Media thread 2022/23

[Chris in London]

The quote from the article; "So you don’t just sign Erling Haaland, you sign Julián Álvarez to give him a rest. Kalvin Phillips arrives for £45m, doesn’t play all season, and it’s fine."

Absolutely ridiculous that buying Alvarez for £14m is somehow a sign that City have a bottomless pit of money, when we've sold three forwards for £150m+ in the same year.

Haven't you heard? Net spend is SOOOO last year...

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

ugh thanks for reminding me why i skip the punditry

i know it's a well-paid and somewhat prestigious job, but tbh i feel bad for abdo, one irritating arrogant pillock (henry) + four absolute fucking nobheads, it's like babysitting a bunch of 9-year-olds on testosterone, you're ex-pros you should be there to offer insight and analysis not piss about

i've seen occasional snippets one or two (crouch, keane) get the humour about right although neither my cup of tea, but that guff right there one of the biggest games of the year is a complete disgrace to sports broadcasting

For beautiful moments like that.....would you really want to miss out on seeing that look on his mug?

The fucktards world is caving in......enjoy!

Delooney is still pouring out his conspiracy theories. Apparently City Football Club is a state project not an investment business owned by Sheik Mansour and US-based Silver Lake. This giant state project has spent billions buying 12 football clubs across the globe, developing huge swathes of land in New York City and Manchester and places like Shanghai, Mumbai, and Melbourne. And the purpose of this huge spending spree is nothing to do with investment and making profits (even though Sheikh Mansour has quadrupled the value of his investments in Manchester alone) The only reason CFG exsists is because it is part of a secret "sportswashing" project to deflect people's attention away from the plight of poor workers in the UAE. He doesn't have a shred of evidence for this crazy theory but there you go.

 

[SebastianBlue]

The difference in reaction between the Guardian and Telegraph is incredible.

Dissecting arguably the greatest 45 minutes by an English side in Europe

City's first half at the Etihad Stadium was surely among the finest produced by any side Pep Guardiola has managed

www.telegraph.co.uk

Manchester City vs Real Madrid result: Man City reach footballing perfection to stay on course for Treble

By Jason Burt, Chief Football Correspondent at the Etihad Stadium

www.telegraph.co.uk

This is football on another plane. This is football from another planet especially in a first-half when no team in the world could have lived with them. Real were taken apart, ceding 72 per cent possession and having just 10 touches in City’s final third, and even with their legendary powers of recovery they knew the game was up. It was breathtaking stuff and Real had the air knocked out of them.This was as good as it gets. ​

Manchester City’s destruction of Madrid has the feel of an era-defining triumph | Jonathan Wilson

Blend of intelligence and power should see off Inter in final and confirm petrostate clubs have finally surpassed traditional elite

www.theguardian.com

Manchester City’s inexorable hard power crushes Real Madrid | Jonathan Liew

Pep Guardiola’s side have the perfection of a finely executed military campaign, the perfection of wealth and strength

www.theguardian.com

And so one of the world’s richest states spends years trying to hire the world’s greatest coach, succeeds, and then gives him literally everything he needs. Every other club in the world, with the exception of Paris Saint-Germain, has to operate within the constraints of finance or fortune. Every other club in the world has flaws or problem areas that they can’t address right now, but hope to at some point in the future. Guardiola, by contrast, gets the staff he wants, the players he wants when he wants them, gets their replacements ahead of schedule.​

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"Blend of intelligence and power should see off Inter in final and confirm petrostate clubs have finally surpassed traditional elite"​

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"For 15 years, Manchester City have had one ambition above all others. Since Sheikh Mansour acquired the club, the Champions League has been their goal."​

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Nearly all of the first paragraph you’ve quoted is utter nonsense.

It’s just Wilson doing what he does best: writing with no thought or understanding based on the mandate set by those on high at The Guardian.

It’s been obvious from their recent coverage that a coordinated campaign to delegitimise our achievements has been launched.

But I think blues should prepare themselves for more of this, from many more outlets, especially if we win the treble.

If we thought the knives have been out up to this point, wait until we become the greatest ever PL side.

 

[olly-1-mcfc]

BT Sports in every semi bar last night
‘Atmosphere’ ‘Noise’ - nearly every other sentence.
Not a word last night when it sounded electric.
Eat it up you bitter bastards.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

A new low, even for him

 

[domalino]

Nearly all of the first paragraph you’ve quoted is utter nonsense.

It’s just Wilson doing what he does best: writing with no thought or understanding based on the mandate set by those on high at The Guardian.

It’s been obvious from their recent coverage that a coordinated campaign to delegitimise our achievements has been launched.

But I think blues should prepare themselves for more of this, from many more outlets, especially if we win the treble.

If we thought the knives have been out up to this point, wait until we become the greatest ever PL side.

I don't think it's an organised campaign, I just think these sports desks are like little friendship groups and The Guardian's hates City.

Like you say, it's just not grounded in reality - "Every other club in the world has flaws or problem areas that they can’t address right now, but hope to at some point in the future" didn't we just go a season without a striker when we lost Aguero? I seem to remember every journalist in the country talking about our lack of striker non-stop until we won the league without one. We've played for 5 years without a LB, moving right backs, midfielders and now CBs to cover.

They don't see these things because their view of City is so warped.

 

[Claytop]

A new low, even for him

Why Stefan ever bothered to humour this twat I’ve no idea.

 

[Ignominious]

The difference in reaction between the Guardian and Telegraph is incredible.

Dissecting arguably the greatest 45 minutes by an English side in Europe

City's first half at the Etihad Stadium was surely among the finest produced by any side Pep Guardiola has managed

www.telegraph.co.uk

Manchester City vs Real Madrid result: Man City reach footballing perfection to stay on course for Treble

By Jason Burt, Chief Football Correspondent at the Etihad Stadium

www.telegraph.co.uk

This is football on another plane. This is football from another planet especially in a first-half when no team in the world could have lived with them. Real were taken apart, ceding 72 per cent possession and having just 10 touches in City’s final third, and even with their legendary powers of recovery they knew the game was up. It was breathtaking stuff and Real had the air knocked out of them.This was as good as it gets. ​

Manchester City’s destruction of Madrid has the feel of an era-defining triumph | Jonathan Wilson

Blend of intelligence and power should see off Inter in final and confirm petrostate clubs have finally surpassed traditional elite

www.theguardian.com

Manchester City’s inexorable hard power crushes Real Madrid | Jonathan Liew

Pep Guardiola’s side have the perfection of a finely executed military campaign, the perfection of wealth and strength

www.theguardian.com

And so one of the world’s richest states spends years trying to hire the world’s greatest coach, succeeds, and then gives him literally everything he needs. Every other club in the world, with the exception of Paris Saint-Germain, has to operate within the constraints of finance or fortune. Every other club in the world has flaws or problem areas that they can’t address right now, but hope to at some point in the future. Guardiola, by contrast, gets the staff he wants, the players he wants when he wants them, gets their replacements ahead of schedule.​

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"Blend of intelligence and power should see off Inter in final and confirm petrostate clubs have finally surpassed traditional elite"​

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"For 15 years, Manchester City have had one ambition above all others. Since Sheikh Mansour acquired the club, the Champions League has been their goal."​

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The Guardian are looking at the wider geo-political ramifications of our success via funding/investment form the Middle East. Their agenda is obvious and they don't clearly don't like the change in the established status quo. Their approach is borderline racist IMO. I don't recall The Guardian including negative quotes about the state-sponsored doping programmes of athletics and other sports by the countries of the former USSR and China during the Olympics but perhaps that suited their agenda better at the time?

Thankfully, others have a different agenda and can see the end product on the pitch for what it is. Sublime football played at the highest level. We are truly fortunate to see it for ourselves.

 

[SebastianBlue]

I don't think it's an organised campaign, I just think these sports desks are like little friendship groups and The Guardian's hates City.

Like you say, it's just not grounded in reality - "Every other club in the world has flaws or problem areas that they can’t address right now, but hope to at some point in the future" didn't we just go a season without a striker when we lost Aguero? I seem to remember every journalist in the country talking about our lack of striker non-stop until we won the league without one. We've played for 5 years without a LB, moving right backs, midfielders and now CBs to cover.

They don't see these things because their view of City is so warped.

I meant an organised campaign within The Guardian, for which I believe there is plenty of evidence.

 

[manimanc]

This prick epitomises them red mardarses.
Gobby ****.
Mardarse ****.
Bitter ****.
Dressed like a ****.

He's the loudest nobhead in the pub, the bolshy nobhead on a vlog, the one gobshite in work telling everyone nobody can touch the rags when in fact they are shite.

He reminded me of that person who turns up at a party thinking he's jonny ten potatoes when in fact nobody can stand the sight or sound of him.

This video is gold, the prick embarrassing himself on international TV when he thought he was the bollocks.

Can't stop laughing.