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You better get used to this City team
Topic Started: Oct 26 2010, 08:18 AM (168 Views)
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Cook: Plans in place

Chief executive Garry Cook has hit back at critics of Manchester City's recruitment policy but has also confirmed the club will not enter the next transfer windows with the same 'intensity'.

Manager Roberto Mancini spent more than £100million in the summer market as the likes of James Milner, Mario Balotelli, Yaya Toure,David Silva and Jerome Boateng were brought to Eastlands.

The plan is to turn City into Premier League champions and kings of Europe, but at the same time questions have been raised regarding a staggering £133million wage bill.

With new Uefa rules regarding Financial Fair Play on the horizon, the plans of billionaire City owner Sheikh Mansour will also come under increasing scrutiny.

However, Cook insists that there is a strategy, telling the Guardian: "Critics only have their own perspective.

"They're not at the football club, they haven't been part of the planning or the long-term financial strategies.

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"People think we choose players from the fantasy football league but there was a clear plan for who Roberto wanted to sign.

"One of the perceptions was that we only buy foreign players, then suddenly people saw that six of the England team who finished against Switzerland were City players.

"When people see the good things we are actually doing, they seem to be enlightened."

With regards to the new rules on finance, which will see Uefa only permit a loss of €45m (£39.7m) over the three years between 2011 and 2014, Cook also insists City, who lost £121m in 2009/10, have plans in place.

"Clearly our intention is to comply," said Cook. "Our two-year plan was to take a budget and build a competency to compete at the highest level, not forgetting the need for succession planning in every position.

"We are pleased with how that worked and will not be signing players to the same level of intensity in the next transfer windows.

"Financial fair play is on our conscience, we talk about it at every board meeting and it's part of our long-term plan."
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"When people see the good things we are actually doing, they seem to be enlightened."

:laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: TWAT. Shit management, shit history thus a shitty club.
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Oct 26 2010, 10:50 AM
"When people see the good things we are actually doing, they seem to be enlightened."

:laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: TWAT. Shit management, shit history thus a shitty club.
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Hahaha can't believe that twat is trying to play down what they've done in the past few years. This club is one of the reasons why I hate top flight football.
"You would have to say honestly, no. But I have to tell you, when I walked through the door, more than any other player, he grabbed me - and he grabbed me within two training sessions. I asked, 'Who's that?'.

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MrM
Oct 26 2010, 11:32 AM
ZeeZoo
Oct 26 2010, 10:50 AM
"When people see the good things we are actually doing, they seem to be enlightened."

:laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: TWAT. Shit management, shit history thus a shitty club.
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MattyCantona
Oct 26 2010, 12:36 PM
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Oct 26 2010, 11:32 AM
ZeeZoo
Oct 26 2010, 10:50 AM
"When people see the good things we are actually doing, they seem to be enlightened."

:laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: :laughcry: TWAT. Shit management, shit history thus a shitty club.
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Bit of an odd line to put in there tbh, the arrogance of claiming that they are doing "good deeds" and believing that people will eventually come round to that fact is a bit of a disgrace.

I'm not sure as to how much of a clear plan City have either, I had faith in Mancio until he bought Milner, it's a signing that just smacks of being made just so City can claim they're including English players in their side, there was no point to it and it was at a ridiculous price. Other than Milner and City's other shit aquistition from Aston Villa, Mancini has created a quality which people will soon learn to respect; I can't see too many more trophy signings being made unless Sharm El Sheik starts interfering.
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I agree with what most of Elcule says but Milner seemed like a perfectly good signing to me, he fits the style that the team play in perfectly and he is an excellent signing for me, over-priced obviously though
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I can only really see him as a replacement for Barry; Milner has limited both Johnson and Silva's playing time this season and will no doubt do it to a greater extent now Balotelli has returned. He's a good player but out of the three (Silva, Milner, Balotelli) he was definitely the least talented and most expensive signing.
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Milner should be starting ahead of Barry without doubt. I think he could do a good job there actuallly.
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Oct 26 2010, 12:48 PM
I can't see too many more trophy signings being made unless Sharm El Sheik starts interfering.
trophy signings, one way of getting silverware i suppose :whistle: :lol:
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Oct 26 2010, 01:00 PM
I can only really see him as a replacement for Barry; Milner has limited both Johnson and Silva's playing time this season and will no doubt do it to a greater extent now Balotelli has returned. He's a good player but out of the three (Silva, Milner, Balotelli) he was definitely the least talented and most expensive signing.
That doesn't mean he is a bad signing, it just means Mancini doesn't have a sack and doesn't want to attack. Milner was a good signing.
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That Gary Cook chap is an awful cunt.
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Santa Cruz has said Tevez wants to leave but is likely to see out his contract. Wants to go back to Argentina apparently.
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Oct 27 2010, 11:58 AM
Santa Cruz has said Tevez wants to leave but is likely to see out his contract. Wants to go back to Argentina apparently.
tevez changes his mind every few minutes so id take what he says with a pinch of salt
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Tevez is a smart lad. Don't let his looks fool you.
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