Media Thread 2020/21

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Semper aggressus said:
I wish the club would defend itself more against some of the blatant lies and misinformation that’s frequently spouted in the media. If the order from Khaldoon is do nothing though then our hands are tied. I assume we’re playing the long game.

However, from my point of view I wish we would employ a couple of slimy, aggressive American lawyer types, the sort who get celebrities off the hook on a ‘technicality’ even when blatantly guilty, to take the worst of these media liars apart. I’m sure if some of the rag loving media cunts were faced with fabricated but compelling ‘evidence’ of something like bribery or a dubious sexual encounter then their lying bullshit about human rights, Pep leaving, oil money, etc would stop quite quickly.
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Hahahahaha,honestly if I owned a club that was getting so much negative press and downright lies told and spread about it,I’d not care about the cost but would employ some people to start making some of these cnuts actually disappear..
 
malg said:
I get that. It'll never happen. Maybe if the Rags go on a 20 match unbeaten run will hear about individual transfer fees...... I wouldn't be holding my breath though.
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We got all the digs and comments re what we payed for players well before we won 20 the bounce, it is the narrative with us whether we win one game or 20.
 
petrusha said:
Funnily enough, in personal correspondence with another Blue recently I cited Jonathan Wilson as someone incapable of writing about City without some disapproving reference to the "source of our wealth". It's a coincidence, then, that he's up to his old tricks this morning.

Wilson is an obviously intelligent man who produces some excellent work, though he can't stop himself from being almost comically pretentious on occasion (not for nothing does he feature more regularly than any other football journalist in Private Eye's Pseuds Corner). And he evidently has a well-founded concern for probity in football club ownership. Or does he?

Last summer, a Blue challenged him on why he invariably thus caveats any reference to City but never does similar when writing about Chelsea. Revealingly, the response was laughably, pathetically vapid and unconvincing.

Chelsea, lest anyone forget, are owned by a man who's still owed comfortably north of a billion quid by the club's holding company for funds he's pumped in down the years. He also can no longer obtain a UK work visa because an unexplained wealth order has been issued with respect to him.

In fact, that just denotes he's a crook as the source of his wealth can be explained: it was stolen, cynically and deliberately, from the Russian people. Abramovich, like others in the cohort commonly referred to as the "oligarchs", acquired the basis for his riches in rigged privatisations of state-owned businesses during the 1990s. He paid a paltry (in relative terms) few hundred million for assets worth several billion; typically in this context, the privatised assets realised around 10% of their true worth and those acquired by the Chelsea owner were no different.

Of course, if Wilson is convinced that the probity or otherwise of Chelsea's sole shareholder isn't worth mentioning, there are other issues relating to football ownership that surely are. If we ignore Alisher Usmanov's background presence at Everton (and he allegedly makes Abramovich look like a choirboy), how about the actions of the Americans in charge of the red ugly sisters at either end of the East Lancs Road?

After all, their concern for football lies simply in what they can take out of it. Perniciously, they're conniving at both the European and domestic levels to pervert whatever semblance of proper competition remains in the game for the benefit of their own narrow financial self-interest.

Yet, for Wilson, none of these things are worthy of comment in the same way as is our ownership. In this, he's of course typical of a large section of British football writers, but it's an attitude that amply demonstrates a manifest lack of good faith coupled with an absence of moral or intellectual integrity.

Point that out to him and his mates and they come back with howling accusations of whataboutery. As we all know, having recourse to such allegations is the last refuge of stinking hypocrites when called out on their nauseating double standards.

TL;DR - Wilson is a ****. Fuck him.
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Erudite,accurate and forensic.Excellent post,you should offer Wilson lessons.
 
When I hear mention the cost of our squad or the cost of our bench (£305 million?) I am infused with a rosy glow of satisfaction. I thought it was great yesterday on MotD when the commentator reeled off a list of world class players on the bench and followed it up with "... and then there's Phil Foden", so City have a plan B, C and D on the bench. I think it was meant as a compliment and I took it as one. I don't want, and most of all I don't need commentators to tell me all about other clubs' player costs because I'm pretty well informed already, at least as well informed as the pundits. I support a club which has worked hard to ensure that early heavy investment attracted to new revenue streams and put us in a position to invest heavily in playing staff and attract the best manger in the world. Our riches have a major effect on the pitch and I love it along with thousands of City fans (and other football fans) throughout the world. We don't prop up uneconomic shopping malls on the other side of the world, rely on money launderers etc etc. We do things "the City way", the right way and football benefits as most genuine football fans can see. And if the fans of the 'istry clubs are worried about competitive balance that really is their problem and they should be asking their owners WHY they can't compete. WHY do City do everything better than they do. Thank you once again, Sheikh Mansour.
 
I submitted the following complaint to the BBC this morning, fed up with twisted media reports about our club:

"The supposedly independent Daily BBC gossip column continually shows bias and appears to suppress and distort any positive media articles about Manchester City that slip through the net of pro Liverpool and Manchester United articles. Today it gave incorrect links to a newspaper article and failed to report a leading story referred to by Gary Lineker on Match of the day.

Gary Lineker last night on MoTD referred to headlines in Sunday morning papers, that said Manchester City were looking to buy "both Haaland and Messi". Micah Richards appeared gleeful. As per usual with the BBC gossip column, a positive article about City was distorted and inaccurately reported.

There was no mention of the story referred by Lineker, but only that:
"Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola's uneasy relationship with agent Mino Raiola will not prevent the club from trying to sign his 20-year-old client, Norway striker Erling Braut Haaland"

The BBC gossip column then incorrectly linked to a separate Mirror story about City being interested in a Real Sociadad player, Alexander Isak, nothing to do with either Haaland or Messi:

www.mirror.co.uk
Man City boss Pep Guardiola keen on Real Sociedad youngster Alexander Isak
Swedish sensation on radar of Premier League champions-elect after terrific run in La Liga
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk

I dug round and found the correct "Exclusive" article by Simon Mullock about Manchester City's interest in both Haaland and Messi:

www.mirror.co.uk
Man City's push for £100million Erling Haaland transfer and Mino Raiola's role
EXCLUSIVE: The Norwegian No.9 is set to be at the centre of the biggest transfer saga of the summer after his explosive rise to prominence at Borussia Dortmund has left Europe's elite unwilling to wait
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk

The creators of the BBC Daily football Gossip section seem incapable of independent professional journalism, there is bias whether conscious or subconscious almost every day."
 
M12Blue said:
Shit, if most of our players are now 5’7, they’ll be quoting £ per inch transfer fees to further exaggerate.
Let’s just win the lot and tell them to fuck off
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I can hear Ian Darke now

"Riyad Mahrez cost Manchester City 65 million pounds. He weighs 67 kilograms, so that's just less than a million pounds a kilo"
 
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EricBrooksGhost said:
I see the apologists have disappeared from the thread again; predictable.
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I'm not an apologist for the medias but I can't for the life of me understand why so many are worried and stressed about them. So far we've won 20 games in succession an are still counting, we're 13 points ahead of those "in joint second" in the PL, are in the final of the Carabao cup and are still in the FA cup and champions league and yet it's still far more distressing that a few brainless, bitter no nowt ignoramuses in the medias don't like us or our owners. Just enjoy the bloody football - these same people have been carping for nearly thirteen years and have achieved nothing as City have been led into an era that gets more golden with every season. Don't be so touchy - that's the only reacton tha gives the critics any comfort at all now!
 
Plain Speaking said:
I submitted the following complaint to the BBC this morning, fed up with twisted media reports about our club:

"The supposedly independent Daily BBC gossip column continually shows bias and appears to suppress and distort any positive media articles about Manchester City that slip through the net of pro Liverpool and Manchester United articles. Today it gave incorrect links to a newspaper article and failed to report a leading story referred to by Gary Lineker on Match of the day.

Gary Lineker last night on MoTD referred to headlines in Sunday morning papers, that said Manchester City were looking to buy "both Haaland and Messi". Micah Richards appeared gleeful. As per usual with the BBC gossip column, a positive article about City was distorted and inaccurately reported.

There was no mention of the story referred by Lineker, but only that:
"Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola's uneasy relationship with agent Mino Raiola will not prevent the club from trying to sign his 20-year-old client, Norway striker Erling Braut Haaland"

The BBC gossip column then incorrectly linked to a separate Mirror story about City being interested in a Real Sociadad player, Alexander Isak, nothing to do with either Haaland or Messi:

www.mirror.co.uk
Man City boss Pep Guardiola keen on Real Sociedad youngster Alexander Isak
Swedish sensation on radar of Premier League champions-elect after terrific run in La Liga
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk

I dug round and found the correct "Exclusive" article by Simon Mullock about Manchester City's interest in both Haaland and Messi:

www.mirror.co.uk
Man City's push for £100million Erling Haaland transfer and Mino Raiola's role
EXCLUSIVE: The Norwegian No.9 is set to be at the centre of the biggest transfer saga of the summer after his explosive rise to prominence at Borussia Dortmund has left Europe's elite unwilling to wait
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk

The creators of the BBC Daily football Gossip section seem incapable of independent professional journalism, there is bias whether conscious or subconscious almost every day."
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You should say maybe the problem is that your head of sport is an ex Man U employer and supporter who can’t help but show his bias bitterness.
 
Plain Speaking said:
I submitted the following complaint to the BBC this morning, fed up with twisted media reports about our club:

"The supposedly independent Daily BBC gossip column continually shows bias and appears to suppress and distort any positive media articles about Manchester City that slip through the net of pro Liverpool and Manchester United articles. Today it gave incorrect links to a newspaper article and failed to report a leading story referred to by Gary Lineker on Match of the day.

Gary Lineker last night on MoTD referred to headlines in Sunday morning papers, that said Manchester City were looking to buy "both Haaland and Messi". Micah Richards appeared gleeful. As per usual with the BBC gossip column, a positive article about City was distorted and inaccurately reported.

There was no mention of the story referred by Lineker, but only that:
"Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola's uneasy relationship with agent Mino Raiola will not prevent the club from trying to sign his 20-year-old client, Norway striker Erling Braut Haaland"

The BBC gossip column then incorrectly linked to a separate Mirror story about City being interested in a Real Sociadad player, Alexander Isak, nothing to do with either Haaland or Messi:

www.mirror.co.uk
Man City boss Pep Guardiola keen on Real Sociedad youngster Alexander Isak
Swedish sensation on radar of Premier League champions-elect after terrific run in La Liga
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk

I dug round and found the correct "Exclusive" article by Simon Mullock about Manchester City's interest in both Haaland and Messi:

www.mirror.co.uk
Man City's push for £100million Erling Haaland transfer and Mino Raiola's role
EXCLUSIVE: The Norwegian No.9 is set to be at the centre of the biggest transfer saga of the summer after his explosive rise to prominence at Borussia Dortmund has left Europe's elite unwilling to wait
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk

The creators of the BBC Daily football Gossip section seem incapable of independent professional journalism, there is bias whether conscious or subconscious almost every day."
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Good luck with that ! I received this on the 17th feb from the bbc it was so long ago I cant remember what my complaint was lol. So when they get round to sending the normal shitty response I might remember what I complain about lol

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bluealf said:
Could it be any easier than the free steak they dine on now?

Made up trash about our club 24/7 I honestly can't see how it could be worse, you have a tosser on Twitter declaring that our owner kills babies and he is left unchallenged to say what he pleases, he is more than just a Twitter troll.

He needed shut down instantly imo
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That particular tosser is now an unemployable Covid denier who is openly mocked by those he once considered friends and comrades. So karma is real
 
at what point will the media start to understand prize money for all the hard work on the pitch. plus the sponsorship and media and image revenue is now manchester city spending power and not the owners money ?

jealousy is a bitch and the media are leading the blind. if its any clearer that the hate and jealousy in the media to us you only have to look at last season when liverpool was 19 clear of man city ? one last push by the media to unsettle city this season in hope we crumble and united can step in with the help of VAR and the officials.

fuck you richard keys in pep should be sacked ?
the only club in europe that is punished by uefa for having owners spending money on football
maybe that's why we have not won uefa champions league they will not let us

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/foot...wiyeFY4wIOOTb6P4t-mUAn-afSr7sRKh8TidfBFiTE_bo
 
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