Comments on: Why Garry Cook Should be Praised and not Ridiculed

By: Zorrin Drax

Zorrin Drax — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:23:38 +0000

Another thing I like about our marketing since Cook took over is that our club website has gone from crap to good. It even reports transfer rumours, speculation and bad press in it’s newspaper roundup.

I recon the “welcome to Manchester” poster cost about a grand. It was just one standard billboard in manchester, but it went around the world.

Type the words “welcome to Manchester” into google images, and you will get 16 million results.

It’s the kind of iconic, viral image that marketing gurus hope to make once in their lifetime. That’s why we nabbed Cook from Nike.

By: Clive Tysoe

Clive Tysoe — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:17:08 +0000

@ Steve…give me more clues! I usually remember City fans when I meet them, especially The Deep End!

By: Zorrin Drax

Zorrin Drax — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:15:03 +0000

Oh, and if Cook wasn’t behind the “welcome to Manchester” poster, I’m sure he would be happy to take the credit for it.

It’s probably the most iconic marketing image in City’s history. Its not an embarrassment. Tevez has been the premiership’s top goalscorer over the 2 years since he came to Manchester. We haven’t been forced to eat that poster, like the rags and their “34 years” one.

By: Zorrin Drax

Zorrin Drax — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:05:59 +0000

When you consider that City’s owner is like 60 Roman Abramovich’s, the club has been EXTREMELY low-profile.

Sheik Mansour has investments in several of Berlisconi’s media companies. Cook knows that AC Milan are our bitch, and thought an agreement with Kaka and Berlisconi was in place. Kaka and Berlisconi caved in to fan pressure. In fact, “they bottled it”.

Garry Cook is more used to dealing with businessmen, than dealing with slippery, perma-tanned italian politicians. To say that the Italian prime minister and former world footballer of the year had caved in under the pressure was a fair comment, in my opinion.

As for City being the top club in the world in 10 years time? UEFA have introduced a bunch of financial rules specifically to stop city (or be seen to try to stop us). Nevertheless, UEFA seem to kind of like manchester City.

“Here are the details of our half a billion euros stadium naming deal, Mr Platini, in this briefcase. I’m going to look away for a minute now”

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:48:03 +0000

So City should have tapped up players before biding as this is what you’re saying basically, I know Utd have the morals of a prostitute but not all clubs behave like scum. If Kaka and Sanchez???? were embarrassing what were the ‘Worlds biggest club tm’ doing when Ronaldino laughed his little cotton socks off at them?? Or how about Benzema?? The shxte you are talking about happens to all club even the real best clubs in the World not the self proclaimed ones!
The problem is you love to focus on City because of the bitter and jealous reasons you now have i.e Utd signing the world class Young while we are signing players such as Aguero, that‘s gotta hurt LOL.

‘City are going to lose out on the best players in the world‘??? We sign them you don’t even attempt to and with the exception of Veron who flopped never have. CLOWN lol.