Nedum Onuoha thank you for your honesty.

[eastmanc]

He was a superb CEO and understood us as fans and understood this club, he was and is sadly missed, I would love to have him as CEO of MCFC and Ferran as CEO of CFG.

Whilst I agree with the above I think we can all agree that Cook messed up big time with his taunting of Nedum"s mother and therefore had to be fired for it.

 

[bennyboy]

I like both Nedum and Richards as pundits.I do not see why you have to like only one and not the other.
Both different but both good for the Blue perspective.
I love the Richards,Lineker and Shearer programmes in the IPlayer.Great entertainment.
Funny enough he replaced Wright and is doing a better job than him.

 

[blue ranger]

Micah makes his love for City obvious , no idea why anyone would question his love for the club .

Agree and I think it really does come across on the TV. Bizarre.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

You obviously never saw Nedum play did you ?? Paul Dickov wasn`t the greatest player I`ve ever seen but by fuck his heart was/is in the right place with his City connection just like Nedums does.
Before you start spouting shit it would benefit your grey matter to go along to a local Branch Meeting when Nedum was on and lets see if you come out with the same crap afterwards.
You claim you don`t see anything special in what he does for the club. He travels hundreds and hundreds of miles a year going to Branch Meetings and does NOT get paid either by the club nor the Branches so I suggest you wind your fucking neck in and lay off the lad.
You obviously have more than a dislike for the lad, but whatever it is, you don`t come over as a true Blue.

Hi Nedum x

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I just don’t get the hate for Gary Cook. He was exactly what we needed at the time. He wasn’t perfect but who is? He did a great job for us overall and helped us on our way to where we are now.

Garry!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Whatever it is, I don’t see what he did/is doing for the club anywhere near proportionate to the amount of love he gets from City fans.

I think it is, as much as anything, because he is better equipped than others to advocate the case for City in the media in a way that is both considered and articulate.

Given what we have to endure from and within the sports media, and the fact he is better placed to tackle that than any other former player, the way he is regarded by City fans is entirely proportionate.

 

[Stephen230]

I do wonder if we were not so successful would Micha still support us so much?

You could apply that to pretty much all the ex players who are now rent-a-quote City diehards. Always available for a chat with City TV or a spot at City Square pre match.

I don’t blame them. You go where the money is. Same across the board. 99% of players who’ve played for multiple clubs, have a special affinity with the biggest club they’ve played for, where there might be a drink in it for them.

 

[domalino]

I do like him but on ESPN FC he sits on the fence too much.

He has a bad habit of pulling apart every question and turning it around on the host.

Sometimes that’s really good, other times the host just wants you to agree a defender is in bad form so they can move on to the next bit of discussion about how they fix that or the other team exploits it, and instead Nedum takes them on a 5 minute detour about what the phrase “bad form”really means.

I do think he’s got a lot of potential as a pundit though and he’s a great representative of the club in the media.

 

[Jazzyblue]

You could apply that to pretty much all the ex players who are now rent-a-quote City diehards. Always available for a chat with City TV or a spot at City Square pre match.

I don’t blame them. You go where the money is. Same across the board. 99% of players who’ve played for multiple clubs, have a special affinity with the biggest club they’ve played for, where there might be a drink in it for them.

Yeah truesay, it's work to an ex-player but it's only natural that they will become fans through pride in a turnaround story they were part of, and if we were still getting tonked at third tier grounds there just wouldn't be the same opportunities for players to talk about City. There wouldn't be a City plus and there wouldn't be a City Square.

Whole point of success is that it grows a club and deepens connections with it. I doubt we'd have been as resilient a club and as a big a fanbase as we were through the trials of the 80s and 90s if we hadn't had the Mercer-Allison years.

 

[PPT]

Wouldn't play him, promoted Boyata above him. That is more or less it from the podcast, just froze him out.

Nedum is a far better pundit than he was a footballer. If Mancini didn't fancy him for whatever reasons then that’s how it is. Pep didn’t fancy Joe Hart. That’s football.

 

[johnnytapia]

It's all in his excellent autobiography. Barton and Mancini also get both barrels.

What did he say about Mancini?

 

[johnnytapia]

Good. Mancini was the absolute bollocks

 

[johnnytapia]

What a load of shit. The lad was with us a junior and came through the ranks. He was NOT given a chance by Mancini and yes you are correct he did enjoy himself at Sunderland. So fucking what ?? At least he was playing regular football and under a manager who believed in him.
Fuck knows why you bothered even responding to this thread.

He wasn’t good enough. Mancini didn’t fuck about.

 

[oscbarcelona]

I wish the whole incident with his mum never happend.

Despite where we are now, I've always felt our trajectory to top would have been faster.

He also engaged the fans a million times better than the current CEO.

 

[asahartford1]

Good. Mancini was the absolute bollocks

On Mancini. I was sat quite near him on that day v QPR, he was a disgrace. He reminded me of the sort of people who post on the match day threads. He thought we had lost and was screaming dogs abuse at the players. Not what I would call the dogs bollocks.
But everyone to their own.

 

[asahartford1]

I wish the whole incident with his mum never happend.

Despite where we are now, I've always felt our trajectory to top would have been faster.

He also engaged the fans a million times better than the current CEO.

This " engaged the fans" stuff is nonsense

 

[oakiecokie]

Did he mention the QPR game at all. I'd love to know his feelings that day. Did they know they were safe? Head in hands when it hit the net says not?

According to Nedum they had no idea as to how the other match was panning out (Stoke & Bolton). As he says you only have to look at the 5/6 of their players who fell to the ground with their head buried underneath their arms, thinking they had been relegated once Sergio scored.
He said that as players you are too engrossed and trying to keep focused than hearing anything else. I absolutely believe him.

 

[oakiecokie]

May well be but Mancini was right in that Micah and Zabba were better right backs.

Nedum was a centre back not a full back.

 

[johnnytapia]

On Mancini. I was sat quite near him on that day v QPR, he was a disgrace. He reminded me of the sort of people who post on the match day threads. He thought we had lost and was screaming dogs abuse at the players. Not what I would call the dogs bollocks.
But everyone to their own.

He does divide opinion.
Some, me included, a
venerate and worship at his altar. He was the catalyst for all we have now. Changed the mindset from “let’s make top four” to “let’s win the fucking thing.”
Players like Nedum were cast asunder, and rightly so. He had no time for second rate.
He was a firebrand, and he was a winner. Fucking love him.

 

[johnnytapia]

Nedum was a centre back not a full back.

Wrong. He played both