Hughes transfer activities this summer

[hh9]

I was wandering where did it all go wrong - are the new players worse than those shipped out.
I think all IN players are better than OUT players - the only one to keep would be HH
I was surprised how many have gone 19 sold/loaned but players in are 12
We have so much better players this season than last season - WHY, why, Why is this happening

Players out Players in
*Bruno Perone *Ryan Nelsen
*Peter Ramage *Andy Johnson
*Danny ****tu *Robert Green
*Danny Gabbidon *Samba Diakité
*Gary Borrowdale *Park Ji-Sung
*Fitz Hall *Junior Hoilett
*Lee Cook * José Bosingwa
*Rowan Vine *Júlio César
*Patrick Agyema Esteban Granero
*Paddy Kenny *Stéphane Mbia
*Ákos Buzsáky *Sam Magri
*Heiđar Helguson *
*Matthew Connolly
*Tommy Smith
Loans
*Jay Bothroyd Fábio da Silva
*Joey Barton
*Rob Hulse
*DJ Campbell
Angelo Balanta

[Sminky]

I sound like a broken record, the buck stops with Fernandes. I know A few members here will vehemently disagree with me but even Clint Hill agrees with me, so I can't be all wrong.

[stanistheman]

Whilst the players may be better so many new signings were not really needed and some positions in the squad are I sufficiently filled. Kenny Helguson should have been kept and a place for Campbell and Young should have been found meaning Johnson Bosingwa and Cesar were not needed. Neither was Granero because with Diakite Park and Mbia added to Faurlin Taarabt and Derry, QPR had enough midfielders. The fee for Granero could have been spent on a cb or cf or put aside for a spend in January.
Had Hughes done this he would have had a more settled squad to work with and no real excuse of needing 10 games for the squad to gel.

[Gtleighsr3]

You build a team from the back not from the middle.

[Busheyboy]

hindsight is an exact science, we weren't complaining when these signings were happening coz we thought we'd have enough quality to more than hold our own.
Mh din't really plan what he was doing in the market, that's obvious
I've said before but why don't we give the kid Magri some games, he can't be worse than we've got and he is supposed to be very promising CB

[Rangers77]

You build a team from the back not from the middle.

Wise words. And you also add something up front. Hughes' squad merely bulged in the middle. His stupidity has left us up to our necks in it. Bring back Dudley, Luke Young and Joey (but not the Both) and lets have a go at proving Hughes to be the pr@t he is....

[Norths]

Too much too soon, should have been a slow rebuilding process.

[blue and white]

mark built a squad and not a team. he also did not get two centre backs and another goal scorer that we really needed. should have spent the money on dawson would have cost a lot less than going down

[qpr]

Hughes didn't buy defenders. Not counting Ryan Nelsen. We still need a right back, centre back & for me Fabio wasn't wise.

That is where it went wrong. Hughes is an idiot too, that might have something to do with it too

[hal9thou]

You build a team from the back not from the middle.

And didn't we all keep saying it. We simply didn't ageing forwards, never mind Hughes obsession with general purpose players.

We ended up without a commanding GK, without a guv'nor at CB and with a variety of make shift wing backs, hardly a specialist full back among them. Wing backs are useless if they can not defend. All in all a recipe for disaster, you could see it coming. I would have traded all the other incomers for Schmeichel (who was available), a specialist CB (at least two were available), and a proper defensive full back. This would have made tactical sense, and still saved money. Not hindsight - many people could see an accident waiting to happen.

Why Hughes did not make the CB absolute priority no 1 is astonishing until you realise that he really was tactically incompetent.

[Yousef]

Poor management, no confidence, and do not know know how to motivate the players.

[zeberdee]

Here are Hughes summer 2009 signings for City
Gareth Barry, Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor, Kolo Toure, Joleon Lescott, Patrick Viera, Roque Santa Cruz, Gunnar Nielsen, Stuart Taylor, Sylvinho, Adam Johnson

Now I don't particularly rate Hughes as a manager but he is not daft neither.

The QPR signings list looks like someone more interested in wrapping rather than content who bought poorly as a result. Whereas at City he bought very well. Players who were better than their CV. The difference between the two groups of summer signings is more than just the price tag. Difficult to see what he was thinking in the summer.

[hal9thou]

Here are Hughes summer 2009 signings for City

problem is zeb that with Hughes it is very difficult to figure out who is really buying.... him or his agent? ;) Who of course represents Tevez and Julio Cesar among others.

There were constant summer rumours that Kia was pulling the sttings signings wise.

[qpr4life]

I sound like a broken record, the buck stops with Fernandes. I know A few members here will vehemently disagree with me but even Clint Hill agrees with me, so I can't be all wrong.

How on earth can you blame Tony!?

He gave a manager who he trusted and believed in to buy players worthy of getting us at least mid table. Tony did what we all wanted, gave us fans new players and hope!

NOT all our players we signed are ****, some are playing poorly but are not ****.

[stanistheman]

hindsight is an exact science, we weren't complaining when these signings were happening coz we thought we'd have enough quality to more than hold our own.
Mh din't really plan what he was doing in the market, that's obvious
I've said before but why don't we give the kid Magri some games, he can't be worse than we've got and he is supposed to be very promising CB

Some of us frequently commented on the lack of decent centre backs and centre forwards. That has nothing to do with hindsight but sensible planning. Hughes did not plan his squad well enough.