Cook - They Bottled It

[warpig]

this is from ss website...........

"Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook has engaged in discussions with Kaka's advisors on a night when AC Milan supporters lined the streets to protest a potential sale.

Passions in the Italian city are running high as the Rossoneri faithful made clear their vehement opposition to the proposed exit of the San Siro's favourite son.

Sky Sports News understands Cook met Kaka's father Bosco Leite to discuss a transfer that would net Milan over £100million and the player a weekly wage in the region of £500,000.

Earlier on Monday it had been reported Milan club president and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met with club vice-president Adriano Galliani to discuss the implications of any such deal.
Over 1,000 supporters, who are critical of the club and not the player, converged outside Milan's headquarters during the early evening before moving on to Kaka's exclusive compound where he resides.

The Milan supporters proceeded to chant songs, pleading with the Brazilian to stay. Kaka responded by coming out on to his balcony and waving to his fans."

no mention of milan officials, cook and kakas father meeting together.

 

[warpig]

again , i may be wrong and if so , apologies

 

[Matty]

again , i may be wrong and if so , apologies

This is a DIRECT quote from Cook, on City's Offical Siet:-

"We were confined to a room, with no food or drink, and we asked some questions of the football club and more importantly we asked some questions of the representatives of the player and they simple could not answer the questions."

So AC Milan were indeed represented at the meeting, which would mean it wasn't the time or the place to discuss Kaka's personal terms. In fact the presence of AC Milan officials would seem to indicate that an offer hadn't been accepted.

 

[vbr]

PMSL I read the thread title and I just laughed especially after hearing him say it on SSN too. "THEY FUCKIN BOTTLED IT MATE"

 

[KINKY99907]

Look Cook is no mug ye is the man that sorted the Michael Jordan/Nike deal have some faith in the guy the italian prime minister is a dodjy/bent as they come imo FUCK milan

 

[warpig]

again , i may be wrong and if so , apologies

This is a DIRECT quote from Cook, on City's Offical Siet:-

"We were confined to a room, with no food or drink, and we asked some questions of the football club and more importantly we asked some questions of the representatives of the player and they simple could not answer the questions."

So AC Milan were indeed represented at the meeting, which would mean it wasn't the time or the place to discuss Kaka's personal terms. In fact the presence of AC Milan officials would seem to indicate that an offer hadn't been accepted.

that was a DIRECT quote from the offical skysports website, so what you saying? as i see it, cook is covering his arse.

 

[Matty]

again , i may be wrong and if so , apologies

This is a DIRECT quote from Cook, on City's Offical Siet:-

"We were confined to a room, with no food or drink, and we asked some questions of the football club and more importantly we asked some questions of the representatives of the player and they simple could not answer the questions."

So AC Milan were indeed represented at the meeting, which would mean it wasn't the time or the place to discuss Kaka's personal terms. In fact the presence of AC Milan officials would seem to indicate that an offer hadn't been accepted.

that was a DIRECT quote from the offical skysports website, so what you saying? as i see it, cook is covering his arse.

I'm saying I'd be more inclined to believe our own Chief Executive rather than a TV network. Cook was actually in the room with these people, Sky at best have spoken to someone who knows someone who knows something.

 

[TaylorWill07]

For fucks sake will everybody stop laying into OUR FOOTBALL CLUB-what the fuck do we know about running a multi million pound turnover company.If its not Hughes's fault then its Cook's fault-why cant we just admit we got shafted off a club with perhaps the most corrupt league in Europe.

Hats off to Cook for coming out and defending OUR club.



Give it a rest for fucks sake

well put mate
people need to get a serious grip

 

[warpig]

"confined to a room with no food or drink".

DO ME A FAVOUR!!!!!!!!!!!! hes making it out like he was in guantanimo bay or something. something is not right here. imo.

 

[PaulC1979]

again , i may be wrong and if so , apologies

This is a DIRECT quote from Cook, on City's Offical Siet:-

"We were confined to a room, with no food or drink, and we asked some questions of the football club and more importantly we asked some questions of the representatives of the player and they simple could not answer the questions."

So AC Milan were indeed represented at the meeting, which would mean it wasn't the time or the place to discuss Kaka's personal terms. In fact the presence of AC Milan officials would seem to indicate that an offer hadn't been accepted.

that was a DIRECT quote from the offical skysports website, so what you saying? as i see it, cook is covering his arse.

But where have they got it from? Even Kaka said we never discussed personal terms and Milan didn't ever accept a bid. His comments seem much nearer ours. The comments on the SSN site come from Milan.

 

[warpig]

again , i may be wrong and if so , apologies

This is a DIRECT quote from Cook, on City's Offical Siet:-

"We were confined to a room, with no food or drink, and we asked some questions of the football club and more importantly we asked some questions of the representatives of the player and they simple could not answer the questions."

So AC Milan were indeed represented at the meeting, which would mean it wasn't the time or the place to discuss Kaka's personal terms. In fact the presence of AC Milan officials would seem to indicate that an offer hadn't been accepted.

that was a DIRECT quote from the offical skysports website, so what you saying? as i see it, cook is covering his arse.

But where have they got it from? Even Kaka said we never discussed personal terms and Milan didn't ever accept a bid. His comments seem much nearer ours. The comments on the SSN site come from Milan.

yes we didnt discuss terms with kaka himslef, we discussed i tiwth his father. cook has admitted to that. thay wanted to talk "money", he wanted to talk about "humanitarian" issue.

it was only ever about the money.......

 

[AntonDonJuan]

You don't work for one of Nike's biggest brands if you can't sort out business deals.

Cook is nobodies fool, he knew what he was doing and he knew how to conclude the deal. Milan bricked it when they saw the backlash from the fans and that's the bottom line.

Stop laying into Garry Cook when all you are doing is reading rumours off Sky Sports News and Milan's own TV channel.

Our owners are amongst the greatest businessmen in the world, they conclude multi billion pound deals each year, Milan are bent as fuck.

 

[LEE BRADBURY]

Just hope we learn big time from the experience, basically they took the piss and then Berlusconi even had the audacity to break the story for his own ends whilst our delegation was not even ready to respond in kind.

I really do believe this was a PR stunt by Berlusconi

 

[LEE BRADBURY]

again , i may be wrong and if so , apologies

This is a DIRECT quote from Cook, on City's Offical Siet:-

"We were confined to a room, with no food or drink, and we asked some questions of the football club and more importantly we asked some questions of the representatives of the player and they simple could not answer the questions."

So AC Milan were indeed represented at the meeting, which would mean it wasn't the time or the place to discuss Kaka's personal terms. In fact the presence of AC Milan officials would seem to indicate that an offer hadn't been accepted.

that was a DIRECT quote from the offical skysports website, so what you saying? as i see it, cook is covering his arse.

I'm saying I'd be more inclined to believe our own Chief Executive rather than a TV network. Cook was actually in the room with these people, Sky at best have spoken to someone who knows someone who knows something.

somebody is lying that bit is obvious

 

[Chippy_boy]

How very very telling. Cook: "were we looking for the opportunity to joint venture in areas that would take this club on to a different platform"

As I thought. When it came to brass tacks, what we had in mind for our "offer" of £100m was in terms of some cash, some appearance fees, some marketing royalties etc etc. Not "here's £100m cheque".

So basically we bottled it, not Milan. (Rightly or wrongly, I don't want to get drawn into that.) But had we said "Here's a hundred million pound cheque", Kaka would now be ours. I was 100% certain of that prior to yesterday and I remain so now.

 

[markbmcfc]

You don't work for one of Nike's biggest brands if you can't sort out business deals.

Cook is nobodies fool, he knew what he was doing and he knew how to conclude the deal. Milan bricked it when they saw the backlash from the fans and that's the bottom line.

Stop laying into Garry Cook when all you are doing is reading rumours off Sky Sports News and Milan's own TV channel.

Our owners are amongst the greatest businessmen in the world, they conclude multi billion pound deals each year, Milan are bent as fuck.

At last some sense.

I find it fucking hilarious all of you laying into Cook, thinking you know better or could have done better than him. He wasnt where he was with Nike by fluke, and neither are our owners, if they pulled out I trust they made the correct business decision. They know better than we so instead of throwing cheap shots at them, we need to get over the disappointment and move on.

 

[Matty]

How very very telling. Cook: "were we looking for the opportunity to joint venture in areas that would take this club on to a different platform"

As I thought. When it came to brass tacks, what we had in mind for our "offer" of £100m was in terms of some cash, some appearance fees, some marketing royalties etc etc. Not "here's £100m cheque".

So basically we bottled it, not Milan. (Rightly or wrongly, I don't want to get drawn into that.) But had we said "Here's a hundred million pound cheque", Kaka would now be ours. I was 100% certain of that prior to yesterday and I remain so now.

You can construe that statement to mean any one of a million different things and you've gone for the one that makes City look cheap and shite. Why exactly?

 

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[Paulmcfc2703]

City say we never spoke to Kaka, Kaka says he never spoke to us and no offer had been accepted, Milan say he turned us down but all that was official was they are considering an offer from us.

Why are people convinced we had an offer accepted, where has this information come from?

 

[warpig]

You don't work for one of Nike's biggest brands if you can't sort out business deals.

Cook is nobodies fool, he knew what he was doing and he knew how to conclude the deal. Milan bricked it when they saw the backlash from the fans and that's the bottom line.

Stop laying into Garry Cook when all you are doing is reading rumours off Sky Sports News and Milan's own TV channel.

Our owners are amongst the greatest businessmen in the world, they conclude multi billion pound deals each year, Milan are bent as fuck.

At last some sense.

I find it fucking hilarious all of you laying into Cook, thinking you know better or could have done better than him. He wasnt where he was with Nike by fluke, and neither are our owners, if they pulled out I trust they made the correct business decision. They know better than we so instead of throwing cheap shots at them, we need to get over the disappointment and move on.

i agree but you must admit that going into a meeting with kakas father to talk about "humanitarian" issues when all he wanted to do was talk about "fiscal" issues is a tad embarrassing