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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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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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.
Sunderland would be rubbing their hands.
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.
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.
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We have 100% disappeared from the DM online football section. What will they do when we wrap the league up?
MillionMilesAway
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We have 100% disappeared from the DM online football section. What will they do when we wrap the league up?
Pretend they always supported us
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Its Jizzillionswould 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
CelesteItis
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It is institutionalized by the government party that controls the MediaIs 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?
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.
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.
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?
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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I demand to know why Utd are not on the front pages of every news paper today. They're only all over the backs.
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