Football Media

[dave watson's perm]

I don't think I have ever heard one mention of Martial's price tag from cunt face Tyler but wait until later and see how long they can go without mentioning "the most expensive centre half pairing in the history of the solar system"

[Beefymcfc]

What a fucking load of biased crap. Upping every fee we paid for players.

I'm pretty sure Leicester just played Liverpool and there was nothing of the sort in the media.

Pathetic. As usual.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... paign=1490

Nt going to click on that shit but I'm guessing they aren't comparing the Leicester squad to the Rags, Chavs or even Arsenal, who have been trailing them for a while.

Sterling £49 mil, De Bruyne £54 mil; was Martial mentioned at over £50 mil?

[Mase]

What a fucking load of biased crap. Upping every fee we paid for players.

I'm pretty sure Leicester just played Liverpool and there was nothing of the sort in the media.

Pathetic. As usual.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... paign=1490

Nt going to click on that shit but I'm guessing they aren't comparing the Leicester squad to the Rags, Chavs or even Arsenal, who have been trailing them for a while.

Sterling £49 mil, De Bruyne £54 mil; was Martial mentioned at over £50 mil?

When I checked before they had the Mang at £42 million.... I'm sure he was early 30s??

[Tokyo Blue]

What a fucking load of biased crap. Upping every fee we paid for players.

I'm pretty sure Leicester just played Liverpool and there was nothing of the sort in the media.

Pathetic. As usual.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... paign=1490

Nt going to click on that shit but I'm guessing they aren't comparing the Leicester squad to the Rags, Chavs or even Arsenal, who have been trailing them for a while.

Sterling £49 mil, De Bruyne £54 mil; was Martial mentioned at over £50 mil?

When I checked before they had the Mang at £42 million.... I'm sure he was early 30s??

He was, but even fuckin City fans have started to believe this shite. Make up a figure, repeat it as often as you can and it becomes "true". I am glad I am not the only who saw what he cost before the munes/cunts got hold of it.

[Mase]

I noticed last night MOTD were making out Ozil is a cert to win POTY...is KDB excluded from it this year?

[Mase]

What a fucking load of biased crap. Upping every fee we paid for players.

I'm pretty sure Leicester just played Liverpool and there was nothing of the sort in the media.

Pathetic. As usual.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... paign=1490

Nt going to click on that shit but I'm guessing they aren't comparing the Leicester squad to the Rags, Chavs or even Arsenal, who have been trailing them for a while.

Sterling £49 mil, De Bruyne £54 mil; was Martial mentioned at over £50 mil?

When I checked before they had the Mang at £42 million.... I'm sure he was early 30s??

He was, but even fuckin City fans have started to believe this shite. Make up a figure, repeat it as often as you can and it becomes "true". I am glad I am not the only who saw what he cost before the munes/cunts got hold of it.

I'd love to see the club get involved and make them print something acknowledging that what they wrote is false.

[nottsblue]

I noticed last night MOTD were making out Ozil is a cert to win POTY...is KDB excluded from it this year?

Be like the year Yaya scored 20 and starfish got in the team of the year.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

I noticed last night MOTD were making out Ozil is a cert to win POTY...is KDB excluded from it this year?

Be like the year Yaya scored 20 and starfish got in the team of the year.

KDB needs to start performing away from home.

[Beefymcfc]

I noticed last night MOTD were making out Ozil is a cert to win POTY...is KDB excluded from it this year?

Be like the year Yaya scored 20 and starfish got in the team of the year.

KDB needs to start performing away from home.

I thought he played well today, let down with those around him.

[Foreverinbluedreams]

I noticed last night MOTD were making out Ozil is a cert to win POTY...is KDB excluded from it this year?

Be like the year Yaya scored 20 and starfish got in the team of the year.

KDB needs to start performing away from home.

I thought he played well today, let down with those around him.

He started well, tends to drift in and out.

[nottsblue]

I noticed last night MOTD were making out Ozil is a cert to win POTY...is KDB excluded from it this year?

Be like the year Yaya scored 20 and starfish got in the team of the year.

KDB needs to start performing away from home.

He's not the only one. Pellegrini to start needs to find a better solution than the one he currently thinks he has. We are too predictable away with no plan B.

[Beefymcfc]

MotD concentrating on our defence rather than the fact we have won away from home .............. woooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (build this fucker up) ............ since September!

[Foreverinbluedreams]

MotD concentrating on our defence rather than the fact we have won away from home .............. woooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (build this fucker up) ............ since September!

Our defence? Despite how utterly shit we were we only gave up one clear cut chance apart from the fuck up for their goal. 3rd best in the league for clean sheets.

[Pretty Boy Lee]

I noticed last night MOTD were making out Ozil is a cert to win POTY...is KDB excluded from it this year?

Be like the year Yaya scored 20 and starfish got in the team of the year.

KDB needs to start performing away from home.

I thought he played well today, let down with those around him.

He started well, tends to drift in and out.

He did annoy me with his pulling out of high balls and 50/50's last night. He wasn't awful but Jesus did he avoid any contact.

That said silva was awful and sterling not much better so I'm not gonna moan about it much.

[Original Dub]

Here we go again. Hung, drawn and quartered. The world will hear it was all the city fans' fault.

We are a horrible club. At least that's what the media want everyone to think

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... paign=1490

[Mase]

Here we go again. Hung, drawn and quartered. The world will hear it was all the city fans' fault.

We are a horrible club. At least that's what the media want everyone to think

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... paign=1490

"After the first skirmish, a group of Man City fans stood goading the Everton supporters with their arms outstretched in a threatening manner."

If anyone feels threatened by someone stretching out their arms then they deserve a slap.

[PrezIke]

What a fucking load of biased crap. Upping every fee we paid for players.

I'm pretty sure Leicester just played Liverpool and there was nothing of the sort in the media.

Pathetic. As usual.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... paign=1490

Nt going to click on that shit but I'm guessing they aren't comparing the Leicester squad to the Rags, Chavs or even Arsenal, who have been trailing them for a while.

Sterling £49 mil, De Bruyne £54 mil; was Martial mentioned at over £50 mil?

When I checked before they had the Mang at £42 million.... I'm sure he was early 30s??

He was, but even fuckin City fans have started to believe this shite. Make up a figure, repeat it as often as you can and it becomes "true". I am glad I am not the only who saw what he cost before the munes/cunts got hold of it.

I posted a few links to articles that discussed Mangala's fee last May.

The first from a Guardian article that referred to some findings on third party ownership and City at the end of last season.

http://www.mancityfans.net/mcfnet/viewtopic.php?f=119&t=50108&start=80#p706851

The stand-out question mark, of course, is the one against Mangala. Club sources have confirmed that City paid £42m last summer for the then 23-year-old, whom Porto had signed for £4.7m from Standard Liège three years earlier, and who had played in four friendlies for France.

There was one in the Telegraph as well that referred to later confirmation of the £42m fee as well.

http://www.mancityfans.net/mcfnet/viewtopic.php?f=119&t=50108&start=80#p706910

The arrival of Bony takes City’s spending during the winter and summer windows to £83million, with the full fee for Porto defender Eliaquim Mangala now being confirmed as £42million, rather than the £32m reported by the club at the time of his arrival.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... -Uefa.html

Since there were mixed reports about this it's complicated but it is clearly somewhere in between £32m and £42m. We just don't know, but it could be £42m.

Martial was initially £36m but he has a few key add ons, some that seem quite likely to happen (25 goals for Utd over 4 years, 25 appearances for France over 4 years) and would raise his fee to £51m. The other add on to make it £58m is winning the Ballon d'Or by 2019.

http://www.caughtoffside.com/2015/09/04 ... ed-clause/

[Tokyo Blue]

Sorry, mate, but if the club say 32 million, then that is the figure I am going to believe over that touted by any journalist.

[Beefymcfc]

42 million was a guess after the third party was mentioned. It started at 32 according to quotes from the selling club but then increased significantly as every fee does with us. Probably to offset the fact that Vinnie cost us next to nothing.

To be honest, I don't really give a shit how much a player costs, that's the accountants job. I prefer to concentrate on how they play, as a supporter should do.

[PrezIke]

Sorry, mate, but if the club say 32 million, then that is the figure I am going to believe over that touted by any journalist.

I hear you mate. Given the slant journalists have had against us this make sense, but I am not certain that therefore everything journalists report about the club our fans don't like is inherently incorrect because the club reports something different. The Lampard situation last season is an example of this as well. Let's be real. I tried to find ways to explain it to myself but clearly we tried to put our intentions under the radar, or when we became more interested in keeping him for the whole season we changed the story. City are generally one of the best run clubs but we are not necessarily perfect angels. It's big business and a lot it at stake.

If a journalist cites a source inside the club that "confirmed" the 42 million fee I think it is at least something to consider, but something to not be believed at all? Use of anonymous sources is a highly common way for journalists to put out information that someone wants to be kept from the public. As much as I want to believe the club, all businesses are going to want to slant public perception in their favour. It's normal.

I think we don't know really what the fee actually was, but it may very well be more than what City reported after information was leaked later last season, and it is not too shocking given the ridiculous issues with 3rd party ownership. It's possible an extra 10 million was in relation to add ons, or someone else with rights claimed/showed they were owed it and the club possibly preferred to pay them than create an even worse situation. If it's 42, it's 42. Maybe it's 32. Maybe it's in between. It doesn't matter anymore anyway.