It has emerged that the the reason for Manchester City's unbelievably bad spending spree over the last couple of years is down to a playful clause placed in chief executive Garry Cook's contract.
Cook (pictured left when he signed Mark Hughes as manager, shortly before sacking Mark Hughes as manager) signed a contract at Eastlands in 2007 including a never before heard of clause that he should try and waste £850 million pounds over the next 3 years leaving him with no footballing assets!?, which should he achieve he would then qualify for a payment of £100 billion which he would receive in vouchers and be able to spend at all branches of Dorothy Perkins in the Manchester area.
The amazing challenge is surprisingly similar to the storyline of the 1985 Richard Pryor film 'Brewsters Millions' which is known to be the favorite film of owner Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (which incidentally means 'More money than sense' in Arabic).
The film centres on the idea that an aging Minor league Baseball player is left £300 million in a relatives will but only if he can spend £30 million in 30 days and have nothing to show for it!.
Fan Brian Hewlet-Packard from Chapel en the Frith said ''I'm not surprised to be honest, I mean how else can you explain signing players like Lescott, Bridge, Zabaleta, Boateng, Jo, Benjani, Garrido, Bojinov, both Toure's, Santa Cruz, De Jong, Kompany, Bellamy, Wright-Phillips, Adebayor and Petrov!......pointless..... Just think, if we'd have saved the squad we had and spent all that cash on some quality players we might have been the 4th best team in the Premier League!?!....doubtful but you never know.''
