Media discussion - 2024/25

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eastmanc said:
For me the best side we have had and the best style of football.
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This team has been in transition for 12 months. We have even been playing two up front recently. Pep will get it right but it will take at least another 12 months. None of this should be a surprise. We have had terrible injuries. I think winning the 115 battle will turbo charge us.
 
eastmanc said:
For me the best side we have had and the best style of football.
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Probably the most effective.

Haaland/De Bruyne link-up during the treble season was seriously compelling to watch though. First time I genuinely felt it was a superstar duo. We were playing teams like Bayern Munich and Real Madrid yet those two were the biggest names on the pitch.
 
eastmanc said:
For me the best side we have had and the best style of football.
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MeatnSpudsMCFC said:
Probably the most effective.

Haaland/De Bruyne link-up during the treble season was seriously compelling to watch though. First time I genuinely felt it was a superstar duo. We were playing teams like Bayern Munich and Real Madrid yet those two were the biggest names on the pitch.
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The stats suggest strongly,with points and goals scored, that the Centurions were the greatest of all time. It is hard to argue with that really despite winning the treble later with a better defence.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Roan claims that Pinto said he had millions of documents relating to City. This is just not true. The Pinto case was nothing to do with City. None of the multiple charges against Pinto relate to City. Pinto was not found guilty. He admitted extortion and made a plea deal. Der Spiegel published six emails and a lot of innuendo. The BBC narrative has been twisted and distorted all the way through.
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Roan has always been a slimy, lying toad.
The fact he wasn't sacked after he was caught on camera mocking Leicester's dead owner is disgraceful and sums both him and the rancid organisation he works for up to a tee.
 
Mancity1980 said:
Don’t mistake perception of feeling with the actual reporting. I’m not saying the reporting is biased towards us (I get plenty of that on here and with City YouTubers and there is nothing wrong with consuming that).

For instance the 115 case reporting has been disgraceful across the media. It’s all been with presumed guilt and punishments and little details whereas the bbc run with:

www.bbc.co.uk

Man City hearing: Premier League 115 charges case to begin on Monday

Manchester City's trial on 115 charges of breaking Premier League rules is set to begin on Monday. BBC Sport looks at why it matters and how we got here.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Which of course mention possible punishments but also balance that with consequences for the league if we win, they also break the charges down into the five charges they actual are and they detail the club’s responses (I rarely even see that outside our own media).

As for TalkSport I’m with you all the way there pal and don’t get me started on Sky Sports or the tabloids.

There is a wider issue of unashamedly echo chamber news coverage like we see in the US coming over here and we are also seeing the consequences of that.
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While there may be some basis for what you say, has the BBC always given such weight to the City angle, or is it changing its tune with the benefit of hindsight and/or previous criticism? We should remember, unlike the rest of the media, they are at least nominally accountable with the complaints procedure.

I can remember the 'Arab' and 'oil' epithets at the outset, the surgical breakdowns of spending in demoninations that inflated the numbers and compared them with the spending of clubs in different denominations that didn't, double standard non-stop references to the costs of players, the gutter press allowed to spread their garbage through the back door as guests, despite the blanket daily coverage of football, the failure over 17 years to identify the conflict between forbidding 'associated party' investment while allowing unconditional interest-free loans from owners and not asking, why, like Tony Bloom for example, Sheikh Mansour hadn't saved himself a lot of trouble by just lending himself the money, and consistently failing to give air time to the element of the City support who criticised UEFA and called the CAS and APT verdicts, not forgetting the gloating Ros Atkins 115 video. With the caveat we don't know the 115 verdict, I won't be letting the BBC off so lightly.
 
eastmanc said:
For me the best side we have had and the best style of football.
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Very easy on the eye that team, fantastic football played. Fast forward to our last couple of seasons and the drop off in style and excitement is massive. The only way to get that back is by signing young exciting players like we've done in January, but more are needed
 
If Pep’s one month prediction is accurate, the 115 verdict is coming very soon. When we are acquitted of everything except failing to cooperate with a witch-hunt, the immediate media reaction will be fascinating. Some of the biggest schills will be protected from themselves by the in-house legal teams of the papers they work for, so presumably The Independent will stop Delaney from publishing anything defamatory or libellous for example. But the independent key board warriors and gobshite pundits, have no such filter, and hopefully they react with predictable fury and indiscipline. If that happens City need to react legally and send a brutally hard message that enough is enough.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Roan claims that Pinto said he had millions of documents relating to City. This is just not true. The Pinto case was nothing to do with City. None of the multiple charges against Pinto relate to City. Pinto was not found guilty. He admitted extortion and made a plea deal. Der Spiegel published six emails and a lot of innuendo. The BBC narrative has been twisted and distorted all the way through.
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I doubt even City have millions of documents relating to City.

He’s an absolute bullshit merchant.
 
Fordyboy46 said:
Very easy on the eye that team, fantastic football played. Fast forward to our last couple of seasons and the drop off in style and excitement is massive. The only way to get that back is by signing young exciting players like we've done in January, but more are needed
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It was a season where teams had no idea how to cope with us. Unfortunately in the last couple of seasons they've gradually worked out that playing a back 10 and having a couple of quick lads breaking forward gives them a chance. Makes it a far worse spectacle.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Roan claims that Pinto said he had millions of documents relating to City. This is just not true. The Pinto case was nothing to do with City. None of the multiple charges against Pinto relate to City. Pinto was not found guilty. He admitted extortion and made a plea deal. Der Spiegel published six emails and a lot of innuendo. The BBC narrative has been twisted and distorted all the way through.
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If Roan was a good journalist he would be interesting why it's only been a whitch hunt against City. Who is behind it ? Who put Pinto up to it ? Why weren't all other clubs stitched up with fake emails. Why doesnt Roan investigate the dippers shirt sponsorship. Why doesnt Roan investigate the off shore accounts of the rags ? Why doesnt Roan investigate how rags could do a deal with the pl for 75million to avoid ffp ? Why is Roan investigating why all pl haven't had a four year investigation ?

The independent bbc my arse
 
mattcity5 said:
It was a season where teams had no idea how to cope with us. Unfortunately in the last couple of seasons they've gradually worked out that playing a back 10 and having a couple of quick lads breaking forward gives them a chance. Makes it a far worse spectacle.
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Remember those home games when the opposition never got out of their half?
 
Relax all Pep has to do is read that BBC twats dire tripe this morning down load all his scribbled drawings and we are sorted
At last I feel like my license fee is worth it
Thankyou BBC

For reference all we have to do is hoof it up field all charge after it then regroup and all charge back
Incidentally this is how Denton West End Juniors won the 1968 Denton Schools U11s league
 
Centurions said:
Did you bother reading it or just decide beforehand that it was nonsense? I found it interesting myself.

www.bbc.co.uk

Man City: Why Pep Guardiola's tactics stopped working amid rise of rapid football

BBC Sport analyses why Pep Guardiola's possession-focused tactics have stopped working amid the rise in rapid, direct football.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Pep Guardiola was a professional footballer at one of the best clubs in the world from the age of 13, he played under some of the greatest and most influential coaches in the history of football in the most tactically demanding position, winning 6 league titles and a European Cup. After this, he became the youngest manager ever to win the CL and completed a sextuple in his second professional season. Since that day he has consistently won major trophies in 3 separate countries including a Treble and 4 in a row in England which has never been done before in the history of the world's oldest football league, winning 40 major trophies so far in his 20ish year career, a trophies per game ratio higher than every manager in the history of professional football with a decent amount of games managed.

Alex Keble has no football experience either in terms of playing, coaching nor professional analysis and studied English literature at University before getting his start writing for betting sites.

So no, I have no interest in his "critique" of Pep's tactics. I am sick of the uneducated eloquents critiquing Pep fucking Guardiola.
 
Damocles said:
Pep Guardiola was a professional footballer at one of the best clubs in the world from the age of 13, he played under some of the greatest and most influential coaches in the history of football in the most tactically demanding position, winning 6 league titles and a European Cup. After this, he became the youngest manager ever to win the CL and completed a sextuple in his second professional season. Since that day he has consistently won major trophies in 3 separate countries including a Treble and 4 in a row in England which has never been done before in the history of the world's oldest football league, winning 40 major trophies so far in his 20ish year career, a trophies per game ratio higher than every manager in the history of professional football with a decent amount of games managed.

Alex Keble has no football experience either in terms of playing, coaching nor professional analysis and studied English literature at University before getting his start writing for betting sites.

So no, I have no interest in his "critique" of Pep's tactics. I am sick of the uneducated eloquents critiquing Pep fucking Guardiola.
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Seems a strange way of thinking TBH, if you don't read it how would you know what it's about? I know some posters go purely off headlines (which are usually written by a sub editor for click reasons) but I'd have thought you'd at least read it, whether you agree or not.

Does that mean that you didn't 'critique' Pep's reasons for benching Rodri against Chelsea in the CL final?
 
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