Media Thread 2017/18

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FantasyIreland said:
Lol,arguably our best value for money signing,Danilo,doesn't even figure.......

This sort of article is best ignored.
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I agree. You noticed all the descriptions for our signings were variations on "will they succeed or fail like so many City signings before them?" in comparison to every other description being very positive without a mention of potential to fail (even for those players coming from leagues generally accepted to be weaker than the PL)?

That's the bit that stood out for me.
 
Is it media bias or something more sinister
  • A definite campaign to criticise our Academy....coincides with attempts by the Rags to revamp theirs. Coincidence ?
  • Looks like false stories about Sami Nasri. makes it very difficult to sell or receive a decent fee ?
  • FFP......our name being mentioned yet no evidence .....an attempt to stop future signings ?
  • Stories without foundation about illegal approaches for Mbappe......is this an attempt to damage our growing worldwide support?
As has been mentioned before, the press is still full of low life media hacks who have leanings towards the Rags, Liverpool and Arsenal.......somewhere you can bet your bottom dollar that this campaign will have the backing of that low life ,smarmy, corrupt 'gentleman' called Gill
 
bluegaz13 said:
Is it media bias or something more sinister
  • A definite campaign to criticise our Academy....coincides with attempts by the Rags to revamp theirs. Coincidence ?
  • Looks like false stories about Sami Nasri. makes it very difficult to sell or receive a decent fee ?
  • FFP......our name being mentioned yet no evidence .....an attempt to stop future signings ?
  • Stories without foundation about illegal approaches for Mbappe......is this an attempt to damage our growing worldwide support?
As has been mentioned before, the press is still full of low life media hacks who have leanings towards the Rags, Liverpool and Arsenal.......somewhere you can bet your bottom dollar that this campaign will have the backing of that low life ,smarmy, corrupt 'gentleman' called Gill
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And as you well know these suggestions together with the many more that will surface regarding our team, its owner or its players are constructed purely for non City Fan consumption.
Please let others digest the skewed version of sports news that masquerades as fact. Their plight as media depends on subscribers who in the majority do not support City so adding to that subscriber list seems not to be a healthy thing to do.

When the season starts thats when they must deal with the reality of results and thats when it becomes our turn to make them eat humble pie.
 
Just read Sky Sport app , Yooo niteds signing of Matic £40m , Linderbollockoff £39.5m and Lukatme £90m brings their spending to £150m ? Perhaps maths is not their strong point. In comparison we have signed walker for £100m Mendy for £100m and Danilo £60m all prices including wages for length of contract , bonuses , house rental , car leasing , and the players tabs at San Carlo for the next decade
 
Sure I heard something on the radio earlier on this evening about a rag player (blind?) being fined for refusing to take a drugs test. Just looked on BBC sport and sky sports news but no mention of it. Maybe I dreamt it..... Sure they wouldn't cover it up.
 
MCFC1993 said:
Ric's tweet:


Nailed it. The difference in reporting is so obvious.
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To be fair, Wilson is an okayish journo normally and he's not exactly a United fan or City basher or anything (and he probably quite admires Pep, still). It's just that his opinion on Walker, i.e. that whole Guardian piece was shockingly absurd and shit in my opinion.
 
MCFC1993 said:
Ric's tweet:


Nailed it. The difference in reporting is so obvious.
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Exactly the tone from that SSN Transfer Ranking I posted. All City transfers are "madness" and our players are "doomed to failure" but any United transfers are "genius" and their players are "destined for greatness". Despite nearly every everything that has occurred the last six years proving that "City" narratives actually fully applies to United and the "United" narrative fully applies to us.

And, what is worse, these stories have some how convinced the masses this bizzaro land is the one they live in.
 
cheshirecheese said:
Sure I heard something on the radio earlier on this evening about a rag player (blind?) being fined for refusing to take a drugs test. Just looked on BBC sport and sky sports news but no mention of it. Maybe I dreamt it..... Sure they wouldn't cover it up.
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its a bit buried but it is there, but its reported vastly differently from our paperwork fuck up
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40779844
 
MCFC1993 said:
Ric's tweet:


Nailed it. The difference in reporting is so obvious.
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Hungarian blue said:
To be fair, Wilson is an okayish journo normally and he's not exactly a United fan or City basher or anything (and he probably quite admires Pep, still). It's just that his opinion on Walker, i.e. that whole Guardian piece was shockingly absurd and shit in my opinion.
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Wilson is a shithouse who has fooled a generation of amateurs into believing he has some insight into a side of the game that he blatantly doesn't comprehend, and with it has spawned a legion of Michael Cox shaped clones who continue to misinform and misrepresent how football works at a fundamental level, contributing to the ever widening gap of knowledge in the Anglosphere compared with other nations whose understand moved on from these singular concepts about 25 years ago and due to this have a far better innate instinct about positional play and the concepts introduced in the modern professional game. While the Paul Merson and Robbie Savage shaped pundits are very obviously damaging to the national footballing culture through misinforming the country on the workings of the game, Wilson and Cox are too yet focused on the other end of the scale, not only continuing the spectacularly wrong causality of "duelling football" but doing so with a form of legitimacy that makes people feel they're being educated. Everybody knows Merson is a fool so they ignore him. People don't know Wilson is wrong so he manages to do more collective damage.

Also he's one of the most unpopular journalists in Fleet Street and most people I've spoken to in that trade consider him a condescending twat who got big from a book that is essentially a big collation of other people's articles.
 
Damocles said:
Wilson is a shithouse who has fooled a generation of amateurs into believing he has some insight into a side of the game that he blatantly doesn't comprehend, and with it has spawned a legion of Michael Cox shaped clones who continue to misinform and misrepresent how football works at a fundamental level, contributing to the ever widening gap of knowledge in the Anglosphere compared with other nations whose understand moved on from these singular concepts about 25 years ago and due to this have a far better innate instinct about positional play and the concepts introduced in the modern professional game. While the Paul Merson and Robbie Savage shaped pundits are very obviously damaging to the national footballing culture through misinforming the country on the workings of the game, Wilson and Cox are too yet focused on the other end of the scale, not only continuing the spectacularly wrong causality of "duelling football" but doing so with a form of legitimacy that makes people feel they're being educated. Everybody knows Merson is a fool so they ignore him. People don't know Wilson is wrong so he manages to do more collective damage.

Also he's one of the most unpopular journalists in Fleet Street and most people I've spoken to in that trade consider him a condescending twat who got big from a book that is essentially a big collation of other people's articles.
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So he's a bit of a cockroach, then?
 
Damocles said:
Wilson is a shithouse who has fooled a generation of amateurs into believing he has some insight into a side of the game that he blatantly doesn't comprehend, and with it has spawned a legion of Michael Cox shaped clones who continue to misinform and misrepresent how football works at a fundamental level, contributing to the ever widening gap of knowledge in the Anglosphere compared with other nations whose understand moved on from these singular concepts about 25 years ago and due to this have a far better innate instinct about positional play and the concepts introduced in the modern professional game.
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Agree re Cox. :) I think Wilson is or used to be better, but it's like he never really built upon his relatively solid standard, quite the opposite really. Anyway, I wouldn't think he's in any way biases towards any current bigger club in England, he just has too many shit points and useless articles these days (and from time to time, some better).

Damocles said:
Also he's one of the most unpopular journalists in Fleet Street and most people I've spoken to in that trade consider him a condescending twat who got big from a book that is essentially a big collation of other people's articles.
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This is obviously new for me, but I won't say I'm surprised, so thanks for the info.
 
Not one for making an agenda out of everything but find this ridiculous, using this image in this article:


Remember when Aguero was absolutely snapped at Crystal Palace away in 2015, had to go off injured, ref missed a blatant red card, think he was out for a while. Well they've used that image in a diving article.

Article from that game even refers to it as a 'knee high challenge' from Scott Dann on Aguero:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ace-after-scott-danns-knee-high-10498070.html


EDIT: I should point out, I know this could look slightly petty as there is every possibility it is a complete accident.

I just remember at the time I was particularly aggrieved with that challenge that Aguero was on the end of because it could have caused serious damage. The ref saw it and still only give Dann a yellow and then for it to be the main picture for a diving related article is a bit disingenuous.

Also, Aguero is actually one of the rare few who tries to stay on his feet.

I'm also sure that there have been far more notorious divers in the premier league that would have been a more appropriate image for that article.
 
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MCFC1993 said:
Not one for making an agenda out of everything but find this ridiculous using our/this image in this article:


Remember when Aguero was absolutely snapped at Crystal Palace away in 2015, had to go off injured, ref missed a blatant red card, think he was out for a while. Well they've used that image in a diving article.

Article from that game:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ace-after-scott-danns-knee-high-10498070.html
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Of all the players to put in that article!
 
Maybe the media love in helps make the rags soft whereas we always have to justify ourselves, keeping the club on its toes. So every negative article actually helps and vice-versa.

Just trying to find positives!!
 
MCFC1993 said:
Not one for making an agenda out of everything but find this ridiculous using our/this image in this article:


Remember when Aguero was absolutely snapped at Crystal Palace away in 2015, had to go off injured, ref missed a blatant red card, think he was out for a while. Well they've used that image in a diving article.

Article from that game even refers to it as a 'knee high challenge' from Scott Dann on Aguero:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ace-after-scott-danns-knee-high-10498070.html
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I don't think I'm looking for these, they just seem to hit you right in the face!!

The Indy are running an article headed "The Football Association to increase the number of drug tests for the new season" and have conveniently filed it under Manchester City club news.

As for comparing the Matic signing headline you just have to love the trollograph......
"Why Nemanja Matic joining Man Utd is the logical next step in the Jose Mourinho masterplan"
 
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