Media thread 2022/23

[The Clansman]

“Shreeves has been there for 31 years and is entitled to a huge redundancy package”

No he isn’t, he’s entitled to an amount that’s similar to the average working person, it’s capped at £643 per year and a max of £19290. If he’s got a clause in his contract that’s different, also it’s the job that’s made redundant not the person so as they’re asking him to stay on it’s clearly wrong the job will not be available.

Bull shit reporting from ill informed journalists once again.

The £643 cap applies only to statutory redundancy pay. Many businesses also offer non-contractual non-statutory packages based on salary, age and length of service. If the role is genuinely redundant, and based on what I've seen as an employment tax specialist, he could be looking at a package north of six figures.

 

[Roy Munson]

The world is full of shite about City, and most of those obsessed by that seem to spend their days searching for it then posting it in here.

Totally agree. We've just won the fucking treble! We are a relentless, inevitable winning machine.

Enjoy City. Enjoy your friends and family. Enjoy the deluge of bitter tears. People are going to say and write whatever gets them the attention needed to pay the bills. It's not personal. It's the nature of the modern media beast.

When I was a kid, I remember going into school wearing my purple Umbro training coat the day after we got fucking smashed in the Simon Tracy derby.

I got so much shit that day. Laughed at, spat on, punched.

A few lads writing bollocks about us to further their careers is insignificant in comparison.

Fuck them. Love City.

 

[BrianW]

Campeones, campeones, ole! ole!, ole!

 

[Coatigan]

A professional "sport journalist" came out with this, it's beyond belief.

"Once Bayern Munich and Real Madrid were knocked out it was a clear path to the champions league final for Man City,” Miguel Delooney

This would look great on a banner, t shirts, banners.

One for the superb 1894 boys?

As if we needed more evidence of this pricks credentials (we didn't).

Is that the actual quote though? Has anyone got the original article as it appears in it. And not someone's retweet of someone's tweet claiming it.

I just struggle to believe it, to the point I almost suspect it has been altered. The guy has an agenda, but he can't possibly be that incompetent.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Is that the actual quote though? Has anyone got the original article as it appears in it. And not someone's retweet of someone's tweet claiming it.

I just struggle to believe it, to the point I almost suspect it has been altered. The guy has an agenda, but he can't possibly be that incompetent.

It's slightly paraphrased, but pretty much that. The link was provided here earlier.

 

[Coatigan]

It's slightly paraphrased, but pretty much that. The link was provided here earlier.

The link was to a tweet, by someone else mocking it. If it is paraphrased, then that's not it is it, he hasn't actually said sonething that daft, and it possibly makes sense.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

The link was to a tweet, by someone else mocking it. If it is paraphrased, then that's not it is it, he hasn't actually said sonething that daft, and it possibly makes sense.

Inside the first 15 mins here: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Soccer/Football-Ramble-p307973/?topicId=293817834

Edit: the [erson who posted it said about on 5 minutes in.
was on page 3064

 

[Coatigan]

Inside the first 15 mins here: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Soccer/Football-Ramble-p307973/?topicId=293817834

Edit: the [erson who posted it said about on 5 minutes in.
was on page 3064

Can't get that to link. But I'll take your word for it, is that actually what he said, word for word?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Can't get that to link. But I'll take your word for it, is that actually what he said, word for word?

In response to a suggestion that the year's CL was a bit easier to win this year:

"the last 15 years it feels like the field of potential winners of the CL has got smaller and this year felt like the smallest ever. In fact it did come down to the fact that once Liverpool were knocked out, and once Bayern were knocked out admittedly by City, once Madrid were knocked out, it was kind of was a clear path, and even the final was [bit of praise that Inter played their best, but that it was City playing themselves to some extent]."

It's a bit gabbled, and I don't think he said "a clear path to the final", but essentially the only alternative meaning is that the final opposition could have been stronger.

He did of course feel obliged to claim that it's City's owners doing in part that the field is smaller.

 

[Coatigan]

In response to a suggestion that the year's CL was a bit easier to win this year:

"the last 15 years it feels like the field of potential winners of the CL has got smaller and this year felt like the smallest ever. In fact it did come down to the fact that once Liverpool were knocked out, and once Bayern were knocked out admittedly by City, once Madrid were knocked out, it was kind of was a clear path, and even the final was [bit of praise that Inter played their best, but that it was City playing themselves to some extent]."

It's a bit gabbled, and I don't think he said "a clear path to the final", but essentially the only alternative meaning is that the final opposition could have been stronger.

He did of course feel obliged to claim that it's City's owners doing in part that the field is smaller.

Thank you for doing that, I appreciate it.

While I don't agree with his point, as I thought, his language is not actually incoherent or incompetent. The tweet and the initial post quoting it are disingenuous, and the laughs at it are unfortunately misplaced.

He's still a twat, mind.