Media discussion - 2024/25

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blueste41 said:
It's a balanced article including this quote:-

"From a financial perspective, City are in a really strong position," football finance expert Kieran Maguire told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"Under these profitability and sustainability rules, you are allowed to lose £105m over a rolling three-year period. Manchester City have probably made somewhere in the region of £160-170m worth of profit because there has been an awful lot of players leaving the club - as well as the benefits of qualifying for Europe every year, the bonuses from sponsors and broadcasters for winning all of these trophies."
Also includes a graph showing virtually no spending in the past 6 years.
Personally I prefer the club I love to be in that article as opposed to this one!
"From a financial perspective, City are in a really strong position," football finance expert Kieran Maguire told BBC Radio 5 Live.

It also includes a graph showing virtually no spending in the last 6 years.

Personally I would rather be linked with this article rather than the one published for the rags!
www.bbc.co.uk

Phil McNulty's deadline day verdict: Manchester United, Arsenal, Man City, Tottenham and Aston Villa

As the winter transfer window closes, BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty gives his verdict.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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The article itself is good but The BBC opened the comments section and thats completely unhinged.

Calling us cheats on The BBC is allowed now and deemed as acceptable. We have completely triggered a lot of keyboard warriors over the last 24 hours
 
kippaxwarrior said:
The article itself is good but The BBC opened the comments section and thats completely unhinged.

Calling us cheats on The BBC is allowed now and deemed as acceptable. We have completely triggered a lot of keyboard warriors over the last 24 hours
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I’m not sure what the point is of allowing the great unwashed to comment on those BBC articles. It’s almost always semi-literate diatribe with no basis in fact.
 
HelloCity said:
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The BBC's Phil McNulty (who to be fair is normally OK with us) is pretty scathing about Utd though, try this...

"Amorim's decision to play teenage England midfielder Kobbie Mainoo as a false nine in the 2-0 home defeat by Crystal Palace, ahead of expensive recognised striker Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee, delivered a damning verdict of how little he feels he has at his disposal with that pair.

This lack of a striker will be the biggest talking point of a United transfer window that brutally outlined their reduced circumstances, mocking their status as the world's third richest football club."

Delicious.
 
Semper aggressus said:
I’m not sure what the point is of allowing the great unwashed to comment on those BBC articles. It’s almost always semi-literate diatribe with no basis in fact.
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It's an easy way for them to get clicks and traffic to their website.

It's an absolute slam dunk
 
kippaxwarrior said:
The article itself is good but The BBC opened the comments section and thats completely unhinged.

Calling us cheats on The BBC is allowed now and deemed as acceptable. We have completely triggered a lot of keyboard warriors over the last 24 hours
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I think the BBC open the comments section to calibrate where the lowest common denominator level is as a guide for their TV programs
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
Everyone's raging that we're spending money on a much needed rebuild.

They must think that we're only allowed to have 1 striker in our squad and no defensive midfielder.
I wonder will they allow us to sign a right back in the summer?
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Yes but not before the rags spend their obligatory 250M first
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
Everyone's raging that we're spending money on a much needed rebuild.

They must think that we're only allowed to have 1 striker in our squad and no defensive midfielder.
I wonder will they allow us to sign a right back in the summer?
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If you continuously win trophies, win the prize money, collect the tv money and sponsorship as a result of it. Add to that consistently qualify for the champions league each year, add to that have an academy that allows City to sell on players for pure profit. You can then afford the opportunity to refresh the squad albeit six months later than when the refresh should have happened.

Liverpool will have to do it in the summer with three key players moving on potentially, it will be spun for them as what great business it is.
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
Everyone's raging that we're spending money on a much needed rebuild.

They must think that we're only allowed to have 1 striker in our squad and no defensive midfielder.
I wonder will they allow us to sign a right back in the summer?
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And basically spent fuck all in comparison to teams the last few windows,if the rags or arsenal Chelsea etc had spent say £250 mill each this window it still would have been but City are spending..
 
The figure the media and oppo fans, either conveniently or genuinely forget to look at is net spend.

Gross spend are always the headline grabbing figures, whereas net spend (i.e. taking into account things like the sale of Alvarez) are forgotten. IMHO, net spend proves the well ran clubs from the likes of the rags.

We all know why this happens, almost everyone who isn't a city fan lives the same lie of 'spend spend spend, 115, 115,115'
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
If you continuously win trophies, win the prize money, collect the tv money and sponsorship as a result of it. Add to that consistently qualify for the champions league each year, add to that have an academy that allows City to sell on players for pure profit. You can then afford the opportunity to refresh the squad albeit six months later than when the refresh should have happened.

Liverpool will have to do it in the summer with three key players moving on potentially, it will be spun for them as what great business it is.
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Thats common sense. The social media generation don't see that and instead prefer to foam at the mouth.

If you look at our squad over the last few years who have won everything, you could make a case that four key men are done now in Walker, De Bruyne, Silva and Gundogan. You could possibly throw Grealish and Ederson into that category. Two more in Ake and Stones can't stay fit and of course our best player is out for a long period.

Its common sense that a rebuild is needed.

Also, none of these people complaining had heard of any of the four signings that we made this time a month ago, bar possibly Marmoush.
 
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