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Media bias against City
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MojoRisin
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The words "bitter ****" springs to mind when one thinks of Micky Quinn.
Mikejl
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Surely the club will say something about this!
Blueknows
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Rodgers mocks city for playing Milner out of position
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has mocked Manchester City for playing James Milner out of position during his time at the club.
The England man, who scored on his unofficial debut today in the 2-1 win over Brisbane Roar in Australia, prefers to play in central midfield.
His best season came in that position at Aston Villa prompting City to splash out close to £30m in 2010. But despite that he was rarely used in that position on a regular basis with him filling in at right-back, defensive midfield, right or left midfield, or just off the striker.
Milner agreed to move to Anfield after running down his deal at the Etihad outfit after having misgivings about the number of starts he would get under manager Manuel Pellegrini and the likelihood of him getting starts in his best role.
And Rodgers says he won’t be making the same mistake with him set to continue playing him in the centre of midfield.
“James Milner’s a class act,” Rodgers was quoted by the Express as saying. “We had to work very hard to get him in but I think we’ll see over the course of the season how important he is for us.
“He’s a wonderful personality and a top class footballer. When you see him play in his favourite position, you see all these qualities come out.
“Players will always have a favourite position. Sometimes when you are such a great professional you can get moved about,” Rodgers added.
“It’s an attribute that’s good to have as a player but every player will want to play in their main position.
“James probably suffered a bit from being such a good footballer.
“He played right-back, wide on the left and right, as a striker and as a midfielder.
“You want players like that in your squad but as a player you want to play in your favoured position.
“Probably best season he ever had was at Aston Villa playing as a centre midfield player.
“He’s going to be huge for us and working close at hand with him I can see why he’s regarded as such a top class professional.”
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has mocked Manchester City for playing James Milner out of position during his time at the club.
The England man, who scored on his unofficial debut today in the 2-1 win over Brisbane Roar in Australia, prefers to play in central midfield.
His best season came in that position at Aston Villa prompting City to splash out close to £30m in 2010. But despite that he was rarely used in that position on a regular basis with him filling in at right-back, defensive midfield, right or left midfield, or just off the striker.
Milner agreed to move to Anfield after running down his deal at the Etihad outfit after having misgivings about the number of starts he would get under manager Manuel Pellegrini and the likelihood of him getting starts in his best role.
And Rodgers says he won’t be making the same mistake with him set to continue playing him in the centre of midfield.
“James Milner’s a class act,” Rodgers was quoted by the Express as saying. “We had to work very hard to get him in but I think we’ll see over the course of the season how important he is for us.
“He’s a wonderful personality and a top class footballer. When you see him play in his favourite position, you see all these qualities come out.
“Players will always have a favourite position. Sometimes when you are such a great professional you can get moved about,” Rodgers added.
“It’s an attribute that’s good to have as a player but every player will want to play in their main position.
“James probably suffered a bit from being such a good footballer.
“He played right-back, wide on the left and right, as a striker and as a midfielder.
“You want players like that in your squad but as a player you want to play in your favoured position.
“Probably best season he ever had was at Aston Villa playing as a centre midfield player.
“He’s going to be huge for us and working close at hand with him I can see why he’s regarded as such a top class professional.”
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They do indeed operate under orders. The club is effectively a high profile public face of Abu Dhabi and that's reflected in the way we deal with the press. The Sheikh and his advisers want everything low key.
That doesn't mean they don't get extremely irritated by some of the crap that passes for "journalism" and they do react where they think it's necessary. But the vast majority of that reaction is done without fanfare. I think we've sued The Sun once but I've been told that others have backed down under the threat of action and paid substantial sums to charity. So we don't sit back and soak up the shit.
They've also done a good job of getting some influential journalists onside, such as Martin Samuel, Henry Winter, Olly Holt, Danny Taylor and even David Conn to a large degree. They'll all have their digs every now and again but by and large they understand what the project is about.
The club also know it's a waste of time trying to change the way some journalists write about us but eventually those people will need to butter us up, in the same way they do with the rags. And even the rags have negative stories written about them these days. At the end of the day, no one can force people to write nice things about them.
We have a role to play in all of this. Whenever we see stories like that fucking muppet Lawton's, we should firmly but intelligently challenge them where we can. That story of Powell's for example. People have commented on it and the likes for the comments challenging him far outweigh the dislikes. Even something as simple as that might convince editors that there's more benefit being positive about us than being negative. We should make official complaints to the outlets and to OFCOM if necessary, where justified.
Perhaps we should set up our own Media Monitoring Unit on Bluemoon where we coordinate our response to negative stories.
It appears we are totally indifferent to what the press says about the club. But the damage that is being done to the way the footballing public "see" City is real and seems to be gaining momentum. Perception is reality for those who don't know better, (90+% of the footballing public) and the drip drip persistant misrepresentation now means that Joe public believes we cant fill our ground therefore we're not really a big club, we are football graveyard for young talented players, especially if they are English and we only win trophies because we spend more money than anyone else and therefore dont deserve it.
These persistant themes have all the hallmarks of press management by our rivals.
The irony is that we have a fantastic story to tell. A Cinderella story of from rags to riches, winning the Premier League 2 years out of the last three with a style of football that resulted in us being the highest scorers in the league, ie the entertainers, not forgetting the huge investment in youth we have made with the world class accademy which will help in no small way to produce England's stars of the future and last but not least the socially responsible way we have been instrumental in the regeneration of East Manchester.
Unfortunately our PR department has no control or influence over the narrative. We can make as many excuses as we like but that is there job and they are not doing it. We need to protect our brand starting with hiring a big hitter, somone with real clout in the PR world who has the respect of the senior journalists and will make people think twice when spinning falsehoods about our club.
I agree the club is effectively the high profile face of Abu Dhabi but its image is being tarnished and we are doing nothing about it. I find it hard to believe that that is what the Sheikh really wants.
yep Milner has a good game against the poor teams this season he will be in the team of the year and nominated for player of the year! why?
1, he's at Liverpool with all the positives the media spout they'll be on it..
2, He has left city the media love slating us and relish to get him in for these nominations.
another point watch Milner get in that central midfield role for England
1, he's at Liverpool with all the positives the media spout they'll be on it..
2, He has left city the media love slating us and relish to get him in for these nominations.
another point watch Milner get in that central midfield role for England
hydemainecoms
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It appears we are totally indifferent to what the press says about the club. But the damage that is being done to the way the footballing public "see" City is real and seems to be gaining momentum. Perception is reality for those who don't know better, (90+% of the footballing public) and the drip drip persistant misrepresentation now means that Joe public believes we cant fill our ground therefore we're not really a big club, we are football graveyard for young talented players, especially if they are English and we only win trophies because we spend more money than anyone else and therefore dont deserve it.
These persistant themes have all the hallmarks of press management by our rivals.
The irony is that we have a fantastic story to tell. A Cinderella story of from rags to riches, winning the Premier League 2 years out of the last three with a style of football that resulted in us being the highest scorers in the league, ie the entertainers, not forgetting the huge investment in youth we have made with the world class accademy which will help in no small way to produce England's stars of the future and last but not least the socially responsible way we have been instrumental in the regeneration of East Manchester.
Unfortunately our PR department has no control or influence over the narrative. We can make as many excuses as we like but that is there job and they are not doing it. We need to protect our brand starting with hiring a big hitter, somone with real clout in the PR world who has the respect of the senior journalists and will make people think twice when spinning falsehoods about our club.
I agree the club is effectively the high profile face of Abu Dhabi but its image is being tarnished and we are doing nothing about it. I find it hard to believe that that is what the Sheikh really wants.
Excellent post! It's great beng the strong silent type but every now and again we do need to step up to the plate and defend ourselves.
Blueknows
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Goes a lot deeper than just the media and their agenda , you only have to look at our 2 title wins , who won manager of the year Pardew in 2012 and Pulis 2014 ffs , Sergio golden boot winner couldnt even get in the premier team of the year
Mentioned something a while ago on these lines but with more thought, I think we could take some influence back. Papers work on clicks so let's influence the volume. Example, I've been dropping into the DM comments and liking pro city comments for the fun of it and disliking rag crap. Then refresh good articles to up the counter behind the scenes. If we did this on mass, I wonder whether it would paint a different landscape from us clicking on crap article links here.That sounds like a great idea, there's enough posters on this thread to facilitate it. I think it'd be more palatable than highlighting obvious click bait.
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