There are no fewer than 25 British newspaper pieces dedicated to the resignation yesterday of former City CEO Garry Cook.

All of them quote from the statement put up on our website in the afternoon so take your pick.

Some of those newspapers also go on to preview today’s match against Wigan.

The Sun’s Neil Custis centres on the captaincy.

'Carlos Tevez has been stripped of the Manchester City captaincy for trying to quit the club,’ he writes. 'Roberto Mancini gave Vincent Kompany the armband for the first three games while Tevez was regaining to fitness.
'But the City boss revealed Argy striker Tev is not skipper any more.'

Over in the Guardian Daniel Taylor pontificates on the life of a footballer who is not actually playing football and centres his thoughts on City’s Wayne Bridge.

‘On the face of it, it is not a bad life,’ he muses. ‘Wayne Bridge has all the star footballer's accessories: the pretty girlfriend, the designer labels, the big house on millionaire's row, with the big drive and big gates.

‘But it is a strange existence. Bridge trains alone…he has not played for the first team since last December and is not in the 25-man squads for either the Premier League or Champions League. He has become one of the forgotten men, lost in the small print of the story that is unfolding in east Manchester.'

One manager who sees some of football’s issues as being straightforward is Mick McCarthy. You can always rely on the former City central defender and now Wolves boss for straight talking and he is in full flow this morning in the Daily Express.

He believes that player power is making it harder for managers to hang on to star names when other clubs come calling.

A summer dominated by headlines surrounding Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri, Carlos Tevez and Luka Modric ended with Fabregas and Nasri moving and Modric and Tevez staying.

‘I suppose the game has known this situation for a long while. The difference now is the sums of money involved,” McCarthy told the paper. 'It’s not as though players travel in by bus, with a packet of Woodbine, a flat cap and a whippet in their pocket.'