Media Thread 2020/21

[TheThirdDeano]

People seem to forget that Manchester United & Liverpool are English Football, hence the reason they can screen premier league executives, cheat, pay off, tap up & everything else without repercussions.

so in that way our success is damaging English football.
Good, I hope it does.

 

[JRockBlues]

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If they cast their clickbaited lines in shark infested waters then they should sometimes expect to get bit.

 

[Impeccable One]

Who made Garth Crooks' team of the week?

Who played the most glorious pass you will ever see? Whose performance had been a long time coming? Find out in Garth Crooks' team of the week.

www.bbc.co.uk

De Bruyne...

Even Garth couldn’t squeeze a United player in this week.

Again he proves he doesn’t watch the games. Kev did deliver the glorious pass for Dias to score, but apart from that he was very rusty. Not as Crooks describes “The Belgium international then proceeded to spray the ball around all afternoon and looked majestic doing it.”

 

[inchy14]

Who made Garth Crooks' team of the week?

Who played the most glorious pass you will ever see? Whose performance had been a long time coming? Find out in Garth Crooks' team of the week.

www.bbc.co.uk

De Bruyne...

Even Garth couldn’t squeeze a United player in this week.

Amazing... I never expected that back 4 all to be included... wonder what they all had in common....

 

[HelloCity]

I can't remember which pod it was, but he was adamant in the interview that although United approached Blackburn, they never followed their interest up by speaking to him. I presume it will still be on record because I think it possibly on 'Off The Ball' or one produced by the same radio station. What reason would he have to lie about it, I would think the propaganda unit at rag central would have it all over the media if they prove otherwise.

 

[eastmanc]

The exact same argument was however made when the league was pretty much over in February two years before that.

Go figure.

These points weren’t being fucking made last season were they. It’s embarrassing really.

 

[Tb1981]

Again he proves he doesn’t watch the games. Kev did deliver the glorious pass for Dias to score, but apart from that he was very rusty. Not as Crooks describes “The Belgium international then proceeded to spray the ball around all afternoon and looked majestic doing it.”

He did spray it round
Just they all went to West Ham players!

 

[Hart of the Matter]

Yes the figures are subjective. Interestingly CIES Football Observatory came to the same conclusion as transfer market last year. Still best estimate but based on an algorithm using multiple data points.

Completely disagree they are inflated to make Liverpool look good. The "valuable" list has been used frequently against us as well as "most expensive". Hence I like the idea of the media (chance in a million) hammering poor little Liverpool for their excuses when in fact they have the most valuable squad.

Only legacy players pre-Pep are Dinho and Aguero (both on their last legs) with Sterling and KDB from 15/16.

The only true transfer figures are those booked in the accounts.

Aggregate amortisation for the 5 seasons from 14/15 to 18/19:

United £576 million
City £547 million
Chelsea £523 million
Liverpool £373 Million
Arsenal £366 Million.

If you add wages the totals are:

United £1.903
City £1.778
Chelsea £1.771
Liverpool £1.529
Arsenal £1.407

After profits on transfers the list remains in the same order.

This post deserves more attention. It gets to the heart of the finances. Tried doing something similar and included agent fees. Really difficult to work out. Well done.
There must be a full analysis somewhere which reflects all this?
Would love to see a full spread sheet that could be updated...

 

[give it to gordon]

Can’t get this idea that unless a team wins a champions league they can’t be considered a great side,absolutely baffling the number of times over the years that teams have rode their luck ( fair play) and won it and clearly haven’t been the best side,yet over a 38 game league season you can ride your luck get by at times in games but overall that’s not going to win you the league unlike the champions league,carragher and mark Hughes both agreeing tonight on Monday night football,that City are a fantastic team but need to win a champions league unbelievable..

Agree surely to be the best in Europe you need to be the best in your country first ?

Werent liverpool 25 points behind City when they qualified the season they won it ? Plus the season liverpool won they weren't the best team in England as City won the league. So logically it doesnt make sence, best in Europe yet not best in your own country ? Plus didnt liverpool lose more matches in Europe that season than City ? They didnt win one away leg in the group stages ?

You need luck and VAR to be on your side to win the champs league. That doesnt make you the best team in Europe.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Can’t get this idea that unless a team wins a champions league they can’t be considered a great side,absolutely baffling the number of times over the years that teams have rode their luck ( fair play) and won it and clearly haven’t been the best side,yet over a 38 game league season you can ride your luck get by at times in games but overall that’s not going to win you the league unlike the champions league,carragher and mark Hughes both agreeing tonight on Monday night football,that City are a fantastic team but need to win a champions league unbelievable..

They will always push the bar out further for us. Win the Champions league and the comments will be “ should have won it before now with that spend “ and “ to be a true great you’ll have to win it six times” ad nauseum”.
And when that exhausts there’s always the Bingo card.

 

[Newman Noggs]

They will always push the bar out further for us. Win the Champions league and the comments will be “ should have won it before now with that spend “ and “ to be a true great you’ll have to win it six times” ad nauseum”.
And when that exhausts there’s always the Bingo card.

Wouldn't surprise me if "Carra" and "Nev" then started claiming that to be considered a great team you have to have won the UEFA Cup/Europa League as well.

Apart from anything else, it's not just what you win, it's how you win it. Grind your way to goal-less draws and 1-0 wins, or smash every record in sight. I'm as impartial as ex-players of liverpool and united, and I say that by every reasonable metric, the 2017-2019 City side was the greatest ever. So far.

 

[Chris in London]

Wouldn't surprise me if "Carra" and "Nev" then started claiming that to be considered a great team you have to play in red

Fixed

 

[Protein Junkie]

Wouldn't surprise me if "Carra" and "Nev" then started claiming that to be considered a great team you have to have won the UEFA Cup/Europa League as well.

Apart from anything else, it's not just what you win, it's how you win it. Grind your way to goal-less draws and 1-0 wins, or smash every record in sight. I'm as impartial as ex-players of liverpool and united, and I say that by every reasonable metric, the 2017-2019 City side was the greatest ever. So far.

Totally agree with you.
Just try and imagine if our great team played in red ?
Come back when you’ve won it in Istanbul la :-)

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

It's strange that the BBC are peddling this shite.. I don't remember this point being made when the dippers were dominating last year. I can't wait for this turd of an organisation to be defended although this tosser is from the torygraph.

Never mind little boy. The oil money will soon run out. And Pep will be off soon. Oh, and the owners will get bored and leave and then the red shite can take over again...................and then you can wake up and find out the truth. We're here to stay

 

[give it to gordon]

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Not write so much shit ! Easy way to stop it !!

 

[@BluePhil8]

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Hahahahahahahahahaha this gave me a good laugh lmao

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

If Luke Edwards is worried about City sealing the title half way through the season he had better train his fire on Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and several other clubs. City's financial backing is not any more enormous than it's UEFA "allowed" revenue, so why can't these other clubs compete? (Clue - it's not financial backing)

 

[Spanishbob]

Instead of the whinging fuckers in the media slating my club for running away with the league why don't they do some proper fkin journalism and ask why teams like the dippers, rags, tarquins, spuds and chelski haven't moved forward like City have and improved their squads to keep them competitive..

City have raised the bar, not by outspending every fucker and buying whoever they want but by identifying decent, quality players who were / are deemed clever enough to fit into a system that our manager wants us to adopt..

Teams like the rags and chelski tend to buy whoever's the flavour of the month and then throw them together and hope for the best..

Contrary to what the dippers want you to believe, they have spent a shit load on players but bingo has managed them in his usual style and run them into the ground, all at the same time too, absolutely no backup plan and they are now left with having to spend millions and millions to rebuild..

Unluckily for them their owners don't want to know so the dippers are left looking like one of those fireworks their fans like setting off, a big bang, colourful, a bit of excitement and then an overwhelmingly feeling of disappointment as it fades away into the blackness..

The fkin tarquins, moved to the Emirates to help them become a big cheese in World football only for them to turn to shit, buy a load of chelski's castoffs and then struggle to remain the top 10 in the league..

That tosser Wenger wrung millions out of them then fucked off without so much as a by your leave..

Now there's one bitter twat..

So to all the media cnuts who are gutted my team are currently ripping up the league, ask yourself this..

"Is it City's fault the above aforementioned clubs are trailing in our wake ?"

You all bang on about the PL being the best league in the World, damn fkin right it is..

Do you know why it's still the best league in the world you whinging fuckers ?

It's because my team has raised the fkin bar ..!


The media cnuts want to go back to the time when the rags were winning the league with 79 points..



Bunch of ****'s..!

Best post of the day.

 

[Neil_K]

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The absolute state of this.

"I've used the platform I have to flood the internet with my opinions, patronise & bait supporters & now a few are questioning them & being mean to me"

 

[avoidconfusion]

Police raid FC Barcelona and detain former president Josep Maria Bartomeu

Catalan police raided FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium on Monday, detaining former president Josep Maria Bartomeu and other team officials in connection to an ongoing investigation into the so-called Barçagate scandal, according to multiple reports. Bartomeu resigned as president in 2020 following reports that he hired a marketing firm to disparage the club’s players on social media. In a statement, the club said that they are cooperating with Catalan police and that they have “great respect for the judicial process in place and for the principle of presumed innocence for the people affected within the remit of this investigation”.


mes que un club right