Media thread 2022/23

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argyle said:
Most journalists these days only care about getting clicks, that's obvious.

The Guardian writers have clearly stumbled on an angle that brings them clicks - anti-City stories.

I bet Liew doesn't believe half the shit he writes but that's not the point, his articles get City and non-City fans clicking and sharing and talking about them across social media.

I keep saying, just block and ignore but City fans keep biting.
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There's always a twitchy finger on a mouse when there's an anti-City story online!
 
FootballSense said:
Organised and Clear, Clear and Organised

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ling-haaland-scoring-wear-off-manchester-city

I doubt any true football fan will tire of seeing goals, whether from Haaland, Aguero, Messi, Shearer or Henry. The novelty of Liew wore off a very long time ago though. How can such pretentious individuals, particularly in The Guardian and The Independent, with their flowery and convoluted words, be given licence in prominent opinion pieces to spout such drivel, usually with a twist and knife at the end. These media charlatans turned shameless a long time ago and are getting worse.

Liew has little insight into Shaun Goater, MBE, yet still has a dig. Shaun was well loved and remains so. `Feed the Goat and He Will Score` ... They even specially recognise him with Shaun Goater Day in Bermuda. What will Liew be remembered for?

He said, "A club that does what it wants" - this is a lie and part of the media myth fed by an organised and clear campaign by the redtops. Liverpool could not even "compete", to use Klopp`s word, with bottom of the league Nottingham Forest at the weekend and have also dropped points this season to Brighton, Palace, Fulham and the rags. Who`s to blame for that? Even these spin doctors can not put that on City.

The quality of football and competition has rarely been better during the Premier League years yet falsehoods are peddled by those who have slipped off their perch due to mismanagement, instability and poor decisions or who are simply jealous.

BALLON D’OR CLUB of the YEAR - Manchester City Football Club - winners of the Premier League in thrilling fashion (4 PLs in 5 seasons); 150 goals across all competition (more than any other team in Europe); City Women winners of the Continental Cup and FA Cup Finalists; City’s Elite Development Squad crowned Premier League 2 champions for a second successive season; and Premier League Under-18 North and National champions, sealing the notable double for the second season in succession. It is rightful recognition for such a well run and successful CLUB.

Liew did not cover any of this last week, nor did The Guardian. I wonder why.

`He who pays the piper calls the tune`. Liew and his cohorts are dancing merrily. Who is pulling their strings?
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Don’t put the link the thread that article is not worth clicking its tripe
 
Sibierskii said:


Hahaha. He’s broken them! What a fucking tosspot.
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I've just read that article on line. You are 100% correct. He and we (the club) have totally broken them. They are well and truly fucked now, with nowhere to go. As I have said previously if we win the CL this year it will be over. Done. If anyone and I mean anyone says that there is not a clear and organised agenda against our club, they can just fuck right off! Just how much evidence do we have since Haaland arrived? They really are that desperate that they have to resort to writing that kind of utter drivel. Their real problem is, and they know it, is that the only people they are kidding now is themselves. They are very close to running out of road. A CL win anytime soon finishes them off for good.
 
schfc6 said:
In short, yes. It’s the reason we are doing so much better than the old guard who’ve just rested on the laurels and thought they’d be the best without trying.

The vision it’s taken to topple the elite whilst playing to their silly poorly thought out ‘rules’ has made us stronger than if we’d have just been allowed to spend at will.

Whilst they’ve lead to some horrid headlines and awkward moments over the last decade or so. It’s actually helped us quite a bit and hindered those of an old school mentality who dwell in the past rather than the future.
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That is a top post. You are bang on that their very own FFP rules have made us what we are today. FFP did stop us just throwing money at the 'project' which to be fair, is probably what we might have done without it. FFP has however, forced us to be ruthlessly organised, skillful and professional on every single level and in every single department of the club (ticket office excepted). FFP forced us to invest heavily in our academy that is now throwing off millions and millions in cash every year and enabling us to buy world footballing superstars and still show a negative net spend at the end of the transfer window!
FFP forced us to start the CFG business model that every other top club is now scrambling to emulate. FFP forced us to formulate, develop and implement a business model and footballing strategy that no football club in the world has ever done before - for the simple reason they didn't have to, as they were the cartel clubs who controlled the cash and the competitions that earns it. You could, in hindsight (which is always precise) actually argue that FFP was the best thing ever to happen to Manchester City as a club? Due to FFP we are now at least 10 years ahead of most of the other top clubs. When Platini and Uefa were forced by the cartel clubs to switch the FFP rules from a debt to revenue measure, they had absolutely no idea what they were doing and what it would help us create and how far ahead it would put us. Well they fucking do now!
 
Watching Breakfast this morning new girl Victoria on the sofa with lanky streak of piss. Main football story Chelsea in CL, Emery at Villa. Then it gets to us. Dumb question to Pep re Erling's fitness levels after the World Cup.

Streak of piss' contribution: ERL will spend 5 weeks in Spain for the mid season break. Pep had already made the point that ERL would have been desperate to play for Norway at the World Cup and will keep his fitness levels up.

Piss streak says Erl's very partial to his dad's lasgne so he'll have to watch his weight. Rather desperate and even Victoria was looking at him as if he were a bit simple. Imbeciles aplenty.
 
Dirty Harry said:
Beyond embarrassing this now, it was ok when Pep, Messi and co we’re doing it years ago, it was very much a standard goal, but not now.

Our media are so fuckin poor in general, can’t believe some people still think there’s no narrative and even defend them.
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It doesn't matter. They have no idea what is coming with a global football world lapping up Haaland's, and City's, success. Who are they writing for? At some point, there will be ten times as many people following Haaland, and therefore City, as there are following Liverpool and United. But they are too short-sighted to see it. Good. They will fail spectacularly.
 
Ric said:
The likes of Liew and Wilson seem to derive zero joy from watching football, but try to impose their misery on the rest of us.
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Indeed they do.

I won't ask you to watch this hatchet job, what's the old adage? I watch it so you don't have to.

As you can imagine from the title and the presence of our old friend Jonathan Wilson, it's a wonderful dispassionate analysis of Pep's managerial shortcomings.



Talking of Wilson, this went under the radar on Saturday, a lovely piece of agitprop masquerading as sports journalism...

As football slips into the mire, it must remember it is first and foremost a sport​

Jonathan Wilson

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/oct/22/football-must-remember-it-is-sport

Fans chant disgracefully about tragedy and find their club not merely not condemning them, but blaming the manager of the other side for having made an entirely reasonable observation about the financial advantages enjoyed by state-run clubs. That manager, on the very weekend local referees had gone on strike to highlight the abuse suffered by officials, is sent off for abusing an assistant referee. Team buses are attacked, social media becomes a battleground of the basest insults, managers who are the de facto agents of authoritarian states lecture others about touchline behaviour.....

financial fair play regulations – have proved essentially unworkable, not least because they are effectively unenforceable when clubs have such wealth they can stymie investigations with endless legal challenges.....

But football isn’t, at heart, either a business or an entertainment. It certainly shouldn’t be a tool of state propaganda. It is a sport and, until that is remembered and prioritised, it’s hard to have any hope for the future. Or, indeed, the present.
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Combined with Liew's article yesterday, our chums at the Guardian have upped the quantity if not the quality of their diatribes. The clunckiness of these desperate narratives shows they're struggling for new ways to bolt the same message to every City article they write.

It's obvious that for Liew and Wilson the sole purpose of writing any City content is the opportunity to ram home the same dogma.
 
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The result of tonight's game is purely academic; at least according to the BBC's sport page -

"Manchester City have won their group but Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham still have work to do"
 
halfcenturyup said:
It doesn't matter. They have no idea what is coming with a global football world lapping up Haaland's, and City's, success. Who are they writing for? At some point, there will be ten times as many people following Haaland, and therefore City, as there are following Liverpool and United. But they are too short-sighted to see it. Good. They will fail spectacularly.
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Whilst I’m in agreement, I think they will just jump ship when the time is right.
They’re like rats, love the one you’re with, today it’s rags and dippers, tomorrow ?
 
There's a lot of soft bias in the media too. Take this Mail article as an example.

It's a piece that runs through the various permutations of each Champions League group. One thing I noticed is that, when discussing the other three English team groups, they are accompanied by a picture of either Aubameyang, Kane or Firmnho.

When discussing our group, it's a picture of Jude Bellingham.
 
Manchester33 said:
There's a lot of soft bias in the media too. Take this Mail article as an example.

It's a piece that runs through the various permutations of each Champions League group. One thing I noticed is that, when discussing the other three English team groups, they are accompanied by a picture of either Aubameyang, Kane or Firmnho.

When discussing our group, it's a picture of Jude Bellingham.
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Prophetic
 
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