Media Discussion - 2023/24

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Damanino said:
where is the media uproar for the Rice deal?

it was incredible amount of shit spouted when we signed Grealish who I thought as well was very much overpriced but how the media portrayed it just added to the factor he was booed a lot in his first season almost in all away grounds.

now Rice overtaking that financial record, its more like being reported that this is the cost to sign a great player and what a great job by Arteta and Edu to pull it off.

I do hope they end up in group of death in CL, just to give them a pretty complicated start compared to last season where they were able to rotate the shit out of meaningless EL group games.
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Jack was booed cos he was good and was systematically fouled by cart horse defenders.

Rice is so vanilla he won't even be noticed.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Martinez was humiliated in the 6-3 derby defeat. The worst player on the field. I think he is the latest United myth. Someone who runs about a lot kicking opponents always goes down well with their fans. Stones is light years ahead of him. Come to think of it so are Akanji and Nathan Ake.
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The same Martinez who is kept out of his national team by Nicolas Otamendi.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Martinez was humiliated in the 6-3 derby defeat. The worst player on the field. I think he is the latest United myth. Someone who runs about a lot kicking opponents always goes down well with their fans. Stones is light years ahead of him. Come to think of it so are Akanji and Nathan Ake.
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Otamendi kept him out of Argentina’s starting xi on the way to winning the World Cup.

He’s utter shite, the more sensible rags I know say he’s a great influence on the team and the fans love him. But they’re not sure if he’s actually any good. I informed them he wasn’t.
 
jrb said:
You haven't seen anything yet, even after years of reading this thread. Somebody has gone to a lot of trouble to produce this

LACK OF CIVIC LEADERSHIP HAS ENABLED MANCHESTER AND NEWCASTLE SPORTSWASHING PROJECTS​


A new report published today finds that political leaders in Manchester and Newcastle have not only declined multiple opportunities to use their positions of influence to express criticism of serious and systematic human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, but have effectively assisted these two deeply abusive and profoundly anti-democratic states’ efforts to set up ‘soft power enclaves’ in cities with proud histories of protest and dissent.

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Click on the PDF link via the below link to read the report.

Lack of civic leadership has enabled Manchester and Newcastle sportswashing projects – FairSquare

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UAE don’t need soft power through sport, they already have a seat at the table of OPEC+ and have investments in semi-conductors - a critical global resource. There’s of course a marketing angle to ownership of City (if you can use an asset to flog something else, then do it, that’s capitalism), there’s the reputational aspect of building respect by running a high profile project well, and there is a broad strategy of diversifying their economy. Arguments owning the club has anything to do with human rights are so strained they break under the most basic questioning.
 
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