Media thread 2022/23

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The perfect fumble said:
The Guardian being the Guardian.....

in the sky-blue corner we have potential Cup winners with 115 charges of financial and administrative misconduct hanging over them. Perhaps this is football’s idea of dramatic irony.

Manchester City, of course, deny breaking the rules. City’s supporters, who have the chance to boo not one governing body but two in the next couple of weeks, make the point that these rules shouldn’t exist in the first place and therefore deserve to be broken.

It is at least an impressive on-brand, dictator-level approach to reform. Not to mention one that has to date worked out pretty well. Frankly, City could bring back hacking and unilaterally re-abolish the crossbar. If your lawyers are expensive enough it all tends to work out in the end.
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I wonder when the last time the Guardian wrote an article about City that didn't allude to ownership or charges of some sort was?
 
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The perfect fumble said:
The Guardian being the Guardian.....

in the sky-blue corner we have potential Cup winners with 115 charges of financial and administrative misconduct hanging over them. Perhaps this is football’s idea of dramatic irony.

Manchester City, of course, deny breaking the rules. City’s supporters, who have the chance to boo not one governing body but two in the next couple of weeks, make the point that these rules shouldn’t exist in the first place and therefore deserve to be broken.

It is at least an impressive on-brand, dictator-level approach to reform. Not to mention one that has to date worked out pretty well. Frankly, City could bring back hacking and unilaterally re-abolish the crossbar. If your lawyers are expensive enough it all tends to work out in the end.
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By Ronay Ringpiece.
 
hertsblue said:
What gets me with their treble “legacy” crap is they won the league by 1 point with only 79 points and officials in their back pockets, fluked the CL win and nothing is mentioned of our own recent treble, ( quad if you add the charity shield) where we had much stronger opposition and won despite officials.
The media keep bringing up their treble but seem to have erased ours from history
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The rags also played two fewer CL games than City as there was no round of 16 back then. Teams that qualified from the group stage went straight into the last eight. The CL has twice as many teams in it now in the group stage.
 
laserblue said:
The rags also played two fewer CL games than City as there was no round of 16 back then. Teams that qualified from the group stage went straight into the last eight. The CL has twice as many teams in it now in the group stage.
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The media just love dumb people who can't be arsed fact checking.
 
laserblue said:
The rags also played two fewer CL games than City as there was no round of 16 back then. Teams that qualified from the group stage went straight into the last eight. The CL has twice as many teams in it now in the group stage.
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They also got twated by juventus in semi and fluked it as much as final compared to our semi it’s leagues apart.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
If he had more brain cells he might have realised that City Football Group has also invested in countries like China, Uruguay, Brazil, and even Mumbai. This wouldn't make any sense if our only motive was to deflect attention away from human rights abuses. The entire concept of "sportswashing" is false. It was invented by PR firms working for Human Rights charities as a way of attracting attention to their cause.
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Mate great point, as you say as a group we not only buy other clubs, but invest in them as well, helping the local economy.

Love the name, always thought he looked like my dad
 
The perfect fumble said:
"Any old iron? Any old iron?
Any, any, any old iron?...

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City, tearing cockneys apart again.
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Just think if his mum had let him wear his football shorts, do they have no shame or self awareness,they just cant help themselves can they.
 
maurizio said:
Just seen Noel on a BBC clip and I was glad he pointed out; yes, we threw money at it in the early days to get where we wanted to be, but since then, in the last 5 years, others have outspent us. It's not as if we are blowing people away in auctions on the world's best players, we've come from behind to win the Premier league a couple of times or won it on the last day so we're not making the league uncompetitive. These points need getting over to the ordinary viewers, rather than the narrative set about money and unfairness set by journalists that plain dislike us. Nice one.
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Unfortunately the media are not interested in facts.

Our current charges relate to historical times when we were reliant on building what we have today.
The impression they give is that we are still needing cash injections, Noel's point about last 5 years self sufficiency is ignored.
The fact that we are still using profits to continue the investment phase is something our enemies hate because they must buy to compete which stretches their cash cow arrangement.
Of course they can't compete if they still take millions each year AND pay for new players.

We are so lucky our owner sees a bigger future rather than milking City profits.
 
SilverFox2 said:
Unfortunately the media are not interested in facts.

Our current charges relate to historical times when we were reliant on building what we have today.
The impression they give is that we are still needing cash injections, Noel's point about last 5 years self sufficiency is ignored.
The fact that we are still using profits to continue the investment phase is something our enemies hate because they must buy to compete which stretches their cash cow arrangement.
Of course they can't compete if they still take millions each year AND pay for new players.

We are so lucky our owner sees a bigger future rather tan milking City profits.
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IIRC Noel was referring to the last 5 years of City spending much less than most other clubs. City have been self sufficient and in profit since 2014.
 
The perfect fumble said:
The Guardian being the Guardian.....

in the sky-blue corner we have potential Cup winners with 115 charges of financial and administrative misconduct hanging over them. Perhaps this is football’s idea of dramatic irony.

Manchester City, of course, deny breaking the rules. City’s supporters, who have the chance to boo not one governing body but two in the next couple of weeks, make the point that these rules shouldn’t exist in the first place and therefore deserve to be broken.

It is at least an impressive on-brand, dictator-level approach to reform. Not to mention one that has to date worked out pretty well. Frankly, City could bring back hacking and unilaterally re-abolish the crossbar. If your lawyers are expensive enough it all tends to work out in the end.
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Ronay is a pretentious, preening, pearl-clutching **** of the first order.
 
laserblue said:
IIRC Noel was referring to the last 5 years of City spending much less than most other clubs. City have been self sufficient and in profit since 2014.
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What I don't understand about the charges is that they begin in 2009, 5 years before Premier League FFP, and the charges end in 2018. We were found to be in compliance of FFP by UEFA after 2014. So how are we breaking any rules if we were found to be ok after 2014 by UEFA. Could someone please explain.
 
The perfect fumble said:
The Guardian being the Guardian.....

in the sky-blue corner we have potential Cup winners with 115 charges of financial and administrative misconduct hanging over them. Perhaps this is football’s idea of dramatic irony.

Manchester City, of course, deny breaking the rules. City’s supporters, who have the chance to boo not one governing body but two in the next couple of weeks, make the point that these rules shouldn’t exist in the first place and therefore deserve to be broken.

It is at least an impressive on-brand, dictator-level approach to reform. Not to mention one that has to date worked out pretty well. Frankly, City could bring back hacking and unilaterally re-abolish the crossbar. If your lawyers are expensive enough it all tends to work out in the end.
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He is a bit of a twat for many reasons, but generalising that City supporters: "make the point that these rules shouldn’t exist in the first place and therefore deserve to be broken." Is such an easy, lazy and disingenuous representation of the way City fans think. And one that suits his narrative, of course. I am sure he comes on here, so he should be able to summarise the views of City fans better than that.
 
eastmanc said:
What I don't understand about the charges is that they begin in 2009, 5 years before Premier League FFP, and the charges end in 2018. We were found to be in compliance of FFP by UEFA after 2014. So how are we breaking any rules if we were found to be ok after 2014 by UEFA. Could someone please explain.
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As I understand it, they believe our accounts were fraudulent in the early years, so any carry forward to the following years will also be fraudulent
 
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