going on about it. It's a summer tradition already. A freshly sacked Unai Emery maybe? Tuchel again?

One way to not get too annoyed is to not read articles from six months ago.

I don't know why people keep talking about the owner having/getting the VVD money, like Liverpool personally handed him an oversized charity cheque with £75m on it and he's just run away with it.

And the non-signings. Remain convinced that a decent Pelle replacement scoring actual goals would have created a team under less pressure where luxury players like Redmond and Boufal may well have flourished.