article_snippet: Mark Hughes really should be in the running for those annual accolades saluting success amid all this.
article_snippet: Mark Hughes looks on with a smile as Mark Hughes Stoke City side cruise to a 2-0 win over Everton on Wednesday .
article_snippet: Mark Hughes has signed with remarkable shrewdness, shaped Mark Hughes players into a cohesive style, and overcome the set-backs of regular injuries to key players to guide Stoke to 42 points after 28 games.
article_snippet: Mark Hughes team registered 50 the Premier League points in reaching ninth last term, two club records, but are currently in a rich vein of form and likely to go higher.
article_snippet: Mark Hughes has committed £1.2million on bringing in new players this season: £800,000 on brilliant Bojan from Barcelona, and £400,000 on young centre-back Dionatan Teixeira from Slovakian side Dukla Banska Bystrica.
article_snippet: No wonder Hughes is being rewarded with a new three-year contract that Hughes is expected to sign in the coming days.
article_snippet: Hughes connections, influence, and words of persuasion played a big part in producing such positive market returns.
article_snippet: Clearly the support network from chairman Peter Coates, a Stoke fan since a boy and generous benefactor, and chief executive Tony Scholes enables Hughes to work to Hughes full potential.
article_snippet: The foundations laid by chief executive Tony Scholes in getting Stoke up from the Championship seven years ago and stabilising the club as a Premier League presence will never be forgotten.
article_snippet: But Hughes has built on that, altering the side’s style to please the eye while retaining the strength of conviction which made chief executive Tony Scholesreign so successful.
article_snippet: Hughes ’s other signings since taking charge have been Erik Pieters, £3m from PSV Eindhoven, Marc Muniesa, free from Barcelona, and Peter Odemwingie, a swap with Cardiff with Kenwyne Jones heading the other way.
article_snippet: Hughes has spent £6.2m in four transfer windows and improved.
article_snippet: Hughes has rebuilt Hughes managerial reputation after a disastrous spell at QPR .
article_snippet: Hughes has addressed each situation as arisen and found a formula to cope.
article_snippet: Last year’ s Premier League manager of the year and former Stoke boss versus his successor in both respects?
article_snippet: Victory for Hughes would only strengthen that argument.
highlights_snippet: Mark Hughes in contention to be named Manager of the Year .
  