For real?

I sincerely hope not. A mega-ego prima donna with no relevant experience for us.

This is like a bad dream - someone commented on here days ago that losing Sven out of the blue for no comprehensible reason was like being suddenly bereaved, as if in a car-crash. Every second-rate substitute waved at us brings it home afresh.

Hope not lennon, keep him up here

Why wouldn't you want Hughes? Good prem record, we won't be getting anyone bigger than him in this league (other than the man we sacked)

As things stand he is my favoured candidate.

Done well everywhere he has been pretty much. Should do well.

Still feel sorry for Sven though.

I'd welcome him and prefer him to a lot of candidates but please, no negative football and long ball games. It's boring and doesn't suit the players we've got.

Big names is not a guarantee for success.I hope it's not true. We want some one that know this league.It hurts to say this but Davis would be better.

I rate Mark Hughes i thought he was unfairly sacked at both man city and fulham.

He left Fulham through his own choice. In fairness, i wouldnt want to work for Al-Fayed either

Kev0111....Not sure whether this will happen but the day after Sven got the push I put two bets on..

Dave Jones 16/1 and MarkHughes 10/1 so i'll be a few bob richer if it happens.

I wasn't very hopeful of MH when I read the remit of the owners i.e. Championship experience etc etc...

I'd be really happy with Mark Hughes, Billy Davies, less so with Lee Clark, Dave Jones.
Not a great deal being mentioned though about Davies, it all seems to be about Clarke and Hughes over the weekend.
I expect a decision to be announced on Wednesday, let the team and management concentrate on the Burnley game first on Tues.
Talking of the Burnley game, I hope Stevie Howard starts!

Probably for the first and last time ever, I have some sympathy with Al Fayed at Fulham. The BBC reported his comments on Hughes last week thus -

""What a strange man Mark Hughes is," he wrote. "Sacked by Manchester City, he was becoming a forgotten man when I rescued him to become manager of Fulham football club. Even when results were bad, I did not put pressure on him. I gave him every support – financial, moral and personal.

"He fully negotiated a two-year extension to his contract. On the day he was due to sign, he walked out without the courtesy of a proper explanation. And now he insults the club, saying it lacks ambition, and the players who delivered an eighth-position finish last season and a [fair-play] place in the Europa League.

"He is not just disrespectful but entirely wrong.... "We shall endeavour to prosper without him because, when the challenge came, it was not the club but Hughes who lacked the courage and ambition to take on the task of leadership. If people are looking for a flop, they only have to [look] no further than the man who has lost his spark."

Heaven knows Al Fayed is not a fount of common-sense himself, but I don't at all like the sound of that. Add in his lack of any experience of managing (or even playing) in the Championship, and for me Hughes is far from what we need. None of the realistic candidates enthuse me at all, but I'd probably let either Jones or Davies have a crack at the job.

Malling,

Obviously that is under the assumption that one believes what Al-Fayed has said.

And doesn't view him as a two-faced , autocratic, vindictive 'Ali Baba of deceit, or a 'phoney Pharoah' who seeks revenge on those who look to expose his lies.

Just a small amount of paraphrasing to share some of the feelings of those who have interacted with him..

I am pleased to confirm that I have never interacted with Al-Fayed. I hope very much to keep things that way - as I acknowledged, he seems to be not the full shilling himself (I am thinking eg the Jackson statue, and his weird views on the Windsors).

But I do detect something flakey in Hughes' behaviour (and achievements) while with Fulham, and I would not wish to see the fragile thing that is presently our club placed into his hands. The Sunday Times' report yesterday on the West Ham match referred to Leicester as being in "their usual disarray". We must shift that perception, and I don't see Hughes bringing stability.

The report also spoke of City as "swashbuckling", and as a ship that "was hardly sinking with Sven as skipper", or something very like that. Grrrr.

Please not Sparky - or anyone else with zero knowledge of the Championship.

This does not mean I'm for Dowie

Well either we're 'swashbuckling' or 'in disarray'? But a paper contradicting themselves isn't exactly shocking.

I don't think I've seen a period in a game for a long time which showed more unity and team work - doesn't seem to suggest either of the above two characteristics.

Unfortunately as the financial 'big boys' in the division, the papers will always look to shoot us down with sensationalism.

Unless that is, we match up to a bigger team in the cup such as Man City, then we are 'brave', 'hard-working', etc

Can i just say...its Tues night...and nothing. Why do people WUM their own fans? Stop claiming to know things that you so obviously don't so you can feel important. We are all LCFC here, so why try and trick people? Bore off.