"Leslie Mark Hughes", Order of the British Empire/OBE, is a Welsh former association football/footballer and current Manager (association football)/manager of Stoke City F.C./Stoke City.

During his playing career he was most noted for two spells at Manchester United F.C./Manchester United, but he also played for FC Barcelona/Barcelona and FC Bayern Munich/Bayern Munich, as well as the English clubs Chelsea F.C./Chelsea, Southampton F.C./Southampton, Everton F.C./Everton and finally Blackburn Rovers F.C./Blackburn Rovers. He also made 72 appearances and scored 16 goals for Wales national football team/Wales. He retired from playing in 2002.

He won a host of medals during his playing career, including two Premier League title medals, four FA Cups, three Football League Cup/League Cups and two European Cup Winners' Cups. He also collected an FA Cup runners-up medal and a League Cup runners-up medal. Hughes was the first player to win the PFA Players' Player of the Year award twice, in 1989 and 1991.

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We are a club that is on the up and we have no intention of selling our best players.

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Lorenzo is out of contract this summer, and it's fair to say he won't be offered another deal.

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Maybe the expectations are more on the likes of Spurs and Arsenal. That could free us. Although we are happy enough to be in the mix, we are not content with just that. We want to make sure we do everything in our ability to get that Champions League place.

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Ideally we'd like three points for our Champions League ambition but it is always hard getting one when Harry has got Pompey in this sort of form.

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I've been delighted with Shefki and the level of his performance on Wednesday night was shown in the way the fans reacted to him at the end.

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His situation is close to being resolved very quickly, although we are mindful he is still a Rangers player.

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We dominated in the second half and felt we did enough to win that game. We've got six games to go and we've got to take something out of every game we play.

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We'll have to wait and see how he is when he returns. A decision hasn't been made on him as yet, but it will in the next couple of weeks.

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I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

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