Media hacks at it again - United SNUBBED Nasri

[SWP's back]

He hadn't even researched well using Boateng for his id after we sold him

 

[Anonymous]

Interesting poins from Blank Frank (I'll forgive him the G14 reference). However, any business would look to further strengthen its position by offering additional products/brands. We are currently 'Cherry Coke' if you will.

 

[hgblue]

I agree that FFP was brought in to enshrine the elite. The European Super League will be next imo.

 

[Anonymous]

I agree that FFP was brought in to enshrine the elite. The European Super League will be next imo.

Absolutely. And when that happens, my current feeling is it will be the end for me.

 

[Bilboblue]

Unimpressed by Nasri’s agents’ behaviour and the ­player’s ­willingness to chase more money from City, they told him in no uncertain terms that they were not interested.

Makes me laugh that line, what did Rooney do then? Yet they bent over backwards to keep him.

Just lazy journos making up sensationilist shite and even if there is a grain of truth in it, I couldn't give give a fuck, he is here now, and judging by the interviews is happy to be so.

(of course the £185k a week softens the blow of not being with them lot........)

 

[gordo eddie]

They also snubbed David Silva .
Read all about it.Where?

 

[mike channon´s windmill]

Interesting poins from Blank Frank (I'll forgive him the G14 reference). However, any business would look to further strengthen its position by offering additional products/brands. We are currently 'Cherry Coke' if you will.

No, we are this - new , blue and ready to energise the PL

 

[hgblue]

I agree that FFP was brought in to enshrine the elite. The European Super League will be next imo.

Absolutely. And when that happens, my current feeling is it will be the end for me.

Eh? Real Madrid one week, then Inter Milan, then Bayern Munich, then United, then Barca, and so on. You'd be unhappy with this?

 

[Newman Noggs]

What gives me hope is that human nature is contrary. Look at us, within 5 miles of the richest club in the world, a club who have won everything in sight for nearly 20 years whilst we've been to the brink of disaster. And yet, somehow, we've remained amongst the top attendances throughout that time. I think that's what really irritates the establishment. "the best laid plans..." and all that. If the powers that be implement this closed league, they'll be biting off more than they can chew. People get bored very easily.

 

[Anonymous]

I agree that FFP was brought in to enshrine the elite. The European Super League will be next imo.

Absolutely. And when that happens, my current feeling is it will be the end for me.

Eh? Real Madrid one week, then Inter Milan, then Bayern Munich, then United, then Barca, and so on. You'd be unhappy with this?

As mad as it may seem, I would be.

The Champs League gives us that already and is kind of the icing on the cake of a good season. Week in, week out would undoubtedly be exciting, but maybe I'm just a silly old traditionalist and the thought of there not being an English League just doesn't sit right.

 

[celf]

the media is a rag infested shitpit,lies and coruption fuelled by skytv

 

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Blank Frank, The Reform Club (21/02/2011 at 15:26)
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You have to understand the business model that the football industry is working to. Billions of dollars are being made selling football to the billions of newly affluent young viewers in the far east. English football is the hippest activity in town at the moment. These new young viewers had no sense of the history of the English league and its clubs and traditions. All they are interested in is instant gratification and supporting winning teams. The have grown up on the old big four. You won't find anyone supporting anyone other than these teams, you won't find a shirt, calendar or any other merchandise anywhere out there. You don't see any other games televised in bars and clubs. They have no interest in Villa's eight FA cup wins or Everton's four championships or who Leeds are, the heritage and traditions of these clubs are unknown. All they are for is to provide the veneer of sporting competition to give the competitions some integrity. In reality they have no chance of winning anything, everyone knows that.
NOW Here's THE POINT. If one or two of the old big four stop winning, first matches and then trophies you have p!ssed 25 or 50% of your audience off! No business can afford to do that, its commercial suicide. The big four brands have established their brand values and to now bring in two unknowns (to the far east punters) like us and Spurs means that the industry management has to start all over again re-esatblishing new brand positionings. So the footballing establishment Uefa, FA, EPL, BBC, Fleet St, Sky, G14 and everyone else with their snouts in the trough are besides themselves with the thought of MCFC and Spurs (but they are London darlings) gatecrashing the party. The potential losses, could be disasterous, football is the worlds No1 commercial sport, spearheaded by the English Premiership primarily and the Champions league, with La Liga a poor third, and serie A and Budesliga nowhere. Football fights in the commercial world with basketball, cricket and to a lesser degree rugby and gridiron for the billions of TV and media advertising dollars. Football has had a very profitable staus quo for a decade or more now. For the big four , champions league=more money=better players=champions league.For Sky, Same four teams=brand acceptance=bigger revenues=same four teams.
The industry will do anything to maintain the status quo, ie Platini changing the rules, is a good example. Why was rich owners not a problem when Abramavitch got involved? Why, because his money cemented that fourth team in the big four that is all important. Notice if Chelsea win the CL this year, and finish 5th, there is no place for the fourth placed team, another example. I could go on expaining how important it is for the industry to ensure the old big four continue to dominate but I have run out of words. By the way I am posting this from Kenya where they are EPL fanaticstThe Truth

Hope Blank Frank doesn't mind me using his post in the MEN but I think he's pretty much BANG ON!

yeah, i feel thats about right.


also fuk rags and there delusion

 

[blue dallas]

the media is a rag infested shitpit,lies and coruption fuelled by skytv

beautifully put !

yet you forgot the BBC, there as bad as sky.

 

[hgblue]

Absolutely. And when that happens, my current feeling is it will be the end for me.

Eh? Real Madrid one week, then Inter Milan, then Bayern Munich, then United, then Barca, and so on. You'd be unhappy with this?

As mad as it may seem, I would be.

The Champs League gives us that already and is kind of the icing on the cake of a good season. Week in, week out would undoubtedly be exciting, but maybe I'm just a silly old traditionalist and the thought of there not being an English League just doesn't sit right.

The Champs League doesn't give us that already. The Group stages are piss boring, unless your team happen to be involved, and are only there to boost revenue for the big clubs. I believe there will be a Super League eventually, because the financial rewards would be huge.

 

[Anonymous]

Eh? Real Madrid one week, then Inter Milan, then Bayern Munich, then United, then Barca, and so on. You'd be unhappy with this?

As mad as it may seem, I would be.

The Champs League gives us that already and is kind of the icing on the cake of a good season. Week in, week out would undoubtedly be exciting, but maybe I'm just a silly old traditionalist and the thought of there not being an English League just doesn't sit right.

The Champs League doesn't give us that already. The Group stages are piss boring, unless your team happen to be involved, and are only there to boost revenue for the big clubs. I believe there will be a Super League eventually, because the financial rewards would be huge.

Not saying it won't happen mate because as you point out, money talks. The Champs League does give us that already though to a small degree, Bayern Munich are in our group :-) The point of the Champs Leagues it to pit the "best" (and I use the term advisedly) against one another.

Based on what has been posited about Euro Super League over the years, a closed shop league with no promotion and no relegation stinks to high heaven in my view.

 

[hgblue]

As mad as it may seem, I would be.

The Champs League gives us that already and is kind of the icing on the cake of a good season. Week in, week out would undoubtedly be exciting, but maybe I'm just a silly old traditionalist and the thought of there not being an English League just doesn't sit right.

The Champs League doesn't give us that already. The Group stages are piss boring, unless your team happen to be involved, and are only there to boost revenue for the big clubs. I believe there will be a Super League eventually, because the financial rewards would be huge.

Not saying it won't happen mate because as you point out, money talks. The Champs League does give us that already though to a small degree, Bayern Munich are in our group :-) The point of the Champs Leagues it to pit the "best" (and I use the term advisedly) against one another.

Based on what has been posited about Euro Super League over the years, a closed shop league with no promotion and no relegation stinks to high heaven in my view.

A closed shop League with no promotion and no relegation would be a bad idea imo, although it may have to start out that way with a 'breakaway' League to get the thing up and running. A better option would be a two League set up with those teams who currently qualify for the Champs League from England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France making up Division One. Those teams from the same countries who currently qualify for the Europa League + the Champions from a few other countries would make up Division Two. There would be promotion and relegation between Divisions One and Two, and the bottom three teams from Division Two would be relegated back into their Domestic League, to be replaced by three teams who will have won their Domestic League but qualified for the Super League via a play off.

 

[inGavious]

tbh ....... if its true what a cock-up by the scum.

 

[squirtyflower]

What a brilliant decision if you ask me

He's a good fit for iccle city

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

But remember folks-there is absolutely NO AGENDA.

People who say there is no agenda seem to be suffering from a bit of Stockholm Syndrome or something!

Look at the venom in the writing, lines like "We can reveal Nasri is being paid almost £40,000-a-week MORE at City than he would have earned at United, making a mockery of the player’s claim that his move from Arsenal was for football, rather than financial, reasons."

If people can't see an agenda when it is right there in front of their eyes with that hate-filled borderline slander, then I don't know.

Yep. These journos are able to walk into the MCFC administrative offices, type in the password, access employees details, check salaries and come to the conclusion, after checking with ThePurpleNosedTosser, that we are paying £40k more! There isn't one decent and honest paper in the kingdom these days. And this morning, listening to R5, after they had perused the events of yesterday, they proposed the idea that MANUre could go top if they beat Arsenal. This was repeated and not until the third sports report was it mentioned that there was another PL match kicking off at 1.30. It just beggars belief that there is such a palapable lack of balance in radio or news journalism.

 

[BlueMooney]

Well, if they did snub Nasri, then, on that showing today, it's their loss. 97% pass completion today. Best I've seen in a long time.