Media Thread 2020/21

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It’s been like this every time we win premier and trophies they have to balance it out with these negative articles which they’ve done to death with for at least the last 10 years!

It’s keep us downtime keeps that narrative going!

They see what we are they see what we’ve won where we heading and those history clubs don’t like it one bit so pay these Hacks like Conn who is the low of the low, trying come across with his 2bob rehashed for the 8th time articles!
 
waspish said:
It’s been like this every time we win premier and trophies they have to balance it out with these negative articles which they’ve done to death with for at least the last 10 years!

It’s keep us downtime keeps that narrative going!

They see what we are they see what we’ve won where we heading and those history clubs don’t like it one bit so pay these Hacks like Conn who is the low of the low, trying come across with his 2bob rehashed for the 8th time articles!
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Nobody else seems to get these articles when they win the league, weird that!
 
spiny said:
These are people who hark back to Swales as a golden era of City football morality and purity when we had no success, no money and were being run down and bled dry by cronies. They revelled in saying that we were everyones 2nd favourites ignoring that it was because of our failures. There are still Swales apologists on here.

Conn and Shindler have been exposed as mercenaries willing to exploit any negativity about City to pander to rivals, showing no loyalty to the Club despite protestations to have been City fans. In contrast Sergio is the latest of a succession of great players to leave after 10 years service with Manchester City and never a bad word.
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The club under Swales was corrupt and incompetent. We were the laughing stock of football. Thankfully the old City has now been replaced by the likes of Spurs and Arsenal. Conn is out of touch with the modern world and politicises everything he writes. He waxes lyrical abut FC United but everyone in the Manchester area knows their fanbase is a mixture of cranks and thugs. I have seen their support up close. They are scumbags who hate City even more than the Glazers. They are just another media myth. The problem with London-based trendies like Conn and his ilk is they don't get out much. I wonder when he last attended a match.
 
Tariff Panja on talkshite saying that organisations make decisions re-news based on expectations of how long it stays in tge news.
That would explain the constant drip drip from these c#nts
 
Marvin said:
David Conn's article is an assertion: "MCFC are owned by the UAE and Sheikh Mansour is just a front". It's based purely on Sheikh Mansour's use of UAE state officials to manage the club but if you were Sheikh Mansour you would use such people. I am a bit suspicious of the values he has put on the sponsorships. They are much higher than I thought but I can't argue with them.

The idea that MCFC are a soft power project for the UAE is a Guardian fabrication. An easy claim to make but where is the propaganda? I don't see it as a City fan. If it is a soft power operation then it is the worst PR campaign in history because all it has done is bring scrutiny of the UAE to the British public, and the Emiratis do not see City as their club. That is my experience and I speak to Emiratis once a week through one of their universities (New york Abu Dhabi University). If they saw City as their property I think I would know and feel it because City is very important to me and the first thing I would talk about.
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There is not a single scrap of evidence that City are state-owned. Just because Khaldoon has several different roles, including one with an AD Sovereign Wealth Fund, doesn't mean he spends his life siphoning state money into MCFC. Sheikh Mansour goes out of his way to ensure a separation between state money and the CFG not least because he knows if it happened it would undermine his whole business. He has investments all over the world not just in football.
 
Marvin said:
David Conn's article is an assertion: "MCFC are owned by the UAE and Sheikh Mansour is just a front". It's based purely on Sheikh Mansour's use of UAE state officials to manage the club but if you were Sheikh Mansour you would use such people. I am a bit suspicious of the values he has put on the sponsorships. They are much higher than I thought but I can't argue with them.

The idea that MCFC are a soft power project for the UAE is a Guardian fabrication. An easy claim to make but where is the propaganda? I don't see it as a City fan. If it is a soft power operation then it is the worst PR campaign in history because all it has done is bring scrutiny of the UAE to the British public, and the Emiratis do not see City as their club. That is my experience and I speak to Emiratis once a week through one of their universities (New york Abu Dhabi University). If they saw City as their property I think I would know and feel it because City is very important to me and the first thing I would talk about.
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Marvin, off course it is a soft power project irrespective of the legal structure. It is even documented as such by the likes of Gary Cook who referred to it as a proxy for Abu Dhabi. Then there is the involvement of Simon Pearce. At the time of takeover he was the head of Strategic Communications for Abu Dabhi and his job was to protect and enhance the reputation of Abu Dhabi. Khaldoon, just a mate helping out? Come off it man.

BUT there is nothing wrong with soft power. The UK do exactly the same thing. Or attempt to anyway...
I agree with your comment about the failed PR campaign.

The problem comes with the derogatory term "sportswashing" and the inference that everything we do is to hide human rights abuses. That frankly is bollocks.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
And here we were erroneously thinking that yer paid lawyers a hefty wedge to assemble a few ideas re evidence and due process. Does the cockwomble ever point out that the motley gathering of 'super 'istree clubs' had been in so much of a fuckin' rush to shove us back down the ladder that they forget that 'due process' is all part of the evidence that lawyers will explain in court and to arbitration bodies. Uefa and the usual hyenas royally fucked up and the pillock, like a good few in the RDAHMeedya, can't swallow the outcome.
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For somebody who likes to see himself as a heavyweight journalist with a handle on the legal side of things he does make a lot of basic errors as highlighted by others re fair value, state owned, due process and wild insinuations re city causing the demise of Bolton , Bury. Thought Bury especially was the owners borrowing against the ground for their private benefit. What's that got to do with city. Just very poor, inaccurate, mischief making.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Cut and paste job with a new intro.
Conn is the hypocritical dickhead who positions himself as a thorn in the side of the establishment but then wrote a pitiful article slagging City for failing to show UEFA sufficient deference and toadying servility during the CAS witch hunt
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These attempts by Conn to portray UEFA as the good guys when it’s been a provenly corrupt organisation in the past and is blatantly dominated by vested interests in the present is truly baffling. By implication this also casts doubt on the integrity of CAS. Why were City wrong to fight false accusations tooth and nail? Aggressive? Oh, the poor delicate flowers who’d decided on their verdict before examining the (non-existent) evidence.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Marvin, off course it is a soft power project irrespective of the legal structure. It is even documented as such by the likes of Gary Cook who referred to it as a proxy for Abu Dhabi. Then there is the involvement of Simon Pearce. At the time of takeover he was the head of Strategic Communications for Abu Dabhi and his job was to protect and enhance the reputation of Abu Dhabi. Khaldoon, just a mate helping out? Come off it man.

BUT there is nothing wrong with soft power. The UK do exactly the same thing. Or attempt to anyway...
I agree with your comment about the failed PR campaign.

The problem comes with the derogatory term "sportswashing" and the inference that everything we do is to hide human rights abuses. That frankly is bollocks.
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It depends what you mean by soft power. CFG is now a big global organisation which is interested in making profits like any other business. It is perfectly reasonable for any organisation to promote itself and enhance its brand. It is a fact that the success of Manchester City, owned by a member of the Abu Dhabi Royal family, will raise the profile of Abu Dhabi as a place.
All organisations and countries in the Gulf region are in a race to diversify away from being reliant on oil revenues. Sheikh Mansour is no different to anyone else.
I don't believe Sheikh Mansour has invested in football for political reasons but he will be more than happy to use the influence it brings to help generate more business (a form of soft power?).
I agree that the sportswashing concept is just a pure fabrication. Even Amnesty don't put Abu Dhabi anywhere near the top of its list of the worst states for human rights abuses in the world.
 
waspish said:
It’s been like this every time we win premier and trophies they have to balance it out with these negative articles which they’ve done to death with for at least the last 10 years!

It’s keep us downtime keeps that narrative going!

They see what we are they see what we’ve won where we heading and those history clubs don’t like it one bit so pay these Hacks like Conn who is the low of the low, trying come across with his 2bob rehashed for the 8th time articles!
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Inter Me Nan said:
Nobody else seems to get these articles when they win the league, weird that!
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Because these articles, quotes and arguments to try and belittle the achievements of our club, owner and Pep are born from one thing....

FEAR

The history clubs and their ex-players, and the rest of the jealous mob are fearful of what has been happening before there eyes since Sheihk Mansour arrived on these shores.

Take one massive example of that playing out on BT sports when Joe Cole said Kane should go to City - Ferdinand couldn't hold that thought in his head, the fear rose and he went straight into school boy bully mode spouting 'united are the biggest club' - Ferdinand had to re-assure himself that Kane to the rags was a no-brainer based on some old history shite that they are a bigger club - and then you had the giddy BT anchor laughing like the sad kid who hides behind the school bully hanging onto his every whim

The old pisscan said 'never in my lifetime', the takeover was seen as a joke at the time and one that wouldn't last.

We have overtaken them all in every part that MATTERS - Infrastructure, Scouting, Academy, Players, Managers, breaking domestic records, and now collecting trophies each season = FEAR

The only thing we lack is this stupid statement of being seen as a "bigger club" - based on what, overseas fans, well that doesn't bother me one iota - they can keep it. Is it based on trophies? - well we are addressing that currently are we not, But then they realise that if we start by lifting a 1st CL trophy this Saturday then they will be worried about us winning more

The truth is (and I will use myself as an example age wise, I am 42yrs old) that the red top history clubs (who believe they have this divine right to be lauded as the pinnacle of the English game) are realising that what has been built has the POTENTIAL to go on and become the most successful English club side ever = FEAR

FEAR is written all over this. It is between the lines in everything they say, every article that is written, every snide little comment that is made live on TV or radio.
 
madloaf said:
www.theguardian.com

Manchester City’s rise from stumbles of old to fine-tuned global product

Manchester City have become an exercise in how to construct the supreme modern football club with the Abu Dhabi-owned team close to achieving their target of European supremacy
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

What a fucking bore.
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Hah. "Abu Dhabi is courted by western countries including Britain, which sells the country large stocks of arms".

Britain sells arms to all sorts of countries, many with worse human rights records.

That's the sin of the seller, not the buyer.
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Spiny. Nice one and agree on the loyalty point. Just imagine part 2 of the owners vision. A state of the art entertainment facility, further brownfield development, more satellite clubs and a 24/7 hub in East Manchester. I used to help manage a number of factories in East Manchester - one is now part of the stadium complex. The transformation actually makes me feel emotional sometimes when I remember what an honest shithole it all was.

Some snake correspondents will have nowhere to go in a few years other than to disappear completely up their own arses.
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Clayton Analine, the steelworks to name just a few - Brownfield is putting it nicely - love the honest shithole description. Nobody could have dreamed what the stadium and collar site has and will become - even as recent as 20 years ago.
 
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