Blueknows
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Most if not all announced "Mourinho will have the edge over Pep due to his vast premiership experience"
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BBC forced to withdraw claim that Man City have bought English football.
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Blueknows
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Sky news now announcing that our transfer deadline day was going well and has now turned into a disaster after the announcement re Sanes injury
cleavers
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We have haven't we ? Yeah we got some back as well, but I assume the comment was what we had spent, united have spent the most apparantly (sniggers loudly at what on).Granada at it now, I have just been informed we have spent £130,000,000 this summer.
Gaylord du Bois
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Snowflake.Lets leave Brexit off the football pages please.
Good times indeed! 34 years without a trophy, and now we just presume we will win more this campaign,So I don't have any issue with people complaining about the cost of our squad tbh. What's less positive for them is that United have had a higher net spend than us since Ferguson left, and have 1 league Cup to show for it, as opposed to 3 PL trophies, 3 LC trophies, and FA Cup and 2 Community shields plus whatever we win this season.
and we will!
The blue phantom
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An absoulte vile bastard Dan Roan, one of the worst fuckers out there.
I know a lot of folk will remember this **** getting banned from the Etihad for the interview he did with Vieira, then completely twisted it. But for those who don't.
Club statement on the twat
"Patrick Vieira has expressed his disappointment and anger at what he feels is a serious and cynical misrepresentation of an interview he gave to the BBC," said the statement.
"Manchester City's football development executive gave the interview at the annual SoccerEx exhibition at the GMEX Convention Centre on Wednesday afternoon. He was representing Football Against Hunger, a campaign to tackle starvation in Africa.
"An interview given to the BBC's Dan Roan contained what Patrick feels was a very leading line of questions regarding Manchester United supposedly receiving favourable treatment by referees. Patrick feels that his views have been deliberately taken out of context."
Vieira said: "I am very angry with Dan Roan. I feel he has misrepresented me.
"I made it clear in the interview twice that I wanted to avoid criticising United and even stated that I didn't watch the United game against Fulham and had not seen the incident to which the reporter referred.
"That part of the interview was ignored and my comments were taken completely out of context. I called the reporter twice to ask for a retraction and an apology which has not come.
"I feel Dan Roan and the BBC have shown a complete lack of respect for me, the 'Football Against Hunger' charity and Manchester City Football Club."
The statement continued: "Manchester City support Patrick in his strong feelings on this matter and have confirmed to the BBC that the reporter will now be banned from all Manchester City media activity."
Chief Communications Officer, Vicky Kloss, said: "Despite the Charity arranging the interview with Dan Roan for the purposes of promoting the Football Against Hunger campaign, the reporter pursued a leading and aggressive line of questioning, through which Patrick was very careful to tread a diplomatic path.
"A misrepresentative article by Dan Roan appeared on the BBC's website a short time later which omitted significant comments of clarification and took the interview completely out of context"
"Manchester City promotes a positive and welcoming approach to media outlets, however it is felt, in the absence of any correction or apology that there is no option but to issue an immediate ban to Dan Roan from future media activity."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/f...m-referee-decisions-taken-out-of-context.html
I know a lot of folk will remember this **** getting banned from the Etihad for the interview he did with Vieira, then completely twisted it. But for those who don't.
Club statement on the twat
"Patrick Vieira has expressed his disappointment and anger at what he feels is a serious and cynical misrepresentation of an interview he gave to the BBC," said the statement.
"Manchester City's football development executive gave the interview at the annual SoccerEx exhibition at the GMEX Convention Centre on Wednesday afternoon. He was representing Football Against Hunger, a campaign to tackle starvation in Africa.
"An interview given to the BBC's Dan Roan contained what Patrick feels was a very leading line of questions regarding Manchester United supposedly receiving favourable treatment by referees. Patrick feels that his views have been deliberately taken out of context."
Vieira said: "I am very angry with Dan Roan. I feel he has misrepresented me.
"I made it clear in the interview twice that I wanted to avoid criticising United and even stated that I didn't watch the United game against Fulham and had not seen the incident to which the reporter referred.
"That part of the interview was ignored and my comments were taken completely out of context. I called the reporter twice to ask for a retraction and an apology which has not come.
"I feel Dan Roan and the BBC have shown a complete lack of respect for me, the 'Football Against Hunger' charity and Manchester City Football Club."
The statement continued: "Manchester City support Patrick in his strong feelings on this matter and have confirmed to the BBC that the reporter will now be banned from all Manchester City media activity."
Chief Communications Officer, Vicky Kloss, said: "Despite the Charity arranging the interview with Dan Roan for the purposes of promoting the Football Against Hunger campaign, the reporter pursued a leading and aggressive line of questioning, through which Patrick was very careful to tread a diplomatic path.
"A misrepresentative article by Dan Roan appeared on the BBC's website a short time later which omitted significant comments of clarification and took the interview completely out of context"
"Manchester City promotes a positive and welcoming approach to media outlets, however it is felt, in the absence of any correction or apology that there is no option but to issue an immediate ban to Dan Roan from future media activity."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/f...m-referee-decisions-taken-out-of-context.html
Fame Monster
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The original question was removed completely, it referred to our financial domination damaging the league and was the first thing he asked in the interview. Masters' answer was included in the doctored QA text (though not in the video clip) but not the real question. The redaction of the interview is a deliberate attempt to deceive and cover up actionable statements. A proper journo should take this story on, the implication still remains that our 'financial clout' is qualitatively different from that of other clubs and is a serious issue in itself.
I've found the report. Starts at 21:40 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007fhn/bbc-news-at-ten-07082019
The question was 'is City's financial clout making the league too predictable?'
And like you said - while there's no doubt that we've spent a lot of money, our financial clout is very similar to United, Liverpool and Chelsea's, all 3 of which have over recent years blown us out the water for certain players (Sanchez, Fred, Maguire, Van Dijk, Jorginho et al). The idea that it's unfair for us to have the same, and in the aforementioned cases, less financial clout is ridiculous. But I suppose it's an easier pill to swallow for those as bitter as Roan than admitting that hard work, good management, and shrewder signings are bigger factors.
The way he ends the report, lamenting that the winner might be 'all too familiar' is another example of his petty vendetta against us.
cleavers
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Have to say I just laughed at that, he was crying inside.The way he ends the report, lamenting that the winner might be 'all too familiar' is another example of his petty vendetta against us.
Chris in London
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I do plenty and they really would love to remain, not sure how this proves anything, it is probably one of the most doom and gloom examples you could have given.
Lol