Media Thread - 2021/22

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Bellamy's Caddy said:
When Liverpool fans call out City's spending, I compliment them on knowing more than CAS and qualified accountants, then ask them to confirm that they've written to their club demanding they end their association with Standard Chartered and return the sponsorship money. Its funny watching them squirm, especially as most of them have no idea about the background on SC.
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Many of them are unaware (or at least claim to be) of LFC's hacking of City's scouting database and are it total denial of them failing FFP in 2013 and being on the verge of failing again in 2015 until they magicked out of the air alleged 'stadium development expenses' of £35 million from years before for the non-existent Stanley Park Project that enabled them to offset against FFP losses. That was all neatly swept under the carpet at UEFA. In 2013 they failed to qualify for Europe so fell outside UEFA's remit for investigation and punishment, demonstrating that being shit can have its advantages.

And don't get them started on the Littlewoods money. They claim it was just Everton who benefited from that.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Link here to the article from an open source and not behind a paywall here:


An extract:

Any temptation to perceive romance in this move should be resisted. Haaland’s choice of City has been made, as Barcelona manager Xavi acknowledges, “primarily for financial reasons – I have no doubt about that”. The upshot is that the intensity of competition for titles is in grave danger of being diminished.

Liverpool are barely living with City’s standard domestically as it stands. They ended their campaign in 2019 with nine straight wins and lost by a point. This time, they have suffered two defeats all season, the fewest of any club besides Arsenal’s Invincibles, Chelsea’s runaway champions in 2005, and their own 2019 campaign, and are still likely to miss out.

With the introduction of Haaland, City are poised to make any hope of a sustained challenge a delusion, rendering the Premier League as predictable as a Bundesliga that Bayern Munich have won 10 years in a row. They will legitimately depict Haaland’s addition as an astounding coup. But for anybody hoping to quell the raids of the nouveau riche, this is not a moment to be cherished.
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Feel that pain and jealousy - where were the same comments being made when the rags and dippers hoovered up all the best players ?
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Link here to the article from an open source and not behind a paywall here:


An extract:

Any temptation to perceive romance in this move should be resisted. Haaland’s choice of City has been made, as Barcelona manager Xavi acknowledges, “primarily for financial reasons – I have no doubt about that”. The upshot is that the intensity of competition for titles is in grave danger of being diminished.

Liverpool are barely living with City’s standard domestically as it stands. They ended their campaign in 2019 with nine straight wins and lost by a point. This time, they have suffered two defeats all season, the fewest of any club besides Arsenal’s Invincibles, Chelsea’s runaway champions in 2005, and their own 2019 campaign, and are still likely to miss out.

With the introduction of Haaland, City are poised to make any hope of a sustained challenge a delusion, rendering the Premier League as predictable as a Bundesliga that Bayern Munich have won 10 years in a row. They will legitimately depict Haaland’s addition as an astounding coup. But for anybody hoping to quell the raids of the nouveau riche, this is not a moment to be cherished.
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Would that be the same Telegraph in which Luke Edwards wrote two articles barely a year apart in which he said that City winning the quad would be bad for the Premier League in the first and creaming his kecks at the thought of Liverpool doing it in the second?
 
jrb said:
It was only a matter of time before Pep hit back.

Whether the timing is right or not, we'll see.

I think he should have waited until the season was over and City are Champions, hopefully?

All Pep is doing now is galvonising Klopp and his team with his (true) PL Champions comment.

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Peps words will have no bearing on how the players perform over the next 3 games. If we don’t win it from here it is on pep and the players during 90min not words spoken in a press conference. I am grateful he is taking aim. It won’t change until we as a club fight back and he is doing a fine job.
 
Bodicoteblue said:
My particular favourite is to point out that the only reason that their club exists is that Everton refused to pay a huge rent increase at anfield to a rich Tory who simply formed lfc out of his own pocket in what must be the biggest act of sugar daddying (if such a word exists) and financial doping.
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Historically clubs were founded following meetings in pubs, workplaces or in Spurs' case under a lamp post in the street. Only after that did they go looking for somewhere to play. With Houlding having a ground but no team to play there after Everton fucked him off, Liverpool must be the only club to reverse the process by being formed solely to give purpose to a vacant ground by filling the void. The very definition of a plastic club.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Link here to the article from an open source and not behind a paywall here:


An extract:

Any temptation to perceive romance in this move should be resisted. Haaland’s choice of City has been made, as Barcelona manager Xavi acknowledges, “primarily for financial reasons – I have no doubt about that”. The upshot is that the intensity of competition for titles is in grave danger of being diminished.

Liverpool are barely living with City’s standard domestically as it stands. They ended their campaign in 2019 with nine straight wins and lost by a point. This time, they have suffered two defeats all season, the fewest of any club besides Arsenal’s Invincibles, Chelsea’s runaway champions in 2005, and their own 2019 campaign, and are still likely to miss out.

With the introduction of Haaland, City are poised to make any hope of a sustained challenge a delusion, rendering the Premier League as predictable as a Bundesliga that Bayern Munich have won 10 years in a row. They will legitimately depict Haaland’s addition as an astounding coup. But for anybody hoping to quell the raids of the nouveau riche, this is not a moment to be cherished.
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I suggest reading the full linked article. I feel deeply sad for these journalists that their hope is taken away bit by bit year by year. As blues we know how that feels. The attack City headlines like all the recent ones about signing Haaland just mask their real fear. The real fear is our owners as they slowly year by year realise these owners love football and will not stop till they bring the beautiful game to their stable of clubs by reinvesting all profits into their clubs to achieve this. That is their fear as they try to protect the 'istry clubs who plunder millions of pounds from their clubs. When will they wake up and see the light, I suspect never as journalism and tv are now businesses that chase clicks and subscriptions and that is when truth is pushed onto a back seat.

PS. I do not really feel sad for these journalists, I laugh my tits off;-)
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Link here to the article from an open source and not behind a paywall here:


An extract:

Any temptation to perceive romance in this move should be resisted. Haaland’s choice of City has been made, as Barcelona manager Xavi acknowledges, “primarily for financial reasons – I have no doubt about that”. The upshot is that the intensity of competition for titles is in grave danger of being diminished.

Liverpool are barely living with City’s standard domestically as it stands. They ended their campaign in 2019 with nine straight wins and lost by a point. This time, they have suffered two defeats all season, the fewest of any club besides Arsenal’s Invincibles, Chelsea’s runaway champions in 2005, and their own 2019 campaign, and are still likely to miss out.

With the introduction of Haaland, City are poised to make any hope of a sustained challenge a delusion, rendering the Premier League as predictable as a Bundesliga that Bayern Munich have won 10 years in a row. They will legitimately depict Haaland’s addition as an astounding coup. But for anybody hoping to quell the raids of the nouveau riche, this is not a moment to be cherished.
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Boo-hoo poor old liverpool should ultimately win all and sundry cos' it means more


I smell the fear and see a river of salty tears from this uber-cnut journo

Fantastic
 
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