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Nedum Onuoha back in Manchester City squad as Garry Cook probe goes on
Daniel Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 September 2011 22.59 BST
Sport
Football
Manchester City
Nedum Onuoha back in Manchester City squad as Garry Cook probe goes on
• Defender is asked to return to first-team training
• Club investigate sending of offensive email
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Daniel Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 September 2011 22.59 BST
Article history
Nedum Onuoha has been asked to return to first-team training at Manchester City
Nedum Onuoha has been training alone or with youth players at Manchester City. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters
Roberto Mancini has made the unexpected decision to include Nedum Onuoha in his first-team plans at Manchester City, regardless of the controversy involving the player that threatens to cost Garry Cook his role as the club's chief executive.
Onuoha, who had been excluded from the main group, practising either alone or with the youth-team players, has been told he is welcome to return to first-team training. The 24-year-old has asked for an opportunity to re‑establish himself and, provided he is suitably fit, he may return to the squad for the game against Wigan Athletic on Saturday.
Cook, however, will be conspicuous by his absence at Eastlands as the club's owners in Abu Dhabi continue the investigative process that will determine whether he is allowed to continue in the role he has held for three years.
The former Nike executive, who is paid £1.8m a year, is on planned leave, visiting his wife and children, who moved to Portland in Oregon this year. The eight-hour time difference with Britain explains, in part, why City's internal inquiry has not been concluded. The expectation had been that it would be a relatively quick process.
Cook's position may not be resolved until he returns to Manchester early next week. The club's legal and human resources departments have been informed and are looking at IT records to try to establish the origins of an offensive email that was sent to Onuoha's mother last October.
Their findings will go back to the club's owner, Sheikh Mansour, and the chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, in Abu Dhabi. Cook's position will be in grave doubt if discrepancies are uncovered in his story that a club employee hacked his account to send the email, which mocked Dr Anthonia Onuoha for having disclosed in a previous conversation that she was "ravaged" with cancer.
The email, sent from Cook's account to Brian Marwood, City's football administrator, via an iPad, was addressed to "Brian". It read: "Ravaged with it!!........I don't know how you sleep at night. You used to be such a nice man when I worked with you at Nike. G". Dr Onuoha was copied in.
Mancini has been monitoring the situation, without a great deal of sympathy, after a deterioration in his working relationship with both Cook and Marwood. Mancini has a better understanding with John Williams and is receptive to the idea of a new regime involving the former Blackburn Rovers chairman, who was appointed in June as third in command among City's Manchester-based employees.
Williams, who was at Ewood Park for 13 years, would be an obvious candidate should the controversy engulfing Cook lead to his departure, as many people at Eastlands believe to be almost inevitable. The club's ambitions are such, however, that the billionaires in Abu Dhabi may feel more inclined to appoint one of their own or headhunt a replacement.
On Tuesday Kia Joorabchian, Carlos Tevez's adviser, issued a statement to deny any involvement with Onuoha. There were also suggestions that the relative of a former City player, nursing a grudge against Cook, was prominently involved in the leaking of the story.
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Mancini absolutely ruthless, enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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Nedum Onuoha back in Manchester City squad as Garry Cook probe goes on
Daniel Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 September 2011 22.59 BST
Sport
Football
Manchester City
Nedum Onuoha back in Manchester City squad as Garry Cook probe goes on
• Defender is asked to return to first-team training
• Club investigate sending of offensive email
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Daniel Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 September 2011 22.59 BST
Article history
Nedum Onuoha has been asked to return to first-team training at Manchester City
Nedum Onuoha has been training alone or with youth players at Manchester City. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters
Roberto Mancini has made the unexpected decision to include Nedum Onuoha in his first-team plans at Manchester City, regardless of the controversy involving the player that threatens to cost Garry Cook his role as the club's chief executive.
Onuoha, who had been excluded from the main group, practising either alone or with the youth-team players, has been told he is welcome to return to first-team training. The 24-year-old has asked for an opportunity to re‑establish himself and, provided he is suitably fit, he may return to the squad for the game against Wigan Athletic on Saturday.
Cook, however, will be conspicuous by his absence at Eastlands as the club's owners in Abu Dhabi continue the investigative process that will determine whether he is allowed to continue in the role he has held for three years.
The former Nike executive, who is paid £1.8m a year, is on planned leave, visiting his wife and children, who moved to Portland in Oregon this year. The eight-hour time difference with Britain explains, in part, why City's internal inquiry has not been concluded. The expectation had been that it would be a relatively quick process.
Cook's position may not be resolved until he returns to Manchester early next week. The club's legal and human resources departments have been informed and are looking at IT records to try to establish the origins of an offensive email that was sent to Onuoha's mother last October.
Their findings will go back to the club's owner, Sheikh Mansour, and the chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, in Abu Dhabi. Cook's position will be in grave doubt if discrepancies are uncovered in his story that a club employee hacked his account to send the email, which mocked Dr Anthonia Onuoha for having disclosed in a previous conversation that she was "ravaged" with cancer.
The email, sent from Cook's account to Brian Marwood, City's football administrator, via an iPad, was addressed to "Brian". It read: "Ravaged with it!!........I don't know how you sleep at night. You used to be such a nice man when I worked with you at Nike. G". Dr Onuoha was copied in.
Mancini has been monitoring the situation, without a great deal of sympathy, after a deterioration in his working relationship with both Cook and Marwood. Mancini has a better understanding with John Williams and is receptive to the idea of a new regime involving the former Blackburn Rovers chairman, who was appointed in June as third in command among City's Manchester-based employees.
Williams, who was at Ewood Park for 13 years, would be an obvious candidate should the controversy engulfing Cook lead to his departure, as many people at Eastlands believe to be almost inevitable. The club's ambitions are such, however, that the billionaires in Abu Dhabi may feel more inclined to appoint one of their own or headhunt a replacement.
On Tuesday Kia Joorabchian, Carlos Tevez's adviser, issued a statement to deny any involvement with Onuoha. There were also suggestions that the relative of a former City player, nursing a grudge against Cook, was prominently involved in the leaking of the story.
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Mancini absolutely ruthless, enemy of my enemy is my friend.