FORMER Blackburn Rovers coach Dean Saunders has warned Mark Hughes not to make the same mistake he made.

And the Welshman, who quit his first team coaching role at Rovers in favour of a move to Newcastle United, insists the grass is seldom greener on the other side.

Saunders and Graeme Souness were lured from East Lancashire to Tyneside in 2004.

But their tenure with the Magpies was relatively short and both were dismissed in February 2006.

And Saunders, who played alongside Hughes and worked under him during his first spell with the Welsh national team, fears his countryman could be heading down a similar road with talk of a managerial move from Ewood to Eastlands.

He said: "Blackburn Rovers is a really well run football club and, over the last eight or nine years, I think Roy Hodgson was the manager when they got relegated, Graeme (Souness) took over and got promotion and finished 10th, sixth and 14th, then Mark took over.

"I think they got a couple of sevenths and a 10th.

"That's the way the chairman and the directors work. They're stable people.

"I had a shock when I went to Newcastle and Graeme took a risk when he went to Newcastle.

"And we realised how well Blackburn was run when we did move to Newcastle.

"Mark's going to have the same problem at Man City.

"He's not been to another club, but it won't be run like Blackburn and I think he'll realise that when he gets there."