What planet are the "genius PR/generating interest in City" bunch on?
Are we seriously expected to swallow that City have decided to base part of their PR campaign on getting some famous fan to talk smack on the radio. Feck the campaigns. Feck the club controling it. just slip random details into conversations with people and hope they repeat them in public.
Also, how on Earth does something like this generate something positive that can possibly compare with the harm that it does to City's standing with other clubs involved and City's image as a club who does things professionally and in the right way.
Put this on the other thread before I saw this one. Maybe some answers on this one instead.
Quiz question.
Why is Garry Cook spouting off about other people's players and who City are going to bid for to Noel Gallagher?
a) This is accepted transfer practice and the likes of Liverpool and others will be delighted to read that City's top brass are telling random people that they are going to buy their players.
b) Garry knows that Noel Gallagher is a virtual recluse, is never in the papers and never talks in the papers about City. Therefore he is 100% certain that none of their conversation will ever leave that table and would stake his life on details of the discussion never being repeated by Gallagher.
c) Garry has realised that his only mistake during his time at City is that he has been too reluctant to speak out at various points and has been too timid and professional when it comes to talking about ambitions and transfer deals. He has therefore decided that he has not talked enough crap about the future and wants to remedy this by talking about the players of other teams with someone who has nothing to do with the club.
d) Garry realises that City fans, say, for example, people on this site, would be delighted if Massimo Morrati was telling someone like Pavarotti that Inter might be signing Tevez and this was splashed all over the papers. Therefore, knowing how much fans like other clubs telling everyone that they want to buy their players, he thought he'd make sure that City do the same.
e) Every club acts like this. Why, even as we speak David Gill is on the phone to Mick Hucknell and Angus Deayton to tell them how United fancy signing Robben and Messi and asking them whether they can send him a signed photo each.
f) Garry is a desperate to impress buffoon who, when faced with the glamour and celebrity of a rock star, has reacted like a star struck 15 year old and started blabbering about who City are going to sign and what they are going to do, giving no thought to the fact that this is likely to end up in the papers and that it is completely and utterly unprofessional to be putting information like that in the public domain (even if you don't do it directly). Not having learnt his lesson from putting his foot in his big gob on numerous occasions he has yet again ensured that other clubs, for example Liverpool, are going to be hacked off with City for telling insignificant nobodies (in terms of transfer dealings) that they are going to sign their players and acting like a big mouthed kid who is expecting a new toy for Christmas and is telling anyone who will listen.
What would be worse?
If Cook is willing to tell any random City fan in the street that they are going to buy X, Y and Z player from various clubs before deals have been completed, putting said deals in jeopardy and possibly damaging relationships with those clubs
or
If Cook is only willing to say such things to celebrity fans who, even though they have no more right to hear any of that than any other fan, get such information because Cook is desperate to be a 'mate of the stars'