Media thread 2022/23

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stan bowles said:
I honestly think we'll be featured on the BBC's Panorama in the next couple of weeks. They've already wheeled out Ros Atkins within 2 hours of us winning the league (again). Maybe the Watchdog team will do a feature too ?
Piss boiling is off the scale tonight.
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It won't happen.

Panorama would have to do a proper investigation looking at exactly what we're accused of and putting it in context of overall spending levels, equivalent true value of sponsorships, the CAS findings and the prevalence of third party image right/consultancy payments.

The obvious eventual outcome of this doesn't suit the BBC narrative.

In fact I'm willing to bet they already did the preliminary work before coming to the same conclusion and that's why we haven't seen them cover this already.
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
I dunno mate. We’ve been taking the ‘holistic’ approach for well over a decade and the vitriol is worse than ever, from the media and rival fans alike.

Why we’d ever let Spitty Carragher step foot in our stadium again is beyond me.
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That's my point exactly.

Other fans are now seeing for themselves the disconnect between MCFC'S achievements and the vitriol reporting from these bitter hacks.

It's obvious to everyone apart from the fans of those teams that play in red that this has become an infantile smear campaign.
 
Stiff Little Wingers said:
Very well put. The other thing is that we buy very good or world class players who stay and contribute over prolonged periods. The first generation all stayed 8-10 years and formed one of the greatest spines seen anywhere
Joe Hart, Vinny, Ya Ya, David and Kun.
Now we have the next lot at 4-8 years
Johnny Stones, Kyle, KDB, Ederson, Gundo, Bernardo etc
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Yeah that’s actually a very good point and I think there’s a reason for that which you wouldn’t actually think. So, Journalists in this country are no more than rival fans. If they don’t support City, you’re not going to get honest reporting from them. Problem is, people have unconscious tendency to believe authority figures. So when journalists tell you things enough times, and there’s enough saying it, you can almost start to believe them. Although deep down, logic tells you different and it starts to feel confusing and we lose sight of what’s actually the truth.

Let me tell you some truths, based upon research and analytics. Utd created inflation in the markets since 1992. Ferguson was the biggest chequebook manager the games has ever seen, he had a blank chequebook for many signings and he didn’t have FFP to contend with. If he did, he wouldn’t have been able to sign Veron, RVN, Ferdinand, Rooney, Carrick, Anderson, Nani and Hargreves. Those players with inflation in todays money, would’ve cost Utd £1 Billion, for just 6 players. That was the equivalent of what they spent. Makes Chelsea £600M transfer window seem like peanuts in comparison. That was the level of financial power other clubs were dealing with. That’s not even mentioning all the other players they signed at that period of time too.

FFP has meant our budget was in the same region as all the other top clubs in England or less. Look at Newcastle, why aren’t they signing Messi or Neymar type players… because of FFP. But if this was 92-2002, they might be doing just that. Back then though, it was only Utd doing it. They weren’t doing what we are doing, they were buying the very best players, and often from other clubs in England. I don’t care for the argument they generated the money either. They still had more money to spend than anyone else, they still bought anyone they wanted to, even if they paid well over the odds for them. They had a truly blank chequebook, with no finacial regulations whatsoever, and no one who could compete with them financially.

Today, what FFP has done, has actually helped us in a way, not hindered as much as we like to believe. It’s meant Utd and Chelsea can’t spend beyond the market values as much as they were pre 2011. Because they were absolutely failing FFP rules back then. Yes it was bought in to stop us, but because of this we have had to be extremely creative with growing City as a profitable self sustaining business. Which means City have managed to claw their way to the profit table far quicker than we might have. Which only serves us well going forward.

FFP also meant we had to be careful not to increase inflation on transfers by always buying the most expensive individual players in the season. It does mean though, City have had to walk away from certain deals, ones we might otherwise gone for. But that strategy of not paying over the threshold for players, or trying to inflate the market prices has worked really well so far.

In most cases, we sign players for the same price other clubs can also afford! Some clubs might not have been able to afford to spend the same amount across the window due to budget and FFP, but they could’ve easily snatched away individual signings from us. That’s the BIG point. IF, players chose to come to City, they do so, ahead of other clubs. Which supports the notion we hear, you have to be 100% committed to us. That in itself helps us to get these players. Take Grealish, an Aston Villa fan, who rejected the same contract from Villa to come to City. Fernandinho, who paid £6M of his own contract to get a move. Kompany and Co always talking about ‘the project’ and how they wanted to be a part of it. Like Nasri, saying he rejected loads of clubs, and then chose City over Utd, eventually due to the project, as they both offered the same money. The Bernardo and Mendy story, where they both said with such glee they wanted to move to City in the Monaco changing room. Then on the flip side, you’ve got Alexis Sanchez, Koulibaly, Jorginho or Cucarella. Who looked like they’d sign, but then seemed to be less committed to us and more to the money, and off they went to Utd and Chelsea, and all of them, disappointed.

So yeah, cheers UEFA, and fuck you. Mostly though, thanks to the hierarchy of City for outsmarting them. Thanks to Peps and his genius philosophy of buying players and coaching them into better players, his unbelievable style of play, and dominating when more teams can compete with us financially. Forget what the lying media say, we’re the best team the league has ever seen.
 
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