Media Discussion - 2023/24

[Rory Bluelow]

Fuck me it was only £200m, they didn’t need a sovereign wealth fund for that, just his personal wealth.

I think I read his private car collection was valued at over £3bn and he had two super yachts each costing north of half a billion. He can easily personally fund the entire City investment !

 

[ballbag]

Be funny when the kids of all these 'journalists' grow up supporting City.

 

[stan bowles]

I see Ronay's back on his favourite subject. Won't link but here's a flavour...

"To many neutrals such success in the stratified modern game will carry a sense of economic inevitability, a symptom also of something broken in the way the sport arranges itself now"

"there is a perfect fit between the Guardiola style, which is about control first of all, mastering the ball, destroying the variables that might bring defeat and the billionaire-ball model of City’s nation-state owners, which also involves creating a structure of such impenetrable wealth that its aim is to remove the possibility of defeat."

"But is it actually interesting? Or interesting enough? It was notable in the broadcast of the Brentford game that Sky Sports seemed to be making a very conscious effort to develop a City narrative"

And an all-time classic..

"Not to mention, because nobody seems to want to, the issue of those 115 unresolved charges for breaking financial rules"

He's gone even more Delooney.

How can Ronay comment on what "many neutrals" think seeing as he is totally lacking in neutrality ? He's just a wanker playing to the gallery.

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Fuck me it was only £200m, they didn’t need a sovereign wealth fund for that, just his personal wealth.

Sheikh Mansour buying us at the price he did was the equivalent to us going out and buying a newspaper. He made more money on the deal he did with Barclays than the total sum he invested in City.

 

[Mike N]

“Scruffy Jim” please.

Passed the silly ‘Welcome to Manchester’ poster earlier. They really don’t get it!

 

[bluealf]

just a point on this not your wider post. They aren’t supposed to reflect the views of the UK population, they are there to report the news.

in an unbiased manner, which they do not.

 

[bluealf]

i went to school with him guess how I feel!

I was hoping satisfied because you had indeed slapped him silly but going off your tone I don't think you did, damn.

 

[invisibleandalone]

Stand by for action....

You made me get my drums out

 

[bluealf]

Delivering around Cumbria last Friday I put BBC Cumbria on for travel news and the main breakfast presenter Mike was joined by his side kick who informed the listener which Fa cup games would be available to view on terrestrial tv over the weekend. Side kick unashamedly announced that he is a rag living in the Kendal area then started to share his info on games, channels times ect, but clearly nobody told him that we were playing Spurs that very evening as he failed to mention anything about it the rag twat. Mike wound him up asking if he had seen the Pep documentary on BBC to which he sounded well pissed off and declined the offer of watching it on catch up. Amazes me how these fuckwits get away it.

A station I never turn on despite being a Cumbrian.

 

[bluealf]

You made me get my drums out

His wife dropped her, nope best keep it clean.

 

[laserblue]

Remember the Rush deal , we scouted him for months playing for Chester and Swales decided the fee was too much , sums up Swales really,

IIRC Alan Oakes was manager of Chester at the time and he told City to get down there and sign him.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Shebahn Ahern giddy rag routine on Talkshite is now wearing thin. Other fans have noticed and she happily reads out what they say and acts like she doesn't give a shit. "The Wembley of the North will make Manchester the biggest city in the country." She might need to look at her geography.

 

[Bluewonder]

How can Ronay comment on what "many neutrals" think seeing as he is totally lacking in neutrality ? He's just a wanker playing to the gallery.

And why is he so incapable of honesty?

He says we haven't had to sell a player in 10 years, so perhaps I was in an alternative universe when we sold Sterling, Jesus and Zinchenko to potential title rivals last year, Mahrez, Laporte and Palmer this year, Ferran Torres in 21/22 and Leroy Sane in 20/21.

I'd honestly be absolutely fucking embarrassed to put my name to a piece so lacking in basic accuracy, and that's without mentioning the factually incorrect statement that the club is owned by a sovereign wealth fund.


What a complete and utter fraud.

 

[Big Swifty]

IIRC Alan Oakes was manager of Chester at the time and he told City to get down there and sign him.

Yes, he did, and Big Mal went down toChester to see him, and said "No,he's rubbish, we don't want him".

And that was that.

I think Gary James will corroborate this.

 

[BringBackSwales]

IIRC Alan Oakes was manager of Chester at the time and he told City to get down there and sign him.

I remember it slightly differently. Pretty sure Alan Oakes advised him to join Liverpool not City

 

[PPT]

Ducker pissing and meaning about Savio
And now the BBC has posted this, noticeably without a byline, though it has Stone and Coppack’s fingerprints all over it
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The Daily Telegraph is poisonous when it comes to City. It really is. Ducker, Sam Wallace, Jason Burt and the 'diminutive' Chris "Diddy" Bascombe" et. al, just cannot wait to put the knife in when it comes to City. There is also a racist, anti-Arab, anti-muslim tone in a lot of their articles. Maybe it's because of the impending takeover - who knows but is it quite sinister? Funnily enough, the Guardian reported on the Savio transfer and they were fair, balanced and objective in their report, which was refreshing for a change. The so-called "journalists" at the Telegraph are individually and collectively a nasty piece of work.

 

[pauls]

The Daily Telegraph is poisonous when it comes to City. It really is. Ducker, Sam Wallace, Jason Burt and the 'diminutive' Chris "Diddy" Bascombe" et. al, just cannot wait to put the knife in when it comes to City. There is also a racist, anti-Arab, anti-muslim tone in a lot of their articles. Maybe it's because of the impending takeover - who knows but is it quite sinister? Funnily enough, the Guardian reported on the Savio transfer and they were fair, balanced and objective in their report, which was refreshing for a change. The so-called "journalists" at the Telegraph are individually and collectively a nasty piece of work.

You can throw in :-
Herbert,Harris ×2,McConnell,Delaney,Cross×2, Holt,Lipton, Muen, Stone, Slysports.Apolgies to those "clickbait" unprofessional, classless beano writers if I forgot you.No agenda, do me a favour!

 

[Pontypool Blue]

“Scruffy Jim” please.

 

[Pontypool Blue]

How can Ronay comment on what "many neutrals" think seeing as he is totally lacking in neutrality ? He's just a wanker playing to the gallery.

TL : DR
FIFY - "Ronay, he's a Wanker"

 

[homerdog]

Discussion on BBC Sport about City:
just cheating and hoping to get away with it, stinks if they do"

I reported the comment as defamatory (sad, I know!) and got this reply:

We’ve looked into this and believe it does not break house rules.

I appealed their decision and got this reply:

Dear BBC User,
In this instance, we believe the moderator made the correct decision so we will be unable to uphold your appeal... we are unable to discuss this matter further.
BBC Moderation Services

Based on what Paladin suggested, I might copy and paste the cheat comment in dipper and rag comments sections and see if they delete them. If so, you'd think any complaint would be well founded!