Media thread 2022/23

[AirbagsOptionalTheReturn]

Same, but then my stance softened a bit when he went through an all bit brief period of actually appearing fair and honest. Turns out it was all a front and I should have trusted my initial instincts. The guy is a weapons grade bellend.

What has the weasel said now?

 

[Gazza]

On a SSN article about whether United are back .. ‘after years of under investment’

Strange term to use when they have invested more than anybody else in the PL over the last 10 years

Maybe they meant under investment on know-how?

 

[Dirty Harry]

On a SSN article about whether United are back .. ‘after years of under investment’

Strange term to use when they have invested more than anybody else in the PL over the last 10 years

They really said that ? Holy fuck !

 

[andyhinch]

Maybe they meant under investment on know-how?

Or underachievement ?

 

[PPT]

Rabin has written a blog which is well worth a read

The White Crow of European Football

So I saw a white crow once. It was there, looking nonchalant on a parapet wall somewhere in New South Wales, Australia. It looked like a cr...

city-rabin.blogspot.com

Nail. Head. Hit. (again)

 

[manimanc]

On a SSN article about whether United are back .. ‘after years of under investment’

Strange term to use when they have invested more than anybody else in the PL over the last 10 years

They need to make them look like plucky underdogs who have punched above their weight for years.
Utd have been back under moyes, van gaal, mourinho, solksjaer and now this gurning slaphead.

They've been back more times than the tide at the beach.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Can anyone tell him that this dude is not the owner of City it's his half brother.

Yes and the pinned tweet from 2017 is getting old the one who says Mansour is not the real owner but his Evel half brother. It is like some Disney story.

"4/ Mohammed bin Salman controls PIF and Saudi sovereign wealth (Newcastle). Mohammed bin Zayed controls UAE sovereign wealth (Man City). The Al-Thanis control Qatari sovereign wealth (PSG). There is zero transparency and zero accountability on how they spend that money."

Well, this is an interesting development :)

McGeehan is effectively saying that MBZ ( in his capacity as president of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi) usurps everyone including Sheik Mansour and his father-in-law Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ruler of Dubai in terms of UAE soveriegn wealth.

The logical extension of this is that MBZ must control Dubai state funds/SWFs as well which includes state-owned Emirates airline - sponsors of Arsenal :)

Can't wait for the media and Arsenal fans to get hold of this one :)

On the other hand maybe McGeehan is talking complete bollocks.

 

[Paladin]

"4/ Mohammed bin Salman controls PIF and Saudi sovereign wealth (Newcastle). Mohammed bin Zayed controls UAE sovereign wealth (Man City). The Al-Thanis control Qatari sovereign wealth (PSG). There is zero transparency and zero accountability on how they spend that money."

Well, this is an interesting development :)

McGeehan is effectively saying that MBZ ( in his capacity as president of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi) usurps everyone including Sheik Mansour and his father-in-law Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ruler of Dubai in terms of UAE soveriegn wealth.

The logical extension of this is that MBZ must control Dubai state funds/SWFs as well which includes state-owned Emirates airline - sponsors of Arsenal :)

Can't wait for the media and Arsenal fans to get hold of this one :)

On the other hand maybe McGeehan is talking complete bollocks.

So MacGeehan thinks he some expert political analyst. I read the article referenced in his second point, and their definition of kleptocracy is a perfect description of Russia. There are some similarities with UAE states, but they can in no way be accurately described as kleptocracies, as MacGeehan States in his third point.

The article, which he probably spent months compiling, is not worth the paper it isn't written on. Unfortunately, it won't stop everyone else now taking it as the truth.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Meanwhile Tony Evans has finally woken up, cleared the empties off the bed and turned off the smoke alarm, and roused himself to write his usual load of old Citeh Bingo shite and absolute fact free bullshit, but with a new addition - City shouldn’t be allowed to sign Haaland on 900k a week because it will destroy global football.
Dear me. He has now found a new outlet for his ramblings, something called ‘New Thinking’ which is a glorious example of irony right there.
Oh, and it’s American owned. Funny that, eh?….

View attachment 58613

From the article:

City are one of the three richest teams in soccer. They are owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and a member of the royal family of Abu Dhabi. The other two wealthiest clubs are also Arab owned. Paris Saint-Germain are the property of Qatar Sports Investment and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has an 80% stake in Newcastle United.

The City takeover in 2008 heralded a new era for soccer. Mansour was not a boyhood fan or even an investor looking for returns. What he wanted was to use soccer to enhance Abu Dhabi’s reputation.

There are two ways of looking at this. The more generous interpretation is that it was an implementation of “soft power.” A less favourable analysis is that this is an exercise in ‘sportswashing,’ an attempt to use the glamour of the game to deflect from unsavoury aspects of life in the Middle East.

Thought he was doing well for a moment and not claiming we are state owned. Didn't have to wait long for the BS --this ongoing fallacy that Mansour isn't an investor looking for returns beggars belief and one that so many of the whats app group run with. His mucker Rory Smith says exactly the same thing that it's 100% about sportswashing.

 

[malg]

Is it any surprise that more of this stuff is appearing with the increase in American ownership in the PL? They are masters of this kind of stuff.