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Well done for having the balls to replace Hughes with Mancini when you did. All the shit the press and other people gave you, you took it on the chin.
Hughes is still drawing games and City are 2 points off the top with a team thats going to improve. Well done.

To be fair after meeting Gary Cook i can tell you that my belief is that he backed Hughes, and got told he needed to make a change. That's who Gary Cook is. And that's ok. It's not a criticism, it's just my perception.

cheers

DoomMerchant wrote:To be fair after meeting Gary Cook i can tell you that my belief is that he backed Hughes, and got told he needed to make a change. That's who Gary Cook is. And that's ok. It's not a criticism, it's just my perception.

cheers

To those above Garry Cook.. well done for having the balls to replace Hughes with Mancini when you did. All the shit the press and other people gave Gaz, he took it on the chin.
Hughes is still drawing games and City are 2 points off the top with a team thats going to improve. Well done.

DoomMerchant wrote:To be fair after meeting Gary Cook i can tell you that my belief is that he backed Hughes, and got told he needed to make a change. That's who Gary Cook is. And that's ok. It's not a criticism, it's just my perception.

cheers

Hmm.... i get a sneaky feeling you kind of.. err... like Garry..

thats ok, shit happens!

jus saying like

brite blu sky wrote:

DoomMerchant wrote:To be fair after meeting Gary Cook i can tell you that my belief is that he backed Hughes, and got told he needed to make a change. That's who Gary Cook is. And that's ok. It's not a criticism, it's just my perception.

cheers

Hmm.... i get a sneaky feeling you kind of.. err... like Garry..

thats ok, shit happens!

jus saying like

Why the Wayne Rooney accent?

I thought it was Brian Marwood who showed 'sparky' the door?

john@staustell wrote:

brite blu sky wrote:

DoomMerchant wrote:To be fair after meeting Gary Cook i can tell you that my belief is that he backed Hughes, and got told he needed to make a change. That's who Gary Cook is. And that's ok. It's not a criticism, it's just my perception.

cheers

Hmm.... i get a sneaky feeling you kind of.. err... like Garry..

thats ok, shit happens!

jus saying like

Why the Wayne Rooney accent?

i like Cookie a lot. How many football chairman bum a fag from you and tell you literally everything you want to know? ONE. That's how many.

To KK"s point -- i do believe it was pressure from Marwood that sent Hughes packing. Ultimately, Hughes wanted an old-school model of control and Marwood clearly had a mandate and a 12" cock he could slap in Hughes face....unforuntately for Cook he had to grab Marwoods man-meat and play the proxy. we're doing better for it. And press conferences are like 10% more fun.

that's all.

cheers

DoomMerchant wrote:i like Cookie a lot. How many football chairman bum you and tell you literally everything you want to know? ONE. That's how many.

Was he giving you a reach-round while whispering in your ear ;-)

King Kev wrote:I thought it was Brian Marwood who showed 'sparky' the door?

It was, with the full blessing of Khaldoon I understand. In fact Garry Cook should have absolutely no say in those decisions, he shouldnt even be in the memo, he is not a football man.

I cannot understand what positive contribution Garry Gook makes, though I am at least grateful he has kept his mouth shut just lately, I cringe everytime I see a microphone near him.

sandman wrote:

King Kev wrote:I thought it was Brian Marwood who showed 'sparky' the door?

It was, with the full blessing of Khaldoon I understand. In fact Garry Cook should have absolutely no say in those decisions, he shouldnt even be in the memo, he is not a football man.

I cannot understand what positive contribution Garry Gook makes, though I am at least grateful he has kept his mouth shut just lately, I cringe everytime I see a microphone near him.

40+% increase in turnover mate - that's his job.

john@staustell wrote:

sandman wrote:

King Kev wrote:I thought it was Brian Marwood who showed 'sparky' the door?

It was, with the full blessing of Khaldoon I understand. In fact Garry Cook should have absolutely no say in those decisions, he shouldnt even be in the memo, he is not a football man.

I cannot understand what positive contribution Garry Gook makes, though I am at least grateful he has kept his mouth shut just lately, I cringe everytime I see a microphone near him.

40+% increase in turnover mate - that's his job.

That is very good, but I do wonder how much of that is Cook and how much is Khaldoon?

sandman wrote:

King Kev wrote:I thought it was Brian Marwood who showed 'sparky' the door?

It was, with the full blessing of Khaldoon I understand. In fact Garry Cook should have absolutely no say in those decisions, he shouldnt even be in the memo, he is not a football man.
I cannot understand what positive contribution Garry Gook makes, though I am at least grateful he has kept his mouth shut just lately, I cringe everytime I see a microphone near him.

I fully agree with this regarding suits in football club. It should always be football people talking directly to owner. Cook might be good chairman as far as the business side goes and I'm sure we need one of those but he should not be involved in footballing decisions. People like him are there to sign cheques. As far as decisions over manager sackings go, it'd be nice if someone send him FYI e-mail about it. Not necessery at all but nice.

sandman wrote:

john@staustell wrote:

sandman wrote:

King Kev wrote:I thought it was Brian Marwood who showed 'sparky' the door?

It was, with the full blessing of Khaldoon I understand. In fact Garry Cook should have absolutely no say in those decisions, he shouldnt even be in the memo, he is not a football man.

I cannot understand what positive contribution Garry Gook makes, though I am at least grateful he has kept his mouth shut just lately, I cringe everytime I see a microphone near him.

40+% increase in turnover mate - that's his job.

That is very good, but I do wonder how much of that is Cook and how much is Khaldoon?

The majority will be Cook, with some support from Khaldoon

Khaldoon is the chairman of MCFC....however his real "job" is as CEO of Mubadala Development. Garry Cook is our CEO.

Our chairman wouldn't physically have the time to "run" City and be the one responsible for the development of the business and revenues. Sure he plays an important statesman-esque role in concluding sponsorship and commercial agreements (esp those with the Abu Dhabi related groups) however the actual "doing" will be done by Garry Cook and his team.

ant london wrote:

sandman wrote:

john@staustell wrote:

sandman wrote:

King Kev wrote:I thought it was Brian Marwood who showed 'sparky' the door?

It was, with the full blessing of Khaldoon I understand. In fact Garry Cook should have absolutely no say in those decisions, he shouldnt even be in the memo, he is not a football man.

I cannot understand what positive contribution Garry Gook makes, though I am at least grateful he has kept his mouth shut just lately, I cringe everytime I see a microphone near him.

40+% increase in turnover mate - that's his job.

That is very good, but I do wonder how much of that is Cook and how much is Khaldoon?

The majority will be Cook, with some support from Khaldoon

Khaldoon is the chairman of MCFC....however his real "job" is as CEO of Mubadala Development. Garry Cook is our CEO.

Our chairman wouldn't physically have the time to "run" City and be the one responsible for the development of the business and revenues. Sure he plays an important statesman-esque role in concluding sponsorship and commercial agreements (esp those with the Abu Dhabi related groups) however the actual "doing" will be done by Garry Cook and his team.

Well I am told that Khaldoon has spent the vast majority of his time in the UK over the past two years, though he is been primarily based in foggy London town. Since he is in Capital City where the majority of big business decisions are made I have made the assumption that he has more to do with our sponsorships / partnerships etc than meets the eye. He appears to be at a lot of games for a man based out of the country?

It has nothing to do with where he's based. Mubadala do most of their deals in Europe so it stands to perfect reason that he'd be in London a lot.

What you should not assume, however, is that he is in London on mainly City business.....as I don't think that will be the case.

ant london wrote:What you should not assume, however, is that he is in London on mainly City business.....as I don't think that will be the case.

I didnt assume that he is there mainly on City business, the man has his fingers in many pies, therefore what I do assume is that he will be doing a lot for the club alongside his other business interests.

khaldoon decided he didn't like the cut of hughes's jib - and also after seeing the turmoil it was causing on here, decided to tell cook to sack him