Lots of sources suggest Mark Hughes is our next manager. He has 24 hours to walk away for free before his contract rolls to another year so it'll be pretty obvious over the next day or so where we are heading. On the topic of underwhelming managers, the mail reports that our five man shortlist also contains mclaren, martinez, moyes and jol. Other than moyes these could actually be worse than houllier. Where on earth are ancelotti and more realistically benitez on our radar? Disappointing.
Also stuart downing whoring himself out to the media is embarrassing for him. Stfu and get on with your job, if a club makes an approach then let that happen rather than just laud yourself out in the open.