MUEN

[Shooter 83]

I know for a fact you made that up. Why continue to lie about it. Tevez admitted he was offered a rise to stay at Christmas and it was around the fiqure above. Yaya's wages are around half what you quote and he earns alot in image rights nothing to do with what we pay him. NOTW come up with those fiqures and we know what a joke of a paper that was.

How do you know for a fact that I made it up?
I certainly did not make it up. I was told it by a well-placed source i.e. someone who would know.
If it is not true - and, as I said, no-one but no-one has contradicted it whenever I have used it - then the person who told me has made it up. And that is extremely unlikely.
I can't say any more because it would be betraying confidences.

Ask Garry Cooke or Brian Marwood and they will put you and your 'Notw source' in your place.

Shrek is the highest paid player in the premership 230k per week. Quote that one in your Rag paper.

I'll say no more.

 

[The Future's Blue]

The papers are there to sell or to get advertising in the hands of the reader, therefore generating business and money for the company. This is done by hook or by crook and is designed purposely to provoke a response; by you picking it up again or, the new money spinner, you login onto the website.

I've recently finished working in town and used to get the MEN everyday for the train journey home and can categorically say that the 2 teams were treated quite equally, the only difference being that we made bigger headlines off the pitch (big signings/wages, certain players attitudes/activities or PR/CITC on a few occasions) whilst the Rags got most of theirs for being on the pitch, which is quite obvious.

The difference now is we are becoming a team on par with them and more people will want to read about the on-field activites rather than the other stuff which should start falling away because it then becomes a non-issue (we already know), City fan or not.

There'll still be the odd bit of shit to fill the column inches, but that shit will be the same as any other day, for both teams.<br /><br />-- Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:47 pm --<br /><br />

I know for a fact you made that up. Why continue to lie about it. Tevez admitted he was offered a rise to stay at Christmas and it was around the fiqure above. Yaya's wages are around half what you quote and he earns alot in image rights nothing to do with what we pay him. NOTW come up with those fiqures and we know what a joke of a paper that was.

How do you know for a fact that I made it up?
I certainly did not make it up. I was told it by a well-placed source i.e. someone who would know.
If it is not true - and, as I said, no-one but no-one has contradicted it whenever I have used it - then the person who told me has made it up. And that is extremely unlikely.
I can't say any more because it would be betraying confidences.

The truth is that no-one can confirm or refute an individuals wage structure as it is just that, individual, to that player and only he has the power to put it out in the open. If the club tried to refute these claims then they would also have to issue a statement of the players actual wage to show evidence.

I'm quite sure that none of our high-earners are nowhere near the quoted figures, even with the bonus element and image rights attached. One thing is for sure, that while the media keeps printing these figures, it keeps us in the spotlight. Good or bad, true or false, news is the news and people will want to read about it.

I'm sure our media team don't mind one iota.

 

[Carlos The Jackal]

I know for a fact you made that up. Why continue to lie about it. Tevez admitted he was offered a rise to stay at Christmas and it was around the fiqure above. Yaya's wages are around half what you quote and he earns alot in image rights nothing to do with what we pay him. NOTW come up with those fiqures and we know what a joke of a paper that was.

How do you know for a fact that I made it up?
I certainly did not make it up. I was told it by a well-placed source i.e. someone who would know.
If it is not true - and, as I said, no-one but no-one has contradicted it whenever I have used it - then the person who told me has made it up. And that is extremely unlikely.
I can't say any more because it would be betraying confidences.

Your paper is a joke now i'm afraid now Brennan, you have no inside track at all on what is happening at City all you do is rehash the tabloid shite from the previous day even down to the non stories like The Beckham or Cantona City will never be as big or succesful as utd (shock horror) non stories, in the days of Peter Gardener we used to get insightful, truthful and intreresting stuff on our footbal club, now we just get rumour, innuendo, opinion or just plain bullshit masquerading as sports journalism, to be honest i wish you'd just do one to FC utd (they ain't getting into Moston either) and do us all a favour.

 

[Marpleblue69]

I know for a fact you made that up. Why continue to lie about it. Tevez admitted he was offered a rise to stay at Christmas and it was around the fiqure above. Yaya's wages are around half what you quote and he earns alot in image rights nothing to do with what we pay him. NOTW come up with those fiqures and we know what a joke of a paper that was.

How do you know for a fact that I made it up?
I certainly did not make it up. I was told it by a well-placed source i.e. someone who would know.
If it is not true - and, as I said, no-one but no-one has contradicted it whenever I have used it - then the person who told me has made it up. And that is extremely unlikely.
I can't say any more because it would be betraying confidences.

Ask Garry Cooke or Brian Marwood and they will put you and your 'Notw source' in your place.

Shrek is the highest paid player in the premership 230k per week. Quote that one in your Rag paper.

I'll say no more.

Because you know them so well, and they wouldn't possibly lie to you or us now would they?

 

[nmc]

Don't disagree column inches were balanced but what about the disgusting leader comment - remember the 'we only print the results' nonsense -totally unforgivable - the begining of the end. the MEN nailed its colours to the mast that day.

I'm not sure what it is you are referring to.
However, I do remember the reader poll in 1995 which suggested Fergie should get the sack, months after winning the Double.
United fans point to that as anti-United bias, and Fergie still refuses to talk to the MEN on a regular basis, and refers to that piece. Fergie thinks we're pro-City and anti-United because he, like many people on here, sees what he wants to see and ignores the rest.
I'd have to be a raving idiot to have an anti-City agenda, as some people insinuate. I'm no genius, but I'm also not in the business of making my life as hard as possible
The truth is, I enjoy covering City, I enjoy watching them play and can't wait to see Aguero in the coming season.
It's funny that after the City homecoming, when we devoted most of the first part of the paper to the parade, and the sports pages, the MEN editor got a letter from City saying how pleased they were with the coverage, and basically saying that the club doesn't believe the stuff about us being the MUEN.
I wish I could repeat it in full here, but that would not be fair on the sender.

Stuart - I have no issues with you directly - you do a good job as a rag with some sympathy for City. The issue I refer to is a leader written in the MEN (circa 1992) basically saying the MEN talks the Reds up and talks the blues down - but it wasn't their fault they only print the results! May have had an element of truth but one hell of a cheap shot.

 

[Dzeko's Right Boot]

I'm glad you're using your real user name now instead of oakiecokie.

Nice for you to "man-up" but it's too late now. We all know where the MUEN stands!

Have you purposely ignored all of his recent posts? He doesn't have to come on here and prove to you and everyone else why the MEN isn't biased, but he has done. He's given you ample response - even admitted when he was wrong! - and yet you remain stubborn. I think he has proved today where the MEN stands.

i dont see why mario is a target for the muen
everything about mario is up there in the paper even little none news
is making the paper

nothing about Kolarov t shirt

look we are never going to be happy with the muen they are going to report
on manchester city good or bad

until mancini/man city pull's the plug like fergie does and kick out the paper take away the press pass and dont give quote's to the paper
then we going to be open to anything from them

Because the MEN isn't intended to be propaganda for the club. It is a newspaper, and has to sell copies. How does it do that? By making the best headline. Mario is in the headlines the most, so the media are naturally going to pay him the most attention. He is a journalist's dream. Some of the stories are exaggerated, but not eventhe most ardent Balotelli fan can deny he has been a tool for some of the time while he has been here.

 

[oakiecokie]

The score was 3-0....

My hands are up. I got mixed up with the Sheffield Weds game which was a week or two later. Sorry!

I'm glad you're using your real user name now instead of oakiecokie.

Nice for you to "man-up" but it's too late now. We all know where the MUEN stands!

Hahaaaa. Sod off c*nt. ;) Definately not Mr.Brennan and I`m still awaiting a response from him ref why I have to pay 47p a day for the MEN,just because I live in Cheshire.And for the fucking way I`ve supported him and his newspaper.
You`d think that I`d be entitled to a freebie !!!!

 

[jrb]

I used to always buy the MEN for the odd property/business headline/story(Spinningfields, Beetham Tower, proposed Training comlex, etc) or sports story/scoop. That was many years ago. Now I just have a quick look at the fornt and back pages of the MEN in any supermarket I'm in.

I did such a thing on Tuesday the 16th of August. What was the main sports headline on the back page?

Virus-hit midfielder Darren Fletcher plays full 90 minutes with Manchester United reserves

The day after Sergio made his debut for City and scored twice as well as setting up the 3rd. (Hardly a paper selling sports story)

I stood there for a few seconds. Shocked TBH, that the MEUN had headlined Fletcher's return from a virus infection above Sergio's debut story.

Can you imagine for one second if Sergio had signed for United and scored twice on his debut at OT. You can just imagine the back page headline in the MUEN can't you. 'Toure back in training as he nears a return to first team action'.(or something similar) NOT! The MUEN would have had a picture of Sergio in his United shirt, with a 'massive' headline proclaiming his performace and a quote from Sir.

And there you have it. It's hard enough when City are fighting a continual war against the London/Southern biased United media and journo's, but when 'our' local RAG, sorry paper, is at it as well, City might as well give up. I gave up on the MUEN years ago.By the looks of it I'm not the only one person to have done that.

MUEN owned by the 'Mirror' Group. (explains it all)

 

[Challenger1978]

Again, can I just kill the stuff about when City were in the second division.
I was at the MEN at the time, working as a sub-editor, and the sports editor kept a record of column inches devoted to United and City, and made sure that they balanced by the end of the week.
Any City or United fan who complained that the other team got preferential coverage - was shown the figures.

So I must be completely imagining city hammering some team something daft like 4 nill or something like that (weekday game late kick off). Back in the dark days when nothing was going right for us and this was the first bit of really good news we had in ages.

Then coming to the Manchester evening news the next day expecting to see a good write up to find a very small column. No pictures or anything like that just a very brief title with the result and then the column containing a very brief description of the match no more than 4 inches long.

Then in this same newspaper I flicked a couple more pages towards the back to see a two or maybe even a four page spread. All about David Beckham (he defiantly got two pages) and Man united. The worst thing was United hadn't played and were not going to play for another two or three days.

That's one occasion, I clearly remember being absolutely fuming on several other occasions that you didn't even print anything at all not just that day but all week. I was a kid at the time and bleeding near heart broken about it. Seriously my dad went through the MEN with me from front to back trying to find something only for there not to be anything at all.

BTW you know those statistics that say United and City both got equal column inches. Did you take all the Beckham and Giggs ect. (proxy United wankathons) articles out of those statistics. As that is the only way I can see you even getting close to saying it used to be even.

That was despite the fact that City were, as someone said, a division below Stockport and Bury, and United were winning the Treble.
The poster who said otherwise has a faulty memory, or is just remembering what he wants to remember.

Wow if I was a c*nt I could so twist what you've just wrote there it doesn't come across well at all.

As for the faulty memory, well back then getting good new about city was like being a kid at Christmas. And reading your newspaper was like that kid coming down stairs on Christmas day to find out father Christmas had left them nothing but a box of shit with sugar sprinkled on top.

 

[oakiecokie]

I used to always buy the MEN for the odd property/business headline/story(Spinningfields, Beetham Tower, proposed Training comlex, etc) or sports story/scoop. That was many years ago. Now I just have a quick look at the fornt and back pages of the MEN in any supermarket I'm in.

I did such a thing on Tuesday the 16th of August. What was the main sports headline on the back page?

Virus-hit midfielder Darren Fletcher plays full 90 minutes with Manchester United reserves

The day after Sergio made his debut for City and scored twice as well as setting up the 3rd. (Hardly a paper selling sports story)

I stood there for a few seconds. Shocked TBH, that the MEUN had headlined Fletcher's return from a virus infection above Sergio's debut story.

Can you imagine for one second if Sergio had signed for United and scored twice on his debut at OT. You can just imagine the back page headline in the MUEN can't you. 'Toure back in training as he nears a return to first team action'.(or something similar) NOT! The MUEN would have had a picture of Sergio in his United shirt, with a 'massive' headline proclaiming his performace and a quote from Sir.

And there you have it. It's hard enough when City are fighting a continual war against the London/Southern biased United media and journo's, but when 'our' local RAG, sorry paper, is at it as well, City might as well give up. I gave up on the MUEN years ago.By the looks of it I'm not the only one person to have done that.

MUEN owned by the 'Mirror' Group. (explains it all)

For fucks sake at least keep up with this thread.
Been done and responded to by Brennan on here.