Chris Hughton is a good manager, if given the time to build a team.
Living in Brighton I have watched what he did there, a lot like what NP is doing for us.
He took over Brighton in a poor position and played negative football but hard to beat, a transfer window in and he was allowed to build a Brighton side that was now playing good football and play off contenders and eventually promotion.
This was with the backing of the owner, Tony Bloom, he's not been given that chance at forest to build a team with the support of the owners.
NP is doing this now at City, it takes time but I can see the same sort of building at City under NP that I watched at Brighton with Hughton.