Media Thread - 2021/22

[Shirley]

But wasn't the cutting and pasting an attempt to pervert the course of justice?

Club statement at the time…..

“We will not be providing any comment on out of context materials purported to have been hacked or stolen from City Football Group and Manchester City personnel and associated people. The attempt to damage the club's reputation is organised and clear."

 

[blueju]

That's an urban myth. It never happened and it was the subject of an article in a recent WSC.

There was the penalty shoot out in 2018 as mentioned but the thing is the scores are read out using the full name of the teams involved. So it would be Forfar Athletic not Forfar.

It was a funny take on the results programmes in the 70’s on the Two Ronnies or something like that.

 

[Citizen Green]

It makes you wonder how the PL are getting on with their own politically-motivated investigation into City which they started after pressure from our commercial rivals. It is heading for four years now and they have not produced a shred of evidence that City did anything wrong. It was started at the same time as the Der Spiegel claims which were totally debunked by CAS. As is well known now UEFA didn't actually have any valid evidence so it is difficult to see how the PL could have achieved a different outcome. But in the meantime the PL has still managed to damage our club's reputation just by prolonging this total farce.

The Premier League though, unlike UEFA, do have emails that the Der Speigel leaks were based on, provided by City directly, as the High Court ruling showed last summer.

 

[Citizen Green]

Sportswashing is a totally fake concept. In the last decade the UAE has invested scores (probably hundreds) of billions of pounds in the UK economy. Apart from the Dubai tourism industry's major links to the UK there has been huge investment in our science, technology, renewable energy, and financial sectors. For example around 15 per cent of the finance sector in Dubai is operated by UK firms. Meanwhile the Saudis are one of our biggest trading partners with at least 10,000 jobs in the UK (mostly in Lancashire) dependent on BAE selling weapons. Why do we never see headlines about tourism washing, money washing, science washing, gun-washing etc etc?
Sheikh Mansour has personally tripled his money on his investment in Manchester City (even ignoring his huge profits from the Manchester science and property sectors). He is making lots of money. In fact he will soon be making more money from these new sectors than oil-related revenues which are in long-term decline.

Precisely why I believe City are in safe hands for the foreseeable.

Despite the wish of our friends in the media & rivals across Europe for our majority owner to be removed through an independent regulator as ‘state’ funding, the reality is that the government wouldn’t dare given the business, both security & cultural, between the UAE & UK that Sheikh Mansour & Khaldoon are central to.

In fact football is such small fry on the grand scheme of things, it’s laughable these chancers even believe they’re operating on the same planet as our top brass.

 

[deano ou812]

Aaahhh which is the better signing Haaland or Nunez on SSN ..

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Aaahhh which is the better signing Haaland or Nunez on SSN ..

Has that knobhead Kaveh proclaimed Nunez is worth double what they paid yet?

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Aaahhh which is the better signing Haaland or Nunez on SSN ..

There is a survey in the Express that asks..Which striker should the raggies sign to counter Nunez.

 

[deano ou812]

Has that knobhead Kaveh proclaimed Nunez is worth double what they paid yet?

Haha not yet but I’m sure by the end of today his fee and add ons will be less than what we paid for Haaland..

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

There is a survey in the Express that asks..Which striker should the raggies sign to counter Nunez.

Think the rags should worry more about who Spurs and Arsenal are signing rather than Liverpool.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Think the rags should worry more about who Spurs and Arsenal are signing rather than Liverpool.

I was thinking more Villa and Leeds.

 

[Centurions]

Think the rags should worry more about who Spurs and Arsenal are signing rather than Liverpool.

Only if they have delusions of grandeur. WHU, Leicester and Brighton should play more on their minds.

 

[Blue Mist]

It makes you wonder how the PL are getting on with their own politically-motivated investigation into City which they started after pressure from our commercial rivals. It is heading for four years now and they have not produced a shred of evidence that City did anything wrong. It was started at the same time as the Der Spiegel claims which were totally debunked by CAS. As is well known now UEFA didn't actually have any valid evidence so it is difficult to see how the PL could have achieved a different outcome. But in the meantime the PL has still managed to damage our club's reputation just by prolonging this total farce.

I have said many times that it isnt about gathering evidence for a disciplinary hearing. As long as the PL are investigating the media can throw shit at us. The last thing the hateful 8 want is the investigation to end. Four years of mud slinging has been brilliant for them.

 

[arbabarshad]

There is a survey in the Express that asks..Which striker should the raggies sign to counter Nunez.

have they got Haaland as one of the options?

 

[Blue Mist]

In that case, they could easily get off the hook by asking City to do what I suggested at #27,471.

I presume wont because they will be attacked by the scum media. 'As with the uefa investigation where City boasted about spending hundreds of millions on lawyers, they are now bullying the PL to drop the case.'
'The PL cannot afford millions of pounds on lawyers unlike an oil rich, human rights poor nation like City's owners'

 

[KS55]

But wasn't the cutting and pasting an attempt to pervert the course of justice?

Yes. Such messing would disqualify the evidence, if challenged, but not because it was hacked.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

have they got Haaland as one of the options?

I would have thought that a tad over ambitous for run of the mill mid table hoofers.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Haha not yet but I’m sure by the end of today his fee and add ons will be less than what we paid for Haaland..

Reported in the Athletic today as £100 million including add ons.

 

[mat]

In fact UEFA didn't even have photocopies of the emails. All they had in their trove of 'evidence' were photocopies of articles that appeared in Der Spiegel.

They must have got them off a scouser using the same tech they used for faking ticket...

 

[stonerblue]

There is a survey in the Express that asks..Which striker should the raggies sign to counter Nunez.

Think they need to worry more about Bamford.

 

[jrb]

At last, the Daily Mail get’s it right!

The comments from the Scousers, especially the Scousers, and some Rags are just starting to be posted. Hilarious and bitter.