Media thread 2022/23

[bobbyowenquiff]

Manchester City ‘can do what they want’ financially despite FFP, Klopp claims

Jürgen Klopp believes it is ‘not possible’ for Liverpool to compete financially with Manchester City and other Gulf state-owned clubs

www.theguardian.com

Klopp once again moaning about City's spending, change the fucking record. I hope we give them a footballing lesson on Sunday and once again he can harp on about how unfair everything is.

Klopp can’t keep his mouth shut about City complete with the total lie that we are state-owned. Presented as fact with no balance by a corrupt newspaper.

 

[KS55]

He’s the best regarded journalist in the country. I don’t like the word, but he’s the doyen.
Why does he work for the DM, in a word, reach (imho).
And they probably pay well.

What I don’t understand is the rest of the muppets in that profession; can’t they see the benefits that come with having your own mind like he does …(?)

They might see it, but they have so little knowledge they can do nowt about it.

 

[KS55]

Mail (why are these not banned from the ground yet) back page today peddling the new lie that Dippers cannot compete with us as we are paying Haaland 850k a week.
The clubs pathetic non existent PR team should have laughed at this nonsense when it was first reported.

Obviously no mention of how much Nunez cost or Salah wages in the story

They continuously compare Haaland transfer fee plus agent fees with Nunez transfer fee without agent fees. Wonder what the dippers paid Nunez agent.

 

[Mid Wales blue]

How do we stop Haaland..
Release clause..
Can he pick up an injury?..
Release clause..
Stop City players feeding him the ball..
Release clause..
He's on 900k a week ..
Release clause...
Release clause......

Did anyone mention a release clause?

 

[KS55]

Klopp is right. They can’t compete with City on:
Quality of team management (Pep and staff)
Quality of scouting data base
Excellence of recruitment (see Akanje)
Quality of DOF.
Squad planning (most of their team are geriatric)
Management of the whole club.
Spending all our surplus on football. (Where does theirs go?)
That is why we are serial winners of the title while they have won it just the (covid influenced) once.
They do have bigger gnashers than us though.

 

[BringBackSwales]

When Klopp leaves the dippers at the end of the season he has the perfect credentials to work for the echo, obsessed with City

 

[threespires]

Why the FUCK did not a single journalist call him on the spending myth? Literally all they have to say is Nunez cost more than haaland, what’s your thoughts on that?

But no, they all sit there with their thumb firmly up their arses nodding along.
Fucking hell I hate sports journalists!!!!!!!

Most are not journalists as we used to understand it, whether they admit it or not they're mostly online marketing copywriters now.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Most are not journalists as we used to understand it, whether they admit it or not they're mostly online marketing copywriters now.

Klopp's interview today states as fact that City are "Gulf-state-owned" and says we have no financial ceiling and "can do what we want." It's not clear if Klopp has been misquoted but the writer presents these statements as facts. It is a lie to say we are state-owned. Not even Der Spiegl or UEFA have ever made that allegation. We have 13 years of accounts which prove it is a lie. We were also cleared of receiving state aid in court by three judges.
By reporting these false statements the Guardian is suggesting our accounts are false (which would be illegal). They are suggesting that our owner, our senior managers, and scores of auditors have behaved illegally. City must respond to these comments and demand a retraction. We should also make a formal complaint to the PL because Klopp's comments (if reported accurately) have breached PL rules by bringing the game into disrepute.
This latest smear is part of the ongoing dirty tricks campaign by senior people at LFC and we can't allow it to continue without a challenge.
We should also demand assurances from LFC and Merseyside police that the coach attack (and that's what it is) being planned for tomorrow is prevented from happening instead of being facilitated as it was last time. If they can't provide protection for our players we should ask for a postponement.

 

[laserblue]

 

[Big Pussy Bonpensiero]

Last journalist that called the dippers on their bullshit got the sack. Need I say more?

Who was this and can you link it for me? Not doubting you incase it seems like I am, I want to keep it on file for a supper friend

 

[tommybooth]

I was expecting the smell of bOILing coffee this morning, but all i can smell is bOILing piss.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Mail (why are these not banned from the ground yet) back page today peddling the new lie that Dippers cannot compete with us as we are paying Haaland 850k a week.
The clubs pathetic non existent PR team should have laughed at this nonsense when it was first reported.

Obviously no mention of how much Nunez cost or Salah wages in the story

Dom King usual production. A Scouse **** briefed beforehand to ask the question and set the excuse narrative.

I particularly liked Klopp how they are forced to do things differently and play younger players....

A week after a game Liverpool fielded one of the oldest starting line-ups in the league.

Newcastle can also feel very pissed. Klopp purposely twisting the CEO comments about "no ceiling", when he was talking in the wider context of Newcastle's potential and the support.

 

[Elbow beards]

Who was this and can you link it for me? Not doubting you incase it seems like I am, I want to keep it on file for a supper friend

Reach pays ‘substantial’ settlement to ex-Sunday Express football writer fired over column criticising Liverpool FC fans

A former Sunday Express football writer who was sacked last year over a column criticising Liverpool FC fans has accepted a substantial settlement from publisher Reach. Colin Mafham was suspended from the newspaper, where he spent 15 years on contract, in April last year and later dismissed for...

pressgazette.co.uk

 

[Revolver]

Most “journalists” are never going to call out Klopps whining and especially hypocrisy. That would only sour the cosy arrangement.

City are never going to win a media war with “The Reds” loving media ( if we didn’t have Pep the bile and hypocrisy would be worst)

As Martin Samuel inferred in a recent article it’s the teams in red that the football establishment revere.

There’s too much money for a lot of the media to make by fawning over “The Reds”. When these teams benefitted from effectively an unfair Champions League based cartel the usual suspects attacking City said nothing.

When City got taken over no concern was expressed by the “the Reds” loving media of us dominating. The assumption was that the natural order would be maintained and by some that City were after all a bit of joke.

Whilst their silence at times irritates why should our owners respond to the likes of Delaney and Crafton etc. Best ignore these hypocrites. By doing so you don’t help to fund them.

 

[burning blue soul]

If City do not do something about this misinformation campaign by media the lies will become absolute truth. Young people will have grown up believing 100% the attacks on our club are justified, as they have no other viewpoint for reference.
Why let the fans of the club constantly have to be on the frontline in dispelling these obvious untruths. Just what the fuck are the club waiting for?
Klopps words are on every back page in the country. I'm getting sick and tired of reading this stuff, or even if I ignore it, I have to jump to the defence of MY club if I am in earshot of somebody parroting this bollocks (which I have had to do again this morning)
I love my club, but I didn't sign up for that. Take the fuckers by the scruff, and sort it out City, ffs!!

 

[bluealf]

Whilst their silence at times irritates why should our owners respond to the likes of Delaney and Crafton etc. Best ignore these hypocrites. By doing so you don’t help to fund them.

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.

 

[Beaker]

Wasn’t Klopp also complaining that Newcastle have no ceiling and Liverpool do? Liverpool have triple Newcastle’s wage bill. They’re a cult that just believes everything their grand leader says.

 

[Elbow beards]

Wasn’t Klopp also complaining that Newcastle have no ceiling and Liverpool do? Liverpool have triple Newcastle’s wage bill. They’re a cult that just believes everything their grand leader says.

The same hypocritical **** who said he'd walk rather than spend huge amounts on a team

 

[jaseisblue]

Klopp is right. They can’t compete with City on:
Quality of team management (Pep and staff)
Quality of scouting data base
Excellence of recruitment (see Akanje)
Quality of DOF.
Squad planning (most of their team are geriatric)
Management of the whole club.
Spending all our surplus on football. (Where does theirs go?)
That is why we are serial winners of the title while they have won it just the (covid influenced) once.
They do have bigger gnashers than us though.

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[Jesus H Gabz]

If City do not do something about this misinformation campaign by media the lies will become absolute truth. Young people will have grown up believing 100% the attacks on our club are justified, as they have no other viewpoint for reference.
Why let the fans of the club constantly have to be on the frontline in dispelling these obvious untruths. Just what the fuck are the club waiting for?
Klopps words are on every back page in the country. I'm getting sick and tired of reading this stuff, or even if I ignore it, I have to jump to the defence of MY club if I am in earshot of somebody parroting this bollocks (which I have had to do again this morning)
I love my club, but I didn't sign up for that. Take the fuckers by the scruff, and sort it out City, ffs!!

Maybe we’ll just let them plough on with their lies & mistruths, if player ‘A’ at a red shirt club believes Haaland is on £875k Pw then he’ll be asking for a pay rise, just like Fodens new contract will inevitably lead to players like Saka & Martinelli asking for parity. Maybe our owners are playing the smartest game of all & allowing the hysteria in the press to snowball (without any real need to rebuke it) and forcing wages to artificially rise in all the top clubs when their players & agents demand top whack, a bit like us driving up prices for certain players over at Trafford Red Sox….operation Trojan Horse is up & running