Media bias against City

[Gundogan's Moustache]

More hate from talkshite

This guy is the Chief Operating Officer if you feel like telling the twat https://twitter.com/scotttaunton

No Wayne Rooney?

 

[Citysmith]

Just read this on the Paddy Power blog and told the author that t was full of mistakes, he's Tweeted me back to ask what mistakes are in. To be honest guys I'm a bit dumbfounded and don't know where to start http://blog.paddypower.com/2015/07/...duce-has-landed-them-a-bad-crop/?AFF_ID=16562



Manchester City’s hunt for homegrown produce has landed them a bad crop
Graham Ruthven explains why City's hunt for homegrown talent undermines their rebuilding efforts

Take a walk around Manchester City’s Etihad Campus, as it’s now known, and you’ll quickly get the impression that everything there has been planned meticulously, down to the finest detail. The stadium itself is being expanded, not because of current demand but because of expected demand in years to come, with their £200 million training ground among the best in Europe.

But there has been one oversight.

While Man City have burned through cheques quicker than Greece has gone through Wonga loan applications – signing some of the brightest and best players available – they have neglected their English core. Manuel Pellegrini’s side, after so much reckless investment over the years, fell short of Premier League and UEFA rules on homegrown players, leaving them with a lot of catching up to do before the start of the new season.

This summer window should have been the most important in City’s recent history – at least since Arabian oil billions started pumping into the club. Their team is in need of major rejuvenation having grown somewhat stagnant over the past season, yet Pellegrini’s transfer market strategy has been dictated instead by a need for English players rather than genuine quality.

Premier League clubs are allowed to name no more than 17 foreign players in their squads, with UEFA regulations also ruling that at least half of their homegrown contingent must have spent at least three years with their current club between the age of 15 and 21.

So with James Milner leaving as a free agent to join Liverpool, Frank Lampard finally joining up with New York City FC, Scott Sinclair’s loan at Aston Villa made permanent and Dedryck Boyata signing for Celtic, Man City needed like Johnny Depp needs a successful movie that doesn’t involve him prancing around like a camp Keith Richards


That explains why £49 million was splurged on Liverpool winger and hippy crack smoker Raheem Sterling, with £8 million also spent on Aston Villa’s Fabian Delph and a further £8 million on teenager Patrick Roberts from Fulham.

Not The Spend Of Their Problems
However, spending so much on English talent this summer could set Man City back years. By neglecting the need to keep hold of homegrown players over the past few years, the Etihad club have left themselves in a situation that could take some time to unravel. At a time when Pellegrini should have been replenishing his starting lineup with top-tier talent, he has been forced to curb his ambition.

Neither Delph nor Sterling will improve Manchester City much, at least in a wider sense. The likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid aren’t exactly shuddering at the prospect of facing either player in the Champions League this season, despite the latter’s hefty price tag. And Delph won’t even appear on the radar of Europe’s elite.

In essence, City have spent £65 million on merely satisfying a bureaucratic stipulation. In fact, with Milner – one of the club’s most consistent players over the past few years – gone it could be argued that Pellegrini’s side is in fact worse off ahead of the new season.

‘Grown Nowhere Fast?
But Pellegrini insists that he is not just targeting English players to meet the quota, arguing that a homegrown contingent will help them become a winning team once again. Of course, that’s nonsense. ‘You’ll never win the title without an English core’ is one of those cliches that has very little basis in truth or precedence – like ‘you’ll never win anything with kids’ or ‘the thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.’ There is no logical reason to believe that the Premier League can’t be won without a Lionheart leader at the back, or a quintessentially English number nine up front.

Had City been smarter about things, they would have packed the fringes of their squad with homegrown fodder, allowing them to target the very best players – without restriction – for their first-team. Instead they now almost have an obligation to hand Sterling a starting spot, given the money spent on signing him.


City don’t exactly have the best record with homegrown players. Jack Rodwell and Scott Sinclair were bought for around £20 million two years ago, with just over 30 appearances made between the two players in the time since.

Joe Hart is pretty much the only British player to have made a career for himself at Man City having come through the club’s youth ranks – and even he was bought from Shrewsbury Town for £1.5 million as a teenager. The Abu-Dhabi owned team have a lot to prove in that respect.

Financial Fair Play regulations may have been relaxed recently, allowing clubs like Man City more leeway in the transfer market, but they are still restricted to a certain extent. They can’t splash cash like rivals Manchester United can, for instance, so when £65 million is spent by the Sky Blues on just three players, it must count.

The capture of Delph and Sterling has been billed as a proactive nod to the future by Man City, with the club for once thinking about the long-term. Both signings however could prove more of a handicap.

 

[bluesoup]

Haha, you can try to tell him the mistakes but doubt the clown will change the tone though... Funny though

 

[SWP's back]

You don't smoke hippy crack. You inhale it from a balloon. The twat.

 

[Felicity Walsh]

I've just 'briefly' read some of the other blogs written by Graham Ruthven... At least he's consistent.. Comes over as a thick rag **** to me

 

[Metalartin]

That is happening and is only part of this digital revolution. Not really up to date on this but Marvin talks sense when he sees fan based TV taking over in a big way threatening Sky Sports News etc..

Not sure if it is on this thread but I was amazed when I looked at the fan based TV links Marvin provided. They are very professionally run and must be a real threat to SSN who are now sacrificing any pretense of fair reporting to hopefully counteract the threat this new technology presents.

Can anyone find this post by Marvin for those of us who missed it(I had a quick look but found nothing) please?

 

[Helmet Cole]

More hate from talkshite

This guy is the Chief Operating Officer if you feel like telling the twat https://twitter.com/scotttaunton

Just a few gooners voted on that one then!

 

[Chris in London]

Who the fuck is Graham Ruthven?

 

[keith's curle]

This is what thay said:

Best new signing

Only Sky asked this question but Jeff Stelling said Shay Given, Matt le Tissier went for Aguero, Paul Merson said Villa's Charles N'Zogbia, Phil Thompson went for Liverpool midfielder Charlie Adam and Charlie Nicholas said David de Gea.

Charlie Nicholas also said that Sergio Aguero would be the worst signing and wasn't worth his transfer fee.

Is there a website, blog, or anything similar where these kinds of 'expert' predictions are recorded in order to be assessed later? It would be interesting to find out if any of them actually do make good predictions and hilarious to try to work out which made the biggest tit of himself (although, I bet its Merson).

 

[penalty spot]

These media clowns are so clueless. They make most of their dross up and the readers probably believe it.They grew up supporting one of the original fixed finish four teams,fixed in terms of money.It will take years before the lies are finished from the biased bastards.The rest of Europe will accept us when we lift the Cups.Anyway the transfer season is not finished yet and he is spouting this. Please pull it to pieces and show us your reply.

 

[Citysmith]

These media clowns are so clueless. They make most of their dross up and the readers probably believe it.They grew up supporting one of the original fixed finish four teams,fixed in terms of money.It will take years before the lies are finished from the biased bastards.The rest of Europe will accept us when we lift the Cups.Anyway the transfer season is not finished yet and he is spouting this. Please pull it to pieces and show us your reply.

To be fair it's on Twitter so 140 characters will prove short sharp points but will do my best ha ha

 

[@BluePhil8]

Hahaha that article. It makes me wonder how anyone in this planet can be unemployed as you can just get a job as a journalist considering half of them are dumber than Neanderthals. Christ I could write better articles than the ones posted in this thread.

 

[1961_vintage]

Many years ago a very wise and well minted gentleman once told me all publicity is good publicity, the only difference is perception. He told me he judged his successes in life by the amount of enemies and haters he'd collected along the way to making his fortune. He went on to say the time one should worry is when people stop talking about you because that means you're no longer a threat.

So in essence, pre 2008 City were everybody's lovable loser, many people's 2nd team out of pity and a club with delusions of grandeur who were the butt of every football fans jokes. Lee Sharpe (ex ManUre) turned us down as he thought his career would be better served at Bradford City. Steve Sidwell, Geoff Thomas, Matt Holland (I could go on all day) all turned us down for clubs who we as City fans considered below our stature because these players thought City were a step down from Reading, Charlton and Wolverhapton Wanderers.

Then comes 2008 and the esteemed Sheikh Mansour bought Manchester City, the ridicule we'd suffered quickly became bemused curiosity, but still no-one quite took us seriously. We start to spend huge amounts on average players on massive wages as the only way to start the process of moving us from perennial relegation strugglers to Europa League hopefuls and still they mocked 'Loads-a-money' Manchester City. We bid more than ManUre for Tevez and the Dark Lord coined the phrase 'Noisey Neighbours' who posed no serious threat and would never finish ahead of his beloved club in his lifetime.

A change of manager for us brings about a change of fortunes and for the first time in our recent history genuine world class stars start to take City seriously. We'd already acquired Robinho & Tevez, but now City were going after the elite in the form of Yaya, Silva, Aguero, Nasri, Dzeko, Balotelli etc. All of a sudden, the media narrative changed from lovable losers to reckless spenders ruining football where FFP couldn't come quickly enough to halt us!

It was at this point, and only at this point I knew we'd really arrived because Europe's elite were now putting their collective might together to stop the Manchester City Bandwagon. The more they squirmed, the more they moaned, the more the media willingly fed their bullshit to the masses, the more I knew we were becoming more and more of a threat.

In my book the first milestone was beating ManUre in the FA Cup semi final as this was the first time I can recall since the 70's that we'd squared up to ManUre, looked them straight in the eye, took them on and soundly beat them and were better man for man and as a team. Our first bit of silverware quickly followed and was further proof of our growing presence.

Then came the season that changed it all. The 1-6 at Old Toilet and the Agueroooooo moment that will live on forever. The mocking banner had been ripped down at the swamp as promised and Liverpool were the losers as City now relplaced the media darlings in the all important top four.

Every mocking headline, every derogatory article only sought to give me a warm glow inside in the knowledge that the old guard were still hurting and the only things left for them after their failed FFP attempt was childish name calling and spurious tales pedalled by the former elite's media bum chums.

Am I bothered? Am I fuck, because every time I look at the pained expressions on their faces it reminds me where we've come from and where we now stand. They can have their glorious past as the future is all I'm interested in and that future is likely to contain more than a speck of sky blue.

Now back to the media bias: Would I prefer to be everyone's lovable loser, mocked and loved by other football fans and the media? Or would I perfer to be the media's loathed winner who's only crime was to invest in its team and infrastructure to bring about sustainable longterm success?

I'll leave you to choose for me shall I.................

Cheers Dribble. Enjoyed reading that.

 

[manchester blue]

Ask him why he is a bitter, jealous red twat. That will fit 140 characters.

 

[Man city fan 72]

Another thing that really fucks me off is that when we sign a player, it's met with utter derision from everyone, no mention of any ex City player saying it's a good deal. Then today Benteke signs for Liverpool and you have Hammann and Fowler in the media backing the deal.

Total media bias if you ask me.

 

[BlueMo']

The trouble with banning them from the stadium and denying hospitality is probably the finest and most balanced sports journalist there is today and City supporter (in the sense he rarely has a bad word for our project and the Sheikh) - Martin Samuels works for them.

He did an online Q & A session last week and the fat cnut had plenty of sly digs.
Also I clearly stated I wouldn't go as far as banning them.but I'd charge him for all the cakes and doughnuts he eats.

 

[City_Sean]

The media in this country are a fucking disgrace, but at the same time, it's all the better when we things and shut the fucker up, the De Bruyne back page last night was nothing short of a disgrace.

 

[Blue Hefner]

You don't smoke hippy crack. You inhale it from a balloon. The twat.

I stopped reading when he said the stadium was not being expanded due to current demand

 

[Bill]

the smell of fear is fucking unbelievable.

 

[Jack Wills]

"City have spent £65 million to satisfy a stipulation". What the ignorant rag baboon fails to mention is that to Sheikh Mansour that's like us spending £6.50. Plus we got the best U21 player in the world, an England regular and a very promising youngster, much of whose fee will be made up in add one IF he realises his potential.

And they keep deluding themselves and their hordes of dribbling rag readers that only the rags can spend what they want, despite their huge debt. Whoever wrote that article is an utter gibbon.