Media Thread - 2021/22

[bobbyowenquiff]

Katherine Lucas. Freelance sports journalist specialising in football and cricket for various online publications. Spurs fan, no longer long-suffering.

So there appears to be no axe to grind there, just another balanced, informed, and impartial article.

It is fake news. Qatar and UAE are best of pals these days.

 

[Centurions]

I think this is an unrelated, by name only, Manchester City low.

Marshall Motor Group chief executive Daksh Gupta has insisted that the AM100 PLC will not be “splashing the cash like Manchester City” after record H1 financial results left it with a strong balance sheet.

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“Over the past 14 years we have done nothing stupid and we will continue to be very selective about what we buy,” he said.

And Red Devils fan, Gupta quipped: “We’re definitely not in a Manchester City position, and nor would we want to be. We’re like Manchester United, making targeted acquisitions that will add value.”

Sanchez? Pogba?

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[Tracking back]

BBC running a knock-out best PL striker of all time poll.

Done on head to heads and now at the seni-final stage, Alan Shearer v Thierry Henry & Dennis Bergkamp v Sergio Aguero.

Both Arsenal player are currently in the lead Henry by 18% and Bergkamp by 12%.

Obviously been hijacked by the Gooners.

Well in fairness it can't really be hijacked by us lot.

According to recent reports on this forum there's only about eighteen Manchester City fans who still subscribe to the BBC. ;-)

 

[jjctid]

Yes, looks like Sergio will miss out although it was interesting that all the rag and dipper players were out by the QF.

Yes he did miss out despite playing 40 LESS GAMES & SCORING 97 MORE GOALS! Wonder why?

 

[lancs blue]

Yes he did miss out despite playing 40 LESS GAMES & SCORING 97 MORE GOALS! Wonder why?

It just looked as if the voting was dominated throughout by Arsenal fans, hence they had both finalists, nothing more than that. Sergio won his earlier rounds convincingly.

 

[big gaz]

The Messi love in is reaching stupid levels at the bbc with it even making the lunch time news.
Imagine if we'd have signed him ......

Greater Manchester fire service pulled out at major fire at the Etihad stadium.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

It is fake news. Qatar and UAE are best of pals these days.

What? More facts getting the fuckin' way of a scurrilous City article. The broom is out, the corner of the carpet is slightly raised.

 

[big gaz]

No paper name.
No link.
Who is She?
Another chancer piggybacking on City.

Any one on here up for some old bluemoon fun of Smashing Back Doors in ? thought not .

 

[its grim up north]

One for the teenagers there.

:)

More like the Bessie Braddock and Ena Sharples of the premier league.

Gets a thumbs up from Rooney.

 

[crazyg]

Gets a thumbs up from Rooney.

Didn't know he was into necrophilia as well.
;-)

 

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HELLO?! IS THAT WEST HAM ABU DHABI?!

 

[its grim up north]

Didn't know he was into necrophilia as well.
;-)

Wouldn't imagine Wazzer is shy of anything.

 

[Kinki's Boots]

Sly Sports talking about Messi and PSG managed to shoehorn City FFP and State owned in what a surprise;)

 

[mat]

Wouldn't imagine Wazzer is shy of anything.

Hair?

 

[Blue Mist]

He would have been past his best mate.

And a greedy mercenary who only came for the money

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Sly Sports talking about Messi and PSG managed to shoehorn City FFP and State owned in what a surprise;)

Seems to get a mention by every gob on the channel in every programme. I'm watching The Hundred from Cardiff at the moment. I expect before he's finished the presenter will ask de Kock what he thinks about sportswashing and state sponsorship.

 

[Chris in London]

And a greedy mercenary who only came for the money

Yeah but that’s every player we ever signed, isn’t it?

 

[Damocles]

 

[Damocles]

We're never going to stop people calling us state owned because no one believes we are privately owned, not even you.

"effectively we're owned by Sheikh Mohammed & the Executive Council. There's simply no way Khaldoon & Simon Pearce would be involved so heavily if weren't. Anyone who thinks otherwise is astoundingly naive."​

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.... we are now very much an arm of the Abu Dhabi government, albeit what's known as a soft one in diplomatic terms."​

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I'm sure you don't need to guess who I'm quoting there...


It's a completely lost cause, we can't stop it, and I'm not convinced a legal challenge would succeed in anything other than shining a light on just how non-independent we actually are.

If the club wanted to oppose the notion of us being state-owned, they should start playing up the role of Silverlake, but we never hear about them really, they are completely silent and 99% of people outside the fanbase wouldn't know we were associated at all.

But perhaps the most important question is "Do the club care?". I'm not sure Khaldoon and Sheikh Mansour and other ADUG higher ups see being that associated with Abu Dhabi as a bad thing.

I read somewhere, and I can't recall where so there's a possibility that it was on social media or that I'm making it up, that the higher ups in Abu Dhabi are more irritated than interested in City. The general idea being that they do all of these really impressive and professional deals but all anybody knows them for is a football club in the back arse of Manchester and they get 4000 stories a year on their human rights. We're their version of that gurning idiot at parties who jumps in the pool essentially.

 

[asahartford1]

I read somewhere, and I can't recall where so there's a possibility that it was on social media or that I'm making it up, that the higher ups in Abu Dhabi are more irritated than interested in City. The general idea being that they do all of these really impressive and professional deals but all anybody knows them for is a football club in the back arse of Manchester and they get 4000 stories a year on their human rights. We're their version of that gurning idiot at parties who jumps in the pool essentially.

I guess i haven't lived. Never been to a party where a gurning idiot jumps in the pool.)