Media thread 2022/23

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SamBlue said:
Although I disagree with some of his pushy, activist views on us, and I am almost sure they are coming from the above like this last article, I have to admit I like to read Ronay. It might be because I am a snowflaky Guardian reader, or I like his writing style. This is very good, I cannot stop chuckling

Does this sound enough? By the end that 4-1 defeat certainly felt like something more basic. To choke is to have agency, to have a decisive say in what happens to you. Mikel Arteta’s team went to the Etihad as league leaders and spent 90 minutes being marched around like a team of straw-stuffed tailor’s dummies. Even the stumbles of the past few weeks have felt like something induced by the pressure at their back,
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His subtext is as usual there for all to see though.

a human-scale football entity being pursued by a team so good they appear to be operating to a different set of laws, for whom victory is simply a matter of pressing go and following the playbook.
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halfcenturyup said:
People are always confusing investment by a prominent Emirati with something nefarious because Emiratis have a pride in their citizenship that we don't have in the west, and because they would undoubtedly seek approval from the ruling family before making a substantial private investment. All the more so when that individual is part of the ruling family. I have no doubt Mansour's investment in City was approved by the ruling family and I have no doubt Mansour, as a proud Emirati, and the ruling family, as, well, the ruling family, want the investment to show Abu Dhabi and the UAE in the best possible light. None of that means City is a state project, though. The fact that people working at the Guardian and the others can't get their head around these simple realities reflects particularly badly on them, given that, as first-class hand-wringers, they should be in touch with differences between cultures.
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I remember a post on here many years ago that said something like “this was a private purchase but if you are in HHSM’s position and you want a car, you buy a car. If you want a racehorse you buy a racehorse. But if you want a football club, you talk to the family because that is a purchase that potentially has repercussions for the whole outfit.”

(Not an exact quote).

That seems to me to be overwhelmingly likely to have been what happened.
 
Chris in London said:
I remember a post on here many years ago that said something like “this was a private purchase but if you are in HHSM’s position and you want a car, you buy a car. If you want a racehorse you buy a racehorse. But if you want a football club, you talk to the family because that is a purchase that potentially has repercussions for the whole outfit.”

(Not an exact quote).

That seems to me to be overwhelmingly likely to have been what happened.
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Someone in Qatar has just said “listen son, it’s a shit deal, the roof leaks, the teams wank. Go & get a Lamborghini.”
 
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