Media Thread - 2021/22

[East Level 2]

Ed Woodentop briefed the press on his departure. Asked about the huge transfer spending he said: "We had to keep up with the state owned clubs." Keep up???

Who were they keeping up with before City came along? They were regularly top spenders when they were winning stuff.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Who were they keeping up with before City came along? They were regularly top spenders when they were winning stuff.

Also he should have been asked to publicly identify the state owned clubs

 

[Chipmeister]

Given the prize money on offer, I’d disagree that the business and football models were as mutually exclusive as you suggest.

Furthermore, no commercial organisation can pontificate about its business model when the place it carries on its trade from is so outdated, dilapidated and uncomfortable for its paying customers - with no meaningful sign of a plan to resolve it, save for a few specious press releases about extending the main stand.

I think it’s fair to say that the Glazers have purposefully exploited the commercial income of the club, but there’s much more to running a successful football business than that. It’s one of a number of core factors, of which success on the pitch, forward planning, return on investment, succession planning and having good security measures in place must also feature. In each of those regards united have been conspicuously lacking in the last decade.

So no, I disagree. Their business model is poor because it palpably fails to exploit the commercial advantages that the club innately enjoys.

Very well explained, I just wonder if as a business it’s as much about dividends which are often unaffected by on field success. Get a strong business model and performances and results are a bonus rather than necessity. Just a thought

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Very well explained, I just wonder if as a business it’s as much about dividends which are often unaffected by on field success. Get a strong business model and performances and results are a bonus rather than necessity. Just a thought

That’s fair comment mate. I guess that following that logic, the more success on the pitch, the bigger the dividends, but as you say that’s a bonus, rather than a necessity.

 

[ysmsa]

Delaney on 5 live now pushing the agenda that Chelsea issues now are a great opportunity to reset football club ownership in general.

oh how surprising….

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!

English football has never been so popular at home and around the world. It's why a whole new media industry has ballooned to deliver a constant stream of news.
This allows cunts like Delany and Co to have a career in sports journalism.

If he wants a reset then its back to 1 game a week on TV, no 24 hour sports channels, 1 match reporter writing for a respected paper and certainly no room for this generation of know fuck all gobshites who can not be objective!

 

[mat]

Nedum putting Scouse **** on 5live back in his box with his BS narrative comparing Newcastle takeover to City's.

Nedum, being at City during that time politely corrected the city bingo card.

 

[manimanc]

How the fuckety fuck does deloony get on these programmes?
He looks like he needs his hard drive looked at, beady eyed little twat that he is.

 

[stan bowles]

Delaney on 5 live now pushing the agenda that Chelsea issues now are a great opportunity to reset football club ownership in general.

oh how surprising….

Did he go into specific details of how this reset would be achieved or was he just issuing soundbites ? Does he want us to go back to the local scrap metal dealer owning their local club ? Is it back to the days of Swales, Ken Bates, Louis Edwards etc that he advocates ?

 

[mat]

How the fuckety fuck does deloony get on these programmes?
He looks like he needs his hard drive looked at, beady eyed little twat that he is.

Irony of him being paid by the state broadcaster to spout his shite is lost on him.

 

[Phil1]

What’s the point of Twitter if you get banned for calling somebody a ****?? The place is fucking full of them so how are you supposed to not call them one?
Meh! Looks like I’m sticking to BM.