Media Thread - 2021/22

[Blue Mist]

Fulham have a USowner, so it's just status quo.

Yes but it would have been one more had they survived.

 

[BlueBas]

In the daily fail - Spartak Moscow trolling Bayern's bid for Mane. Funniest for me is 13m if United lift a trophy!

dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10901017/Spartak-Moscow-brutally-troll-Bayern-Munichs-offer-Sadio-Mane.html?fbclid=IwAR0p6l-DtxwDGD9E1pFuP7ATtyyAwdHfhU5S5M4AMhn_EwKiH61lMEYZ_Ug

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Just for the record:
UEFA did not use the emails; they used Der Speigel‘s “reproduction” of the emails since found to have been manipulated.

I wonder why that isn’t being trumpeted further in the media? Could you imagine the uproar and cries of justice if this had happened to Liverpool?

 

[manimanc]

I wonder when Kaveh Solokohl will do his little piece on sky sports news on the Nunez deal and tell us all an inflated figure by adding up all his agent fees, wages and transfer fees and getting a figure roughly 3 or 4 times the actual cost of the transfer.

I won't hold my breath.

 

[mat]

All those journalists stroking their poles at the LIVGolf event trying to shame the players and destroy the event by talking about sportswashing.

I wonder how brave Nob Harris and others will be saying the same thing whilst on their WC jolly in Qatar?

 

[bluealf]

'Phil Mickelson, could you be seen as a Saudi stooge?'

Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson says "I don't condone human rights violations" when asked if he had qualms about playing in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf event.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sports washing by Arabs is the new big thing and they have moved on from just City doing it now.

 

[bluenova]

Lesson No. 42. Italians are white, (sort off) therefore good
Arabs are a) illegal North african immigrants terrorising scousers
b) grinning beards
c) terrorists.

It's a bit more complex as the original tweet is from someone who focuses on the care sector, and is more concerned that it's pretty much a foreign govt seeing children's homes as a money spinner. Lots of his posts are about private care, and he also points out that one of the people who (at least I think he's saying this) made most money from the Italian sale was a big Tory donor - so aiming at them too.

Entirely legitimate concerns in my opinion.

The guy making the link to Erling Haaland and City writes about human rights issues in the Middle East, and is essentially click-baiting by trying to link the two (and the link is there as Khaldoon Al Mubarak is CEO of the fund that bought the company). He's worked for Human Rights watch and his focus on the area doesn't appear to be the same kind of convenient interest that a lot of Liverpool supporting journalists seem to have recently discovered (although the red team do appear to have been given a free pass for playing in Qatar because they asked him for advice first!). Whether you think trying to link genuine concerns with Man City to raise their profile is valid, is a different argument.

 

[oakiecokie]

Thanks. If the new company is wholly owned by Mansour, it just takes the place of ADUG and the post by City is incorrect.

The other thing that confuses me in the post by City is the name His Highness.
I always thought that Der Spiegal tried to use the HH as proof that Sheik Mansour was the person who sanctioned the so called "Etihad additional payments" when in fact his title is His Excellence ... or have I got that completely wrong ?

 

[mat]

'Phil Mickelson, could you be seen as a Saudi stooge?'

Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson says "I don't condone human rights violations" when asked if he had qualms about playing in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf event.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sports washing by Arabs is the new big thing and they have moved on from just City doing it now.

I bet Newcastle fans can't wait when they make their Robinho type signing to get the same shit flung at them during their unveiling.

 

[bluealf]

I bet Newcastle fans can't wait when they make their Robinho type signing to get the same shit flung at them during their unveiling.

The sale of newspapers is about to plummet in the NE region

 

[Midlands Blue]

I have this memory in my head of Alan Potter getting hit by a dart in his head at Old Trafford and being led out by police and paramedics.

Lad called Amrik got a dart in the head at OT and there were pics of him with police. There was a pic in the MEN of Alan Potter being led around the pitch at Burnden Park by a diminutive Police Woman before KO because he couldn't fit through the turnstile IIRC

 

[manclad]

Lad called Amrik got a dart in the head at OT and there were pics of him with police. There was a pic in the MEN of Alan Potter being led around the pitch at Burnden Park by a diminutive Police Woman before KO because he couldn't fit through the turnstile IIRC

I remember that guy walking with the police in front of me at OT in 1977.
It looked worse than it was,with the dart hanging from his head and part covered by his afro curls.
The photo was included in the Guv'nors book, by Mickey Francis.

 

[eastmanc]

Top price they expect to get for Mane plus lowest price they would pay for Nunez, they’d report it as a net 20m spend, so deluded.

So fucking boring more like.

 

[Kippax77]

The sale of newspapers is about to plummet in the NE region

But it will equate as sales massively increase on Dipperside because of every media outlet blowing smoke up their arses

 

[Keep the Faith]

Arsenal have also asked the PL to investigate the Greek owner of Forest.

As you say, anyone with different intrests to the US owners agenda are being attacked.

And they will continue to do so whilst they have their glove puppet Richard Masters at the helm of the PL.

 

[jrb]

 

[Keep the Faith]

Don't the PL need 14 clubs to pass any constitutional changes?

YES that is why they needed City and Chelsea to sign up to the Super League as together with the other 4 red tops they could stifle vote to expel them from the PL, which was at the heart of the SL ideal.

 

[mat]

Footballer fined after skipping £100 train fare despite four-figure weekly wage

Watford midfielder Tom Dele-Bashiru evaded buying a train ticket last year whilst on loan at Championship side Reading, and has now been ordered to pay a fine and compensation

www.mirror.co.uk

Guess who they mentioned he's "played" for?

 

[Centurions]

Reminiscent? He played 2 years for the U18s & U21s here (from the age of 16) before moving to Mainz on loan and eventually permanently. I also can't recall City fans making death threats to the lad?

 

[laserblue]

Just for the record:
UEFA did not use the emails; they used Der Speigel‘s “reproduction” of the emails since found to have been manipulated.

I understand that UEFA not only didn't have possession of the emails but didn't even have sight of them. They just regurgitated the bullshit published by Der Spiegel.