Of course there is an agenda, to suggest that UEFA, the FA and premier league have no kind of plan for the game is ludicrous in the extreme. The idea that the senior executives of major media outlets are not aware of what this future looks like is also naive. Do people really believe that the major kingmakers in the game leave things to chance? To suggest that those senior execs of major media outlets don't liaise with senior decision makers in the game, don't get a sense of the objectives of those governing bodies and don't pass their orders down the chain to be executed by the editors and journalists is naive. (How else do you think they ensure they retain important broadcasting contracts for example?) To suggest that the PR people at UEFA, the FA and premier league do not cajole and influence the media to put copy that helps with that 'plan' is naive. If this isn't possible, then please explain how Qatar won the decision to host the World Cup and yet there is still not one shred of 'written' evidence that the whole thing was fixed, despite the fact that we now look at the decision and realise how ludicrous it was and how it was virtually impossible (in my opinion) that they won it on merit. An agenda doesn't have to be written down for it to manifest itself and be executed on. It is done by influence, by stealth, by quid pro quo's, through PR, through key appointments of individuals that can be trusted to execute on the grand plan.
The agenda has been brought clear and out into the open by FFP, that agenda is to keep the traditional big clubs exactly where they are. We are the troublesome interloper who is interfering with that plan. David Gill gets appointed as the head of FFP panel and yet still people seem in denial that any agenda exists. Just what will it take ?
There is mountains and mountains of evidence that a concerted agenda to halt our progress exists. Now it seems that the media have taken an approach to simply 'ignore' our achievements. Make no mistake, the general public are hugely influenced by what they see and hear, if we get negative press then it makes our growth plans more difficult as promotion of the club is down to our own PR and marketing teams. Now that revenue is key to what you can spend, and what you can spend secures you the best players, make no mistake we need to grow the MCFC brand globally to remain competitive, particularly when we have to renew the squad as it gets older.
To ignore the glaringly obvious simply gives those who wish to put us back in our place the idea that they can carry on unhindered. City fans are right to expose this bias and the agenda whenever we see it. That is the only way anything will change.
