Media Thread 2017/18

[Chippy_boy]

This was reported on the BBC Gossip webpage.

Argentina striker Sergio Aguero, 29, has revealed next season will be his last at Manchester City - and he wants to join boyhood club Independiente. (Daily Mirror)

Funny how the Mirror puts his country first as if to say that the club he plays for is of no consequence. Anyway Sergio will only leave when he has won the CL with us so the statement could be right. However, it is the Mirror who are never afraid of never letting a headline get in the way of the truth.

The articles I've read quoted Sergio as saying he could go in 2019, but he might possibly extend for another year. Not "next season will be his last".

 

[nijinsky]

Wow their bitterness is stunning
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-sheffield-united-leyton-orient-a8046881.html

But what continues to surprise is the lengths to which some fans will go to defend their owners from scrutiny. The speed with which they will close ranks in order to ward off any sort of introspection or moral reckoning. This is as true of City fans with Abu Dhabi

It's a shame for the Independent's two readers that their chief sports writer won't be in good ol' Russia reporting on good ol' FIFA's football jamboree next year as the sole arbiter of our moral reckoning he´s inevitably prohibited from lowering himself. What's that? Jonathan and the Independents' 'aims coincide' on that occasion? Well that's a stroke of fucking luck.
Bitter(spuds), arrogant, condescending hypocritical twat, i.e a sports writer. He´ll never get near understanding what following a football club actually means never mind holding an adult's world view.

 

[bluealf]

Wow their bitterness is stunning
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-sheffield-united-leyton-orient-a8046881.html

But what continues to surprise is the lengths to which some fans will go to defend their owners from scrutiny. The speed with which they will close ranks in order to ward off any sort of introspection or moral reckoning. This is as true of City fans with Abu Dhabi

They never mention horse racing in these damned articles, without those pesky arab types it would barely exist in its current form.

 

[manimanc]

They always were big liars lol

I used to nickname them the hypocrites.

 

[bluealf]

I used to nickname them the hypocrites.

Oh ****s has always worked best for me :)

 

[Lancet Fluke]

I liked this. A run through of the wage bill of every prem club last season. The article only mentions one club, us, saying that we spent a "whopping" 244m on player wages. Anyone would be forgiven for assuming that we had the highest wage bill. Imagine my surprise when I bothered going through the 20 pages and found that two clubs had even more whopping wage bills.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/877950/Premier-League-wage-bills-2016-17-sportgalleries

 

[yankblue]

Didn't think this deserved it's own thread, but here's an article that's very complimentary of us:

https://www.theringer.com/2017/11/9...nchester-city-psg-lionel-messi-power-rankings

Spoiler alert, City are ranked the beast team in the world. Yes it has the word "soccer", still worth a read though, I think it's a fair article.

 

[ccr]

Love how these bitter ****s think up new ways to stick the boot into our owners! Funny nowhere in that Pile of shit he writes about the scum the Cayman Islands, where god knows what they up to there and taking billions from a club. Jealous bitter ****.

Glad no players want to play for these clubs and take their filthy money.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Rudd : "I don't believe Guardiola is a good manager." Remember this and shove down her throat at every opportunity.

What the fuck would she know, about managing a football club.
She seems to know very little about her own vocation.

 

[Mikejl]

Wow their bitterness is stunning
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-sheffield-united-leyton-orient-a8046881.html

But what continues to surprise is the lengths to which some fans will go to defend their owners from scrutiny. The speed with which they will close ranks in order to ward off any sort of introspection or moral reckoning. This is as true of City fans with Abu Dhabi

Just read this, clearly Lieuw was bollocked for his pro City KDB article the other week, what was most outrageous about this is not the tone of the article, much of it you can agree with, however it was posted under the Man City section only, and tbf if Lieuw wanted to use an example of owners not caring, a certain bunch of asset stripping Americans ownership of a club in Stretford would be a much more relevant example

 

[Marvin]

Guardian Sportsblog on City's start to the season...

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ory-manchester-city-premier-league-title-race

 

[Neville Kneville]

Sky 25 years of the Premier League. Utd have ex player Roy Keane, Arsenal have ex player Henry City/Chelsea have ex Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish (presumably because he managed Blackburn) ah as I post, he's talking about winning titles with Liverpool.

 

[Neville Kneville]

What the fuck would she know, about managing a football club.
She seems to know very little about her own vocation.

Perhaps she does, but has ended up in journalism instead.

 

[waspish]

Guardian Sportsblog on City's start to the season...

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ory-manchester-city-premier-league-title-race

Good read this and worth the click.

Liked this part which I didn’t know because the media don’t like to go on about how good our defence it.


“They have let in only seven goals so far in the Premier League – only Preston in 1888 and Sunderland in 1892 have ever had a better goal difference at this stage of the season.”

 

[Damocles]

Wow their bitterness is stunning
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-sheffield-united-leyton-orient-a8046881.html

But what continues to surprise is the lengths to which some fans will go to defend their owners from scrutiny. The speed with which they will close ranks in order to ward off any sort of introspection or moral reckoning. This is as true of City fans with Abu Dhabi

It's not bitterness, it's bigotry. They're racists hiding in plain sight. They think anybody who is a successful Arab and wears traditional robes is basically Ali-Baba and probably tortures people for fun while sat on a chair made of Bengali slave labour.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

Liew's article is not an example of anti-City bias or an attack on our owners but an amazing attack on all owners at all times! As he writes, "The point is this. The sort of person who wants to own a football club these days is exactly the sort of person you do not want owning a football club." For a Chief Sports Writer to pen such an article defies belief. Perhaps reporters should be judged on a range of acceptable attitudes as well.

 

[schfc6]

It's not bitterness, it's bigotry. They're racists hiding in plain sight. They think anybody who is a successful Arab and wears traditional robes is basically Ali-Baba and probably tortures people for fun while sat on a chair made of Bengali slave labour.

You forgot the bit about 12 child wives & stoning homosexuals to death.

They do like to attack Muslim culture in the guise of journalism and Manchester City.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Liew's article is not an example of anti-City bias or an attack on our owners but an amazing attack on all owners at all times! As he writes, "The point is this. The sort of person who wants to own a football club these days is exactly the sort of person you do not want owning a football club." For a Chief Sports Writer to pen such an article defies belief. Perhaps reporters should be judged on a range of acceptable attitudes as well.

Football ownership has always attracted egomaniacs.

 

[bigf42]

Liew’s article is staggering in the way it basically implies that the appointment of Sir Howard Bernstein was payback for good work when on the council, surely this is libellous.

 

[crazyg]

Sky 25 years of the Premier League. Utd have ex player Roy Keane, Arsenal have ex player Henry City/Chelsea have ex Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish (presumably because he managed Blackburn) ah as I post, he's talking about winning titles with Liverpool.

Thought the programme was about the Premier League. Dalglish 's titles were before football began in 1992.