Media Thread - 2021/22

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Good old BBC highlighting the Daily Star’s criticism of England’s forwards, using Sterling as the scapegoat.
 

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BlueAnorak said:
I see Barney Rubble has had another Sportswash Rant - Really having a pop about us fans. Bless.
Our success must be hurting. Good. More please City.
Oh and Barney - Get back to the f*cking stone age where you belong.
www.theguardian.com

Pep Guardiola and Manchester City’s sky blue wash will define this era | Barney Ronay

The manager has become central to Manchester City’s approach of setting about elite sport like a political project
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Think that’s a pretty positive article all round to be fair.
 
Brian's Kid said:
Jack was probably one of the better players tonight, that isn't really a compliment. But the usual anti city agenda calls him out

www.dailystar.co.uk

Jack Grealish trolled for 'playing like Almiron' in disasterclass for England

Football fans have joked Jack Grealish is playing like Miguel Almiron following his comments about the Paraguayan and his performance against Italy in the Nations League
www.dailystar.co.uk www.dailystar.co.uk

www.mirror.co.uk

Grealish fails audition and England suffer Euros reminder - 5 talking points

ENGLAND 0-0 ITALY: The first meeting between the two nations since the Euro 2020 final ends in a goalless draw as Jack Grealish fails to grasp rare Three Lions start
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk
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I havent read the link to the mirror and I only half heartily watched England last night.

Thought Grealish was good Sterling ok.
I guess the mirror slam Maguire and the other centre back both awful and kept passing to Italy !

I thought most of the team was crap to be honest but Grealish was far from the worst on the pitch.

Welcome to Manchester jacky boy lol
 
pardoeofftomexico said:
If anyone doesn't like that article they must be pretty neurotic!
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Great article spoilt by an unnecessary insertion;

"And while plenty of other teams have tried to spend their way to success over the same period, City’s superpower has been to set about elite level sport with the coherence of an overt political project, backed by bottomless reserves, extreme executive competence and a willingness to litigate"

1) There has been nothing overtly "political" about the City project. Any politics is an external construct projected onto the club by a section of the media according to their own political leanings, or because they have been paid to do so, simply to try to diminish the magnitude of what the club have done and continue to do.

2) We may have "bottomless reserves" but a) FFP has ensured that we can't use them and b) there is nothing whatsoever, to suggest that our ownership and management ever intended to use anything other than the funds required to make us self-sustainably profitable

3) As far as the "willingness to litigate" is concerned, it appears that Ronay thinks that we should have accepted UEFA' decision to ban us from the CL for 2 years and the PL's fishing exercise based on stolen and fabricated evidence, and at the instigation of our direct competitors, without question.
 
meltonblue said:
Think that’s a pretty positive article all round to be fair.
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It may have been positive, but we shouldn't become blasé to things like this -

"City’s superpower has been to set about elite level sport with the coherence of an overt political project, backed by bottomless reserves, extreme executive competence and a willingness to litigate."

- lest we are seen to be accepting them.

This isn't an overt political project, if the sceptics are to be believed it may be a covert political project, but show me one message out of Abu Dhabi that would show overtness.

City don't have bottomless resources. Broadly speaking, we have the same amount we can invest in footballing activities as our competitors. Sure we can probably invest more in infrastructure than most. Tough.

What the hell is extreme about the competence levels of City executives? In comparison to the amateur hours at some other clubs, though, we are much better, of course.

And does he really believe City show a willingness to litigate?


Edit - basically, what was said a few posts ago. Damn.
 
Newman Noggs said:
Great article spoilt by an unnecessary insertion;

"And while plenty of other teams have tried to spend their way to success over the same period, City’s superpower has been to set about elite level sport with the coherence of an overt political project, backed by bottomless reserves, extreme executive competence and a willingness to litigate"

1) There has been nothing overtly "political" about the City project. Any politics is an external construct projected onto the club by a section of the media according to their own political leanings, or because they have been paid to do so, simply to try to diminish the magnitude of what the club have done and continue to do.

2) We may have "bottomless reserves" but a) FFP has ensured that we can't use them and b) there is nothing whatsoever, to suggest that our ownership and management ever intended to use anything other than the funds required to make us self-sustainably profitable

3) As far as the "willingness to litigate" is concerned, it appears that Ronay thinks that we should have accepted UEFA' decision to ban us from the CL for 2 years and the PL's fishing exercise based on stolen and fabricated evidence, and at the instigation of our direct competitors, without question.
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Will just add my point about not accepting things like this, even in a positive article, otherwise we will seen to be accepting them.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
The only state-owned club with shareholders on different continents!
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We may not be owned by Abu Dhabi state but do you think that Sheikh Mansour invested without any regard to promoting his own country of which he is one of the main leaders. Now he is brilliantly promoting his country across the world. That is great and I wish him every success.
 
pardoeofftomexico said:
We may not be owned by Abu Dhabi state but do you think that Sheikh Mansour invested without any regard to promoting his own country of which he is one of the main leaders. Now he is brilliantly promoting his country across the world. That is great and I wish him every success.
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What do you think all these American owners buying premier clubs interest is?
 
City is part of the forward thinking of the Abu Dhabi ruling class to make their economy as diversified and robust as possible as the world moves away from fossil fuels and into the space of renewable energy. There is nothing romantic with what our owners have done. It’s brilliant and their business acumen and competitiveness is commendable, but ultimately it’s a business decision that allows for another arm of further growth of their sovereign investment fund. I’m just happy they chose city and have also now become invested in the city and the fans as a product of their vision.
 
Moggzy said:
City is part of the forward thinking of the Abu Dhabi ruling class to make their economy as diversified and robust as possible as the world moves away from fossil fuels and into the space of renewable energy. There is nothing romantic with what our owners have done. It’s brilliant and their business acumen and competitiveness is commendable, but ultimately it’s a business decision that allows for another arm of further growth of their sovereign investment fund. I’m just happy they chose city and have also now become invested in the city and the fans as a product of their vision.
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Love em to move into cricket..

Is Lancashire up for sale [emoji3]

Who actually owns Lancashire cricket club?
 
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