Media Thread - 2021/22

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Its not terrible reporting, it's exactly the point they want to get across....nothing to see at the rags/dips.....we fart and it's everywhere.

It's terrible from the point of view of how much balance and impartiality is missing from an important issue. They could easily have illustrated the point with ONE graphic of 'Arry, Salah, but THREE of the same player? Yer right about the point they want to get across but the attempt to disguise the usual anti-City 'reportage' by slipping in ONE out of the four doesn't give it any credence.

 

[portisheadblue]

The Telegraph reporting was even worse than mentioned above.

It was about PiGMOL changing THEIR approach going forward.

Two of the examples the Telegraph used were from the recent Euros and featured Raz…. Well we all know that VAR in Euros was tons better than PiGMOL version and we all know the two penalties involving Raz would not have been given in PL - not because they weren’t pens but because it was Raz.

The other two featured a gooner incident in April and one involving Mahrez in late 2019 …. the implied message being that every pen between those two was correct and would not be changed

F$ck the Telegraph #ratherbuyacoffee

 

[andthesunshineband]

Peterborough owner on Sky. Bit of a talker, Oirish but big fan of Liverpool and Celtic surprise surprise. He spoke at length on Kane saga to the point when I was about to turn off. Queue the dickhead Solhekol who immediately tried to spin that City were being cheap. Oirish cuts in, no way is anyone paying 150 with covid and economic climate etc. Even said he'd apologise if City shelled out. Clueless Solhekol clams up and changes subject. Look on his face was priceless and I almost warmed to Oirish.

 

[dickie davies]

Peterborough owner on Sky. Bit of a talker, Oirish but big fan of Liverpool and Celtic surprise surprise. He spoke at length on Kane saga to the point when I was about to turn off. Queue the dickhead Solhekol who immediately tried to spin that City were being cheap. Oirish cuts in, no way is anyone paying 150 with covid and economic climate etc. Even said he'd apologise if City shelled out. Clueless Solhekol clams up and changes subject. Look on his face was priceless and I almost warmed to Oirish.

The Peterborough owner is a fucking con man
He cheated hundreds of people out of their life savings
And the fact the British media give him air time is disgusting

Irish tycoon in ‘swindle’ claims could lose €20m Spanish villa

MacanthonyAN Irish tycoon who faces the threat of losing his €20m Costa del Sol mansion has denied ripping off property investors. Football club chairman Darragh MacAnthony is facing allegations in court that he swindled holiday home owners out of hundreds of thousands of euro after failing to de

www.lawbird.com

 

[Northblue]

There's this:

The Transfer Index - TotallyMoney

How much would our favourite footballers be worth if they were bought for today’s prices?

www.totallymoney.com

But you'll have to total up the 99 transfers inbound... manually.

I tried to extract the data from the raw JSON here: https://www.totallymoney.com/content/transfer-index/data/assets/data/data-min.js but my skills failed me.

Ah yeah that's the one I saw, I thought someone had data pre-1992.

Didn't notice the link to the data - Very quick and dirty but I've totted up all transfers (in todays money, GBP) here: https://dotnetfiddle.net/qqn9VT

Top 10:
Real Madrid: £5,203,670,640.00
Chelsea FC: £4,793,435,920.00
FC Barcelona: £4,665,524,635.00
FC Internazionale: £4,343,547,944.00
Juventus FC: £4,145,062,162.00
Manchester United: £3,712,414,623.00
Manchester City: £3,674,240,407.00
Liverpool FC: £3,553,622,402.00
Tottenham Hotspur: £2,899,185,390.00
Paris Saint-Germain: £2,770,753,803.00

 

[mat]

Do the rags and dippers still have shares in Sky?

They are now owned by Comcast one of the largest US media networks worldwide. Would it be a leap of the imagination they could influence match picks on Sky Sports?

I'm still scratching my head why BT sport's have more of our games live when the premier broadcaster would surely want first pick on the champions games.

 

[manimanc]

Spurs have agreed a fee with some mush from Atalanta.
Sky sports have it on their app.

I'm only pointing it out as they had some ratfaced twat on this morning saying one club(us) wanting to sign another clubs(spurs) player (kane) was totally out of order.

The outrage it caused this morning was horrific.

 

[LongsightM13]

Peterborough owner on Sky. Bit of a talker, Oirish but big fan of Liverpool and Celtic surprise surprise. He spoke at length on Kane saga to the point when I was about to turn off. Queue the dickhead Solhekol who immediately tried to spin that City were being cheap. Oirish cuts in, no way is anyone paying 150 with covid and economic climate etc. Even said he'd apologise if City shelled out. Clueless Solhekol clams up and changes subject. Look on his face was priceless and I almost warmed to Oirish.

Daragh McAnthony is a sound operator and has spoken well about our club and defended us more than once in the past.
The word you’re looking for is Irish by the way.

 

[JASR]

Ah yeah that's the one I saw, I thought someone had data pre-1992.

Didn't notice the link to the data - Very quick and dirty but I've totted up all transfers (in todays money, GBP) here: https://dotnetfiddle.net/qqn9VT

Top 10:
Real Madrid: £5,203,670,640.00
Chelsea FC: £4,793,435,920.00
FC Barcelona: £4,665,524,635.00
FC Internazionale: £4,343,547,944.00
Juventus FC: £4,145,062,162.00
Manchester United: £3,712,414,623.00
Manchester City: £3,674,240,407.00
Liverpool FC: £3,553,622,402.00
Tottenham Hotspur: £2,899,185,390.00
Paris Saint-Germain: £2,770,753,803.00

Very good playing with data.

Now that's some figures to play with ;-)

Chelsea un-surprisingly have spent the most in the PL.
The figures for City & United and Liverpool are very much the same, and so for all intents and purpose should be classified the same.
So... United pretty much dominated spending up to 'no value in market' time, and have since post-ferguson carried on.
City, generally abysmal buying in the 90's and 00's and then playing catch-up.
Liverpool - crap essentially, until Klopp started hitting the right stuff...

As you've got the skill, can you pull out the value of Sales as well. Just to get an overall picture of Incomings vs Outgoings?

 

[Fordyboy46]

Spurs have agreed a fee with some mush from Atalanta.
Sky sports have it on their app.

I'm only pointing it out as they had some ratfaced twat on this morning saying one club(us) wanting to sign another clubs(spurs) player (kane) was totally out of order.

The outrage it caused this morning was horrific.

Yeah, how fucking dare City try and sign a player from another prem club. The prem league need to step in here, lol