Media discussion - 2024/25

[malg]

Our revenues are the highest in world football, we are the fastest growing sports enterprise in America and get more hits than the Beatles.

I thought we'd cooked the books and our revenues are all dodgy as fuck???

 

[Prophet of Doom]

so ur basing that on 1 game if so you work for sky dont you and if you're basing it on the last couple of seasons then more evidence suggests we will bang it then they will be serious challengers

It’s hardly basing it on one game. And saying we need to be at it is hardly lowering to ‘working for Sky’ levels.

It’s gonna need 92+ points to win the league this season. And any team winning the league are gonna need to be at it - it’s hardly a big announcement.

We have a lot of distractions this season, 115 hearing, possibly Peps last season, undercooked at the start of the season.

We are defo gonna need to be at it cause there is strong competition.

 

[BolinCell]

It’s hardly basing it on one game. And saying we need to be at it is hardly lowering to ‘working for Sky’ levels.

It’s gonna need 92+ points to win the league this season. And any team winning the league are gonna need to be at it - it’s hardly a big announcement.

We have a lot of distractions this season, 115 hearing, possibly Peps last season, undercooked at the start of the season.

We are defo gonna need to be at it cause there is strong competition.

I will be happy with a cup , top four finish and a decent run in the CL. And if Pep leaves at the end of this season then I wish him well in his new venture. What an excellent manager he has been for City. Oh and a slap on the wrist for being naughty boys breaking some artificial investment suppressant rules designed to give Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs financial advantages.

 

[edinburgh123]

PSR = US Cartel turning the PL into a guaranteed profit franchise at the expense of sacrificing its competitiveness internally & externally - they just don't regard killing our game for their marginal benefit as a problem.

It will be renamed at the PL World Series

At least if we win it we will automatically be World Champions and save us traipsing round the world for uefa sponsored World Club Cups

 

[Blue_eyes]

The Dippers football described as ”breathtaking!”

Is that why klopp had them all on inhalers?

 

[stonerblue]

and exactly why the BBC is not fit for purpose

The actual match report said nothing about breathaking football.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

New season. First game. Minutes in from Kelly Cates, 115 charges. Micah thicker than a whale omelette Richards using guilty and innocent terms. This legal terminology is so far entrenched it’s become fact. Nobody pointing out its 115 Premier League rule breaches. The Police are waiting for the outcome with bated breath.

 

[Gazza]

Stupid is as stupid does, and no one is more stupid than the man who doesn't think he's the most stupid.

The red cartel have been attempting to destroy City for TEN years, blind to the fact that they are dismantling the PL and themselves.

Twixt, City have invested in the world's best coach, wonderful players, the CFA, stadium infrastructure & arena, the global CFG & East Manchester from the NQ to Clayton, along with success in every tournament entered and more records than EMI.

Our revenues are the highest in world football, we are the fastest growing sports enterprise in America and get more hits than the Beatles.

Pep has beneficially changed & improved football beyond recognition to a point where young and international fans have City as their 1st or 2nd club.

Coaches at all levels of the game have become disciples of the Pep/City style & philosophy.

Despite all this and more, the yank red cartel lemmings, and their lame & clueless acolytes at the PL,FA,Pgmol,Sky, Media etc, can only bitterly and enviously attempt to traduce our collective achievements and reputation.

They are in a hand cart to burning hell & hell will hopefully consume them all !!

The Sampson option.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

a gloomy forecast from Mr Samuel:

Well, we had a good run. It was in 2018 that Cristiano Ronaldo left Real Madrid and 2021 when Lionel Messi departed Barcelona. So for three full seasons the Premier League had the field to itself ? and blew it.

"We are in a golden age of Premier League football," cooed the competition's preview to its season last week. "We are in a sweet spot." No, we were, but it's over. Normal service has been resumed. Real Madrid are, once again, the team to beat, Barcelona have a crop of young Spanish players that are the envy of Europe, including the sensational Lamine Yamal and Pedri. Meanwhile, English football has descended into a squabble about who spent what and why, that may be decided in the coming months, or not. As acts of selfharm go, it is quite incredible how the competition has let this slip.

The summer transfer window, normally a time of high excitement, is by comparison dead. Niclas Füllkrug, a hard-working centre forward, 32 in February, who has reached double figures in the Bundesliga three times in his career, is being built up as though he is Erling Haaland, having signed for West Ham United. The biggest transfer of the summer took Kylian Mbappé to Madrid and the self-proclaimed biggest and best league in the world was nowhere near it. Below, there was a pattern of big transfers in which

English football lost good players ? Julián Álvarez from Manchester City to Atletico Madrid, Douglas Luiz from Aston Villa to Juventus and Moussa Diaby from Villa to Al-Ittihad ? and the biggest domestic transfer of the summer took Bournemouth's striker, Dominic Solanke, to Tottenham Hotspur. And Solanke's a very good player, exactly what Tottenham need. But pulses aren't racing as a result. If that's the summer's marquee signing, we've seen it done bigger, and better.

When Juninho signed for Middlesbrough in 1995 one correspondent called for torches to be lit across the hills in the north because "Brazil's No10 is coming to England". As recently as January 2023, João Gomes, of Flamengo, turned down Lyon for Wolverhampton Wanderers. It was only a £15million transfer, and seemingly insignificant, but at the time Lyon had qualified for Europe in 24 of the previous 26 seasons, while Wolves had made it once since 1980-81. They were fighting relegation at the time too.

Yet the deal showed English football on top. Then came the great Profitability and Sustainability Rules inquisition and now Premier League clubs are running scared. A significant number were linked with Dani Olmo, another of the breakout stars of Spain's European Championship success, but he went to Barcelona from RB Leipzig; just like the old days.

It is not only stellar names that are affected. Newcastle United have been trying to shed players to ensure financial adherence. Miguel Almiròn is 30 and on that list. He's a cracking footballer, wholehearted, skilful, he could do a job at any number of clubs outside the very elite of the Premier League, and

Newcastle want a little more than £15 million. Yet no nibbles. Newcastle tried to do a deal with MLS franchise Charlotte FC, but were offered half of what they wanted. And clubs here are just frozen in fear. Sean Dyche confirmed last week that every member of Everton's first-team squad is for sale, yet business is slow, beyond Manchester United's low-balling for Jarrad Branthwaite. In January, Brentford wisely bought Igor Thiago from Club Bruges for a record fee in Belgian football, in anticipation of a summer bidding war for Ivan Toney. Tumbleweed.

Richard Masters, the Premier League chief executive, braves it out publicly but if he is not concerned privately he is a complacent fool. This is now a depressed market in a competition that had nothing to be depressed about. We have caused our own depression. There used to be a character on Saturday Night Live called Debbie Downer. She'd go to Disneyland and ask the guy dressed as Pluto if he wasn't worried about terrorist attacks or getting heatstroke. That's us. the Premier

League was Disneyland. Ronaldo quit Madrid. Even better. Messi moved on from Barcelona. We surely couldn't believe our luck. And we've turned that into this downward spiral: no Jürgen Klopp, no Harry Kane, Michael Olise to Bayern Munich, Saudi Arabia circling our biggest remaining stars, one English team left in Europe after the quarter-final stage last season ? Aston Villa in the Conference League ? a swift decline in power and influence unimaginable even two years ago.

The performance from Real Madrid against Atalanta in the Super Cup showed how far, and how quickly, English football has fallen behind. We have no idea of our best team this season because Manchester City could be dismantled, with Pep Guardiola and most of the leading players gone this time next year. And where will they go? Not to clubs here if this summer is any evidence. Madrid are already Europe's marker. The lovely pass from Jude Bellingham to Mbappé for their second goal in midweek was notice served. This team is better than the famed galactico era because Carlo Ancelotti will always ensure balance. And who will be Madrid's rivals? Most likely Barcelona, Bayern Munich, or one of several European clubs English football has turned strong again.

The Premier League made England the place to be. That's why the major clubs of Europe ganged up on it.

They needn't have bothered.

We've shackled ourselves. And if you look at the ages of the players at Madrid and Barcelona, we're going to be outside again for a very long time.

" It has been a swift decline in power and influence unimaginable two years ago

This has been commercial suicide fuelled by the PL dinosaur clubs which are fixated on the past. This fixation on the past seems to be an English disease that shows itself in all spheres of life, especially politics. Nostalgia is apparently more important than progress. Why are clubs like Everton being persecuted for showing some ambition?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

This has been commercial suicide fuelled by the PL dinosaur clubs which are fixated on the past. This fixation on the past seems to be an English disease that shows itself in all spheres of life, especially politics. Nostalgia is apparently more important than progress. Why are clubs like Everton being persecuted for showing some ambition?

Quite simply because the other club in that region does not want to be overshadowed and lose any market share.