warpig said:
Dubai Blue said:
“It also involved a board member who had flown half way around the world from Abu Dhabi....."
A slight exaggeration there from Cooky, but I'll let him off!!
seems cook is quite an exagerrater to me ...
"we were confined in a room with no food or water"
do me a favour ffs!! hes making out he was in guantanimo bay.
No, he's indicatating they were treated disrespectfully. It's SOP to have drinks and tasty bites on hand, and the more significant the contract discussed, the greater the chance wait-service will also be on hand. Even if Cook and co. had dropped by unannounced the basics of hospitality would have been procured without delay. They weren't. This minor point is the clearest indication of Milans attitude towards City. If someone stopped by at your house mate, what do you say without delay, "fancy a brew"? Treatment of guests, regardless of culture, has always been seen as a reflection on the honour of the house, it's basic human courtesy that transcends cultures, religions, ethnicity, and social-class. Step back from this and ask yourselves how do you think our Arab benefactors will take this treatment of their servants?
Let's reverse this: assume Milan had come to City and the deal broke down there, and Milan released a statement that included the following - "The put is in a room, asked us not to leave, and no one even supplied and drinks or food". Think about what Cook is trying to communicate by "confined": that Milan actually said, "please do not leave" or, they put someone on the door, on the inside? That's ridiculous, outrageous, disrespectful! It is; as outragous, ridiculous, and disrepectful as treating a guest (any guest) in this manner; and it's dangerous behaviour when one treats the designated representatives of Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in such a contemptous way.
Just speculating about what lies behind "confined"...but I'm not speculating about common decency when it comes to treating guests am I?