Media Thread 2020/21

[chesterbells]

At this point, can I say that I DON'T know anyone called Mike Hunt

Loved that film back in the day.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

"Man United are the best fit for footloose Harry Kane, says state-of-the-art AI computer which analyses MILLIONS of stats... and says Pogba, Rashford and Fernandes would be PERFECT team-mates"​

Manchester United is the best fit for Harry Kane, say analysts

While the bookies and most pundits are looking towards Manchester City as the likely destination for the England international, the data analysts at AiAbacus see other opportunities.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Have you ever read such laughable shite in all your life. Ok probably been other equally cringy stuff but this is up there. I am not even angry at it because, well just look at that title haha. I recall some of these super algotithms used the other year to predict the title winners, it got it wrong of course.

No need really to click the link, the title says all you need to know.

Did that Super AI predict City winning the league this season?

 

[blueju]

Expertly put

Conn still spouting on about "sportswashing", his personal bias and one sided political agenda when football has finally woken up that CFG is about business. The self styled elite have found themselves falling further behind in terms of success and finance with little chance of catching up.

What must really stick in their collective craws is the loyalty to Manchester City of the the fans, the owners, the staff, the players, Pep, other coaches and backroom staff?

The old model of running a football club on debt and spending as little as possible whilst extracting as much cash as possible, has been blown apart. CFG has gone for growth by reinvesting on and off the field as well as in local communities.

At the time of the take over, ADUG did say they had a 20 year plan in place and we still years to go.

By then, there is every chance that Conn and his ilk and the likes of the Guardian will no longer be around. They are already on borrowed time, becoming as irrelevant as City Bingo with their tropes, prejudices and falshoods.

Would he survive a night in your local talking shite like that? Mak

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 Thankfully the old City has now been replaced by the likes of Spurs and Arsenal.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.

he wouldn’t last a minute talking his shite in the world he’s always slagging off.

 

[deano ou812]

Did that Super AI predict City winning the league this season?

It couldn’t compute ..

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

At this point, can I say that I DON'T know anyone called Mike Hunt

I do, just like my mate, Richard Head. A Rag twat to boot.

 

[LongsightM13]

The biggest myth is what has been ‘pumped’ in. They count every contract since the takeover as if we don‘t actually have an income stream that pays for these players, as if Sheikh Mansour pays for every player out of his own pocket, omitting that said income streams are ’pumped’ back into the club to cover costs.

This is the biggest lie and perpetuates the myth.

Didn’t someone on here post that we had already made close to £1.5bn in prize money since the takeover for trophies, Premier League positions and a decade of Champions League qualification and almost always qualifying for the knockout stages? And thats before factoring in any sponsorship or other commercial income?
Yet this is routinely ignored

 

[FrankSwift1]

It would be interesting to see the click numbers for articles like Conns. Most City fans are bored and I'm sure other football fans are. Same article rehashed endlessly.

Also the only money 'pumped' into city in the last 5 years or so is the 58M transfer fee for laporte. We are the most successful PL club earn the most prize money and are self financing.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

It would be interesting to see the click numbers for articles like Conns. Most City fans are bored and I'm sure other football fans are. Same article rehashed endlessly.

Also the only money 'pumped' into city in the last 5 years or so is the 58M transfer fee for laporte. We are the most successful PL club earn the most prize money and are self financing.

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Regardless, I think the words have to be ‘Fuck you’.

Cunts.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Did that Super AI predict City winning the league this season?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Am I seeing City, Arsenal or the Rags/Dippers

 

[Kazzydeyna]

I’m absolutely fucked up tonight and I won’t remember posting this tomorrow but I just want to say I love this forum and I love the fact we can often disagree, sometimes very badly, but at the end of the day we always come together as fellow blues.
I’ve been a knob on here several times but it’s a safe environment.

The next few days are the most important in our clubs recent journey and come Sunday morning I truly believe we will all be celebrating.

love to you all. My blue family.

(sorry I’m leathered)

 

[wolviedinho]

I’m absolutely fucked up tonight and I won’t remember posting this tomorrow but I just want to say I love this forum and I love the fact we can often disagree, sometimes very badly, but at the end of the day we always come together as fellow blues.
I’ve been a knob on here several times but it’s a safe environment.

The next few days are the most important in our clubs recent journey and come Sunday morning I truly believe we will all be celebrating.

love to you all. My blue family.

(sorry I’m leathered)

Never apologise for showing feeling, now go to bed you rag pisshead :)

 

[KS55]

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.

Or went to Abu Dhabi.

 

[KS55]

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.

Agree wholeheartedly, but what motivates Conn? Couldn't be hatred of anything Arab could it?

 

[Marvin]

The UAE and especially Abu Dhabi are very pro British, reflected in trade and politics. Sheikh Mansour chose to invest not only in Manchester City FC but also in the regeneration of a run down, blighted part of the city. The decision was not born out of altruism but there is no evidence of equivalent investments by others let alone by owners of other football clubs including the ones who purport to be the biggest and richest in the world.

Yet we have a cabal conducting a sustained campaign against City and owners, effectively against the interests of the UK, when there are many more obvious targets throughout the world. The western world has its own issues and Amnesty has its failings and is no moral paragon. This cabal is self-reinforcing with their selective criticism and attacks a reflection of their paymasters.

Unsurprisingly, they like to give it but cant take it.

The problem with articles like this is that it sustains a lie that MCFC are fundamentally different to other English football clubs in that they are owned and managed by an overseas state who are cynically manipulating football for their own ends but MCFC are not owned or controlled by the UAE state. Never once has MCFC been branded as a UAE club in England or in the UAE, npt by City's owner anyway, the only people who do so are a small current in the UK media who have a certain view of the world which colours their interpretation of it.

By their conduct they are telling the world that Arab Sheikhs are not fit and proper to own football clubs because they can not be separated from their nation-state but Russian, Uzbek oligarchs, Thai Junta/King associates, Chinese and US finance capital no problem. Mention this and they cry 'whataboutery' yes but you can't operate by these standards.

If you wish to discriminate then you will be viewed as such.

 

[KS55]

Bloody philistine. Appreciate a spot of culture, FFS. It's not all "I said maaaaybeeee, you're gonna be the one that saaaaaves meeeee".

Tee hee!

 

[Norbiton]

Agree wholeheartedly, but what motivates Conn? Couldn't be hatred of anything Arab could it?

Aren’t UAE and Israel best mates now? But Conn does seem to have a problem keeping up.

 

[Jimmieblue]

The Five Live Special on ‘that’ goal with Naga Munchetty is a good half hour listen. It’s on BBC Sounds app Sports section. A surprise coming from BBC!

 

[havefaith]

I,m not going to link it, but there's an article on newsnow titled

Guardiola’s ‘crocodile tears’ slammed after report shines light on Aguero’s Man City exit – pundit​

Who is said pundit ?

I was intrigued as to who exactly so had a look


FRANK MCANVENNI WTF!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

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.

Great post.

A great deal of fans of these Redshirt clubs are only fans because they attach themselves to the glory aspect of the club they’ve chosen to support. Especially the out of towners.

This is usually from being insecure from the outset as individuals.

They’re too insecure to support Lincoln, Plymouth, or Shamrock Rovers, so they attach themselves to United and Liverpool. They live it up in some sort of weird reflected glory… but as soon as that glory wanes or disappears as their clubs aren’t top dogs anymore, their insecurities come to the fore. They can’t handle that a club they once made banners about their trophy drought and had more songs mocking them than they had about themselves, have started to win trophies like they once did but at the same time smashing all-time English football records in the process.

This is where all this fear and belittling comes in, they’re just insecure little boys who can’t deal with their reflected glory being taken away from them. But in a social media age, it’s not just the out of towners with this attitude, it’s the entire fanbases plus their hangers on from the media. It becomes a culture of insecurity and fear across the lot of them!