Media thread 2022/23

[Match Fixer]

Phew, normal service resumed. Was getting worried about Barney yesterday..

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Comb over **** chats shit shocker. Try to sumarize his comments via chat GPT rather than let him get a click.

 

[JASR]

I think they've finally cottoned on to the fact that if you praise City. Even the lightest praise then all red shirt fans will click and share their outrage.

You would have thought this would have been realised years ago by media desperate for eyeballs and clicks:

write/say a praise City article = loads of fan engagement/clicks = more advertising spend on media

Perhaps someone intelligent at talksport Finally looked at the numbers in detail, and the management went:
‘hang on, you’re saying if we talk about City in a factual positive way, we get more interaction?’
‘Yes’
‘ok, new editorial line, out with slagging City off, it’s clearly bollox, in with actual reporting, trebles all rounds!’ (You see what I did there…)

I doubt the Daily United will ever change though.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Fucking hell what's up with talksport. Also as predicted the usual tribal comments.

Read the comments though, loads on there claiming it is bollocks. It gives a good insight into Talk Sport’s demographic, our ground is full every week and was rocking on Wednesday. Just like it was against Bayern and what it will be like against Madrid and the remaining games of the Premier League season. It’s Trumpism in full effect, claim something when the evidence is there to contradict what you are saying.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

Driven away from football by Man City's cheating - which no one will remember... — Football365

The Mailbox suggests Man City's alleged cheating will be forgotten since there's no asterisk on Barca or Milan's success. But one correspondent decided enough was enough last year...

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This is absolutely fucking hilarious from Football 365. Lol.

 

[Protein Junkie]

I see the "100 charges hanging over them" is slowly making a comeback.

Yesterday it was 5live, today the gobshite who owns villa is going on about us on the sky news app.

Expect more of this before the season is out.

Totally agree.
The independent had us front page with the headline “Man City and the asterisk” - FFP inquiry stands in the way of Peps masterpiece.
This is just going to ramp up again and become more vociferous with each hurdle we overcome.
The Crescendo will come if we beat Madrid. If we get to a situation where the league is in the bag with two finals to follow then it will be in full flow.
It doesn’t annoy me I enjoy seeing the boiled piss and mental torture.

 

[halfcenturyup]

You have fallen into the media created myth, there is no "their" plural, city are 77% owned by sheikh Mansour, bought with his own wonga i hate to break this to you but the vast majority of the remaining 23% of the club is American owned.

People are always confusing investment by a prominent Emirati with something nefarious because Emiratis have a pride in their citizenship that we don't have in the west, and because they would undoubtedly seek approval from the ruling family before making a substantial private investment. All the more so when that individual is part of the ruling family. I have no doubt Mansour's investment in City was approved by the ruling family and I have no doubt Mansour, as a proud Emirati, and the ruling family, as, well, the ruling family, want the investment to show Abu Dhabi and the UAE in the best possible light. None of that means City is a state project, though. The fact that people working at the Guardian and the others can't get their head around these simple realities reflects particularly badly on them, given that, as first-class hand-wringers, they should be in touch with differences between cultures.

 

[Axel Freed]

“State owned” “state funded” “state level” blah blah blah Barney droned on.

If he had a quid for every time he’d shoehorned the word “state” into an article about us he’d have more money than Sheikh Mansour

 

[cheekybids]

Totally agree.
The independent had us front page with the headline “Man City and the asterisk” - FFP inquiry stands in the way of Peps masterpiece.
This is just going to ramp up again and become more vociferous with each hurdle we overcome.
The Crescendo will come if we beat Madrid. If we get to a situation where the league is in the bag with two finals to follow then it will be in full flow.
It doesn’t annoy me I enjoy seeing the boiled piss and mental torture.

I just opened YouTube & my feed popped up “is man city making history under a dark cloud” ABC news Australia.

I won’t click on it but fvk me, someone’s working hard to get them chatting about City & the round ball.

 

[wolviedinho]

Driven away from football by Man City's cheating - which no one will remember... — Football365

The Mailbox suggests Man City's alleged cheating will be forgotten since there's no asterisk on Barca or Milan's success. But one correspondent decided enough was enough last year...

apple.news

This is absolutely fucking hilarious from Football 365. Lol.

Haha what a stupid Ill informed badly researched hit piece. I thought 365 went the same time as AOL -:)

365 and full of crap.

 

[dario2739]

People are always confusing investment by a prominent Emirati with something nefarious because Emiratis have a pride in their citizenship that we don't have in the west, and because they would undoubtedly seek approval from the ruling family before making a substantial private investment. All the more so when that individual is part of the ruling family. I have no doubt Mansour's investment in City was approved by the ruling family and I have no doubt Mansour, as a proud Emirati, and the ruling family, as, well, the ruling family, want the investment to show Abu Dhabi and the UAE in the best possible light. None of that means City is a state project, though. The fact that people working at the Guardian and the others can't get their head around these simple realities reflects particularly badly on them, given that, as first-class hand-wringers, they should be in touch with differences between cultures.

Always makes me laugh when nobheads bring up our sponsors being Abu Dhabi businesses as if this is some kind of corruption.
As you say, the people of the Emiratis are a proud people... and of course they sponsor our club because of they're from Abu Dhabi – to them, the club carries a sense of pride... proudly supporting Sheikh Mansour's investment. It's no different from Wrexham being sponsored by Aviation Gin (which Reynolds still has an interest in) and TikTok, to name but two... or Leicester being sponsored by King Power etc.