Media Thread - 2021/22

[Aba452]

Are you suprised?
Standard for them.

He probably works in the sports department!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I had the misfortune to come across the following piece this morning.

Erling Haaland will succeed at Man City, but sad transfer truth can't be escaped

Manchester City have secured one of world football's brightest prospects in Erling Haaland but they will not win many friends if they signed the Borussia Dortmund striker for one particular reason

www.mirror.co.uk

Premise appears to be that City may have only struck a deal to buy Haaland to deny other clubs from signing him and that there is something vulgar about strengthening our squad when the goal return has been so high this season. Where do you start with such shameless, hateful clickbait?

You just ignore it.

 

[mad4city]

Évra is a rag who had to play for those clowns as the balance of power shifted across Manchester ...the definition of a bitter sore loser

As a certain age-addled fucker once mumbled, "sometimes you just have to put up with noisy neighbours".

 

[citymad]

I know it’s the Mail but Martin Samuel nails it, once again. The last paragraph sums it all up perfectly!

UEFA still looking after chosen ones​

UEFA have revamped their rules regarding financial fair play. Now, it is about sustainability. A major change is that clubs can lose roughly £60million over three years - double what was previously allowed.

How fortuitous that this should come in just at the moment major influencers like Manchester United and Barcelona need to spend big to get back in the game. What a coincidence.

Yet in some areas the rules have been tightened. External agencies will more closely monitor sponsorship deals with third parties, particularly those brands that might have close relations with the owners. It's a rule that would allow Manchester United, say, to strike deals with companies in Saudi Arabia - but outlaw the same for Newcastle.

Why don't UEFA just bring in a rule that says: whatever Manchester City are doing is illegal. It would save a lot of time, insider networking and hypocrisy.

Pity that this article will be lost on the masses as it's not in the Sun. The general opinion of us will never change. Still, It's a nice piece and so true, well done Martin.

 

[stonerblue]

BBC Sport choosing to publish this on their official news feed.

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If you're looking for fair or even correct football comments then the beeb (or any other for that matter) 'have your say' section is not the place to find it.

 

[Cotton Weave Blue]

I had the misfortune to come across the following piece this morning.

Erling Haaland will succeed at Man City, but sad transfer truth can't be escaped

Manchester City have secured one of world football's brightest prospects in Erling Haaland but they will not win many friends if they signed the Borussia Dortmund striker for one particular reason

www.mirror.co.uk

Premise appears to be that City may have only struck a deal to buy Haaland to deny other clubs from signing him and that there is something vulgar about strengthening our squad when the goal return has been so high this season. Where do you start with such shameless, hateful clickbait?

So nothing to do with us needing a specialist centre forward. Utter garbage wouldnt even link it let alone open it

 

[HelloCity]

If you're looking for fair or even correct football comments then the beeb (or any other for that matter) 'have your say' section is not the place to find it.

It’s not in the comments. It’s the news feed when you can text in and they put the “best” comments on the page between news items. So someone running the page has specifically pulled that text out from hundreds to put it up on the feed.

 

[stonerblue]

It’s not in the comments. It’s the news feed when you can text in and they put the “best” comments on the page between news items. So someone running the page has specifically pulled that text out from hundreds to put it up on the feed.

In that case, bastards..

 

[Kippaxpete]

You just ignore it.

Isn't that the point? It's easier said than done. I stumbled across it while searching for something else. This kind of prejudiced shite has infected all corners of the mainstream media.

 

[citizen_maine]

I had the misfortune to come across the following piece this morning.

Erling Haaland will succeed at Man City, but sad transfer truth can't be escaped

Manchester City have secured one of world football's brightest prospects in Erling Haaland but they will not win many friends if they signed the Borussia Dortmund striker for one particular reason

www.mirror.co.uk

Premise appears to be that City may have only struck a deal to buy Haaland to deny other clubs from signing him and that there is something vulgar about strengthening our squad when the goal return has been so high this season. Where do you start with such shameless, hateful clickbait?

The irony is that every time we've struggled to score or dropped points there have been articles about us needing a striker as the false 9 clearly isn't working. Now we buy a striker and...

 

[MillisleBlue]

Mainstream media is a cancer on society.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

"It's a rule that would allow Manchester United, say, to strike deals with companies in Saudi Arabia - but outlaw the same for Newcastle."

Amazing

 

[Gremlin]

BBC Sport choosing to publish this on their official news feed.

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I actually read that as a blue taking the piss. That's the problem with writing things on forums etc. - nobody gets to see your face to know the context.

 

[dadnlad]

Keown on talk sport calling out the commentary of Gary Neville of being bias shouting for a pen straight away and him highlighting the Arsenal fouls where he kept quite about spurs plus no replays of Son elbow!

Nice some else sees hearing what we have being saying about the commentary plus bet the bloke on Var hears them to which an influence them.

the shout nothing in that far to often when one of the beloved teams for var not to be listening or influence decision

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Not one

This epitomises the type of article we see about city and yet we are accused of paranoia when we say there is an agenda. I mean what is the journalistic purpose of the article? There isn't one, it's just an individual spouting off bitter drivel like some drunk in the pub after their team has been beaten. "Shame on them"? for what exactly? Daring to spend some money that we made from selling on another player to buy the world's best forward for a third of his market price? Or daring to do what other historic top 4 clubs have been doing for decades? What's even more tragic is that an editor has actually approved this drivel. Actually, do editors even exist these days or does each journalist have the ability to type up an article after a few beers and just hit 'publish'?

Erling Haaland will succeed at Man City, but sad transfer truth can't be escaped

Manchester City have secured one of world football's brightest prospects in Erling Haaland but they will not win many friends if they signed the Borussia Dortmund striker for one particular reason

www.mirror.co.uk

Not one post in the comments section agrees with Dunn. Presumably he wants us to stand still and give the rags and that poor club whose whole squad suffer from chronic diabetes problems the chance catch up. The idiot and his media mates have been telling everyone that Liverpool have the best strike force in the world, but not a word was said when they signed Diaz in January. Let's all enjoy their suffering.

 

[citizen_maine]

Not one

Not one post in the comments section agrees with Dunn. Presumably he wants us to stand still and give the rags and that poor club whose whole squad suffer from chronic diabetes problems the chance catch up. The idiot and his media mates have been telling everyone that Liverpool have the best strike force in the world, but not a word was said when they signed Diaz in January. Let's all enjoy their suffering.

Can't be that good. We've scored more goals than them and we don't even have a striker

 

[moomba]

Andy Dunn a year ago.

Man City's jarring Champions League final defeat points to inevitable summer transfer - Andy Dunn - Mirror Online

They won it a canter without, on the whole, fielding a conventional striker.

The debate has rumbled on as to whether that was down mainly to Guardiola’s genius or whether the shortcomings of others meant they had got away with it.

Proceedings in Porto on Saturday night settled that debate once and for all.

Harry Kane, or even Erling Haaland, will probably be in a City jersey next season.

Guardiola bemoaned the fact that his players manufactured half-chances from getting in behind but not having anyone to arrive and convert cross-box balls.

There’s a solution to that - and he is the England captain.

While the absence of an attacking focal point was only one of City’s struggles against Chelsea, it was a glaring one.

If Pep had any reservations about Kane fitting into this City set-up, then surely they are gone now.

 

[mad4city]

I had the misfortune to come across the following piece this morning.

Erling Haaland will succeed at Man City, but sad transfer truth can't be escaped

Manchester City have secured one of world football's brightest prospects in Erling Haaland but they will not win many friends if they signed the Borussia Dortmund striker for one particular reason

www.mirror.co.uk

Premise appears to be that City may have only struck a deal to buy Haaland to deny other clubs from signing him and that there is something vulgar about strengthening our squad when the goal return has been so high this season. Where do you start with such shameless, hateful clickbait?

Funny that Andy Dunn should say that.
Here's an article from 13 months ago, where he sagely proposes that City need a centre-forward like Harry Kane or that uh, what's his name..? Erling Haaland.

Man City's jarring Champions League final defeat points to summer transfer

Man City were unable to break down Chelsea in their Champions League final defeat which served to shine a spotlight on their lack of striker ahead of a potential summer transfer

www-mirror-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[Blueknows]

"It's a rule that would allow Manchester United, say, to strike deals with companies in Saudi Arabia - but outlaw the same for Newcastle."

Amazing

Are you really that surprised?

 

[chesterguy]

And here we have another excellent example of why our TV licence needs to be scrapped