Garry Cook Defends His And City's Corner

Good old BM - back on his Oh-so-familiar Theme!

I'm going to stick my neck out here and ask the question, Why is it necessary the clubs CEO Garry Cook to know anything about football ? As the clubs CEO, football is only a part in his responsibilities, his main tasks are to get the club doing the right things as a business, making sure it’s behaving in the correct manner, he has to drive the club forward into being a better Football establishment and manufacture the means of bringing about success for the club. All these issues are of much greater importance in the scheme of things than an off the cuff statement made in an impromptu interview on Sky Sports TV. Garry isn’t required to have the insight of a top football manager, coach or ex-player, although he is no doubt taking on board the complexities of transfers matters and learning the new ways to negotiating in a football environment. He will also be bringing all his accrued knowledge to the table something the cheap shot media merchants don’t even have the intelligence to imagine let alone grasp the concept of. We all have to learn new things when we take on a new position in the work place there’s always new things to get to grips with, new organisational tools to adopt and numerous thing that need reviewing and assessing in order to find out what things work and which things need improvement. So tell me, why are some fan's going on as if Garry has to be all things to all matters football. His strengths for me lie more in his fantastic experience, his contacts, his professionalism and enthusiasm to grow into his new role with City. I believe he is achieving far more than any of us really know and none of that comes from his football knowledge or lack of it. I’m sure he gets ample help on football matters from Brian Marwood, Mark Hughes as well as others, let’s face it the club is now loaded with football knowledge I’m sure Garry is not short of guidance should he need it. Garry's 'Bottled it' statement was fair enough at the time, if that’s what he felt actually took place in his dealings with AC Milan, why not tell it as it is. It’s only because he’s the new Manchester City CEO that there’s this fuss being made anyway. The guy can't win really because as we all know City are not just under the spot light they are also under every media microscope, people are going to nitpick and make every hair that falls out of place more akin to another rain forest being destroyed. I say the short sighted anti everything new at City gang take a long hard look at the bigger picture, look around at the improvements that are being made in the team, the stadium, the website, the training facilities, the now worldwide youth academy’s. The match day experience so many things are getting better at City and it’s still ongoing the new owners aren’t finished yet. How can there be any criticism of Garry Cook or any member of are now truly great club. The fact is to have done all these things in such a short timescale can only be described as magnificent and incredibly magnanimous of the new owners. Yes how can we ever thank the new owners enough, they will have to be stronger than I thought though to deal with the lack of gratitude being shown by this small minded minority. Please tell me how can anyone justify or level any criticism at the club after all they have done for the club in only 12 months?

Well said BlueHeart, your article is spot on. It always worries me when people accuse others of knowing nothing about football, intimating that they are experts.... not usually the case!! I like you think he is doing a fine job and is a proven winner in the business world and just what we need to help transform City into a major world club.

I can't fault you blueheart, Cook was brought in to make the improvements we now enjoy.The attempts to sign players and the failure to do so has not been the fault of Cook, all these players have indicated in some way that they wished to sign for City, but because the deals were leaked to the press, then they all turned out that every man and his dog had an opinion on the deal and these players just backed out. I am sure that and dealings in contracts is the same in any business and that City would have been aware of all the rules, but City have only gone one way since the takeover and that is up and long may it continue.

Guys you have given me new heart about this website with your comments. I was beginning to worry that it was getting dominated by the whingers whose comments about City I can read on oppoition websites. All of your comments have redressed the balance ...thank you again!!