Did the press not listen to Cook?

[Pam]

Tbf i wouldnt believe a word that comes out of Cooks mouth. You can't just expect the press to believe him "because he said so"

I thought he did well though considering the mugs going at him

Whereas the media never lie.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I'm sure that City (and our lawyers) will have bought every newspaper this mroning and will go through them to see who has said waht lie, and when the dust settles there will be a few court cases, it won't be the first time.

Its about time a club stood up to them.

For 3 weeks they've wanted MH out, but are now outraged by it. I think Cook could have handled it better personally, maybe 2 press conferences, one explaining the sacking, and the other to introduce RM, he also should also have stepped in when RM was asked when he met the Sheik, to correct the journo, that it was Khaldoun he met 2 weeks ago. In fact the whole 3 days could have been done better for me.

I also hope that whoever within the club that leaked what was going on on Saturday morning wil be looking for a new job soon, because ultimately they have caused a lot of this, I'm sure the announcement would have been made yesterday had it not all been leaked. Obviously Hiddink's agent had an agenda too.

I doubt it was anyone in the club. I think it was someone outside the club stirring it up and the club panicked. They apparently released that statement about making a statement at half-time.

I suspect Hiddink and his mate Abramovich are not flavour of the month at the moment.

 

[El Boy Wonder]

Tbf i wouldnt believe a word that comes out of Cooks mouth. You can't just expect the press to believe him "because he said so"

I thought he did well though considering the mugs going at him

Whereas the media never lie.

I never said they didn't. You're going to give yourself a heart attack

 

[Pam]

Whereas the media never lie.

I never said they didn't. You're going to give yourself a heart attack

Am I, oh insightul and hard-hitting one?

 

[El Boy Wonder]

I never said they didn't. You're going to give yourself a heart attack

Am I, oh insightul and hard-hitting one?

Im Hollywood baby. Im being quoted

 

[cleavers]

Whatever you think of the press there were some serious and heavyweight journalists there yesterday. and they know when they are being lied to. They also have their sources, the same as one or two on here.

It's entirely in the club's interest to promote the line that this is a planned move, in the pipeline for weeks, when it's clear it's nothing of the sort.

Fair enough PB, but why are you so sure that Cook's version of events isn't true ? It all makes sense to me.

Of course they would have a contingency plan, they'd be very stupid not to. Starting the process after the Hull game makes sense to me, it was a poor result after several other poor results, so as a business they should have been looking to an alternative. The Arsenal and Chelsea wins put it on hold, but a return to drawing against a poor Bolton, and then the capitulation against an off form Spurs was enough, so they made the changes required. It came out all wrong though and you're probably right that they panicked, I'm sure had it not leaked out then I suspect the decision would have been official yesterday not Saturday, however the press would have still done it the same way.

The reason why they did it is obvious enough, there is never a better chance to actually win this league, never mind finish top 4, and sadly we've frittered away a great chance, with these dropped points against the lesser sides, and yes I know the others are dropping points too, but forget what others are doing, and focus on our dropped points, we really should have beaten Wigan, Burnley, Bolton, and Hull, and we'd have 8 more points now. The draws at Anfield, Villa and Birmingham can be looked on as good points gained given their respective form, though I'd have thought we should have beaten both Liverpool and Birmingham too, even ignoring that, we would have had 8 more points, level on points with Utd, with a game in hand.

I actually believe the timeline regardless of the media spin, and I hope they keep making up their own story, and that Cook and the clubs lawyers take them to task on it.

 

[BobKowalski]

A pompous fat rag twat on SSN is talking about how there was a "degree of anger" amongst the press yesterday at being taken for fools and Cook better watch out and be nicer to them or he might find himself the next one out the door. It's cringe-worthy, that degree of bloated, deluded self-importance. They are hallucinating. I am embarrassed for them.

Oh come on. You are so deep in paranoia that you don't realise what's going on. Whatever you think of the press there were some serious and heavyweight journalists there yesterday. and they know when they are being lied to. They also have their sources, the same as one or two on here.

It's entirely in the club's interest to promote the line that this is a planned move, in the pipeline for weeks, when it's clear it's nothing of the sort.

I am not one for the 'City are being victimised nonsense' but having watched the PC yesterday somethings were obvious

1. Cook did say in his opening statement that the club had started to sound out new manager options after the Hull game which did involve talking to interested parties Mancini being one of them.

2. Mancini did confirm this later and also backed up the line that no formal offer was made until after the Spurs game.

Now whether people choose to believe this is the sequence of events (personally I couldn't care less if they offered Mancini the job 3 weeks or 3 days ago) is irrelevant. This sequence of events is the official club line and unless the press have evidence to the contrary they can lump it and as for trying to make out that Mancini contradicted Cook that is undeniable bollocks.

The aggressive nature of the questions to Mancini was unnecessary and bourne out of frustration that:

a) The best young potential British manager had been sacked and by 'johnny foreigners' at that.
b) Cook had not allowed any questions so Mancini got the brunt of it (City should have separated the two issues but Mancini was on to a hiding no matter what)

It is also undeniable that Hughes has a lot of press allies (we saw enough evidence of that during his 18 month tenure) so the Club are stuck behind the 8 ball at the moment as Hughes and the media play the 'brave stalwart British manager overcoming all odds to make City great and on the eve of success has his hopes and dreams cruelly dashed by a cabal of ruthless Arab business man and their bumbling minions' all of this coming to a screen near you shortly.

Now aside from the 'bumbling minions' bit which I partly agree with (I repeat for the umpteenth time Cook should not be allowed to speak in public) this bollocks is the theme of what happened and will grow to hysterical proportions to the point where the 19th Decemnber will be proclaimed as the 'Martydom of St Hughes Day'.

Mancini will have every error dissected and every success attributed to 'well it is Mark Hughes team you know' and 'Wouldn't have happened without Mark Hughes laying the groundwork' etc etc so in short its going to be a bumpy 6 months or so with the press praying that Mancini fails and every misstep he makes splashed across the back pages in lurid tecnicolour.

But Mancini is a big boy and handled it well yesterday and if as I hope he finally makes something of the team for the remainder of the season and beyond then the media crying over the fate of their tousled haired darling is a price worth paying.

 

[yankblue]

Right, so I've recently come down with the flu, so this may just be the Promethazine with Codeine talking, but I think the club needs to take a stricter approach with the media.

Am I wrong in saying that the media needs us a helluva lot more then we need them? Ban the twats from press conferences, interviews, etc. Don't talk to them. Make them buy their own damn tickets if they want to get in to the stadium for the games, and at the very least, sue every paper/media outlet every single time they make something up or twist information. They will soon learn not to mess with the club.

 

[kiam06]

I just wished they'd have gotten their stories on the timeline thing straight before hand as it looked very unprofessional, not that the timeline actually matters to anybody with a brain but it does to the vultures in the media and we should have been better prepared.

The club wanted to sack Hughes and bring in a new manager without a big gap where we were managerless I actually think now after careful consideration that they went about it the right way as having no manager over Xmas/ New year would have been a disaster.

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

This is really getting on my Moobs now. You're dammed if you do and you're dammed if you don't.

We get a replacement lined up - w're twats
If we wouldn't have got a replacement lined up - they'd be writing how we are twats for not thinking ahead.

I liked Hughes and it was a nasty way for him to find out that he'd been given the boot, but I'd have been more pissed off if we'd not have had someone in place to take over as soon as possible. Fuck the media.