Media Discussion - 2023/24

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hammocity said:
Wenger won just 3 titles during his tenure, the Tarquins were amongst the biggest spenders and wage payers. They paid £11m for Henry whilst our biggest fee was £3.3m for Lee Bradbury at the time, no one brought up inequality then.

To clarify Wenger did some great business with the likes of Anelka and Overmars sold for big cash but due to the Tarquins ability to pay top dollar on wages and transfers it put them in an envious position.

Shock horror, the correlation between spend on transfers and wages and winning trophies existed even then, same for the Dippers and the Rags, there’s nothing new about it.
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That Arsenal team from the late 90's to the early 2000's is lauded by the media(and rightly so it was a bloody good team) but it's funny how the media rarely mention how that team was built.

£50M "loan" from diamond dealer Danny Fiszman (who allegedly was heavily involved in blood diamonds) enabled Wenger to go on a massive spending spree to win trophies.

The media conveniently forget that EVERY SINGLE TEAM who have won The Premier League have had money and spent it. And I am including Leicester as well
 
The real story is why are most EPL teams so dire given their resources. 14 of the top 30 teams in Europe by revenue are in England. I don't deny the importance of money but maybe there are other factors at work too.
 
madloaf said:
The main thing about this is that it's bollocks - every single media outlet is watching for that spurs game and thinks it's our banana skin. It's always there. It might be, but what fake football cunts like Liew don't realise is that as a team, we've already won - to be here after the treble last year - it's fucking incredible, and unfortunately his cuntish bias can't get past that. Shame really. The twat.
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I agree it's bollocks......but i'm not even thinking of Spurs. There's Fulham to get past first and we need to show them respect. Then beat them.
 
SebastianBlue said:
This, for me, is the argument for why our 100 points was more impressive than Arsenal’s “invincible” season.

We would have beaten them with our points total, so by the only measure that really matters, ours was a greater achievement.

That’s even ignoring that we actually conceded just 1 more goal and kept 2 more clean sheets than they did, as well, whilst winning 6 more games.

Winning 26 games and drawing 12 is not more impressive than winning 32, losing just 2, with 4 draws.
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If the Centurions had conceded a goal from every shot on target against them, that season... they would still have won the league.
 
At-Swim-Two-Birds said:
The real story is why are most EPL teams so dire given their resources. 14 of the top 30 teams in Europe by revenue are in England. I don't deny the importance of money but maybe there are other factors at work too.
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Yes, they are in the same league as us, although not metaphorically.
 
Liew's piece is just yet another example of the collective "heads gone" the media has over our club. We as fans have had to suffer years and years of shit no other fan base gets and in the internet age people can fight back and they just can't handle it at all. For any journos reading, maybe take a breath for a bit and focus on reporting on the sport. I am conscious, of course, that this is tough because clickbait dictates that you need to include the greatest club side in the world in everything but maybe at least try an provide some balance. You never know, it might make for some good articles.
 
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