Manny Cussins Quotes in The Damned United (2009)

Manny Cussins: I hired you to do this job because I think you're the best young manager in this country.

Brian Clough: Thank you. I'm the best old one, too.

Manny Cussins: I also did it under the assumption that you would be coming here wanting the best for this club. For the city of Leeds. So why do I get the feeling this is all about you and Don?

Brian Clough: Of course it's just about me and Don. Always has been. But instead of putting frowns on your foreheads, all you elders of Leeds in your blazers and your brass-fucking-buttons, it should put big white Colgate smiles on your big white faces. Because it means I won't eat, and won't sleep until I've taken whatever that man's achieved, and beaten it. Beaten it so I never have to hear the name Don fucking Revie again. Beat it, the only name anyone sings in the Yorkshire ale houses, raising their stinking jars to their stinking mouths, is Brian Clough. Brian Clough uber-fucking-alles! Understand?

Manny Cussins: Let's be honest, Brian. It's not working, is it? The players aren't happy. We're not happy. In truth, we should probably never have hired you without Peter Taylor.

Brian Clough: So... what do you want to do about it?

Manny Cussins: It's not working. We have to part company.

Brian Clough: Fine, it'll cost you twenty-five grand.

Manny Cussins: What? For six weeks' work?

Brian Clough: Plus three-and-a-half grand for Jimmy Gordon. And an agreement that Leeds United will pay both our income taxes for the next three years.

Manny Cussins: That is bloody criminal!

Brian Clough: You can throw in the Merc and all.

Manny Cussins: What?

Brian Clough: Might be a bit flash for a man out of a job, but the truth is, I've grown to like it.

Manny Cussins: Who do you bloody think you are?

Brian Clough: Brian Clough. Brian Howard Clough.