Walker, Lukaku and the continued scapegoating of City in the media

Its absolutely bob on, but sadly, I doubt much will change in the short to mid term. We need to win lots of stuff, and in time create our own "history" in order to propagate a sufficient hoard of world wide fans that they (the media) want to attract as money spinning click bait.

I just read the Grauniad online, and they have an "as-it-happened" report on the recent raggies game against Real Salt Lake City (who?) and LA Galaxy from earlier. I cannot find on the Groaniad sports pages any other blow-by-blow reports of any other teams friendly encounters.
 
Fear not, the Lukaku fee will get lower as the years go by.....Hypocrites the lot of them and so-called journalists obviously so thick that they actually believed all the rubbish Ferguson spouted about players getting injured by dangerous play (his players never did such things of course !!!) and then Bacon Face genuinely believing that u*d only started spending big when Van Gaal was at the helm......Seriously deluded but why do the media just agree and never call him out?
 
Our work servers block the link (gambling site). Any chance of a copy and paste as I liked your last piece on Kyle Walker's transfer fee so much I sent it on to David McDonnell.
 
Nice article, I posted something similar earlier today in the agents fees thread not sure if it fits that thread or this one better but it links to some other insightful articles I've read recently.

Metalartin said:
Sorry to hijack this but can we just make it a general transfer demystifying thread? I've been reading about this recently and it's made me think about how much shite united fans have been talking to make themselves feel better about the Pogba deal and the hypocrisy City face these days(it really does seem to be different rules for us).

First up this recent article shed a bit of light for me on how transfers work these days(hope whatsapp is secure), the talk about shirt sales already paying Pogba's fee the rags always like to roll out as a defence can't be true, they sign deals with the kit makers who pay a set annual amount over a set number of years no matter how many shirts they sell unless they renegotiate the contract at any point.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ow-a-transfer-deal-really-works-a7837031.html

Second on to the hypocrisy, we've already had the press bumping up Walkers' "real fee" up to £100m by including his wages. Thankfully there are some journalists who do see the blatant double standards and are brave enough to say it too, the below articles are well worth a read.

I know we like to dis the MEN but I have to say a lot of the stuff Stuart Brennan writes shouldn't be missed by City fans, he is actually very fair with us from what I have read of his, even pro city dare I say?
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...r-news/man-city-transfer-news-walker-13336546

This one has some nice comparisons with figures that should put things into perspective for any rag or arsenal fan getting high and mighty with us:

http://www.football365.com/news/mediawatch-lukaku-actually-cost-man-united-116m

Also just for fun I had a feeling his Pogba fee was a little low if the article below is accurate we now know what Utd are paying the agent over the length of the contract, and a few of the bonus clauses for the player(there's probably more) then that by my estimate puts the "total" between £175m-£180m:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...n-Utd-signing-Ibrahimovic-Pogba-revealed.html

We know Pogba cost £89m initially and the rags are desperate to keep it there to take the pressure off him but it's likely that the addons will be triggered(they wont sell him and qualifying for the champions league is probably one of triggers) adding another £10m to that or so taking it to £99m. Then you have the player wages and bonuses and the agent fees which the rags are adamant Juventus are paying or came from the transfer fee already but apparently that's not true only £23m did and the rags will pay another £16.39m over the length of his contract(£3.29m a year) and an extra £2.2m will come from Poga himself. In his first season they paid Pogba £220,000 per week which is his basic wage with his image rights which cost them £2.87m(not sure if they have to pay that every year so I will only include it for the first). Next season he was due a pay cut but they qualified for the champions league which triggered a bonus of £1.875m(plus more if they win it... haha) and he gets a loyalty bonus of £3.46m too (which will rise to £3.78m the season after, sounds like a tricky way to hide his real salary) taking his salary to £251,634 per week.

Wages and bonuses:
1st year: £11.48m
2nd year: £13.09m
3-5th year: £13.41m or £11.53m if they don't qualify for the CL.

The salary will cost anywhere between £59.16m - £64.8m and that's just with the bonuses we know about.

£99m + £16.39m = £115.39m

Total: Between £174.55m-£180.19m
Click to expand...
 
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The Guardian in the perfect example of this. I have resigned myself to ignoring the bias of their football journos but on July 7 they covered the Lukaku transfer, concluding he was not a bargain but probably worth £75m (ignoring add ons) yet were scathing about the Walker deal though he is England's first choice right back and we have had a need for the like for two seasons.
 
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