Mr Cook

[Petetheblu]

Having watched the clip again after originally seeing it at work whilst eating my dinner and cringing. I noticed after the remark on ManU he points to someone and give a friendly cheeky smile. So for me it was probably aimed at someone in the crowdwho was seen wearing a united scarf, so he was only having friendly banter and not being a foolish....Sadly SKY edited (with a big game on Sky coming on weds this may of been accidental, you can make up your own mind) this bit and now even some of the brighter posters on this forum have fallen for there clever editing tricks.

Which to be honest I find a tad more embarrassing than the Cook quote itself, saying that I do wish he'd keep quiet when there are cameras around as they will find something to edit and use.

Credit where it's due.
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Best thing he ever said after the Kaka story (for me) was "We're not just going to go away" simply aimed at the likes of Fergiscum, Sky and the top four brigade. More of this Mr C please and NO more filmed bar room banter/comments.

Fella, it is not a matter of believing that the clip is a true reflection of his comments. I don't, but he should have a speech already prepared and run it passed somebody else. Cook should be aware by now of how the media can manipulate your message and ensure the message is clear and precise. He is representing City and I personally want him to be a little more humble.
We then do our talking on the pitch. Just my way of doing things.
Leave the gobbing off to Rags and Cockneys (Usually one of the same!).

I agree with what your saying and my last line says that to some degree BD, I was merely pointing out that Sky have an agenda to and lets not get to worked up about these things. But yes Mr C stay away from that mike if there are cameras about.

 

[Pam]

Do you want Cook to say that we have no ambitions to be amongst the biggest and the best, after all on account of the fact that we're just lil ol ciddy.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

How the hell did someone with so little knowledge and experience of the football industry get this job? If I remember correctly we were looking for ages and someone turned us down. Can't remember who.

This is the problem. If you're standing up at your company's annual conference and everyones had a few and you've just had a decent year, you get a good response from the secretaries and sales lads if you say "Next year Wernham Hogg will rule the world!!!!!"

Football is not like that. Noone likes a bragger in sport.

If you tell everyone you're going to be the biggest club in the world, even if you end up second biggest you have failed.

I want him out of our club.

 

[scousemanc]

Do you want Cook to say that we have no ambitions to be amongst the biggest and the best, after all on account of the fact that we're just lil ol ciddy.

Once again you miss, or choose to miss, the point. You can have the ambition without behaving like an arrogant dick. Observe senor mancini.

 

[m27]

How the hell did someone with so little knowledge and experience of the football industry get this job? If I remember correctly we were looking for ages and someone turned us down. Can't remember who.

This is the problem. If you're standing up at your company's annual conference and everyones had a few and you've just had a decent year, you get a good response from the secretaries and sales lads if you say "Next year Wernham Hogg will rule the world!!!!!"

Football is not like that. Noone likes a bragger in sport.

If you tell everyone you're going to be the biggest club in the world, even if you end up second biggest you have failed.

I want him out of our club.

As I've said before, the CEO role is too 'front of house' for him. He's got a proven track record with Nike but what he did there bears little resemblance to his role as the CEO of Manchester City FC.

He is a total disaster with the press and with an audience in front of him. His natural environment is the meeting room hammering out sponsorship deals and talking about 'brand power'.

Problem is, any other role at the club is a step down and a demotion so if he isn't CEO he has to leave.

 

[bizzbo]

the bigger picture is that controversy attracts attention. if his job is to get more people interested in watching us, then being modest and quiet would be a piss poor way to go about it.

dear god, modesty is surely not a core value of this club, historically... for every Joe Mercer, there is a Big Mal, a Franny Lee, a King Kev, even the dread Swales. and this thread shows it is not a value that is overwhelmingly shared by the fans, so I can't see an argument as to why it should be, going forward, beyond the personal sensibilities of some (dunno how many, but it's definitely not all).

so why are people so confident it's part of who we are? why have they identified so strongly in that way with the club? because we've been through some hard times? because United have been very arrogant at times? neither of those reasons hold any water to me. If there are more compelling, informed arguments, sincerely, I would be very interested in them.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

PMSL it's all going reasonably well on the pitch so the League Of Not Very Intelligent Gentlemen decide to start kicking off with the board members on here! Brilliant.

How long before Khaldoon and the Sheikh are given the BM abuse and stick, now we just need a flimsy reason gleamed from reading a tabloid newspaper or Sky Sports News...

My faith in this place dies a little on a daily basis, I really want to see City do well but in this digital age where the moron on the street can become an instant spastic celebrity online I fucking worry.

Anyway, the real world calls...enjoy your Daily Star and Sky Sports fix people and remember, whatever happens SLAG FUCK OUT OF CITY FOR ANY REASON THE PRESS GIVE YOU, YOU ARE THE PUPPETS SO LET THEM PULL THE STRINGS.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Cook is our achillies heel..End of! oh, and Robinho is our botched up expensive cosmetic surgery... everything else is spot on....

 

[danny21manc]

Do you want Cook to say that we have no ambitions to be amongst the biggest and the best, after all on account of the fact that we're just lil ol ciddy.

Once again you miss, or choose to miss, the point. You can have the ambition without behaving like an arrogant dick. Observe senor mancini.

Be careful calling Pam. You might get blocked for absolutely no reason off her. She falsely accused me of being called Darren, no one likes me, i forever change my username. I'm actually puzzled to what the fuck she is on about? She's more interested in starting Utd topics every 2 minutes so i won't let it bother me.

 

[bizzbo]

How the hell did someone with so little knowledge and experience of the football industry get this job? If I remember correctly we were looking for ages and someone turned us down. Can't remember who.

This is the problem. If you're standing up at your company's annual conference and everyones had a few and you've just had a decent year, you get a good response from the secretaries and sales lads if you say "Next year Wernham Hogg will rule the world!!!!!"

Football is not like that. Noone likes a bragger in sport.

If you tell everyone you're going to be the biggest club in the world, even if you end up second biggest you have failed.

I want him out of our club.

oh cmon. no one likes a bragger? get real.

some like to hate them. and some people love them even more because of that.

if we turned out to be pantomime villains, but were able to point to real success, and values that really amounted to something beyond the pitch (fair treatment of officials, community work, fan relations, developing youth etc)... really who cares that people think we are brash? they've thought that from the moment ADUG arrived, jealousy being a human trait many will continue to think that no matter what we do... so why worry about it. there are values, and then there are priorities. seems to me this is a case of far too much importance being placed upon superficial values.