Media thread 2022/23

[MillionMilesAway]

This is a story from 2014 which the Mail is recycling in order to have yet another dig at the BBC; why else do you think they focus so intently on the BBC connections when hundreds of celebrities used these dodgy scheme. I have no sympathy for Logan or anyone else who did this, but the Mail's agenda is so transparent.

My thought exactly, Mail hating the BBC again.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I see the bbc are reporting on Spurs building a go-kart track under their ground but, still nothing on our major expansion.

Strange company.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Nice report in sky re peps comments about utd spending. Sky even show the amounts.

Pep Guardiola aims cheeky dig at Man Utd’s spending and Carabao Cup final appearance

Asked if Man Utd could now kick on and become serious title challengers, Guardiola joked: If they spend a little more money, yes! It’s because they didn’t spend, isn’t it?; Guardiola also described last Carabao Cup final visit as another day at the office

www.skysports.com

So they do - since 2017:

• Man City transfers in: £896.25m
• Man City transfers out: £572.58
• Man City net spend: £323.67
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• Man Utd transfers in: £928m
• Man Utd transfers out: £157.6m
• Man Utd net spend: £770.4m

I have to say that the City transfer our total surprised me, but I guess the 150M+ in the summer will have helped.

 

[meltonblue]

Nice report in sky re peps comments about utd spending. Sky even show the amounts.

Pep Guardiola aims cheeky dig at Man Utd’s spending and Carabao Cup final appearance

Asked if Man Utd could now kick on and become serious title challengers, Guardiola joked: If they spend a little more money, yes! It’s because they didn’t spend, isn’t it?; Guardiola also described last Carabao Cup final visit as another day at the office

www.skysports.com

What the writer of that article should really have headlined it is was “Pep aims cheeky dig at me and my fellow journalists” as he was criticising them and their narrative, not Uniteds spending.

Them putting that as the headline just proves his point even more tbh!

 

[TinFoilHat]

I see the bbc are reporting on Spurs building a go-kart track under their ground but, still nothing on our major expansion.

Strange company.

We don't have any fans according to the narrative. In other words were not really here.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

We don't have any fans according to the narrative. In other words were not really here.

I know a song about that.

 

[pardoeofftomexico]

When were cleared the club should sue the rich Robbie Savage into so much poverty he'll be living in a one bedroom social housing flat in his wife's home town of Hull. Sitting outside Paragon station begging people to pay him a quid for his opinion.

Can't be bothered what your problem is regarding Robbie Savage. Doing a great job at Macclesfield. Speaks to the fans online all the time, unlike anyone else I have come across.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Can't be bothered what your problem is regarding Robbie Savage. Doing a great job at Macclesfield. Speaks to the fans online all the time, unlike anyone else I have come across.

Rich Robbie Savage is a nickname for Simon Jordan in Talkshite.

 

[i went to rotherham]

It may have been the correct decision but does it not piss you off that Eddie is the only keeper to be booked at that early stage ?

Would be interesting to see a table showing when, during the course of a game, keepers were booked for 'timewasting' I'm willing to bet that, with the exception of Ederson, they will all be in the 85+ mins bracket !!!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The Sun's match preview in today's paper...note the narrative in the colour before Bristol's owner shits on them...



Intro: Bristol City's meeting with Manchester City tonight is a clash between solid British values and gushing dreams built on oil.

It is a confrontation between a local man who fronts his local club and an Arabic owner rarely seen.

The Robins' self-made billionaire owner Steve Lansdown CBE has spent 26 years building his club into one that is fit to join the Premier League.

Sheikh Mansour has spent close to £2bn in 14 years building the blue side of Manchester into a superpower that he rarely watches.

His riches have resulted in five Premier League titles (can't even get that right)

City have been referred to an independent commission, having allegedly broken 115 financial rules and regulations.

But that will not stop Lansdown welcoming the tainted giants back to his home...

Lansdown: "Ever since we last played City in the semi finals of the EFL Cup, I have a high regard for them because they treated us so well when we went up there.

"They were top class people and a top class club, so for all this to come out about rules and regulations was quite a shock.

"I look at them and I think I've never heard City not pay their wages or their bills, so I don't think anyone can be critical of them for bringing money in to the game and being a stable club.

"Then you get in to the rules and regulations and you have to ask, 'Have they broken them?'.

"Well, I think there are 115 alleged breaches and that's an awful lot to suddenly dump on somebody in one go and I don't really see the logic of it.

"That's why I am in the camp of 'I'll wait and see' because I don't want to cast any judgment at this stage."

" . . . . gushing dreams built on oil . . . . !"

Well, the last fifteen years weren't much of a dream. They were very much part of my reality. There's an enormous number of folk in the RDAHMeedya who are mightily pissed off with what we've seen over those years. I hope their angst gets 'em nearer their deathbed.