The early years of the PL coincided with the worst slump in our history, that was particularly unlucky for us.
Just when rag revenues were going ballistic, we on the other on seemed to be locked into a never ending death spiral. Thanks to FHL and JD we avoided the indignity of bankruptcy. We got a bit lucky with Thaskin and then we got incredibly lucky when we won the lottery with HHSM.
Our transformation into a world class club has coincided with the death of conventional journalism. This is also a bit unlucky.
In their desperation to achieve click metrcs it's fair say any semblence of journalistic insight, objectivity and balance has gone. National journalism will go the same way as local, within three years it will be gone. What the landscape means for everything we care about, not just City, but life in general, literally nobody has a clue. Thanks to AI, the likes of Lawton, Deloony, Harris etc will be redundant, their skill set completely devoid of economic value.
We've seen journo dung like "Pep will fail in the PL" "Haaland won't score in the PL", "City will never win the Champions League". Just three examples from the thousands of tropes spewed out by journalists in a desperate attempt to maximise clicks. There is a reality disconnect between what people would like to happen and real world events. So that's why we are smeared as guilty before the IC has finished. It's difficult to stomach the daily dose of City hatred but IF we understand what is going on and why, it's easier to brush it off.