Media thread 2022/23

[hammocity]

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.

See they have taken the figures for the last 6 years, if they had taken the last 5 we’ve spent about 220m net.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

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."

"Solid British values" taking on an "Arabic owner." The Sun is still firmly rooted in 1973 when it was the most racist xenophobic rag in existence. I have boycotted it since 1989 like most fair-minded football fans.

 

[MCC]

Ooopsies. Amazing how these stories keep making their way into the media

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

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.

The BBC has virtually ignored the billions of pounds invested in the city of Manchester by Sheikh Mansour. They have ignored the environmental clean-up, public facilities, sixth form college, hundreds of homes, scores of new businesses, the regeneration of Ancoats and its canal network, and now the development of the UK's biggest arena.
They have ignored the thousands of jobs created in one of the poorest districts in the UK.
I can't remember them ever publishing a major article about what MCFC have brought to their local community. Dan Roan would rather write distorted stories about migrant workers in the Middle East.

 

[tregyblue61]

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

"SOLID BRITISH VALUES"

From a port where more than 2000 slave ships transported around 500,000 Africans into slavery in the Americas.
Yea, right.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

The BBC has virtually ignored the billions of pounds invested in the city of Manchester by Sheikh Mansour. They have ignored the environmental clean-up, public facilities, sixth form college, hundreds of homes, scores of new businesses, the regeneration of Ancoats and its canal network, and now the development of the UK's biggest arena.
They have ignored the thousands of jobs created in one of the poorest districts in the UK.
I can't remember them ever publishing a major article about what MCFC have brought to their local community. Dan Roan would rather write distorted stories about migrant workers in the Middle East.

Or blacken someone names who had just died in a helicopter accident.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

The BBC has virtually ignored the billions of pounds invested in the city of Manchester by Sheikh Mansour. They have ignored the environmental clean-up, public facilities, sixth form college, hundreds of homes, scores of new businesses, the regeneration of Ancoats and its canal network, and now the development of the UK's biggest arena.
They have ignored the thousands of jobs created in one of the poorest districts in the UK.
I can't remember them ever publishing a major article about what MCFC have brought to their local community. Dan Roan would rather write distorted stories about migrant workers in the Middle East.

But apart from all that, what have the arabs ever done for us?

 

[LongsightM13]

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."

Seems to have been pulled, will doubtless reappear later with some of the racism taken out
Who was the author of that shite?

 

[citymad]

The BBC has virtually ignored the billions of pounds invested in the city of Manchester by Sheikh Mansour. They have ignored the environmental clean-up, public facilities, sixth form college, hundreds of homes, scores of new businesses, the regeneration of Ancoats and its canal network, and now the development of the UK's biggest arena.
They have ignored the thousands of jobs created in one of the poorest districts in the UK.
I can't remember them ever publishing a major article about what MCFC have brought to their local community. Dan Roan would rather write distorted stories about migrant workers in the Middle East.

Top post, it's there for all to see but they refuse to acknowledge the good in people only the negative. We need Samuels to write a piece just to add some perspective.

 

[stoneblue]

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 !!!

I am still annoyed at Ederson's booking v Arsenal, so I conducted a non-scientific experiment by looking a some goalkeeper bookings. The two with most bookings (5) are Martinez (Villa) and Pickford (Everton). I used the live text match data from the BBC website but this doesn't give the reason for the booking, however I don't think that it's a leap to presume that (most of) these bookings were for time-wasting given the score in the game. This is what I found...

Martinez 5

88 v Man U won 3-1
90+2 v Leeds won 2-1
90+8 v Brighton won 2-1
84 v Arsenal lost 4-2 (booked at 2-2)
77 v Everton won 2-0

Pickford 5

81 v Brentford drew 1-1
90+6 Liverpool drew 0-0
90+5 Saints won 2-1
86 Arsenal won 1-0
87 Liverpool lost 2-0

I have shown Eddie's for info

Ederson

36 v Arsenal won 3-1
83 v Spurs lost 1-0