Christian Fuchs has been given the responsibility of pulling off Newport’s great escape this season.
The former Leicester City defender has signed a “long-term contract” in what is his first managerial role.
And while Newport had been late to the party in announcing Hughes’ departure, they were criticised for being a little too obvious in who they wanted to replace him.
Fuchs was reported to be in the crowd for Newport’s game at Accrington Stanley on 11 October, something that didn’t go unnoticed.
“A friend of mine rang me… he said he’d taken a call that Christian had been invited to watch the game and that the club may be looking to make a change,” Hughes said.
“I’ve got no problem with it, I could sit here and go ‘it’s disgusting’, but it’s not, we hadn’t won enough games and the chairman has every right to be looking.”
Hughes also spotted another out of work manager in the stands at that game.
“The dugouts at Accrington are almost in the stand, there was a manager – I won’t name him – who may as well have been sat in the dugout, he was sat so close to me.
“Don’t have any respect for me, but please have some for yourself, you may as well have just jumped over the wall, it just made me chuckle.”
