Manchester City executive chairman Garry Cook is under pressure.

The Daily Mail says City chiefs will watch the performance of executive chairman Garry Cook until the end of the season in the wake of the Kaka transfer affair.

City owner Sheik Mansour and chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak were disappointed at the manner in which Cook and his aides handled the attempt to do a £100million deal with AC Milan for the Brazilian.

Cook's position is not under immediate threat. Indeed, he has been given the go-ahead to appoint his former Nike colleague Brian Marwood as 'football administrator'.