Ok, 'friends' wasn't the best word, then again neither Of them has many friends in Manchester.
Update on Rooney's ankle injury.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Who's paying for the trip?
Unicef in all likelyhood. They're known for helping people in need from what I gather.
Unicef.
Rooney also mugged a small child who was dying from leukaemia to get money to buy smokes.
He laughed while he did it too.
The only place Gary Cook has any friends is in that little pink fluffy world inside his deluded head
I still love this!!!!
Garry Cook (CEO) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Garry Cook is a British football executive, currently Chief Executive of Manchester City having worked for Nike between 1996 and 2008.
Career
Cook worked at sports were giants Nike for 12 years, working his way up to head of the Nike project "Brand Opportunism", before leaving Nike in June 2008 to take over as CEO of Manchester City. Although he’d been a resident of the USA since 1985, and spent four years in Amsterdam, Garry currently lives in a f*****g dreamworld. He’s an experienced liar, with experience at covering up child slavery at Nike, making him ideal for a deluded Manchester City.
Nike
Cook says he moved to the U.S in 1996 and started working for Nike eleven years earlier in 1985, presumably using a DeLorean DMC-12 travelling at 88 miles per hour. He would spend 12 years at Nike where he would become president of the very successful Brand Jordan, Cook says that he worked very closely with basketball superstar Michael Jordan while working at Nike. But then, he also told everyone that his dad is Thor, Norse god of thunder.
Manchester City
This attracted the interest of former Manchester City owner and civil rights campaigner Thaksin Shinawatra, who contacted Cook about becoming CEO of the club after the departure of Alistair Campbell, who was sacked for not telling enough lies. Cook accepted the offer and was appointed CEO of the club in May 2008.
One of Cook's first tasks with his new club was to find a new manager after Sven Goran-Eriksson had been dismissed; he targeted Herbert Chapman of 1930's Arsenal. After finding out that he'd been dead for 74 years, he reluctantly settled on Mark Hughes of Blackburn Rovers. On 4 June 2008, Hughes signed a three-thousand year deal with the club, the fool.[1] On the day Hughes was unveiled to the media, Cook couldn't hide his delight, stating, "I am delighted to welcome Mark on board. In our view he is the brightest young manager in the game and he was our number one target for the manager's job. Honest."
2008/09 Season
Cook's new task was player recruitment,[2] and he did deals for Tal Ben-Haim, Jo, Vincent Kompany, Pablo Zabaleta and Shaun Wright-Phillips but failed in a bid for Roy Race, who doesn't actually exist.
However, this was all overshadowed when on 1 September, City were taken over by the Abu Dhabi United Group; within a few hours of news of the takeover Cook completed the transfer of Brazil international Robinho to the club from Real Madrid for a British transfer record of £32.5 million. Cook suggested that the signing ceremony was watched by 10 billion people. Critics pointed out that this figure is some 3.5 billion more people than actually exist, but Cook simply stated that it reflected the magnitude of the news.
After the arrival of the new Abu Dhabi based owners many thought that they would opt for their own CEO but they decided to keep Cook on after being impressed by his vision for the club, the fools. They did, however, appoint a new chairman, Sheikh Yabhouti, who replaced the outgoing Thaksin Shinawatra.
After the 2009 January transfer window opened Cook sealed deals for Wayne Bridge, Craig Bellamy, Shay Given and Nigel de Jong. However, he failed in a world record bid to bring Pele to the club, blaming the breakdown in negotiations on Santos, stating, "If you want my personal opinion they bottled it, He clearly was for sale but we never got to meet with the player, the behaviour of Santos got in the way." Santos replied by pointing out that Pele retired from football more than thiry years ago.
Cook also did much work away from transfers introducing the "I'm From Manchester, Honest" campaign where supporters of the club write in their opinions of why Stockport is actually in Manchester & that they shouldn't go to watch County instead, these have then been placed around the interior of the stadium. Many fans have contributed to this including the likes of Ricky Hatton.
2009/10 Season
After City finished 10th in Cook's first season with the club, Garry suggested that they actually finished 0th, because they're morally better than everyone else.
He went about bringing in further targets of Mark Hughes. In the summer of 2009 Cook brought in Gareth Barry, Roque Santa Cruz, Stuart Taylor, Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor, Kolo Toure, [[Joleon Lescott],] Dougie from McFly and Sylvinho to the club. During this period Cook also built his own team of complete charlatans around him with Brian Marwood joining the club amongst others as part of Cooks team.
Along with Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Cook has seen the complete overhaul of the club's training base Carrington and scheduled a 2009 summer tour of the Moon where the squad met Marvin the Martian and played the Arctic Monkeys in the Vodacom Challenge.
He made a gaffe by welcoming Uwe Rosler to the Manchester United Hall of Fame instead of the Manchester City Hall of Fame and was booed by Manchester City fans, although that didn't actually happen because City fans are the most loyal in the world and never boo. He wrote apology letters to 70,000,000,000,000 Manchester City supporters clubs.
On 19th December 2009, Mark Hughes was relieved of his duties as City's manager after just 200 untruths in twelve games, about half the required amount. It is understood that Cook and Marwood played a large part in convincing chairman Al-Mubarak that Hughes wasn't the man to take City forward based on what Cook managed to achieve on Championship Manager 01/02; former Inter Milan manager Roberto Mancini was appointed as his replacement, the fool.
Personal life
Cook is married tp Girls Aloud and is a keen player of Golf amongst where he regularly competes against Adolf Hitler, Bananaman and Richard Blackwood. Garry invented the colour yellow.
Garry Cook (CEO) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Garry Cook is a British football executive, currently Chief Executive of Manchester City having worked for Nike between 1996 and 2008.
Career
Cook worked at sports were giants Nike for 12 years, working his way up to head of the Nike project "Brand Opportunism", before leaving Nike in June 2008 to take over as CEO of Manchester City. Although he’d been a resident of the USA since 1985, and spent four years in Amsterdam, Garry currently lives in a f*****g dreamworld. He’s an experienced liar, with experience at covering up child slavery at Nike, making him ideal for a deluded Manchester City.
Nike
Cook says he moved to the U.S in 1996 and started working for Nike eleven years earlier in 1985, presumably using a DeLorean DMC-12 travelling at 88 miles per hour. He would spend 12 years at Nike where he would become president of the very successful Brand Jordan, Cook says that he worked very closely with basketball superstar Michael Jordan while working at Nike. But then, he also told everyone that his dad is Thor, Norse god of thunder.
Manchester City
This attracted the interest of former Manchester City owner and civil rights campaigner Thaksin Shinawatra, who contacted Cook about becoming CEO of the club after the departure of Alistair Campbell, who was sacked for not telling enough lies. Cook accepted the offer and was appointed CEO of the club in May 2008.
One of Cook's first tasks with his new club was to find a new manager after Sven Goran-Eriksson had been dismissed; he targeted Herbert Chapman of 1930's Arsenal. After finding out that he'd been dead for 74 years, he reluctantly settled on Mark Hughes of Blackburn Rovers. On 4 June 2008, Hughes signed a three-thousand year deal with the club, the fool.[1] On the day Hughes was unveiled to the media, Cook couldn't hide his delight, stating, "I am delighted to welcome Mark on board. In our view he is the brightest young manager in the game and he was our number one target for the manager's job. Honest."
2008/09 Season
Cook's new task was player recruitment,[2] and he did deals for Tal Ben-Haim, Jo, Vincent Kompany, Pablo Zabaleta and Shaun Wright-Phillips but failed in a bid for Roy Race, who doesn't actually exist.
However, this was all overshadowed when on 1 September, City were taken over by the Abu Dhabi United Group; within a few hours of news of the takeover Cook completed the transfer of Brazil international Robinho to the club from Real Madrid for a British transfer record of £32.5 million. Cook suggested that the signing ceremony was watched by 10 billion people. Critics pointed out that this figure is some 3.5 billion more people than actually exist, but Cook simply stated that it reflected the magnitude of the news.
After the arrival of the new Abu Dhabi based owners many thought that they would opt for their own CEO but they decided to keep Cook on after being impressed by his vision for the club, the fools. They did, however, appoint a new chairman, Sheikh Yabhouti, who replaced the outgoing Thaksin Shinawatra.
After the 2009 January transfer window opened Cook sealed deals for Wayne Bridge, Craig Bellamy, Shay Given and Nigel de Jong. However, he failed in a world record bid to bring Pele to the club, blaming the breakdown in negotiations on Santos, stating, "If you want my personal opinion they bottled it, He clearly was for sale but we never got to meet with the player, the behaviour of Santos got in the way." Santos replied by pointing out that Pele retired from football more than thiry years ago.
Cook also did much work away from transfers introducing the "I'm From Manchester, Honest" campaign where supporters of the club write in their opinions of why Stockport is actually in Manchester & that they shouldn't go to watch County instead, these have then been placed around the interior of the stadium. Many fans have contributed to this including the likes of Ricky Hatton.
2009/10 Season
After City finished 10th in Cook's first season with the club, Garry suggested that they actually finished 0th, because they're morally better than everyone else.
He went about bringing in further targets of Mark Hughes. In the summer of 2009 Cook brought in Gareth Barry, Roque Santa Cruz, Stuart Taylor, Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor, Kolo Toure, [[Joleon Lescott],] Dougie from McFly and Sylvinho to the club. During this period Cook also built his own team of complete charlatans around him with Brian Marwood joining the club amongst others as part of Cooks team.
Along with Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Cook has seen the complete overhaul of the club's training base Carrington and scheduled a 2009 summer tour of the Moon where the squad met Marvin the Martian and played the Arctic Monkeys in the Vodacom Challenge.
He made a gaffe by welcoming Uwe Rosler to the Manchester United Hall of Fame instead of the Manchester City Hall of Fame and was booed by Manchester City fans, although that didn't actually happen because City fans are the most loyal in the world and never boo. He wrote apology letters to 70,000,000,000,000 Manchester City supporters clubs.
On 19th December 2009, Mark Hughes was relieved of his duties as City's manager after just 200 untruths in twelve games, about half the required amount. It is understood that Cook and Marwood played a large part in convincing chairman Al-Mubarak that Hughes wasn't the man to take City forward based on what Cook managed to achieve on Championship Manager 01/02; former Inter Milan manager Roberto Mancini was appointed as his replacement, the fool.
Personal life
Cook is married tp Girls Aloud and is a keen player of Golf amongst where he regularly competes against Adolf Hitler, Bananaman and Richard Blackwood. Garry invented the colour yellow.
The club have probably done this to avoid any unwanted distractions in derby week, last thing we need is another will he wont he play every day leading up to the derby which is what would have happened if Rooney were left to train with us in the media glare, plus with all the crap of the last few weeks maybe we felt it was a load of nonsense we could well do without in the lead up to such a big game knowing Rooney wasn't going to be involved anyway its a load of rubbish we didn't need.
smokescreen, hes off in Jan
Yup that makes sense, here Wayne we know your off so have an extra 100k a week out the club on us before we sell ya in jan......
Masterminds running our club these days....
Masterminds running our club these days....
I really do think he's off in January now. If he's not injured any more, what's the benefit of getting him back to full fitness so far away? He played only a month ago against WBA, so he can't be too off-form.
Something's not right here.
Something's not right here.
i hope we sell him
oh dear lots of united fans turning against rooney.
Must say I wouldn't be surprised whatsoever if he never plays for us again
I wouldn't be at all surprised. Have they given him a Twitter account yet?
We often let players do rehab work abroad - to give them something else to do with their brains while their bodies are doing something boring. A change is as good as a rest and all that. Usually they go "home" but as Rooney was already home there was no point in him doing that.
The other advantage, timing-wise, is that it'll stop him (and us) trying to rush the recovery. With no SAF to show off to on the training pitch, he won't be trying to prove he's ready for the derby.
We're selling him to a MLS side
I wish I cud be paid 250K for doing feck all. + go on a fully paid vacation to USA.
There's no way on Earth the club and Rooney would have said what they did once he signed the deal if he was going anywhere.
Erm Ronaldo?
apart from the million other reasons that Rooney's situation bares no resemblance whatsoever to Ronaldo's, we wouldn't get 80m for Rooney. In fact we'd do very well to get half that
You misunderstand, we said the same thing in both cases we made similar statements, and I'd say 35-40 million would be a decent price anyway.
Then there's the million other reasons...
its all a fishy smelling conspriracy ...
fishy
Will keep some of the fans off his back, so the team can concentrate on winning matches. If he wasnt given loadsamoney it'd be obvious that he's off and the whole situation would drag on till he left.
It was our treble season and our Great Dane was leaking ridiculous goals after announcing his retirement. 2 weeks rest later and he was back to his best.
The actual reason (according to me) Rooney is there is a reason United won't admit. It's pretty fecking simple and pretty fecking obvious.
He's there to get away from the heat of the English press and because he quite clearly hasn't taken care of his body for the last few months. He's doing some intensive conditioning and getting back into the shape a professional Footballer should be in. Hopefully this will mean we have the real Rooney back for the Christmas period, new year and squeaky bum time and not this overweight muppet that can't keep up with play and doesn't have the pace or sharpness to get into the right positions.
Ferguson isn't fecking around, he clearly want's the real Rooney back.
He's there to get away from the heat of the English press and because he quite clearly hasn't taken care of his body for the last few months. He's doing some intensive conditioning and getting back into the shape a professional Footballer should be in. Hopefully this will mean we have the real Rooney back for the Christmas period, new year and squeaky bum time and not this overweight muppet that can't keep up with play and doesn't have the pace or sharpness to get into the right positions.
Ferguson isn't fecking around, he clearly want's the real Rooney back.
i dont accept from anyone to say anything bad about the best football team in the world. when he will come back i will do the sameScholes what have you done to Rooney's ankle?
I heard in a news clip that Nike was involved in the US trip. Called it a one week rehab.
The tabloids are claiming that he was sent out to appease the Nike Sponsors.Could be some truth in that.
He seems to have become a liability. The prat.
So people think we're sending him to "Fat Camp" now? 
Poor old Wayne - I remember when he was the jumpers for goalposts, street striker, play for nothing boy next door and Ballon D'Or candidate. A month or so ago wasn't it?
Don't worry, Nike will have loads of pictures of him smiling, wearing his heart monitor, and pedalling fast. Home for the Christmas push.
Poor old Wayne - I remember when he was the jumpers for goalposts, street striker, play for nothing boy next door and Ballon D'Or candidate. A month or so ago wasn't it?
Don't worry, Nike will have loads of pictures of him smiling, wearing his heart monitor, and pedalling fast. Home for the Christmas push.
Why do so many people think he'll "never play for the club again" or he will be "gone in January"?
We've just made him the highest player at the club. He's going absolutely nowhere any time soon.
As for the trip to the States, he didn't have a proper pre-season and he's had trouble with injuries. He's obviously carrying far too much weight so the club are trying to rectify that.
Some of you lot (and some sections of the media tbf) will make something out of absolutely everything.
We've just made him the highest player at the club. He's going absolutely nowhere any time soon.
As for the trip to the States, he didn't have a proper pre-season and he's had trouble with injuries. He's obviously carrying far too much weight so the club are trying to rectify that.
Some of you lot (and some sections of the media tbf) will make something out of absolutely everything.
He is going there to discuss transfers with uncle Malc, Chicarito out?
Have a look at what Rooney said and what United said after the deal was signed.
He's going nowhere.
Ronaldo was one isolated incident in our history. Why do we always have to draw parallels with his situation? What about the 10s and 100s of players that we have had that have ended up signing a new deal and then stayed?
He's got his payrise, that's what he wanted.
This is the problem with football nowadays - everyone is trying to carry out pseudo-pyschoanalysis of players. It's pretty fecking simple. He wanted more money and he's got it.
No, the problem with football is that it has always been a emotionally fueled business and the pseudo-psychoanalysis of what goes on in the game is just a side effect or a by product of emotions. The thing is, Rooney was loved unconditionally when he joined and carried that love with him up until details of that "saga" were made public. The way supporters are reacting now is just a reflection of their inner feelings towards the said player.
He is a cnut
People draw parallels because there are parallels, and since your the one psychoanalysing this your clearly steeped in irony.
Also Ronaldo got a payrise to the highest paid player in our history if you remember, there's 2 parallels to begin with.
BTW the difference with those others who signed deals and stayed is simple, they never said they wanted to leave.
I don't think Fergie and Gill would have gone to the extent that they did after Rooney's deal if they meant to sell him in the summer.
All their talk about how it proved United can yet compete for the best players would prove null and void if we were to sell Rooney and would make us look like fools. Had we signed him up just to sell him I doubt Fergie and Gill would have spoken the way the did.
I have no problem with the negative reaction towards Rooney. I feel very, very negative towards him as well.
What I have a problem with is all the bollocks conspiracies doing the rounds now - he's clearly not being sold now he has his payrise.
I'm not the one airing full blown conspiracy theories.
The simple fact is, he went in with hard ball negotiating tactics, and he got what he wanted. Simple.
Can we please fecking move on now.