Manchester United boss
Sir Alex Ferguson insists no-one
at the club expected Mark Hughes
to enter management.
Before Manchester City,
Hughes was a success as Wales coach and also with
Blackburn Rovers.
But Ferguson has spoken of his surprise that Hughes became a
manager, although the Scot’s comments fell short of a direct
attack, having been asked to predict which of his present players
could become managers.
“It’s difficult to assess that because you don’t know what
ambitions the players have,” Ferguson said. “Currently we’ve got
[Ryan] Giggs, [Paul] Scholes and [Gary] Neville taking their
coaching badges. That’s great and I encourage them to do that
because it gives them a platform if they want to stay in the
game.
“It can be difficult to pinpoint who would make it as a manager.
For instance, nobody here thought Mark
Hughes would become a manager, never in a million
years, and we all thought Bryan Robson was a certainty to be a top
manager.”