dazby wrote:Can someone please take the time and highlight to me how it was done badly? I just don't see what was wrong with it. Not one bit. I had no problem with Cookie's press conference either.
It's never pleasant to sack the manager. I thought it was handled satisfactorily.
I keep reading snide remarks from posters about how poorly we handled it. Please explain yourselves and how it could have been handled better.
Slim wrote:Did they really expect to sack someone in a vital role without having lined up a replacement or at least sounded some people out on the subject? I think the media are the true Clueless One.
Socrates wrote:Cook is a liability whenever he speaks to the media but this accepted bollocks that the club did anything wrong in the actual sacking is really irritating me. It wasn't leaked by the club, it was leaked in Italy. It was unfortunate but is being overplayed massively by Hughes supporters with an axe to grind yet who cannot come up with any reason for him to be kept beyond being "not awful!"
john@staustell wrote:It's over. Can't we move on?
Forward with Robbie Manc!
M147WN wrote:Another theroy about the whole affair is that as long as a year ago (when we were initially linked with Mancini) the wheels could have put in motion. The owners had to be seen to give hughes time: Mancini was available for work but ultimately stayed 'unemployed' until the time was right to sever ties with Hughes (although I believe he was still contracted to Inter this would have been easily overcome had another suiter required his services).
Mancini had spent a great deal of time in this country learning the language and familliarizing himself with the EPL and possibly our club?
it all seems to add up and maybe the full story will never come out but its possible this was done this time last year.
Ted Hughes wrote:I think the point is that there was absolutely no need for it to be handled this way. Whether people like Hughes or not, if they were going to sack him he could & should have been sacked immediately after the Spuds game. The reason he wasn't is supposed to be that the chairman wanted to sack him in person so left him to squirm on the hook until he turned up to put him out of his misery at the weekend because he was busy doing something more important during the week. He's then fucked off again & left someone with the incompetent media skills of Cook to explain it all.
Shabby, disgraceful & has brought us the worst publicity we've ever had in my lifetime of supporting City. As the people involved have money & we need it, everyone is happy to pretend it's fine to behave like that.
aaron bond wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:I think the point is that there was absolutely no need for it to be handled this way. Whether people like Hughes or not, if they were going to sack him he could & should have been sacked immediately after the Spuds game. The reason he wasn't is supposed to be that the chairman wanted to sack him in person so left him to squirm on the hook until he turned up to put him out of his misery at the weekend because he was busy doing something more important during the week. He's then fucked off again & left someone with the incompetent media skills of Cook to explain it all.
Shabby, disgraceful & has brought us the worst publicity we've ever had in my lifetime of supporting City. As the people involved have money & we need it, everyone is happy to pretend it's fine to behave like that.
But we couldn't sack him after the Spurs match as we didn't have a replacement lined up yet.
We were not going to sack Hughes and be left managerless. The board and owners wanted to make sure we had a replacement confirmed before getting rid. That is a perfectly logical thing to do.
It is a shame that it was leaked out before Khaldoon and Cook could tell Hughes themselves, but I think ensuring we had a new manager before sacking Hughes was the right thing to do.
We would have been in a worse position within the club if we went through a period with no manager at all!
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