Media discussion - 2025/26

[Gordyola]

So him venting his spleen achieves nothing in your book? It’s brought the issue to discussion, I’d rather him do that than bend over and get shafted by all and sundry. His comments weren’t ill judged, it was an honest appraisal of how he saw it.

If he gets a ban then it will highlight the situation even more which I very much doubt they want

If charged he will ask for a personal hearing and defend what he said. English is his second language and the KC will use that in his defense, there is precedent. He said "they don't want us to win" Could claim what he meant for example is "Its as though they don't want us to win" will add sufficient doubt

 

[cheekybids]

Did the spurs players come out after the game and complain? Rodri has made himself a target

The issue is that City have done the following in order…..

Kept quiet
Spoke to pgmol behind closed doors
Politely made points in media
Called out more robustly

None have had any effect & it’s far from law of averages.

Winter has started his comments that Rodri is wrong but provided no evidence why he is wrong except for the fact he didn’t get a 2nd yellow. He did say Rodri was right when he alerted the media about the workload causing injuries, something that was also mocked at the time leading to 2 years of injury.

 

[citymad]

So miraculously Skanke touched the ball first then kicked through Guehi.
Honestly the blatant bullshit and smoke and mirrors from these corrupt cunts reffing is laughable.

What can you expect when you have Jamie "fink" O'Hara judging this incident. Would like to have heard Boothroyd's opinion instead. Gallagher desperately trys to cover up the poor decsion. Solanke kicks through Guehi's leg how the fuck isnt that a free kick ?

 

[cheekybids]

Absurdly, we're (presumably) paying him at the same time that he's trying to get one of our players banned:

Henry Winter: City have got the complete package in Semenyo and Guéhi

Henry Winter believes that City have acquired ‘the complete package’ in bringing both Antoine Semenyo and Marc Guéhi to the Club across the January transfer window.

www.mancity.com

It’s fucking mental!

 

[citymad]

So now it might go from bad to worse with a ridiculous Rodri ban. Theres no end to their bitterness concerning City.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

Face it, the Daily Mail is a favourite read for females. The Beckham/Spice Girl thing kicked off a huge marketing thing and young women in the 90s fell for it because it was, for them, the perfect romance. So now these women are into their fifties, they still love the Beckhams, except maybe Brooklyn, but the Mail continues to slag off City at every opportunity, ignoring the fact that Man U are badly run and frankly, crap.

 

[Blueknows]

The issue is that City have done the following in order…..

Kept quiet
Spoke to pgmol behind closed doors
Politely made points in media
Called out more robustly

None have had any effect & it’s far from law of averages.

Winter has started his comments that Rodri is wrong but provided no evidence why he is wrong except for the fact he didn’t get a 2nd yellow. He did say Rodri was right when he alerted the media about the workload causing injuries, something that was also mocked at the time leading to 2 years of injury.

The 2 seasons prior to his injury made 138 appearances for club and country without much of a break (spain euro campaign and our treble season) hence his remarks

 

[Lavinda Past]

He said they dont want us to win which is clear if the evidence is examined

That's a purely subjective view. I'm sure that every club could provide such 'evidence'. It still wouldn't actually  prove anything.

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Ref was Taylor and he has managed game from an high bar letting the game flow and not giving niggly fouls UNTIL the supposed foul

Ah yes, I remember now you point it out. Dips had been fouling throughout and nothing given against them, Milner was particularly bad and got away with all sorts..Did he even get a yellow before Klopp subbed him?

 

[Chris in London]

Are there actually people who still believe in a level playing field after watching the highlights of that game?Been going on for years with those cunts,as it has with us now,..just with polar opposite agendas!Unfortunately,there’s nothing anyone can say to change my mind.They get help,we get hamstrung,..every f’kin game!

See the post just above yours

 

[nmc]

Henry is a dull and deluded tosser who thinks his opinion matters more than anybody else's.

Henry who ?

 

[Gazza]

Winter is a right loathsome ****.

Winter talks/writes about football with a cricket mentality.

 

[Salford_Blue]

What can you expect when you have Jamie "fink" O'Hara judging this incident. Would like to have heard Boothroyd's opinion instead. Gallagher desperately trys to cover up the poor decsion. Solanke kicks through Guehi's leg how the fuck isnt that a free kick ?

Flip it on its head...if Guehi had kicked though Solanki in the box, what would the outcome have been?

Rhetorical btw

 

[Gazza]

Premier League desperation rankings: Judging all 20 teams by transfer window panic

The winter transfer window: when teams make desperation moves to save their season. Which Premier League teams were most desperate this time?

www.espn.co.uk

If you don't want to read it all, we're 2nd in the Desperation Rankings and here's what Spurs & Liverpool ?!? fan Ryan O'Hanlan says.

"Back at the other end of the table, Man City's transfer business continues to baffle. They paid an extra €23 million to bring in Palace defender Marc Guéhi, who would've been a free agent after the season. And then they paid €72 million to sign 26-year-old winger Semenyo, who has been great for Bournemouth but doesn't really seem as if he helps with a position of need for a team with plenty of excellent attackers.

In a league in which there are real spending controls now, you don't spend nearly €100 million on transfer fees for those two players unless you're desperate."

ESPN is the same level of Red-centric as the BBC - but for him to twist the Guehi signing into paying "AN EXTRA" 23 million Euro is complete insane and utterly predictable.

Also the snide "real spending controls now" is just another way of saying there were never constraints on us before - which is odd because i thought there was some charges around that stuff although that was so long ago maybe i'm not remembering correctly.

So, buying at the beginning of the season is OK, but buying in the middle of the season when you can better see what your team requires is desperate?

 

[Gordyola]

That's a purely subjective view. I'm sure that every club could provide such 'evidence'. It still wouldn't actually  prove anything.

Im sure that fans of clubs can provide evidence of incidents similar to the ones we have suffered

1. Newcastle offside goal
2. Newcastle no penalty for handball
3. Newcastle no penalty for a late tackle on Foden (of which, Fulham got a penalty for )
4. Haaland wrestled to the ground today, VAR admitting it was a foul but not given because the corner hadn’t been taken
5. Guehi kicked today, Solanke can only score by kicking through our player, no foul
6. The horrendous ‘offside’ disallowed goal away at Newcastle in the cup
7. The Dalot red card a couple of weeks ago
8. Henderson FAC handball
9. No pen v Wolves
10. The Rashford not offside despite running with the ball for 30 yeards
11. The allowing advantage only to blow when Jack was clear on goal
12. The Ashley Cole "tackle" on Sergio in the derby that was an horrendous foul should been a pen

etc

 

[TonyBookEnd]

If you don't want to read it all, we're 2nd in the Desperation Rankings and here's what Spurs & Liverpool ?!? fan Ryan O'Hanlan says.

"Back at the other end of the table, Man City's transfer business continues to baffle. They paid an extra €23 million to bring in Palace defender Marc Guéhi, who would've been a free agent after the season. And then they paid €72 million to sign 26-year-old winger Semenyo, who has been great for Bournemouth but doesn't really seem as if he helps with a position of need for a team with plenty of excellent attackers.

In a league in which there are real spending controls now, you don't spend nearly €100 million on transfer fees for those two players unless you're desperate."

ESPN is the same level of Red-centric as the BBC - but for him to twist the Guehi signing into paying "AN EXTRA" 23 million Euro is complete insane and utterly predictable.

Also the snide "real spending controls now" is just another way of saying there were never constraints on us before - which is odd because i thought there was some charges around that stuff although that was so long ago maybe i'm not remembering correctly.

I think it's pretty desperate that companies pay for this crap. Why does everything require "ranking"?

Here's my ranking of desperate MSM outlets;
1. The Sun
2. TalkSport
3. Daily Mail
4. Goal.com
5. ESPN
6. 90min
7. Sky Sports
8. CBS Sports
9. BBC Sport

 

[blueste41]

Boiling some piss in HYS, nice to know we are still living rent free in so many peoples heads.

Pep Guardiola: Man City boss jokes about spending

Pep Guardiola mischievously said he is "a little bit sad and upset" that Manchester City have only the seventh highest net spend on transfers in the Premier League over the last five years.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[johnevans]

The essence of Rodri's complaint is that the protection of the referees has been withdrawn from a team that wins too much for the League's liking.

Now where have we seen that before?

I had a good deal of respect for Arsenal during that period of English football when Arsene Wenger and his team brought new and refreshing ideas to our longstanding 'dinosaur mentality' in the English game.

Of course, the Arsenal of post-2008, particularly its board of management, can go and f**k themselves as far as I'm concerned now. But that said, this game you have posted remains, even given my distaste for all things Arsenal nowadays, the worst example of organised, orchestrated thuggery together with complicit, incompetent officiating that I've seen in English football ever since my Old Man first took me to Maine Road in 1959. The Red Filth completely robbed Arsenal that day and how those players survived without at least one of them receiving a serious, potentially career threatening injury remains a mystery. And yet, the media shills ignored it at the time and still do today..

Utterly disgraceful..

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Pep's press conference shortly.

I doubt anyone of them will ask him about the match.

It'll be either do you support Rodri callings refs bent or asking when is he leaving.

Am worried about this.
If asked about the match, Pep will probably deflect City's abysmal performance and lack of changing things, by blaming the officials (they were shite mind).
This will, once again, fuel the press accusations that City are just a bunch of whingers.
City need to get the officials on side...

 

[Platt Lane 59]

But BBC correspondent Craig Nelson has just responded in a predictably negative way….. City are the second highest spenders if you exclude the sale of players. Bloody Hell they can’t help shit stirring.

Ah, but selling players doesn't count.
Unless it involves the Red Arse cheek clubs...