League Two side Bradford City recently made a surprising appointment, with former Manchester City and Stoke city manager Mark Hughes becoming the new manager, returning to the world after a three-year break since leaving Southampton in the 18/19 season.
In an official statement from Bradford City, Chief Executive Ryan Sparks described the appointment of Mark Hughes as "without doubt one of the most significant appointments in the history of our football club", and Mark Hughes himself said coaching the League Two team could give him the opportunity to develop. Although I am not used to the environment of League B, I will not be intimidated by it. He wants to make Bradford City a team that will be willing to come in and be proud of it.
I believe that fans who have been paying attention to the Premier League for a while should be familiar with Mark Hughes. Mark Hughes was one of Ferguson's favourites, winning titles large and small at Manchester United and coaching different Premier League teams as well as the Welsh national team after retiring. His most successful day was certainly coaching Stoke City in 2013-18, where Mark Hughes was able to adapt his English simple and direct play very well, and spent the first few years in a stable mid-to-upper-middle position, even once qualifying for Europe. However, mark Hughes then deliberately changed his "British" style of play and added more passing elements, but instead did not end up, allowing Stoke City to get the name "Storona", mocking Stoke City for wanting to learn Barca titi-taka, but forgetting that he was "British". As a result, Stoke City went from prosperity to decline, Mark Hughes was dismissed in January 2018, and Stoke City lost relegation that season. Mark Hughes then succeeded Pochettino at the helm of Southampton, and although he briefly helped with relegation, he was fired again in December 2018 and replaced by the current Ralph Hasson schüttel, while Mark Hughes has remained idle to this day. Looking through the information, it turned out that Mark Hughes was the 7th most coach in charge of the number of games in the top league, with 450 games, and I did not expect that the experienced manager was suddenly demoted from the Premier League to The Second Division.
Bradford City, although a former Premier League team, has deteriorated in the past decade, and has been falling since leaving the Premier League in the 03/04 season, and is currently playing in League Two for the third consecutive season since the 18/19 season of relegation from League One. The team is determined to advance to League One this season, and derek Adams, who was promoted by Mokem last season, has been leading the team, but the performance has not been as expected, currently only 15th, 10 points behind Mansfield City in the 7th play-off zone, so Derek Adams fell, but no one expected that it would be Mark Hughes who took over.
In fact, managers like Mark Hughes, who play traditional British play, have been gradually eliminated in the Premier League and even the Championship in recent years, and some have even lost the League One. Not only has Mark Hughes not led the team for 3 years, his own style is slowly out of touch, coupled with his rich Premier League coaching experience, many league one and two small teams may not be able to pay the salary required by Mark Hughes even if they are interested in him. Mark Hughes' new club, Bradford City, is a veteran former Premier League team that has been sinking for many years, and fans are angry at the stagnation of the team's development, and the team management hopes to recover, so the two hit it off. Can Mark Hughes use his fame to push the League Two players in his hands? Everything will have to wait and see, and it seems difficult for Mark Hughes to regain a 10-point loss in the remaining 13 games for Bradford City, which is currently losing three straight games.