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City Executive Chairman, Garry Cook, has again outlined the vision for
the Club under Chairman and owner Sheikh Mansour along with Manager
Mark Hughes.
Despite the immediate pressure of producing results in
the game's current climate, Cook remains fully aware and calm about
City life of late, as do the Club’s board.
“Well I, like
everybody, was heartbroken after the Everton game and Mark nearly broke
his foot! The Board get concerned about everybody’s demeanour in order
to make sure that we stay on track and keep moving forward,” Garry told
us.
“They’ve been around business a very long time and make big,
big business decision. There are twists and turns in the business world
and twists and turns in football.
“Fans see those twists and
turns but what we don’t want to do is change our direction and change
what we’re trying to get done over the long term based on a couple of
results.”
And of the fans, Garry added: “They have every right to
show their feelings, they pay good money and they don’t deserve what
they’re getting.
“If they don’t get what they want then they
have a right to make their feelings known. At the same time the fans
also have to know that this Club is going through radical change. We
didn’t flick a switch and think everything was going to be fine.
“We’ve
got infrastructure investments going on, we’re changing people, and
there’s change all over the Club. More importantly the culture of the
Club we are trying to deep root the future and the building of the
future doesn’t happen overnight.
“A few results from the last
few games have not gone in our favour and what you don’t want to do in
situations like that is panic.
“We’re looking forward to a
better second half of the year and he’s working hard to correct some of
the challenges that we’ve got.”
“Mark’s got some challenges in some of the playing areas, he doesn’t have a very deep squad and he talks about that.”
As
talk turned to the Manager and his future at the Club, Cook quickly
played down any suggestions about Mark Hughes leaving the Club in the
near future.
He declared: “We don’t even get to think in that
way and nor should we. It was clearly stated by Sheikh Mansour and
Khaldoon Al Mubarak that the team they have in place they are
comfortable with. We move ahead with that in mind.
“We again
don’t presume that anything’s going to go wrong. We’ll deal with what
results happen over the next four, five months as we get into the
second half of the season. Mark is an experienced guy and an
experienced manager. He knows what success looks like and that he has a
role to play in delivering that success.”
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