Media Discussion - 2023/24

[bluenova]

You are the most strident, argumentative poster on here. You really think the fact that our revenue is double Newcastle’s isn’t an issue. We generate our own income within FFP, as we did 4 years ago. FFP came into being at the same time for everyone. Of course higher revenue means you can spend more money, duh, although I would doubt our net spend is higher than Newcastles over the last 4 years. What am I informing? When I look in the dictionary for disagreeable your name crops up

The only reason there's a difference between ourselves and Newcastle is that FFP didn't exist for the first few years after our takeover.

Our owners were able to pump in upwards of a billion pounds in a those few seasons, which took our squad value to one where we could compete for the Champions League, and in 2012 win a league title. At that point, even without the revenues we were getting from UAE based sponsors, we were in a position where we were attractive to sponsors, were generating ongoing TV/prize money, and only needed to keep our squad value at the same level, rather than try to massively increase it.

The revenues of the "super clubs" are now two to three times what they were in 2008, so anyone wanting to bridge the gap would need to put in a sum of around £3-4billion. That's to move into the same financial bracket as City, Liverpool and United, and to sustain it for a few years, until you can rely on CL finances and have the kind of exposure that attracts worldwide sponsors.

No club in the Premier League can do that now.

 

[peter.evans]

What did he say ?

Made a daft comment about Spurs and trophies which nobody laughed at and prolonged it with a wait for a laugh that didn't happen !

 

[Platt Lane 59]

It’s set. They have no interest in City as they don’t get the clicks. Combined with their support for red top clubs, manipulated by the likes of Ashton, of course, then we have no chance of getting a decent showing.

Just like FIFA, they do things that benefits them. Messi over Haaland, only if you concentrate on their only decent competition.

Fucking jokers!

Yes, the BBC are a complete bunch of buffoons.
But, this is not just having no interest in City.
It's an orchestrated campaign of ignoring and avoiding all positive news on the Blues.
Have previously said just ignore the twats, but I think the Club now need to mount a more aggressive campaign against them.
If Pep and the 6 City "best players" are ignored on the BBC Sports website (yes, another article header on Earps), surely City have to invite the head of the BBC Sports department into the Ethiad to explain themselves ?

 

[Kippax77]

Yes, the BBC are a complete bunch of buffoons.
But, this is not just having no interest in City.
It's an orchestrated campaign of ignoring and avoiding all positive news on the Blues.
Have previously said just ignore the twats, but I think the Club now need to mount a more aggressive campaign against them.
If Pep and the 6 City "best players" are ignored on the BBC Sports website (yes, another article header on Earps), surely City have to invite the head of the BBC Sports department into the Ethiad to explain themselves ?

He'd be too busy cleaning his Fred the Red costume to attend

 

[Danny Hoekman]

So many things plainly wrong in that Henry Winter piece this morning.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Yes, the BBC are a complete bunch of buffoons.
But, this is not just having no interest in City.
It's an orchestrated campaign of ignoring and avoiding all positive news on the Blues.
Have previously said just ignore the twats, but I think the Club now need to mount a more aggressive campaign against them.
If Pep and the 6 City "best players" are ignored on the BBC Sports website (yes, another article header on Earps), surely City have to invite the head of the BBC Sports department into the Ethiad to explain themselves ?

tbh I find Sky worse. They are just coverage of the red clubs, employ ex red club players, share increased profits generated by red club success, the opinion pieces are nearly always about utd or lfc, their pundits hate us so obviously (As they are utd/lfc players)... At least the bbc has to pretend to be impartial and tbf if I want the most unbiased City news I go to them. (Or a foreign outlet).

 

[Platt Lane 59]

tbh I find Sky worse. They are just coverage of the red clubs, employ ex red club players, share increased profits generated by red club success, the opinion pieces are nearly always about utd or lfc, their pundits hate us so obviously (As they are utd/lfc players)... At least the bbc has to pretend to be impartial and tbf if I want the most unbiased City news I go to them. (Or a foreign outlet).

I stopped Sky subscription many, years ago.
City were not a threat to the Red Tops then, so didn't really notice Sky's obsession ?
But, I made a decision to ditch Sky.
It's much harder to dump the BBC, which I'm obliged to pay for via the licence fee.
I don't think the TV coverage is so bad towards City e.g. Match of the Day have several "neutral" pundits such as Glenn Murray last weekend who was fair.
It's the BBC Sports website that really angers me.
They are markedly ignorant towards the best English football team for many, many years...

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Everton and Forest's charges are unfair while Man City carry on as they please

Neither Everton nor Nottingham Forest have at their disposal a sovereign wealth fund to fight their cause

inews.co.uk

Garside is a total moron. He thinks we are funded by a Sovereign Wealth Fund. Not even Der Spiegl accused us of that. If we are funded by a Sovereign Wealth Fund then why has the PL accused Sheikh Mansour of inappropriate owner investment?

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I stopped Sky subscription many, years ago.
City were not a threat to the Red Tops then, so didn't really notice Sky's obsession ?
But, I made a decision to ditch Sky.
It's much harder to dump the BBC, which I'm obliged to pay for via the licence fee.
I don't think the TV coverage is so bad towards City e.g. Match of the Day have several "neutral" pundits such as Glenn Murray last weekend who was fair.
It's the BBC Sports website that really angers me.
They are markedly ignorant towards the best English football team for many, many years...

The problem is with the digital sports team where banter culture has destroyed any effective editorial control of content. The BBC has severely damaged its own brand by allowing its own staff to repeatedly publish their biased personal opinions on social media platforms. It is an abuse of taxpayers' money.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Courting clicks from the knuckle dragging hordes. He's abandoned any shred of journalistic 'integrity' he ever had.

It is always funny when closet racists like Winter let their mask slip.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

The problem is with the digital sports team where banter culture has destroyed any effective editorial control of content. The BBC has severely damaged its own brand by allowing its own staff to repeatedly publish their biased personal opinions on social media platforms. It is an abuse of taxpayers' money.

Full of Rag's and Dipper's.

The way they 'sanitise' the comments on the sports pages would put Joseph Goebbels to shame.

 

[bluenova]

Fucking hell, whoever Kevin Garside is on inews he really hates City. One of the worst articles I have ever read about us. Presumably he is a rag? Sorry don’t know how to post links, and not sure I’d want to, the bitter ****

You can tell that some writers are fans of rival clubs and just can't get over that.

There are clearly plenty of things fucked up about football these days, and obviously some legitimate questions about City, but the relentless nonsense you get from some writers is ridiculous. It's like using bluemoon, redcafe or rawk as your impartial worldview.

Never a surprise when you google them and find out they've written books about United or Liverpool.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

I hope our press office and legal team are aligned and storing up these hundreds of deliberately misleading, hateful, often racist, articles so they can go to town on the cartel-loving cunts when we are exonerated.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Garside is a total moron. He thinks we are funded by a Sovereign Wealth Fund. Not even Der Spiegl accused us of that. If we are funded by a Sovereign Wealth Fund then why has the PL accused Sheikh Mansour of inappropriate owner investment?

don't give them ideas

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

I hope our press office and legal team are aligned and storing up these hundreds of deliberately misleading, hateful, often racist, articles so they can go to town on the cartel-loving cunts when we are exonerated.

Snipers at the ready

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Snipers at the ready

Hope so. I’ve been hoping that for a decade!

 

[Scareye]

This was the best response
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That may have been me. :-)

 

[mac]

Sorry no.This as good as it gets for me,I cannot speak for others like you seem able to do.

Same as. I have tried and its a drag tbh. I am not that savvy. Anyhow the more content I could put up the more ban hammers I wpuld probably get

 

[PPT]

I hope our press office and legal team are aligned and storing up these hundreds of deliberately misleading, hateful, often racist, articles so they can go to town on the cartel-loving cunts when we are exonerated.

Not a chance. Unfortunately.

 

[halfcenturyup]

So many things plainly wrong in that Henry Winter piece this morning.

Hate to say it, but the Athletic have been pretty even-handed about this, explaining why these routine PSR cases are different to ours.

There is an undercurrent of anti-PL feeling in all the other articles which makes me more suspicious about press motives than some cheap shots at City.

Now, who benefits from the PL losing some of its sparkle, I wonder?