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Clock ticks for Hughes as City's owners start to lose patience

• Christmas fixtures critical for embattled City coach• Hughes wants funds to bolster stuttering defenceMark Hughes's future at Manchester City has entered a critical period as he battles to convince the club's owners over the next few weeks that he remains the manager to realise their...

No-excuses culture applies to Hughes

If the wealthy regime who run Manchester City decide their manager is out of time, he can hardly complainIf Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan does decide within the next handful of matches that Mark Hughes is not, after all, the manager for the Abu Dhabi-revitalising of Manchester City, neither...

Why what worked at Blackburn isn't coming off at Manchester City | Louise Taylor

Good team spirit and an eye for a bargain were once Mark Hughes's strong points, but not nowThe plane had begun its ear-popping descent towards northern Denmark, the fasten seat belt signs were illuminated and the mood of the Manchester City players waiting for a chicken and pasta lunch veered...

City target Upson and Parker to ward off crisis

Manchester City, a club reeling from arguably their worst performance of the Mark Hughes era in the 3-0 defeat at Tottenham, were yesterday considering how to rebuild an already brittle defence that has been further undermined by the loss of Joleon Lescott for two months.

Ian Herbert: Tantrums show trouble ahead as Hughes fights for survival

You know it's been a bad night when Gareth Barry, hardly the most demonstrative of Manchester City's midfielders, talks about the players being "at each other's throats" in the dressing room. But that's how it was, deep inside White Hart Lane late on Wednesday night, after the feeble and anaemic...

Man City ‘at each other's throats' after Spurs humiliation

MANCHESTER CITY'S stars turned on each other after the frustration of one win in 10 Premier League games finally boiled over at Tottenham.

Phil Anderton to work for Man City owner in Abu Dhabi

FORMER Hearts and Scottish Rugby Union chief executive Phil Anderton is back in football – after being headhunted to join the Abu Dhabi team controlled by Manchester City owne

Man City tie down Slovakian starlet Weiss

Manchester City youngster Vladimir Weiss has signed a contract extension that keeps him at Eastlands until 2012.<!--break-->Mark Hughes believes the Slovakia international is developing at a rapid rate and could soon be knocking on his door for regular football."Vladi has come on leaps and...