Media Thread - 2021/22

[swinton blue]

I wonder if SSN would have been so effervescent in their praise of Messi joining PSG if he was flying to Manchester instead.

Haha not a fucking chance
They made a point about paying his wages signing on fee agents fees and bonuses all out of the money he will bring to the club.
Where as we would have had our spending scrutinised by John Aldridge and Dwight Yorke saying how can we possibly afford it

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Fellaini, Herrera, Di Maria, Depay, Schneiderlin, Martial, Mikkytaran, Pogba, Sanchez, Lukaku, Fred, Wan Bissaka, Van Beek.

Around £620m just on those targeted acquistions.

As long as Ole is at the wheel he knows where not to buy the new team bus.

 

[Roy Munson]

Let me make an analogy to professional wrestling, so bare with me.

There was a wrestling company in the 1980s owned by Ted Turner called WCW. Wrestling was essentially a live event business model no different from a concert and the objective was to promote storylines that would want people to buy a ticket to watch the conclusion of those stories. There was this guy called Sid Vicious - big guy, looked like a mean bastard, but he was all talk and wasn't a very good wrestler. There was another guy called Arn Anderson, shorter guy but he understood crowd psychology and was a great wrestler.
You see if they heavily promoted Sid Vicious into a main event type role then they would do a massive crowd, probably make a million dollars in one night but 3 months later nobody would care about him whereas Arn Anderson would never draw that crowd but he would make the company consistent good money for 20 straight years. They chose Sid Vicious. They were bankrupt two years later.

I feel like the British media have done this. They have taken the big money now by being sensationalist but in doing so have lost the trust of the public that could have kept them in business for decades to come. Once that trust is lost in a media organisation then it never comes back and they have to go more and more sensational over the years just to stand still.

You should (if you haven't already) read The Death of WCW by Alvarez and Reynolds. Interesting stuff.

 

[Sheik Battle and Goal]

Haha not a fucking chance
They made a point about paying his wages signing on fee agents fees and bonuses all out of the money he will bring to the club.
Where as we would have had our spending scrutinised by John Aldridge and Dwight Yorke saying how can we possibly afford it

Funny that isn’t it.. when it was rumoured he might be joining us the argument was that the shirt sales income generated would only be marginal and not justify the cost of bringing him to the club etc etc

 

[mat]

SSN: Liverpool and Man U are the glamour clubs of the Premier League.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

SSN: Liverpool and Man U are the glamour clubs of the Premier League.

Did you mishear what they said?

Was it perhaps dips & rags pay our wages?

 

[red 2 hats]

Who's this clueless **** on SSN, saying only clubs spending this summer are state owned, then reels us, psg and the chavs due to abramovich, not a fucking mention of the scum with sancho and varane, no end to this bias.

 

[mat]

Did you mishear what they said?

Was it perhaps dips & rags pay our wages?

It was a discussion about teams that have galacticos. PSG now the new boys with rags and dips having their own.
It could have been a subliminal point as you allude.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Let me make an analogy to professional wrestling, so bare with me.

There was a wrestling company in the 1980s owned by Ted Turner called WCW. Wrestling was essentially a live event business model no different from a concert and the objective was to promote storylines that would want people to buy a ticket to watch the conclusion of those stories. There was this guy called Sid Vicious - big guy, looked like a mean bastard, but he was all talk and wasn't a very good wrestler. There was another guy called Arn Anderson, shorter guy but he understood crowd psychology and was a great wrestler.
You see if they heavily promoted Sid Vicious into a main event type role then they would do a massive crowd, probably make a million dollars in one night but 3 months later nobody would care about him whereas Arn Anderson would never draw that crowd but he would make the company consistent good money for 20 straight years. They chose Sid Vicious. They were bankrupt two years later.

I feel like the British media have done this. They have taken the big money now by being sensationalist but in doing so have lost the trust of the public that could have kept them in business for decades to come. Once that trust is lost in a media organisation then it never comes back and they have to go more and more sensational over the years just to stand still.

as someone who was a big wrestling fan in them days and now just checks in every now and then when the kids are watching it.

100% get this.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

SSN: Liverpool and Man U are the glamour clubs of the Premier League.

More like the Bessie Braddock and Ena Sharples of the premier league.