Is Cook leaving?

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I thought the rumours of him quitting to go back to the USA were crap but it has popped up again in tomorrow's People paper. Anyone think this will happen and who would we be looking at to replace him? Can anyone name any candidates as this seems to be a role made business men instead of ex-footballers.

Here's the story:

MANCHESTER CITY supremo Garry Cook is ready to quit to live in the USA.

Cook’s American wife Wendy and their three children are leaving their Cheshire base and moving back to the family home in Portland – and Cook will rejoin them when next season is over.

Wendy has not settled in Manchester and is believed to favour a US education for their children.

Cook, 51, was appointed by former City owner Thaksin Shinawatra in 2008 after 12 years at Nike.

City’s Abu Dhabi hierarchy believe their CEO has done a sound job restructuring the club and building a new commercial and marketing platform.

But his fragile relationship with manager Roberto Mancini and star player Carlos Tevez, as well as several public gaffes which forced the Arab owners to gag him from public speaking, has not gone down well with billionaire boss Sheikh Mansour.

It emerged recently that Tevez and agent Kia Joorabchian no longer speak to Cook after a fall-out and the Argentinian star now deals directly with Sheikh Mansour.

Cook’s relationship with boss Mancini came under the spotlight at the end of last season amid reports that the Italian had clashed with him and football director Brian Marwood over team signings.

Cook and Marwood flew to Abu Dhabi at the end of the season for a summit meeting with chairman Mubarak Al Khaldoon and Mancini to discuss the club’s achievements and summer transfer targets.

Mancini made it clear he wanted at least four players to bolster his squad.

But that could now become six if Tevez jumps ship to either Real Madrid or Inter Milan and 22-year-old German defender Jerome Boateng gets his wish to join Bayern Munich.

Mancini has already passed a lengthy list of stars he fancies to Marwood – and Cook now faces a busy summer trying to build bridges with the Italian.
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Blue Haze said:
MCFC-alan88 said:
Blue Haze said:
Stopped reading right there. US education better than England? LOL
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Private education.
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Just wanted to get my dig in about my country's shit public education. :)
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yeah I understand, being a firm advocate of what used to be a decent system in the UK (and one of my exes is an award-winning American teacher) but it's really apples and oranges to be fair, isn't it?

some of our schools and what I read about that's going on in the UK beggars belief, and if you look at the private sector in the USA the vast majority of the big funded universities are here, and another of my exes is an international educational consultant (don't ask me what it is with me and teachers, but I seem to get 'em) but she's super keen on international ratings and 9 times out of 10 will go Stateside for clients looking to get their kids prepped or into the 'best' universities.

I know MBS is still up there, but it's increasingly difficult for smaller European institutions to compete with the bigger and better funded American ones, which I believe is what brought about the merger of the Manchester Universities not so long ago.. in an attempt to gain size and remain competitively funded.

so...

getting back to the main protagonist of this story, I'd ask who cares anyway if he goes?

I'm not clued in about replacements, but I'd reckon we'd be a major draw for anyone qualified for such a job, and wouldn't have any doubts about getting our man or woman. We're a professionally organised outfit now, well past the previous days of our older (and in some cases much laughed at) administrations.

no worries - and in fact, many might be quite happy to see the incumbent leave.
 
Blue Haze said:
Wendy has not settled in Manchester and is believed to favour a US education for their children.
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Stopped reading right there. US education better than England? LOL
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Once upon a time it would have been laughable but nowadays she's probably right.
 
I don't think Cooky is all that bad but you can't blame his Mrs for wanting the kids to have an American education over an English one. In fact, you couldn't blame her if She wanted her children educated in outer Mongolia rather than in England. Lets face it the English education system is shit, it always has been shit and it always will be shit.

I would never have my kids educated in the UK. I would never allow them to have religion, political correctness and all that brainwashing shit forced down the throats of my kids.

Where I live its still not considered normal to be gay and it is certainly NOT considered normal for two gay guys to adopt a kid. How can this be normal in any society and whats worse is England forces these issues on to kids and brainwashes them into believing it, Its so, so wrong!!! And nor would I ever allow my kids to have to learn the teachings of Islam, Ala and all that horse shit. Its a disgrace that all this and things like this are being forced down the throats of young impressionable kids by Idiotic bleeding heart liberals and their bullshit beliefs.

Mrs Cook I really don't blame you at all. You really are doing the right thing for your kids.
 
Chicken Kiev said:
And nor would I ever allow my kids to have to learn the teachings of Islam, Ala and all that horse shit. Its a disgrace that all this and things like this are being forced down the throats of young impressionable kids by Idiotic bleeding heart liberals and their bullshit beliefs.
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Yeah, fancy trying to broaden children's horizons and open their minds up a bit to other cultures. After all, the previous approach worked wonders for the country, helping to develop fine well-rounded members of the community such as yourself who describe a religion that more than a quarter of the world's population follows as 'horse shit'.

With all due respect, your whole post is a load of bollocks.
 
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