I was fannying about on Wikipedia this morning, and stupidly followed a link to the list of the most expensive football transfers, and was amazed (not) to see that the City players making the list are quoted with all the add-ons, while the rag martial is not... The fee shown for De Bruyne is quite funny (£54-58million), as none of the references used have any mention of the higher number, and of course, he is ranked based on the higher number!
OK, I know it's only Wikipedia, and any idiot can go in to edit the list, but it just shows how effectively the incessant lies in the media can become "the facts".
No they won't. It would make it a very interesting competition from an English perspective though and rightly it would be given more emphasis that usually is the case. I for one hope that given this co-efficient business, all these clubs rags included, go deep into the competition.If Arsenal end up in the Europa tonight watch the media spin the Europa as a better more competitive competition than Champs league
Hey their exit is the bigger story particularly given the increasingly fragile position of Turtle Head and the potential consequences for him of this failure. In the general scheme of things a lot of people on here just don't seem to be able to grasp that we will always be perceived as gatecrashers by the media and as such will tend to have success treated with distain or indifference and failure magnified out of all proportion. My advice is to chill out and let them get on with their miserable existences!!!Ah, but TurtleHead sez their group was just a stinker. A veritable group of impending doom.
ToryGraph this morning offers us a miserly 240 column inches on MANUre's route to the Europa League whilst, topping the group for the first time, we are treated to a staggering 40 column inches!
know they enemy my friend, know thy enemy. And to be fair Martin Samuel is one of the better sports writers out there.
A great achievement in topping the group of death but we'd qualified weeks ago. The real big news last night was the rags losing and going out of a piss easy group. If Arsenal and Chelsea also go out the focus will be on English clubs failure in Europe and the possible lose of the fourth CL spot. There is media bias against us, of course there is, but the story is more the general ineptness of PL teams in this competition in recent seasons.
Try reading the Guardian write up by Jamie Jackson. It ends at the 65 th minute.
A typical Jackson effort, sadly. You can feel the bitterness oozing out at having to amend his pre-written rubbish. The detailed notes on the goals are his usual level of insight. Mind you, if you want him at his height, dig out the Roma-City report from last year. It's one for the ages.
It can be said enough, Jamie Jackson is a cockroach. A bottom feeder, a slug, a sneering two bob hack who manages to drag his already maligned profession further into the gutter every time he writes an article.
You're wrong here I think, about the listings. The list is in order by Euro value at the time of transfer, not £. Rating 75-80M above 75M looks fine to me.
You can click on the arrows at the top of the £ column if it makes you feel better!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_association_football_transfers
Why would the De Bruyne fee be listed as €75-80m? It's €75m, and so the same as the two players below. If the list is about including all the possible add-ons or listing a range, then martial is €75m or €48-75m.
Even more curious is that the commentator Guy Mobray is a self confessed blue.I cannot understand the BT coverage of us. It does not make sense. The only people watching our match last night are likely to be City fans. Why piss us off with the negative shite we had to put up with.