If the wealthy regime who run Manchester City decide their manager is out of time, he can hardly complain If 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 Hughes nor anybody else will be able fairly to argue that he was not given enough time. After Mansour scooped City up last year from the dog end of Thaksin Shinawatra’s ownership and signed Robinho for £32m as a statement of intent, the football world assumed immediately that Hughes would be summarily ditched. The steely, quietly spoken Welshman was acknowledged as a good choice for a mid-table club of average means after four overachieving years at Blackburn Rovers, but seemed too prosaic a character for the Abu Dhabi windfall

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