Media Thread 2020/21

[blue b4 the moon]

The female presenter on BBC’s Northwest tonight just said “Jayo Canchello”

Ffs, how hard can it be. Your only job as a news presenter is to read the news properly.

Yes, shite mate.

Shameful as per some poster in here said apparently her partner & sons are S/C holders with us too.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

So now we have to win the quadruple to be considered a success. Anything else would be a disappointment apparently. No other team gets this shit. If we win a treble we have underachieved. What a prick Simon Jordan is.

 

[inchy14]

Chelsea are ahead on that one mate. Same trophies won more or less and less spent. We hopefully will catch them soon though.

Is inflation taken into account though?

 

[aguero93:20]

Is inflation taken into account though?

No, but we're talking about the last decade, we've consistently outspent them.

 

[pirate]

So now we have to win the quadruple to be considered a success. Anything else would be a disappointment apparently. No other team gets this shit. If we win a treble we have underachieved. What a prick Simon Jordan is.

the thing you have to remember, and remind anyone who thinks simon jordan is qualified to talk about football, is that he owned crystal palace for ten years, spent a fortune, got them promoted then relegated and ran them so badly that they ended up in administration with massive debts.

 

[give it to gordon]

So now we have to win the quadruple to be considered a success. Anything else would be a disappointment apparently. No other team gets this shit. If we win a treble we have underachieved. What a prick Simon Jordan is.

Its fucking ridicules knocknout cups arent easy to win. Look at how many times City have been screwed by VAR and the refs in champions league. Winning knock out cups particularly in Europe needs luck something City never had. To win the fa cup one bad VAR decision and you could be out.

Liverpool had some much luck and help to win the champs league and premier league

 

[SilverFox2]

Good.
I'm glad Pep finally said something like that, I often agree with dippers and rags when the play the money card....embrace it, brag about it....don't be defensive about it....rub it in their jealous whiney fuckin faces........we're rich, REALLY FUCKIN RICH.....hahahhaahahaha

People forget our owners have made. Investments into City not donations,
Initially the business plan required time to become profitable which was called unfair. Now City make money which is ploughed back into football rather than removed to fund other ventures.

What's to not like about that?

 

[Mike Cledford]

I waited for the Sport on Breakfast and got Smug Mike trying to stick to his prepared report staring with Arsenal whilst the dreadful NMfuckingChetty kept interrupting with he view on cricket.
So up I got telly off, fuck the rest of the news and l took longer on the 3 morning she's in the bathroom. Turned on tv and that dreadful woman was asking some singer whether she was drinking tea or coffee. Over to ITV. Frank Bruno was on but l couldn't understand a word he was saying. Try the radio. Talkshite had some singer with a Southern accent talking about some computer game but when they started on the wonderful 'Bruno' l have settled for silence and will feed the birds even that little bugger with the red top.

 

[The perfect fumble]

For any lurking hacks, here’s an idea for an article ...start with a headline along the lines of ‘How Much Does a Trophy Cost?’
You can then do a formula for all of the ‘Big 6’ teams of the previous 10 years spend divided by the number trophies won. This will then give you a figure for cost per trophy. Then print a league table for which team gets best value for their money.
And my guess is, City will romp that league table too.

In addition...

As of 26th Nov 2019....

Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi-controlled owner has agreed to sell a $500 million stake to U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake, making it the world’s most valuable soccer group with a $4.8 billion price tag.

https://www.reuters.com/article/soc...llion-price-tag-with-stake-sale-idINKBN1Y10FF

As I posted a while back, we're not involved in some sinister plot the like of which the world has never seen. Put simply our owners are primarily interested in asset appreciation, that's why we're such a good investment for an equity firm like Silver Lake.

The likes of the Fenway Group are primarily interested in profit maximisation.

That's why we spend and they don't.

 

[trotsky]

Chelsea are ahead on that one mate. Same trophies won more or less and less spent. We hopefully will catch them soon though.

Oh well, but thanks for doing the maths. I knew the teams in Red would be nowhere near. Hopefully a recalculation at the end of the season will see us top the ‘Value-for-Money League’.
Not that I give a sh1t really - I often use a similar point about value for money when what we spend is discussed with plastics. “My City season card is the cheapest in Europe on a goals per game ratio - what do you pay for yours or for a ticket?” Obviously at this point they make excuses and leave as most know everything about the club they ‘support’ apart from how to get there!

 

[The perfect fumble]

So now we have to win the quadruple to be considered a success. Anything else would be a disappointment apparently. No other team gets this shit. If we win a treble we have underachieved. What a prick Simon Jordan is.

Hell is being locked in a room with these fuckers for eternity.

 

[Tracking back]

It seems we never learn, always shooting outselves in the foot one way or another. Lazy journos are always waiting like vultures for a headline like this. It just leads to more resentment than praise.

I don't see it that way Citymad.

I understand where you're coming from however, the comments from Pep in his press conference have put a spanner in the works as far as the media are concerned.

The media are obsessed with the club's wealth and there's hardly a pre-match or post-match report written about us that doesn't entail the word "money".

What Pep has so skillfully done is put it out there: "yes we've got loads of money and we buy talent". I bet there's a few CEOs from other clubs thinking to themselves "shit; hang on a minute, isn't that what I'm here to do?"

As for the media Pep has set the perfect trap for them. Sure it's a provocative headline but run with it and you'll be shown up for the lazy hacks that we all know you to be.

Anyone with a modicum of intelligence will know that Manchester City's success has got less to do with money and everything to with planning, vision, infrastructure and execution.

If you've got any doubts about that the next time you're in London ask any rag fan how they feel about the Glazer's?

 

[Blue Til Death]

I waited for the Sport on Breakfast and got Smug Mike trying to stick to his prepared report staring with Arsenal whilst the dreadful NMfuckingChetty kept interrupting with he view on cricket.
So up I got telly off, fuck the rest of the news and l took longer on the 3 morning she's in the bathroom. Turned on tv and that dreadful woman was asking some singer whether she was drinking tea or coffee. Over to ITV. Frank Bruno was on but l couldn't understand a word he was saying. Try the radio. Talkshite had some singer with a Southern accent talking about some computer game but when they started on the wonderful 'Bruno' l have settled for silence and will feed the birds even that little bugger with the red top.

Fuck me Mike, what a shitty start to your day ... Go back to bed mate and wait for Saturday..

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Chelsea are ahead on that one mate. Same trophies won more or less and less spent. We hopefully will catch them soon though.

So from 2010/11 until the end of last season? We have more trophies than them but they have 3 European trophies in that time, which is not to be sniffed at.

Chelsea:
1x Champions League
2x Europa League
2x Premier League
2x FA Cup
1x League Cup

So 8 trophies.

City:
4x Premier League
2x FA Cup
5x League Cup
3x Community Shield (if we are counting it)

They’ve done very well in Europe to be fair, even if two of them were the Europa League.

 

[TheThirdDeano]

So now we have to win the quadruple to be considered a success. Anything else would be a disappointment apparently. No other team gets this shit. If we win a treble we have underachieved. What a prick Simon Jordan is.

We’ve already won a quadruple!

 

[Tracking back]

Chelsea are ahead on that one mate. Same trophies won more or less and less spent. We hopefully will catch them soon though.

Yes.

But it's not the rags or the dippers and that's all that matters to the media.

 

[mac]

Its fucking ridicules knocknout cups arent easy to win. Look at how many times City have been screwed by VAR and the refs in champions league. Winning knock out cups particularly in Europe needs luck something City never had. To win the fa cup one bad VAR decision and you could be out.

Liverpool had some much luck and help to win the champs league and premier league

On the Bt commentary the other night the commentator said something along the lines of us getting some dodgy decisions that fucked us over. They all know it has happened but will not come out with it 100%. It pisses me off when we have a blue in the studio ie Jolean who doesn't say it as it is.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Hell is being locked in a room with these fuckers for eternity.

Eternity? A few minutes being daft enough to watch their clips on youtube is hell enough for me.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Fuck me Mike, what a shitty start to your day ... Go back to bed mate and wait for Saturday..

Ha. It started off so well. I woke later and the so sun was out so no need to stay in bed so long waiting for the house to warm. And then it turned to crap.
Better now that I spotted a blackbird possibly collecting his nesting material so things have improved and of course made contact with proper fans in here;)

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

So now we have to win the quadruple to be considered a success. Anything else would be a disappointment apparently. No other team gets this shit. If we win a treble we have underachieved. What a prick Simon Jordan is.

It pains me to defend Jordan but virtually everything he said here is fair comment and he defended City's spending strongly by saying all big clubs do it. He said he would be disappointed as a City fan if City didn't "set up to win the quadruple" but Jim White (as he does) twisted his comment. Jordan didn't use the phrase underachieved. I don't know any City fan who has said we will win the quadruple but I am delighted that we are "giving it a go." I would be upset if we didn't win the title and the League Cup from this position, the Everton cup tie is a big test, and the CL remains a lottery.