Given how sensitive Pep/the board have been to how City are percieved in the media, comments like this are just so brain dead. Just more ammunition for the vultures.
We are meant to be this 'slick' machine ran by astute football & business men, but the PR at times is just complete amateur hour and so much of it is the clubs own doing. A great opening win, playing some entertaining football with our new star man delivering his best game so far and all people are doing is laughing at little old City because of a misguided comment from our own manager (not his first either).
I don't really care much for what others think of us as at the end of the day i'm just here to watch some footy, but it's clear that Pep/Soriano/Khaldoon etc do based on what what has been said in the media in the past.
Day by day I find myself feeling more disconnected as a result of the Corporate nature of how we're run and my personal opinion is that we need a bit of a refresh at board level when the Pep era comes to a close. New ideas to inject some more passion back into it as it's all becoming a bit sterile and stuff like this just further builds into that disconnect.