chris8910 said:
blueparrot said:
He always does, and should be spoken of very highly on here,we would probably not be where we are without him.
agreed, although 'probably' would be a huge understatement
if it wasn't for Gary cook selling his dream of city being the most successful club in European football to our current owners who knows where we would have ended up.
people laughed at him before the take over saying it would never happen
I think he will be back in football in the near future
This is, yet, another misleading assumption. How much do you actually know? I think, not a lot, but of the continuing myths that come out about the transaction.
In the months before the sale, it came out how Shinawatra was becoming disconcerted about how much it took to run the football club. He said it publicly in an interview. I knew then he was looking for a way out. When the Al Nayhan link became open knowledge, before any sale, Thaksin S suddenly found some money to make some purchases. Not rocket science to figure out who was behind that and the sale, with due diligence, was just a formality.
All this is put in to perspective as Shinawatra and the Al Nayhan family had previous links in his days of previous exile from Thailand. 'Frank' bought City to make an impression on his country, got found out that a club doesn't run itself, needed to sell before he got completely emptied. The Al Nayhan family were looking for European investment, so why not?
Cook had not as much to do with 'selling' City as you think. 'Frank' needed a super quick sale, Sheik Mansour needed/ wanted to invest.
We happened to tick all the right boxes anyway.
