Media thread 2022/23

[domalino]

Liverpool are 11th.


That’s the only response you need to anyone who is blaming their failures on City.

If they were 2nd and just couldn’t surpass City then he might have a point, but last I checked Fulham don’t have unlimited money.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Journalists are a tight group. Going after one, banning them etc. would end up with worse coverage IMO

A selective action against the worst culprits would make a significant impact on the rest of them. Look what happened after the phone hacking case. In the current financial climate no media group can afford to get into a war with someone whose pockets are as deep as Sheikh Mansour. Imagine what would happen if you accused someone like the Walt Disney corporation of false accounting.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

The club really cant do anything to stop the media from writing what they want, but they should be having words with Liverpool. Along the lines of: You either back-up your claims your manager has made about City being state-owned or you tell him to put the record straight.

Agree 100 per cent. You can't blame the media assuming they have reported what Klopp has said accurately. It is a legitimate story. This one is down to Klopp. He knows what he is doing and you can be sure he has the full backing of the FSG group who have been doing poisonous private briefings about our club all over the world. We warned Tebas with legal action for saying less.

 

[jrb]

Klopp is getting slaughtered in the comments section underneath the article in the Daily Mail. Great reading bar the Scousers, who are making every excuse for his comments and calling City an Oil Club.

 

[domalino]

A selective action against the worst culprits would make a significant impact on the rest of them. Look what happened after the phone hacking case. In the current financial climate no media group can afford to get into a war with someone whose pockets are as deep as Sheikh Mansour. Imagine what would happen if you accused someone like the Walt Disney corporation of false accounting.

There is absolutely nothing to be gained by banning or suing journalists.

If they break the rules, report them to the PCC.

If they print something actionable you sue the newspaper.

 

[jrb]

The discredited investigation into our finances by UEFA and the equally ludicrous PL follow-up investigation have cast a shadow over our club, damaging our reputation, and tying up our senior managers and lawyers for years. Both these investigations were started because of pressure from the media encouraged by our commercial rivals. Neither of them would have happened without media pressure. I can't think of any other sporting organisation which has been subject to such a smear campaign. We can't afford to ignore it.

It has also cost the club £10mills in lawyer and barrister fees. The accounts show that.

And as you say, not to mention continued damage to the City brand, as well as undermining the success of successive City managers and their teams.

It is one of the biggest smear campaigns ever, never mind just in football. Orchstrated by the Red Shirts and the UEFA cartel clubs, with the assistance of UEFA and the football media in general.

 

[domalino]

I think people should look at the bigger picture here.

Yesterday Klopp lashed out at a City. On Tuesday he lashed out at Didi Hamann and the journalist who brought him up.

A few weeks ago he lashed out at a journalist asking about fan safety in Naples after people got stabbed.

In a week he will go after someone else and everyone will forget yesterday’s comments.

He’s doing badly and turning nasty, and it’s not sustainable. Quite a lot of podcasts and radio shows didnt like the Hammann criticism - it was petty and vicious towards someone who is well regarded at Liverpool.

City just need to show up tomorrow and do the job, and Klopp will drop a bit lower and get a bit nastier and edge closer to the exit.

He’ll lash out at someone else in his next press conference and everyone will forget Fridays comments.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The club really cant do anything to stop the media from writing what they want, but they should be having words with Liverpool. Along the lines of: You either back-up your claims your manager has made about City being state-owned or you tell him to put the record straight.

They can if it is libellous, but we’ve seen over the years that we don‘t engage with this sort of rhetoric.

Not sure asking Liverpool to straighten the record would do anything. They have the morals of an alley cat.

The only people who get worked up about these kind of sound bytes are us City fans and the scouse fans in a stoking the fire kind of way.

 

[pardoeofftomexico]

Klopp may well think we are state owned but he didn't actually say that. It appears that the press have added some of their own comments, such as oil money and Haaland on £850,000 per week, to indicate what he may be thinking.

He actually finished up by saying "there are three clubs in world football who can do what they want financially. It's legal and everything is fine".

I really can't imagine the players or Pep give a minutes thought to what is in the press. We are not state owned but In my view even if we were, so what? Newcastle perhaps are. Good for them.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

They wouldn't get in my ground and eat my food or drink my drink.

Every single one of them that perpetuates a lie would be listed and banned from the ground.

No don't ban them, sell their usual places on the ground as hospitality afterall apparently we need the money and tell them they can have the choice of seats as we're sold out AGAIN at either the back of SS1 or SS3.