Media coverage 2018/19

[manimanc]

Just puzzles me that they are so upset by our "oil money" and consider Liverpool the mighty underdogs, yet neglect to mention the fact that Liverpool have challenged this season because they bought Van Dijk, Alisson, Keita, Fabinho and Shaqiri with the Coutinho money from Barca, who got it from PSG for Neymar, which means the original funds came from Qatar, which means the money is erm...oh wait. Just second-hand.

Or the fact they bought the likes of Firmino with the Suarez money which also came from Barca who funded it at least in part through their Qatar Airways sponsorship, Qatar Airways who are erm...state owned by Qatar, which means that money is erm...erm.

So basically the spine of their team is bought by Qatari money, which as it's Qatari money was obviously "laundered" through Catalunya (as we can't possibly see it as a legitimate source of footballing income) and a large chunk of the rest was funded by their Iranian sanctions breaching (and thus terrorist funding) kit sponsor Standard Chartered, not to mention their share of the £300m beIN Sports pays for PL TV rights, whose boss is the same man who is president of PSG, so again...oops a daisy.

That's before you mention the decades they were bankrolled by people's gambling losses, just a glorified Stoke. Or to mention their Boston kit manufacturer who in no way may have a good rapport with Mr Henry.

Starting to wonder if they have any "legitimate" income. God, no wonder Etihad are falling behind in the airline stakes with their poky contribution.

Liverpool, the most plucky, heroic underdog title challenging squad to be built by gambling debts topped up with second-hand oil money, cushy Massachusetts millions and Iranian sanctions breaching profits ever (TM). Blimey, you'd need a banner the length of the collapsed wall of Heysel to fit all that on.

Bravo sir, the best post I've seen on here for a very long time.
Beautifully put.

 

[mat]

 

[Woody135]

why didn't KAM address the ownership during his speech, he could of said we are not owned by a country or state we are owned by Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan

Because even if it is true that we arent, making such a statement would imply there is something wrong with being owned by UAE. Which there isnt

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

From the one and only Martin Samuel.

Fucking bang on.

 

[Sir peace frog]

From the one and only Martin Samuel.

That should have a link so we can all click on it and give it loads of hits

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Jonathan Northcroft usually fairer than most, but still plenty of guff in this. Whataboutery works two ways - it allows journalists to deflect criticism and hard truths - yet it is never discussed. Northcroft calls it valid, then moves on to more criticism of City, its "weaponised" fans and owners.

‘Whataboutary’, from the correct source, is frequently an attempt to bring some proportionality to a debate. There is nothing inherently wrong with drawing comparisons that highlight a genuine injustice or egregious inconsistency.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

There's me thinking we were football fans sick of 10 years of negativity towards our club yet we are a 'weaponised fan base'

I hate the word that perfectly describes my erect penis, being hijacked in this way *

* not ‘fan’ or ‘base’ btw.

 

[Metalartin]

 

[Paladin]

Newcastle's last league title was 92 years ago, their last FA Cup was 64 years ago and they've never won the League Cup.

Their last trophy was the old Inter Cities Fairs Cup 50 years ago and they only qualified for that by a convoluted set of circumstances. They finished 10th which is by far the lowest ever finish to qualify for a European place on league position. They got in because the rags won the European Cup (with City winning the League and both playing in the European Cup), West Brom winning the FA Cup (thereby qualifying for the ECWC) and the one city one club rule at the time disqualifying Everton, Spurs and Arsenal.

On that basis the giant hasn't been sleeping. It's been in a coma.

Presumably Spurs and Arsenal were disqualified because they are from the same city as most United fans.

 

[roxy]

All I know is that the UAE report from our government reads a lot better to me than the Russia one. Russia has EU sanctions against it, is ranked 136th out of 177 for corruption and has its own section on human rights. The UAE ranks 21st for corruption as a comparison, just behind Republic of Ireland. Obviously there's room for improvement, but this targeting of the UAE doesn't add up. Why aren't Chelsea getting the same treatment? Is it because they aren't winning things as often?

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ess-risk-russia/overseas-business-risk-russia
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...s/overseas-business-risk-united-arab-emirates

This is interesting from that Foreign Office report about the UAE considering it's supposed to be a serial human rights abuser.

The UN’s 2014 Human Development Report ranked UAE 40th out of 187 countries, and third among Arab countries. The UN’s first survey of happiness and satisfaction ranked UAE 13th in the world. Women participate meaningfully in all facets of civil and political life. In December 2012, it became compulsory to include women on the boards of corporations and government agencies. Four of the 22 members of the Council of Ministers are women. Eight of the 40 Federal National Council members are women.