Media thread 2022/23

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halfcenturyup said:
More accurately, his ghost writer must be covered in phlegm an inch deep. You don't think he types this himself, do you?
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I seem to remember a few years back him demanding the right to reply to Talksport when he was still playing and being called up by England but never getting picked. He wanted to know why the station did not understand his feelings. Perhaps he can understand why we feel badly done to by the media, most of it and not one populated by has beens and various ne'er do wells.
 
Devil's Advocate said:
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.
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Soccer?..He must be scribbling guff for American Kopshites.
 
Man City v Brighton (Sat, 15:00 BST)
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Manchester City

The Manchester City manager also believes his club's rivalry against Liverpool has not become toxic "from our side at least".

His English is getting better ;-)
 
BrianW said:
The UAE is surely one of the more liberal Arab states. (OK it's not a Western democracy.) I wouldn't particularly want to live there, but if I had to live in an Arab state, which would be better? More liberal? More stable?

Anyone would think the UK was a perfect society, put in place by God as a sort of shining light to the Gentiles. What right have we to impose our standards (and imperfect systems) on people whose culture is entirely different? It isn't 1890 and we are not in the business of sending gunboats the 'civilise' other peoples.
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A few seasons back I had a chat with two brothers from Abu Dhabi in the Mitchell Arms. They didn't support any particular team but we're doing a tour of Europe taking in the big clubs. I'm assuming they weren't royalty just popping in for a few pints, but they were obviously well educated ordinary people enjoying a laugh with everyone and seemingly in no rush to promote the Arab spring.
 
I really don’t get why Carragher doesn’t understand why City are a bit pissed off this week. Coins thrown at our manager when they said they would do something about the behaviour of spectators when they spitting last year. The coach gets some object thrown at the windscreen when they’ve previously been charged by Uefa for their fans behaviour outside of the ground.

Why did Klopp only name three clubs with Middle Eastern owners when he could have highlighted United or the financial mess Barcelona got themselves into?

The way Carragher conducts himself on Sky, he loves putting snide digs in about City. If he wanted to keep the club onside for access to the players maybe he should reflect on how he behaves. As a broadcaster he brings nothing to the table apart from his pro scouse Pom Pom waving.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
I really don’t get why Carragher doesn’t understand why City are a bit pissed off this week. Coins thrown at our manager when they said they would do something about the behaviour of spectators when they spitting last year. The coach gets some object thrown at the windscreen when they’ve previously been charged by Uefa for their fans behaviour outside of the ground.

Why did Klopp only name three clubs with Middle Eastern owners when he could have highlighted United or the financial mess Barcelona got themselves into?

The way Carragher conducts himself on Sky, he loves putting snide digs in about City. If he wanted to keep the club onside for access to the players maybe he should reflect on how he behaves. As a broadcaster he brings nothing to the table apart from his pro scouse Pom Pom waving.
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He is so transparent. He does praise us as a team but these sly fucking digs are always there in the back ground. Also implying we are not conducting ourselves in the right way as a club, but his employer turns a blind eye to his disgusting antics. Just fuck off.
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
www.telegraph.co.uk

Manchester City have the best manager, striker and team – so why are they so unhappy?

City should enjoy their success and own who they are as a club rather than going on the defensive
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

Carragher makes some good points here.
Time to stop worrying about the critics. Fuck them all
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Well thats the
IrishBlueSince92 said:
www.telegraph.co.uk

Manchester City have the best manager, striker and team – so why are they so unhappy?

City should enjoy their success and own who they are as a club rather than going on the defensive
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

Carragher makes some good points here.
Time to stop worrying about the critics. Fuck them all
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Well thats the first time I have clicked on a Telrgraph piece and been able to read it, its usually behind a paywall. Well now I wish it had been! Spitty, sorry Mr Carragher, cant descend to social media levels can I, comes across as a bitter supporter of livarpool, aren't most anyway, who knows he may have won a battle last week but sure as hell knows he wont win the war with a tight fisted asset stipping owner who has no intention of being around when their train hits the buffers. Unless of course the premier leagues American owners can resurrect the super league or engineer a closed shop premier league. I have said it before and I will say it again, American owners will be the death of the premier league if they ever get enough of them to change the rules.
 
vincent said:
He is so transparent. He does praise us as a team but these sly fucking digs are always there in the back ground. Also implying we are not conducting ourselves in the right way as a club, but his employer turns a blind eye to his disgusting antics. Just fuck off.
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Can’t hide it can he, he was having an orgasm when Kane scored the winner for Spurs back in March. Why do Sky think we need to have these red shirt history club partisans offering opinions on our games?
 
Rochdale Blue said:
A few seasons back I had a chat with two brothers from Abu Dhabi in the Mitchell Arms. They didn't support any particular team but we're doing a tour of Europe taking in the big clubs. I'm assuming they weren't royalty just popping in for a few pints, but they were obviously well educated ordinary people enjoying a laugh with everyone and seemingly in no rush to promote the Arab spring.
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I’ve worked in the UAE and other Middle Eastern regions and a lot of peoples perception of the people that populate these countries is well off the mark. Put it this way, I’ve never came across any trouble during any of my visits to a Middle East country. Walk down any high street in or a town or City in the UK and you’ll get some dead beat acting no good. Do I agree with their culture and rules? Nope. You just don’t misbehave in their countries. But these countries aren’t some sort of medieval battleground with beheadings happening around every corner.

What these Liverpool, United and the media want is City fans to turn on our owners about matters they have no clue about. I’m not disregarding no one cares about human rights issues in the UAE, but a vast majority of these fans on social media only care about City being competitive and use the human rights issues as a stick to beat City with.
 
Delooney is paid to write negative stories and to try and shoehorn human rights into any discussion around MCFC. His opinion has no merit and should be treated as nothing but political bluff.

Western man made views on Abu Dhabi is not worth reading. It’s all made up. No different to how the papers try and tell us how to think and act with the Conservative party imploding and leaving the country in a mess.

We would all be better off not acknowledging the WhatsApp views. It would make blues happier and not outraged but I guess the debate on this forum would suffer. Maybe post a spoiler to any info from these shills.

No matter how much effort and no matter how much factual information you combat these social media freaks with, their audience demands that negative lies are constantly spewed. Rolling negative news bombarding anyone who wants it will hit the mark.

They won’t change. Enjoy city and the football we play. Man made lies I won’t acknowledge.

The world is not flat and neither is city state owned -:)
 
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feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
I really don’t get why Carragher doesn’t understand why City are a bit pissed off this week. Coins thrown at our manager when they said they would do something about the behaviour of spectators when they spitting last year. The coach gets some object thrown at the windscreen when they’ve previously been charged by Uefa for their fans behaviour outside of the ground.

Why did Klopp only name three clubs with Middle Eastern owners when he could have highlighted United or the financial mess Barcelona got themselves into?

The way Carragher conducts himself on Sky, he loves putting snide digs in about City. If he wanted to keep the club onside for access to the players maybe he should reflect on how he behaves. As a broadcaster he brings nothing to the table apart from his pro scouse Pom Pom waving.
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Brings plenty of spittle to the table..
 
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