Media coverage 2018/19

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karen7 said:
Stan Collymore on who City should target this summer: “If I was Pep, the first person I’d be targeting is Van Dijk. I’d offer Stones and Otamendi plus £150m for the Dutchman and I wouldn’t stop until Liverpool accepted my offer was simply too good to turn down.”

Oh Stanley lol
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Thank goodness he has not been entrusted to negotiate on our behalf.........
 
Shirley said:
Simple Simon on the BBC website banging the drum again.....


Not only is Sancho impressing in Borussia Dortmund's first team, he is appearing regularly in the Champions League and has made his England debut. In contrast, Phil Foden - a team-mate of Sancho's and Hudson-Odoi's in England's U17 World Cup win in 2017 - remains a peripheral figure at Manchester City, often not making the matchday squad.
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Not impressing tonight against Premiership quality. Probably why he went abroad - he would struggle in England, or at least, wouldn't be any better than Phil, nor would he get more chances if he played for one of the top 6
 
Plenty of pundits are already handing out the PFA gong to Van Djyk.

I’ve yet to hear any journalist or media expert point out that it’s easy to be a ‘Rolls Royce of a defender’ TM when you’ve had 3 defensive midfielders in front of you all season.

Let him have it. Every year a Liverpool player wins it, we win the title.
 
I had a spare ten mi utes and totted up the cost of Liverpool’s squad. It came to sound £600mil. I thought this couldn’t be be right because Liverpool sing bargain basement players on low wages.
 
karen7 said:
Stan Collymore on who City should target this summer: “If I was Pep, the first person I’d be targeting is Van Dijk. I’d offer Stones and Otamendi plus £150m for the Dutchman and I wouldn’t stop until Liverpool accepted my offer was simply too good to turn down.”

Oh Stanley lol
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Did he really say this..omg.!
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
I think the braodcast media and the tabloids are well out of touch with most fans and that's why their audience and reader figures are all plunging. A lot of them have failed to realise that Liverpool and the Rags may well have the biggest fanbases but when you combine the figures for those fans who don't support these two it will be much larger.
I think a lot of football fans, not just us, are totally pissed off with negative coverage about their own clubs. In fact coverage of football in general is very negative and appears to be overly influenced by social media trolls who never attend games. Where is the celebration of the world's greatest sport?
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I think thats a great post ...

Id also add tho..that the influence of players agents/or The super player agencies who pay journalists to highlight certain players....just look ( for example) at the media in general and Wilfred Zaha this season.the lad has never been out the news!! His agent belongs to one of the most powerful and influential agencies...the attention has continued ,,unabated all season..even throughout Zahas 18 games without a goal .(.the only forward players i know who went 18 games without a gosl were Mark bright,who ended it by scoring against City ,and Ronnie Moore.)..yet Zahas name is banded about as tho he had the skill of Bernardo Silva,or the goal scoring prowess of sergio/raheem...the lad can do no wrong..thanks to his agent...its this sort of financially backed exposure..which the papers will gladly lap up due to falling sales/advertising revenue..which is making football journalism so dull and unrealistic.
Zaha..a few goals, and virtually no assists ,playing for a lower mid table prem team...never out the papers.why?
 
Is there more than a whiff of anti-Arab/raccist sentiment connected to the amount of stick City get in some quarters of the media?

Seems strange to me when you think of other success stories ....

Jack Walker was hailed as the Messiah at Blackburn and it was 'a great story'.

... and I don't even remember Abramovich/Chelsea getting any where near the amount of stick City do when Abramovich was ploughing in his millions and they were winning the Premier and Champions League.

I've always thought its pure jelousy of our success, but all this stuff at the forefront of the media currently about how black players are treated differently in some quarters of the media had me thinking about this today ......

Yes we know the likes of Bayern, Madrid and Barca have been trying to stop us because their dominance is threatened but what is the motivation in some quarters of press for their incessant attempts to tarnish City's reputation at every opportunity?
 
MCFC_4Heatons said:
Is there more than a whiff of anti-Arab/raccist sentiment connected to the amount of stick City get in some quarters of the media?

Seems strange to me when you think of other success stories ....

Jack Walker was hailed as the Messiah at Blackburn and it was 'a great story'.

... and I don't even remember Abramovich/Chelsea getting any where near the amount of stick City do when Abramovich was ploughing in his millions and they were winning the Premier and Champions League.

I've always thought its pure jelousy of our success, but all this stuff at the forefront of the media currently about how black players are treated differently in some quarters of the media had me thinking about this today ......

Yes we know the likes of Bayern, Madrid and Barca have been trying to stop us because their dominance is threatened but what is the motivation in some quarters of press for their incessant attempts to tarnish City's reputation at every opportunity?
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You are spot on.
Add then the harm we have done outstripping their cash cow.
 
would be interesting for someone to tot up the value of the rag transfer spend according to the media up to the transfer window

off the top of my head alone in the last couple of days alone its been 100mill on bale, 100 mill on sancho

i know its jus click bait fodder but it seems to be getting worse
 
CC1 said:
Not impressing tonight against Premiership quality. Probably why he went abroad - he would struggle in England, or at least, wouldn't be any better than Phil, nor would he get more chances if he played for one of the top 6
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Which is why it would be great if the Raggies spunked 100 mil on him as is being touted in the media. For the first 5-7 games they will call for him to be Captain of England, 8-14 games one of the best in England, 15-39 games he would hardly be mentioned as he merely makes the match day squad. Meanwhile 100 million has gone south.
 
Blue Mist said:
Which is why it would be great if the Raggies spunked 100 mil on him as is being touted in the media. For the first 5-7 games they will call for him to be Captain of England, 8-14 games one of the best in England, 15-39 games he would hardly be mentioned as he merely makes the match day squad. Meanwhile 100 million has gone south.
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Sunderland would be rubbing their hands.
 
Blue Mist said:
Which is why it would be great if the Raggies spunked 100 mil on him as is being touted in the media. For the first 5-7 games they will call for him to be Captain of England, 8-14 games one of the best in England, 15-39 games he would hardly be mentioned as he merely makes the match day squad. Meanwhile 100 million has gone south.
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My thoughts exactly. He’s without doubt, a good player but there’s a reason several young English players are doing well in other countries- the standard is lower; less physical and they have a winter break.
 
tonea2003 said:
would be interesting for someone to tot up the value of the rag transfer spend according to the media up to the transfer window

off the top of my head alone in the last couple of days alone its been 100mill on bale, 100 mill on sancho

i know its jus click bait fodder but it seems to be getting worse
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Its Jizzillions
 
MCFC_4Heatons said:
Is there more than a whiff of anti-Arab/racist sentiment connected to the amount of stick City get in some quarters of the media?

Seems strange to me when you think of other success stories ....

Jack Walker was hailed as the Messiah at Blackburn and it was 'a great story'.

... and I don't even remember Abramovich/Chelsea getting any where near the amount of stick City do when Abramovich was ploughing in his millions and they were winning the Premier and Champions League.

I've always thought its pure jelousy of our success, but all this stuff at the forefront of the media currently about how black players are treated differently in some quarters of the media had me thinking about this today ......

Yes we know the likes of Bayern, Madrid and Barca have been trying to stop us because their dominance is threatened but what is the motivation in some quarters of press for their incessant attempts to tarnish City's reputation at every opportunity?
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It is institutionalized by the government party that controls the Media
 
Thinking about the Football Leaks stuff, I think we need to be focusing more on the newspapers/media outlets and their editors as opposed to the journalists slandering us. They;re the ones hiring these people and asking/letting them to create narratives that sell newspapers/clicks.



MCFC_4Heatons said:
Is there more than a whiff of anti-Arab/raccist sentiment connected to the amount of stick City get in some quarters of the media?

Seems strange to me when you think of other success stories ....

Jack Walker was hailed as the Messiah at Blackburn and it was 'a great story'.

... and I don't even remember Abramovich/Chelsea getting any where near the amount of stick City do when Abramovich was ploughing in his millions and they were winning the Premier and Champions League.

I've always thought its pure jelousy of our success, but all this stuff at the forefront of the media currently about how black players are treated differently in some quarters of the media had me thinking about this today ......

Yes we know the likes of Bayern, Madrid and Barca have been trying to stop us because their dominance is threatened but what is the motivation in some quarters of press for their incessant attempts to tarnish City's reputation at every opportunity?
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Yeah there's this thing called unconscious bias which with regards to racism means you can be racist without thinking about it or knowing it; that's what I think was going on with the recent Sterling stuff and I think here too. There is definitely an anti-Arab sentiment, whether that be from straight up racists from the red-tops to the cultural snobs of the broadsheets. It's there.

Although with regards to Abramovich, he definitely got plenty (and I mean plenty) of stick, but there were at least some reasons why he never got it to our level:
1) There was no FFP for the holier than thou journalists and commentators to fall back upon.
2) The scale of the investment was limited largely to the team. With City, there's the whole training ground complex and global expansion amongst other things. It's a lot lot clearer with City that there's some real long term thinking and planning going on in a way that could far more legitimately be a threat to the status quo than anything Chelsea were doing. By the time they did start making bigger investments...
3) Most importantly though, in 2008 a bigger fish came along and took all the attention.
 
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