John Hughes says he feels disrespected over not hearing back from the likes of former club Hibs in regards to their job openings.
Hughes has been out of work since he his time at Dunfermline, but it did not end well as the Pars were relegated to League One last season. BUT his playing style has won plenty of plaudits over a lengthy managerial career, which has included success at Falkirk, Inverness and Ross County alongside stints at Hibs, Livingston, Hartlepool United and Raith Rovers.
There have been plenty of job openings in the Premiership this season, with half of the 12 clubs opting for a change in the dugout at some stage. Two of those were Aberdeen and Motherwell but Hughes didn't hear anything back when he applied for those boss positions, and it's a similar story on aiming to become Hibs' director of football, a role that is still vacant. And the 58-year-old told Sportsound that being ignored is far from nice: "In the last four months, there have been three or four positions come up that I thought I qualified for.
"One has been Motherwell, one is Aberdeen and one is the director of football at Hibs. Not one person has come back in touch with me, I have put my CV in and I have not had one person come back in touch.
"I have had a reply to say thanks and we will be in touch, that kind of thing. I just feel it is disrespectful to tell you the truth, I really do.
"Every club needs chief executives, director of football, every club needs all that. But I still feel every club needs some football experience., that know-how, these guys are probably great at accounting, banking, that kind of background.
"Totally different industry, now they are making football decisions. And the decisions they are making... I was a coach for a number of years and coaches with the SFA and you'd be surprised how many better footballers than me came onto the course and not had a clue how to set it up and coach.
"So, chairman, directors of football, CEO's know about football and I would question that. I sometimes feel the way football is going, it leaves me scratching my head."
