Mark Hughes takes Stoke City job

Former Blackburn, Man City, Fulham and QPR manager Mark Hughes has been appointed the new manager of Stoke City. Hughes has been installed as the replacement for Tony Pulis, who departed the Britannia via mutual consent earlier in the month.

Hughes had long been linked with a move to Stoke and has been favourite for the vacant spot for most of the past few days.


Hughes has vowed to learn from previous mistakes at former clubs Man City and QPR, and intends to have a successful time with the Potters.


Hughes has put pen to paper on a three year contract with Stoke.


During an interview with the press, Hughes seemed keen to move on from his previous failures at former clubs: 


"I don't regret QPR. Not at all. It was difficult. A lot of managers have gone in there and found it very difficult. Their turnover of managers, not only in the last 18 months or so, but historically has been too high for a consistent level and for longevity for managers which they need," Hughes said.


 "It is difficult and mistakes were made. I certainly made mistakes, which I will learn from and it was a difficult time. I felt I was given a task of keeping them in the Premier League which I was able to do. I had 16 games to do that, 12 games later I lost my job.


"That is understandable, because we did not get the results in that period, it was difficult and that is the regret I have because given more time I would have been able to turn it around as I showed.


"It was difficult. We had a lot of changes and if we are all honest with ourselves, we tried to run before we could walk and we hold our hands up, certainly I do.


 "I possibly have to rebuild my reputation. I have had 200-odd Premier League games in my career and in the last few months people have wanted to define my career on the basis of 12 games on the beginning of last season."