Thaksin hails new boss Hughes

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Thaksin has explained to the Daily Mail why last season's ninth place in the Barclays Premier League was not satisfactory under Eriksson - and how he expects Hughes, due to be unveiled as City's new coach on Thursday morning, to improve the club's fortunes.

"Mark Hughes is an excellent appointment. The players need to be motivated, instead of playing like people who are not being paid any money!" said Thaksin, who has also suggested Brazil and Barcelona forward Ronaldinho as a possible, stellar new signing.

"We need a culture of discipline at our club," he added.

"I want strong leadership from the manager, motivation for young men - and I want players who can cope with that.

"We will pay the best for the best and to the best. That is my strategy, which is why I want a player like Ronaldinho. We need to breed success."

As for former England coach Eriksson - this week named as the new man in charge of Mexico - Thaksin explains that, as the club's owner, he could not accept City's loss of form towards the end of the recently-concluded campaign.

"The team stopped playing! They stopped working! I could not take this," he said. "I understand you cannot win every game. I can accept the unpredictable, but not such a fall. We had to make a change.

"I want you to know that Sven is a good man ... but I want this club to advance faster, much faster.

"Sven is a good football general, but we need more. We must play with more consistency, more urgency. In the second half of the season, the slide was too bad, too much. We lost 8-1 at Middlesbrough! The shame of that."