Ian Holloway has since taken up the hot seat at the English championship club, but Hughes still has desire to test himself at that level.
However, with just one year remaining on Arbeloa's Anfield contract, Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has allowed the 26-year-old to move on, with recently- signed Portsmouth defender Glen Johnson likely to be first-choice right-back at the English Premier League club next season.
Drogba scored 157 goals for Chelsea in his eight seasons at the club, winning three English Premier League titles, four FA Cups and two League Cups as well as the London club's long-awaited first European crown.
The performance from Quins at Munster must surely rank as the best by an English club side this season, especially when you take into account the occasion, the venue and the opposition.
For a man who has managed in the top-flight of English and Spanish football, taking over a club at the bottom of the Nationwide Conference might have seemed like one job too far.
The 21-year-old had trained with the Scottish Premier League club at the end of the season but was interesting several English Championship clubs.
To qualify as home grown, a player will have had to be registered for at least three seasons at an English or Welsh club between the ages of 16 and 21.
Other options include attending the NFL Hall of Fame Merlin Olsen Luncheon or even playing a round of golf at otherwise private English Turn Country Club, which long hosted the PGA Tour.
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Cooper and Sale Sharks star Dwayne Peel had been at the centre of club v country row as English Premiership clubs initially refused their release.
Former Rangers and Scotland goalkeeper Andy Goram echoed Brown's sentiments and said he believed Smith, who had a spell in charge at Everton, could be a success in the English Premier League, but would be unlikely to take up another senior club role at home.
During his first spell at the club, Chelsea became a dominant force in English soccer, winning back to back league titles.
Martinez's ambitions represent a seismic shift from when he arrived as a player at a club languishing in the fourth-tier of English football 14 years ago.
Hodgson flamed out after less than two seasons at Blackburn and Inter Milan, while his tenure at Liverpool lasted just 191 days and ended with the storied English club perilously close to the Premier League relegation zone.
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He was without a club at the start of the season, after English side Derby County failed to renew his contract with them.
Australian Jones is working as a technical advisor to the Springboks at the World Cup, and is set to work as a consultant at English club Saracens next season.
All the ingredients are there and maybe we will be looking at another success for an English club.
Moyes, a Scot, began his playing career at a big club, Celtic, but then slid down the food chain into the English lower divisions.
Just 24 hours after resigning from his highly-successful eight-year stint at Italy's AC Milan, he has been announced as the new manager of English Premier League club Chelsea -- replacing temporary manager Guus Hiddink.
After drawing 2-2 at the end of extra time, the club missed out on what would have been their return to English football's second tier after 22 years.
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"I'm delighted to be back in the managerial hot-seat at QPR, " said Redknapp, who won the English FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008 after returning the club following a controversial move to neighboring Southampton, who were relegated in 2005.
Mr. Chadwick, the adopted Chinese son of English educators, started training at 15 years old to be a jockey apprentice at the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
Jefferies will look at some trialists during the club's upcoming training camp in Italy and has also made some enquiries with English Premier League clubs about the possibility of setting up a loan deal for a striker.
Nonetheless, Rogers did not feel the environment was conducive to staying in the English game after his announcement and says he would have found it hard to come out at any global club -- after being asked whether he could have done so during a 2007-2011 stint with MLS side Columbus Crew.
Coyle decided to remain at Turf Moor after leading the Clarets into the English Premier League, while Martinez opted for the lure of his former club Wigan.
Roman Abramovich's arrival at Chelsea in 2003 catapulted the club into a position where they are now the biggest rivals to United's English dominance, both on the field and in the transfer market.
But with six games left for City this season and hopes of a first English title in 44 years all but dead in the water, Mancini's own position at the club will also be under scrutiny.
Drogba also said he was glad he stayed at Chelsea after being linked with both Milan clubs in the last transfer window amid speculation he would leave the English Premier League club.
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