Media Thread 2017/18

[remember arthur mann]

Ooh the latest, how Matic had Yaya in his back pocket, FFS ! Roll on the Derby.

 

[SebastianBlue]

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

This sort of article is best ignored.

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.

 

[bluegaz13]

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

 

[SilverFox2]

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

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.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

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

 

[MCFC1993]

Ric's tweet:


Nailed it. The difference in reporting is so obvious.

 

[cheshirecheese]

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.

 

[Hungarian blue]

Ric's tweet:


Nailed it. The difference in reporting is so obvious.

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.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Ric's tweet:


Nailed it. The difference in reporting is so obvious.

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.

 

[shinpads]

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.

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