This is hysterical nonsense.
City can't stop media outlets writing stuff about us that we don't like. Only if they cross into slander or libel which is very rare and even then City would just have a correction or article taken down.
Various journalists have said that behind the scenes, City are very active at correcting articles or things said.
If you don't like what's written or said, stop reading it and listening to it. Some seem to go out of their way to find stuff so they can get angry.
The damage is done with who? rags and liverpool fans? Fans of other teams don't like us anyway, they didn't before the charges and they won't long after.
Blues need to grow a set.
Ha ha. True. (I once crushed a grape. With my bare hands).Everyone isn’t as hard as you, mate.
and as i have said repeatedly, the world does not care what is in the daily mail, mirror or sun, their readership on the grand scale is very tiny. It is mainly bitter rags and dippers who read this as it feeds into their viewpoint and helps soothe the bitter pill that they just aint that good any more, but the reality is it will not affect the younger generation as that is not how they consume their news, not in this country and certainly not in other countries.The line you say is target reporting for other fans and damaging our reputation worldwide,
it's simple, if you can not stop Manchester City from winning then mud the water to make out it's only because they are cheating,
We are 100% talking about United and Liverpool for sure, They promote their glory and hate anybody wanting some of the pie, So they put something out to mud the water of somebody else's success because it hurts their reputation and stops people from becoming our new fans,
It’s nice to be nice.
i agree ;)Mehh. It's overrated. I tried it just now and I wasn't very good at it .....
He seems to be blurring the lines between saying it’s public knowledge that we have accelerated spending and perhaps even income and it being public knowledge from inside sources that we are cooking the books which is fraud so he is fairly openly accusing us of a crime which is apparently common knowledge despite no police or HMRC etc investigation and no referral to them from any of the people that have evidence be it the prem Nick himself or any other source or journalist it’s a mad claimI know from my club contacts that the media strategy was to court certain journalists who the club thought were 'opinion formers'. Serious journalists who could write using a more sophisticated medium than a crayon. So probably people like (I'm guessing) Martin Samuel, Henry Winter, Martyn Ziegler, David Conn, Rory Smith, etc. I do know Nick Harris was one of that group. I talked to him and passed on stuff I knew, which the club seemingly had no issue with (I'd have certainly known if they had).
They shared information with them, the intention being that we'd get a more sympathetic and objective hearing in the media, rather than the shite spouted by the red-tops, which we knew we couldn't influence. But even that group of journalists are driven by clicks, and objective articles about City don't generate clicks. Oli Kay, who was at The Times, told me that so I've had it first hand.
But it's no secret that we accelerated investment in the squad before the FFP door was slammed shut in our face. Then, in 2012/13, facing FFP failure, we did as much as we could to bring forward income. We sold the image rights to Fordham, we called off sponsorship revenue early. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with what we did by the way. If Etihad contracted to paying £600m over 10 years, we may have drawn down £300m in the first 3 years, say. That's not uncommon either. I seem to recall united front-loading either their Team Viewer or kit deal, so they got a big payment up-front. Nothing wrong with that. The accelerated investment is all public knowledge - Khaldoon openly said it - so Harris claiming it as a secret he'd been told as part of some inner-circle is complete nonsense.
At some point though, Harris's attitude changed dramatically. I know his wife had a brain tumour (and she died sadly about a year ago), they had two young girls and his mental heath suffered quite badly. That's a terrible thing to happen in anyone's book. But even knowing all this, the club were very puzzled about his 180 degree turn. His hatred of us is seemingly pathological.
Delaney was the same to a large degree. Up to us winning the league at Brighton in 2019 he was OK. By the time we'd beaten Watford at Wembley, just one week later, he'd turned.
Holt is considered to be a leading football journalist (I know the bar is set very low) and he's no better than a large number of posters on here for instance.and as i have said repeatedly, the world does not care what is in the daily mail, mirror or sun, their readership on the grand scale is very tiny. It is mainly bitter rags and dippers who read this as it feeds into their viewpoint and helps soothe the bitter pill that they just aint that good any more, but the reality is it will not affect the younger generation as that is not how they consume their news, not in this country and certainly not in other countries.
Put it this way the advert of haaland promoting beats headphones with lebron will have billions of views more than any myopic pathetic article that holt puts in the daily mail. The viewership of us winning the treble will ahve gained hundreds of thousands more fans than any sad rant in the guardian will have lost us. The world is a different place now and the print media and the red tops just havent caught up.
Hope this is still happening as i have put talksport on in expectation@projectriver on Talksport tomorrow at 11am discussing P&S with White & Jordan.
I'll wait to see if it's up on X later. The last time I tuned into Talksport Mike Parry was doing the 10am slot.Hope this is still happening as i have put talksport on in expectation