Media thread 2022/23

[NeilMcnabTwoFooted]

Probably from Bowden, Hale barns, guardian arse who thinks there are 98 genders.

has to be mate, whilst eating his avocado toast & sporting a che guevara t shirt, probably called taquin n all.

 

[jrb]

Remind me again, as I can't quite remember. What's the connection with the New York Times and the on-going campaign against Sheikh Mansour and City.

 

[East Level 2]

I won't post the link to the rag, but one today has a pic on the back page, of Grealish diving into a pool, with the by line, ''Grealish Is A Diver!'' a bit of fun yeah, however at the same time ...

Well Sterling and Jesus won't be divers any more.

 

[waspish]

Remind me again, as I can't quite remember. What's the connection with the New York Times and the on-going campaign against Sheikh Mansour and City.

All FSG who have big sway in America it’s the American way to cheat dirty tricks! FSG has a record of being corrupt cheating fuckers!!

 

[LongsightM13]

Remind me again, as I can't quite remember. What's the connection with the New York Times and the on-going campaign against Sheikh Mansour and City.

Rory Smith? American owners? Wasnt aware of anything specific though haven’t they also been hostile to a new stadium for NYCFC?

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Remind me again, as I can't quite remember. What's the connection with the New York Times and the on-going campaign against Sheikh Mansour and City.

Is it Middle East geo-politics? The Fenway Group still has a strong link editorially with the New York Times. At one point the paper used to own a significant chunk of FSG. Certainly the NYT has done its best to scupper CFG's attempts to build a stadium in Manhattan. There is a significant anti-arab lobby in New York City itself. Certainly the New York Times which never gave any space to stories about Manchester City FC has become a vitriolic critic of our owner in recent years. Why would the NYT run a story on a Sheffield University report on Manchester's housing market?

 

[halfcenturyup]

The central claims in the report that the land was sold off cheaply are false though because they retrospectively apply values on the land when (prior to regeneration) it was worthless and no one wanted to buy it. The study only looks at the housing deal which is a small element of a huge long-term strategic plan for East Manchester. The claims made are absurd because they have excluded all the financial benefits provided from the project.

Yes, the wider context should change some of their conclusions considerably I imagine.

I would just add that their conclusions on the lack of a bidding process, and the length of leaseholds (999 years!) are easy to make through the limited lens in which they are looking as are their conclusions on transparency and off-shoring.

Not a hill for me to die on, though, so enough on this from me :)

 

[Gingers Dad]

Could you imagine that area if City had not comitted to moving into the Commonwealth Games stadium?

The mind boggles as to how it would look today.

They weren't even going to build the stadium if there was no use for it after the games

 

[Blue Mist]

Of all the illegal stuff that the USA has done on foreign soil, that would not be in my top ten to worry about.

I am merely pointing out how we, 'the west' love to tell the rest of the world how to live but trample all over international law when it suits.

 

[citymad]

What about those Trump supporting owners who own the rags? They haven’t invested anything in the local area in Trafford, no colleges built, no training facilities that the wider community can use? They have leveraged United with a load of debt and spend their dividends trying to keep their crumbling shopping malls in the states going, non of this going back into Greater Manchester.

spot on mate.