Media Thread - 2021/22

[Paladin]

Goldstein on talkSPORT asked a ridiculously leading question as to whether Rooney’s season at Derby would surpass Pep’s at City this season even if we win the title, were Rooney to keep Derby up which would be, according to Daft Andy, “one of the greatest achievements in the history of football”

Without the points deductions, they would be joint 11th place, with 35 points. Fulham are top with 54 points. Hardly Manager of the Year material.

 

[oakiecokie]

Not from me to him it shouldn’t.

I hope he drowns in a puddle of his own piss.

I doubt it would be a puddle. More of an ocean of steaming hot urine.

 

[wolfie1988]

Goldstein on talkSPORT asked a ridiculously leading question as to whether Rooney’s season at Derby would surpass Pep’s at City this season even if we win the title, were Rooney to keep Derby up which would be, according to Daft Andy, “one of the greatest achievements in the history of football”

It would be some achievement to be fair.

 

[Blue Til Death]

I feel a bit sorry for him. He has allowed his head to be consumed so much by all things City he is completely obsessed with us.

that means he has lost any sense of objectivity - which is a key skill of a good journo

the mental gymnastics he must do criticising city fans on human right whilst choosing to TAKE MONEY from his Saudi owners must consume him too

He seems a nice lad. I hope he finds some peace

I’d be more than happy to give the **** eternal peace, it’s the least I could do for such a nice lad..!

 

[Innsbruckblue]

I'm guessing your job description doesn't include "Stoking the prejudices of rags and dippers."

Only in my free time

 

[cheekybids]

Goldstein on talkSPORT asked a ridiculously leading question as to whether Rooney’s season at Derby would surpass Pep’s at City this season even if we win the title, were Rooney to keep Derby up which would be, according to Daft Andy, “one of the greatest achievements in the history of football”

It’s a tremendous achievement & one that should be rewarded with a big job & no bigger than the theatre of dreams. In fact with Stevie G likely to take the reins at Anfield, famous nights under the lights & all that I can see the giddyometer exploding, romance, history, greatest rivalry in football………


Oh please make it happen.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

They aren't there anymore, but I always want people to remember the time that somebody (almost certainly Miguel Delaney) started a fake Twitter account as a City fan the night before the CAS announcement, declaring that CAS had ruled in UEFA's favour as part of his inside information. And when challenged on it he made an attempt to validate his City fan credentials, including describing himself as a 'Top Bert'

I told him exactly why the chance of the ban being overturned was very high, explaining in great detail how I knew the money for the Etihad deal had come from central Abu Dhabi funds.

He told me I was wrong and that CAS would uphold the ban. So I asked him to tell me why I was wrong and his retort was "because my confidential sources told me". Utter cretin.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Fully agree with this.

Delaney is allowing himself to be defined and completely consumed by the narrative he has created around this. He is a professional journalist but at the moment his behaviour and conduct is one of an activist.

It's a nuanced and complex issue but there should be a clear distinction between journalism and activism. Either way, Delaney is acting in an erratic and highly-emotional way so you have to worry that his professional life is affecting him personally.

When you look at the volume of tweets he sends, and also the times they are sent, it suggests very little boundary between his personal and work life. That simply can't be good for anyone's mental health no matter what job or sector you work in.

When a cause becomes your job, the cause itself can all too easily evaporate and your focus is on keeping the problem going - because without it, you are obsolete.

 

[oakiecokie]

Has he released his smoking cod piece yet?

Amended.

 

[Octavian]

I told him exactly why the chance of the ban being overturned was very high, explaining in great detail how I knew the money for the Etihad deal had come from central Abu Dhabi funds.

He told me I was wrong and that CAS would uphold the ban. So I asked him to tell me why I was wrong and his retort was "because my confidential sources told me". Utter cretin.

Did he then block you or is that a stupid question?

 

[CharliesRightPeg]

I haven't followed exactly what was claimed but I have a spreadsheet with net spending of City and Utd populated by transfermkt that has City and Utd's net spending back to 2012/13 season (Fergie's last year).

The figures are in £m.

You can justify whatever you want if you select the right time period but over the last decade, using transfermarkt data, Man Utd have a higher net spend than City. A decade seems a fair enough time period to me. That takes us into the Fergsuon era.

	United			City
	Buys	Sales		Buys	Sales
2021/22	126​	27.63​		114.75​	84.42​
2020/21	75.42​	17.55​		155.07​	68.99​
2019/20	211.32​	73.06​		143.57​	63.9​
2018/19	74.43​	27.5​		70.73​	51.84​
2017/18	178.56​	40.95​		285.75​	82.22​
2016/17	166.5​	42.53​		193.5​	31.82​
2015/16	140.4​	90.6​		187.38​	60.69​
2014/15	175.82​	42.03​		92.52​	27.27​
2013/14	69.42​	1.62​		103.95​	10.17​
2012/13	68.81​	8.69​		55.76​	39.87​
	1286.68​	372.16​		1402.98​	521.19​
		-914.52​			-881.79​

He's claiming that City have the largest % of top 20 purchases with sterling in there but not Fred

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

The narrative is just getting it in early, as they want to again smear the legitimacy of another (hopefully) City title triumph.

It's reached fever pitch because they know the only way to prevent us dominating for another decade is to soil both our brand and the Premier League product, so the brain dead masses will be fully compliant when the old guard co-conspirators try to rig the rules and jury again.

The greatest payback we can deliver this season is to win Prem, FA Cup and Champions League, followed by Haaland signing and Pep extending this summer.

It will kill them all.

Absolutely spot on. I honestly believe one of the reasons we are so dominant is that we know we have to beat the officials as well as the opposition and hence the relentlessness of our play.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Did he then block you or is that a stupid question?

I think I gave up on him at that point and blocked him. But he also blocked me.

And talking about Nob Harris, is it my imagination or has he calmed down a lot these days? In other news, UAE and Qatar restored diplomatic relations recently.

 

[Claytop]

Has he released his smoking gun piece yet?

Must still be going through the lawyers….

How many years has it been now?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

His best mate McKenna similarly and quickly went off the deep end into a thoroughly self destructive spiral of Ian Brown-style Covid denier conspiracy madness. This was not only indicative of an obsessive and delusional personality disorder which drove his ludicrous and defamatory campaign against City, but has rendered him even more unemployable than he already was.
At least he used to get sympathy commissions from his mates. Now he has fallen out with nearly all of them as well and is reduced to begging for spare change on Twitter and his barking at the moon blog.

Interestingly, Mackenna is still tweeting regularly but nothing about us this year so far, which is strange given our accounts came out recently. I wonder if he's another we've had a quiet word with. Or our lawyers have, more likely.

 

[solley attwell]

It would be some achievement to be fair.

The 'Pulis award' for outstanding overachievement whilst not achieving anything in a non red winning league season

 

[JGL07]

The 'Pulis award' for outstanding overachievement whilst not achieving anything in a non red winning league season

Similar to the Pardew award?

 

[cheekybids]

The 'Pulis award' for outstanding overachievement whilst not achieving anything in a non red winning league season

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[ArniArason]

Decent read this one. Seems we're not the only team to ruin football after all.

It’s Manchester City’s time, but eras of dominance have always existed

MANCHESTER CITY are now red hot favourites for the Premier League title and if the forecasts are accurate, it will be their fifth in 10 years and third in four campaigns. It is beginning to look li…

gameofthepeople.com

 

[Groke]

Decent read this one. Seems we're not the only team to ruin football after all.

It’s Manchester City’s time, but eras of dominance have always existed

MANCHESTER CITY are now red hot favourites for the Premier League title and if the forecasts are accurate, it will be their fifth in 10 years and third in four campaigns. It is beginning to look li…

gameofthepeople.com

Ironic really - the ones mainly moaning about it are the 2 sets of red plastic fans, but they only chose to support those 2 clubs because of their respective eras of domination.