Media discussion - 2025/26

Damocles said:
Some of those are two years apart. Your evidence is that someone said he had a conversation, then someone else described their own views on a conversation.

I refuse to pretend this is logical or has evidential backing. I just won't. This is fucking nuts and I won't pretend it isn't because City are involved.
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Pavlov says hi.
 
mattcity5 said:
This? Really?

We've appointed some coaches from Liverpool, how else should that be dressed up?

Non-City & scouse fans might not know Lijnders by name, so it references him being Klopp's assistant. It's normal.

Call out shit and biased articles, but be a little less blinkered about it.
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The whole point about that article is to showcase the Lijnders appointment as an ex dipper who'll shake up City to be more like a team we've ground into the dirt over a decade - except for two seasons (this last time with a really poor side.)
 
johnny crossan said:
Well found. More evidence for the prosecution - he's getting closer to a berth on my chart ;-)

One considerably more congenial than the void between your ears. One of these days you might stumble upon something relevant or true to say about subjects of which you are pig ignorant but I doubt it.
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To be fair that is an incredibly stupid thing for any journalist to post. It makes him look even more stupid than I thought he was.
 
johnny crossan said:
The whole point about that article is to showcase the Lijnders appointment as an ex dipper who'll shake up City to be more like a team we've ground into the dirt over a decade - except for two seasons (this last time with a really poor side.)
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Well tbh reading through various threads on the forum there's a decent % of City fans who want us play more like them. The article isn't a massive stretch or a pile of lies.
 
johnny crossan said:
be careful his resident fanboys will be after you, you're on their list now ;-)
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My criticism of Sam Lee is that he never seems to break any City stories I don’t already know about and he missed the biggest one of all with the CAS result. He could be a nice person for all I Know. But he seems to have no serious sources at the club he is paid to cover.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
My criticism of Sam Lee is that he never seems to break any City stories I don’t already know about and he missed the biggest one of all with the CAS result. He could be a nice person for all I Know. But he seems to have no serious sources at the club he is paid to cover.
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Agree with that based on what I can recall/my knowledge of him, which tbf isn’t complete as I don’t follow or read his every utterance. Would the next question be Why?
 
chesterbells said:
Agree with that based on what I can recall/my knowledge of him, which tbf isn’t complete as I don’t follow or read his every utterance. Would the next question be Why?
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He’s not very good. But he’s not the only one. How many UK hacks have ever got a face to face interview with Khaldoon for example. But he gives plenty to the foreign business media. The English press pack just recycle quotes from Pep’s press conferences. Plenty of people on this forum have better contacts at City. The New York Times gets more stories from City than the laughable English press.
 
Damocles said:
Some of those are two years apart. Your evidence is that someone said he had a conversation, then someone else described their own views on a conversation.

I refuse to pretend this is logical or has evidential backing. I just won't. This is fucking nuts and I won't pretend it isn't because City are involved.
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There is no question he associated with, did not seek to challenge and has not sought to distance himself from a cohort of journalists who openly conspired to question and undermine our achievements in a way that was tendentious, specious, inconsistent and hypocritical. And calculated. This is a group who have conspicuously not engaged in dispassionate critical analysis of the club at any stage, and yet have plainly not applied the same sense of sententious indignation to others clubs with more questionable and opaque finances such as United and Chelsea.

If you cannot see how appearing to be so convivial with those who sought to destroy us, without any apparent subsequent qualification, retraction or contrition is going to inform many City fans’ disposition towards him then it’s not the psychology of City fans that you fail to sufficiently appreciate, but rather human nature.

Especially given one of that cohort wanks off dogs.
 
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