Media thread 2022/23

[Inter Me Nan]

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.

Oh man, that was made worse by the fact i'd proper give it them over the 5-1, got it back in spades!

 

[MillionMilesAway]

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.

I'd agree that the wording of the paraphrase didn't quite match, but he did say that the final was a clear path once those teams were beaten - can a final be anything more than a clear path? Who would he have expected to be there, I wonder.

I heard it as dismissing that City beat Bayern and Real, which is fairly mad, inconvenient details and all that.
If he'd just said that the other half of the KO phases were not that strong, that would be more arguable. It was - Milan, Inter, Napoli, Benfica, Porto, Brugge, Eintracht, Spurs is fairly non-descript in most years.

Shoehorning Liverpool in was just desperate.

 

[bluenova]

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.

I disagree.

There might be a point about it becoming harder to win it if you're not one of the super clubs (but frankly in the last 30 years, only Porto one it from outside the top 10-15 richest clubs in the World), so I'm not convinced it's a strong argument.

But ultimately he did say that City there was (kind of) a clear path to winning the CL, once Bayern, Madrid and Liverpool were knocked out. The suggestion was that there was no-one left in the CL that could challenge City - but the reason for that was the draw that put us up against the two toughest teams in the previous rounds.

 

[bluenova]

I'd agree that the wording of the paraphrase didn't quite match, but he did say that the final was a clear path once those teams were beaten - can a final be anything more than a clear path? Who would he have expected to be there, I wonder.

I heard it as dismissing that City beat Bayern and Real, which is fairly mad, inconvenient details and all that.
If he'd just said that the other half of the KO phases were not that strong, that would be more arguable. It was - Milan, Inter, Napoli, Benfica, Porto, Brugge, Eintracht, Spurs is fairly non-descript in most years.

Shoehorning Liverpool in was just desperate.

As they've been in three of the last five finals, it's probably fair to say that even Liverpool in a rough patch are tough Cup opponents.

I also get the impression from a lot of his writing that he's a fan of Liverpool, even if they're not his "first team".

 

[hammocity]

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.

I did say a clause in his contract could make it different, however I’ll let you off Victor or Jack or possibly Isa, two pints prick :-).

 

[Coatigan]

I disagree.

There might be a point about it becoming harder to win it if you're not one of the super clubs (but frankly in the last 30 years, only Porto one it from outside the top 10-15 richest clubs in the World), so I'm not convinced it's a strong argument.

But ultimately he did say that City there was (kind of) a clear path to winning the CL, once Bayern, Madrid and Liverpool were knocked out. The suggestion was that there was no-one left in the CL that could challenge City - but the reason for that was the draw that put us up against the two toughest teams in the previous rounds.

You might have misunderstood me.

His point is absolute mince. We can both agree on that.

The 'paraphrased' i.e changed quote made no sense and looked incompetent. But that's not what was said. What he said might be a perverse take, but it isn't actually daft language wise.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

As they've been in three of the last five finals, it's probably fair to say that even Liverpool in a rough patch are tough Cup opponents.

I also get the impression from a lot of his writing that he's a fan of Liverpool, even if they're not his "first team".

Maybe, but last season they got battered at home by Real, a team he appeared to give City little credit for beating.
They're mostly a problem for City because of how rarely we win at Anfield!

Thinking about it, if the quote used had been "a clear run to the title" it would have been a fairer reflection.

 

[bluenova]

You might have misunderstood me.

His point is absolute mince. We can both agree on that.

The 'paraphrased' i.e changed quote made no sense and looked incompetent. But that's not what was said. What he said might be a perverse take, but it isn't actually daft language wise.

I think it was the suggestion that laughing at him was misplaced. I think his point was laughable enough to be parodied in the way it was :)

 

[The perfect fumble]

Made me smile....

 

[bluenova]

Maybe, but last season they got battered at home by Real, a team he appeared to give City little credit for beating.
They're mostly a problem for City because of how rarely we win at Anfield!

Thinking about it, if the quote used had been "a clear run to the title" it would have been a fairer reflection.

That was a ridiculous match, but at 2-0 they could easily have won, but Madrid are one of the only teams in the world who can do that.

After all, we conceded 3 in 5 minutes against Madrid in a game where we were well on top last season.