Media Thread 2017/18

[cheekybids]

Reward for anyone who finds a report that describes Lukakus goal as dangling his leg ;-)

 

[Cyclone_Wash]

Because the guy running it said (after talking about the weekend games) “incidentally have you ever seen a worse £43m footballer?”

The silly cow just didn’t know that we signed him two and half years ago.

Thought it was £38 Mill for Mangala. The media seem to always have a dig when we play him.

 

[Bill]

As usual

You might be able to argue that we've underachieved since the takeover, but I'd dispute the 'hugely' aspect completely. Success was never going to be instantaneous, and given that we first had to attract virtually a whole new squad of players capable of realising our ambitions, the fact that it took us 4 seasons to win the Premier League for the first time was far from unreasonable IMO. Our triumph that season was also a significant catalyst for the League's boom in popularity, with the financial advantage enjoyed by the rags, the Arse and the dippers, courtesy of 15 odd years unbroken Chimps League prize money, greatly reduced as successive new domestic TV deals outstripped CL earnings. In short, the league became far more competitive post-Agueroooooo than it had been pre-Agueroooooo, yet despite that we finished 2nd, 1st and 2nd in the 3 following years.

Had the press applied a modicum of consistency then their criticism might have carried greater justification, but they didn't. In fact from 2008 to 2012 inclusive, they did nothing but parrot the line that "money can't buy success", because to have taken an alternate stance would have effectively denigrated Taggart's achievements at the Swamp, the long standing narrative being that united's success was due to his brilliant stewardship rather than the fact that they had 5 times as much disposable income as anyone else in the league.

I don't go in for the some of the absurd claims of bias on here, that because Alan Shearer sat in a red chair on MotD it constitutes evidence of an agenda against us by the BBC and so forth, but I find the dismissal of all accusations of bias against City equally ridiculous. The media (and particularly the print press) is now driven almost exclusively by the concept of clickbait and associated advertising revenues. If you take a paper like the Mail, whose online version has one of the biggest readerships on the planet, you will note that literally every story has a comments section and a provocative headline. It caters for the largest demographic it can side with on every occasion, and City, as a footballing usurper which has directly and adversely impacted the income streams and trophy winning potential of some of the world's best supported teams, come gift wrapped as the bogeyman in chief. To deny otherwise is to deny the power of advertising. The tone may change over time as we build a global fanbase of our own and further cement our position at the top table, but that time is considerably further away than the memory of a national broadcaster (BT Sport) actively hoping an English team (City) would lose in the Champions League and setting out its stall in that regard to appeal to casual armchair rag viewers in the expectation that there would be more of them watching our games on the telly than there would be City fans.

As usual a top top post.

 

[Silvas' left eyebrow]

Alyson Rudd is every untrue stereotype about women knowing nothing about football rolled into one, real, living human being.

I do find Alyson Rudd a very strange persona

I don’t buy into this agenda etc but needed to post this after hearing what I did on talksport this afternoon, They were discussing Henry’s comments that David Silva is the best creative midfielder in premier league history yet Dean Saunders proceeded to go on and on and on about how he can name 20 more creative midfielders better than silva and repeated the names Scholes, giggs, lampard, gerrard - all of which do have some better qualities than Spanish Dave but creativity is not one. Not that I care about that deluded welsh tw@t Saunders view but when he mentioned Mezut Ozil my head went

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Friday night on Sky a must for all blues , the debate has pre-derby special , representing the Rags is Phil Neville and the alternative view in the City corner is Ryan Giggs , think i will give that a swerve.

 

[Jalfraag]

Friday night on Sky a must for all blues , the debate has pre-derby special , representing the Rags is Phil Neville and the alternative view in the City corner is Ryan Giggs , think i will give that a swerve.

Is sister-in-law fucker there because he's from our academy?

 

[deano ou812]

Friday night on Sky a must for all blues , the debate has pre-derby special , representing the Rags is Phil Neville and the alternative view in the City corner is Ryan Giggs , think i will give that a swerve.

Surely you haven’t heard that right,if that’s true it only further nails home the whole bias,would it not have been better to have got say Craig Bellamy or even Paul Merson ffs ..

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Friday night on Sky a must for all blues , the debate has pre-derby special , representing the Rags is Phil Neville and the alternative view in the City corner is Ryan Giggs , think i will give that a swerve.

Clarke ??? Sadly I doubt it so 30/60 mins of a rag wankathon you'd hope even the raggy blind fanbase wouldn't want it......

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Is sister-in-law fucker there because he's from our academy?

Not sure , think they booked Giggs on the wrong show , Bradley Walsh is hosting another series of "Keep it in the family"

 

[Newquayblue]

I'm sure you realise my post was phrased to ironically agree with the post I quoted which frankly made me feel angry.

Everything has been gradual and whilst we had a few hiccups and managers we are now seeing results. In fairness Pep is the one who sees defects and advises caution. He continues to want improvement rather than sit on his record.

Lol, was being sardonic too my blue friend --- wholly agree with you - Pep has great integrity and respect, they have worked so hard to deviously draw him into slanging matches with others - I referred to them as desperate losers, I'll add snakes too.