Media Thread - 2021/22

[Mike D]

A great article in the Independent an honest review I would say. long but week worth a read

 

[KS55]

That's a great game actually ....

Some people say Delaney is a screaming bender with no more right to live on God's green Earth than a weasel.

There is a feeling that he must be getting paid to continually criticise City because there can be no other reason for such unashamed bullshittery.

Etc etc ...

It is widely believed that delooney writes for a small online publication because no serious outlet will give him a job.

 

[lancs blue]

"state project", "limitless funds", "owned by Abu Dhabi", "all for...the glory of Abu Dhabi, who have essentially used a football club, and changed it so it is unrecognisable to its previous form or anything ever seen in the game."

Same old Deloony bullshit.

 

[manclad]

A great article in the Independent an honest review I would say. long but week worth a read

It's never been any different since the inception of the Football League in 1888.
You play each other team in said league twice (home and away)and the team with the most number of points at the end,are crowned as Champions.
Simples!!!!

 

[NowInMilnrow]

Bizarre article even by Delooney's standards. Whilst couched in faint praise, it amounts to "how dare a club seek to achieve excellence, it's not fair". I like all the "some people say.." and "there's a feeling that..." all of which betrays the simple fact that, as a united fan, he's hurting. Long may it continue. Keep 'em coming Miguel, we love it.

Yes, quite bizarre. He's actually a Liverpool fan... did you not get the "Klopp is a god" feeling about it!

Most of the points have already been countered effectively by Ste Tudor's article as BK mentioned above, but several, as you say, are very vague in source and more emotional than factual. It just shows how much he's hurting, and a dipper fan hurting should be a pleasure for all of us. Pure karma!

 

[feelymcfeel]

A great article in the Independent an honest review I would say. long but week worth a read

Except he says, again, multiple times, Manchester City are owned by Abu Dhabi the state, which is categorically not the case. Delaney is full of shit and and absolute bitter rag wanker.

 

[KS55]

It's never been any different since the inception of the Football League in 1888.
You play each other team in said league twice (home and away)and the team with the most number of points at the end,are crowned as Champions.
Simples!!!!

The difference is that Abu Dhabi's sorcerers put a spell on anyone brazen enough to beat us. Black Magic Club.

 

[Bozzie]

Whilst Liverpools dominance might have been in a different financial climate, they still 'somehow' persuaded a very reluctant Shankley to leave Huddersfield and take a step down to Liverpool. They then 'somehow' managed to fund the removal of 20+ players and fund the 20+ that came in to replace them, including making St John the highest paid player in the country. Different times maybe, but still relative.

 

[blueju]

Because they turn up. Watch city win 95% of the time. Get pissed off and head to twitter to say how its not fair

Banning them would actually be doing them good. Makes no impact to us, they’ll write what they want irrespective of being there or not

Twatting them would be fun though.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

A great article in the Independent an honest review I would say. long but week worth a read

It is the usual despicable piece you would expect from the author. It is riddled with mistakes. He describes Khaldoon as the "de facto Prime Minister of UAE" and City as a a "state project." He says the club was bought for "the glory of Abu Dhabi" and for "political aims." He also claims we have "limitless funds" and escaped from Covid unscathed (ignoring our £126m loss last season).
He also repeats the fake claim that we just bought the whole management structure from Barcelona. In fact Sorriano and Soriano had both left Barca before they came to City. Soriano was running a Spanish airline. Every paragraph emphasises the false narrative that Delooney has created in his head.
For the absence of any doubt City are not "state owned" and never have been. Dozens of independent auditors from all over the world and scores of lawyers have poured over our books for ten years and they have never found we are "state owned." Not even UEFA have ever alleged that.
There is no evidence that Sheikh Mansour or the US and Chinese consortiums who own our club are the slightest bit interested in so-called "sportswashing" They have made billions from their investments in MCFC and the City of Manchester so far and have only just got going. In fact there is no such thing as "sportswashing" Most businesses in the Gulf region are on an urgent mission to diversify their incomes away from declining fossil fuels, like oil. No one acccuses Dubai of "tourismwashing." Sheikh Mansour is no different which is why, despite being accused of making "dirty oil money," he is one of the world's biggest investors in renewable energy.

 

[jazzy]

God bless the UAE

 

[blue order]

A great article in the Independent an honest review I would say. long but week worth a read

Mike D, you’re not Mig D himself doing a bit of self promotion are you? The article does contain a number of factually accurate points but is nonetheless still soiled in tone with the stains of boiled piss!

 

[lonestay]

So BT got back to me about my official complaint about the arsenal game .
Just a standard reply with my name at the top to make it feel personal.
All about how they have the upmost standards about presentation and impartiality, and the kicker at the end was "keep subscribing to the wonderful BT experience" currently waiting to speak to a BT call person !!!

 

[norman]

Dont know where to start with Deloony’s “article”. Just one point though - he refers to the drawbridge being pulled up, without, apparently, any conception of the wider implications of such a statement. He bewails City’s success, but presumably would have had no problem about any club except utd. liverpool, arsenal and maybe chelsea having no chance win the premier league. In other words there is only a problem because City are successful.
Far better, he implies, to allow the least mediocre of the same 2 or three teams to battle it out every year.
Pep is why we are doing so well on the field, and has revolutionised the style of play.
In sport the bar is raised and the rest must strive to match the new standards. That’s what a competition should be Miguel, rather than an excuse to heap sycophantic praise on the usual suspects

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

So BT got back to me about my official complaint about the arsenal game .
Just a standard reply with my name at the top to make it feel personal.
All about how they have the upmost standards about presentation and impartiality, and the kicker at the end was "keep subscribing to the wonderful BT experience" currently waiting to speak to a BT call person !!!

wouldn't waste your time

 

[laserblue]

Whilst Liverpools dominance might have been in a different financial climate, they still 'somehow' persuaded a very reluctant Shankley to leave Huddersfield and take a step down to Liverpool. They then 'somehow' managed to fund the removal of 20+ players and fund the 20+ that came in to replace them, including making St John the highest paid player in the country. Different times maybe, but still relative.

Not forgetting Liverpool were a failing 2nd division club at the time. Earlier in the same year Shankly arrived (1959) Liverpool were knocked out of the FA Cup by Worcester City. Yet as a 2nd division club they managed to pay the third highest fee in British football history for Ian St John. Dippers go into denial mode when all this is brought up and their go to deflection is that the Moores family poured money into Everton not Liverpool. Bizarre.

 

[laserblue]

No one accuses Dubai of "tourismwashing."

I prefer the word Arsenalwashing.

Alan Davies can shove that where the sun doesn't shine too.

 

[BrianW]

Liverpool (and United) fans are scarcely unique in only remembering and celebrating the bits of history they like, while ignoring, or even denying, the bits that are uncomfortable. About half the country thinks like that.

 

[petrusha]

Thanks mate. That's really nice and hugely appreciated.

His exact words were "You think it's bad now. It's going to get a lot, lot worse and you need to make sure you're on the right side"

Thanks. That wording is very revealing, isn't it?!

Not something along the lines of, "Things will come out that won't pint the club in a good light and you'll lose credibility if you're seen to be defending it." That might be contentious - for example, the FFP 'revelations' in Der Spiegel were dishonestly presented and subsequent discussions were risibly overblown. But at least such an approach would imply that sports journalists generally regarded their overriding objective as being to report the truth.

Your interlocutor may well be a decent guy whose primary interest was to look out for you. But he quite clearly implies widespread hostility among those in his profession, taking the form of a concerted attack on us. We basically knew this already, of course, but it's interesting to have confirmation that it can be spoken of like that in private, too. In contrast, publicly and especially on social media, people like Delaney usually just try to gaslight us.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Thanks mate. That's really nice and hugely appreciated.

His exact words were "You think it's bad now. It's going to get a lot, lot worse and you need to make sure you're on the right side"

Yet some people on here think there's no agenda!