Despite Martin O’Neill being the odds on bookies favourite to take the Sunderland post, it is another respected out of work manager who the Sunderland Echo say is having an interview with the board – including Short and Quinn today – and is their preferred candidate to take the job.
Hughes’ most recent club was Fulham, whom he left as he felt they ‘could not match his ambition’, yet in Sunderland, he sees a club who can do exactly this, and have money to spend as well. As a manger, Hughes did well at both Wales Blackburn and was deeply unlucky not to be given more time at Manchester City, and is seen as the man who can halt the alarming slump Sunderland have been on.
BBC Sport say that the board also feel that Hughes is the man to bring the players together and will be able to integrate the players who arrived in the summer, and finally get the players working together and gelling as a team. It is not surprising that they think this of a man who is so renowned for his man management skills, and has the backing of defender Michael Grey, who also played under Sparky at Blackburn calling him ‘a perfect fit for the club right now.’
With a whole host of high profile quality candidates linked to the post not to mention being desperate to get back into management, Hughes will be hoping that the board really do feel he is the man to bring a club who have only won twice this season forward.
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