john68 wrote:Hazy2 wrote:Don’t be fooled he is energised by Chelsea woes, SKY is his platform. City his target.
I don't think many City fans will be in anyway fooled by the ratboys inane gobbing off. It will be taken as fact by the sheeple but City have no need to worry about them.
I am impressed with the manner that City have acted. Our owners know what their project is, how to get there and they ignore low level shite like this. It allows City to wholeheartedly focus on what City are doing and continue on the path City are going.
Improving the commercial input globally, from big deals to quite small local ones, investing in future projects like our successful Academy, the aquiring of clubs throughout planet football, investing in the Metaverse to massively improve the City experience for all City fans globally, the new investment with the co-op Arena that could bring in a potential £50M pa and God knows what else they have in their locker for the future.
They have done all this in the fave of a constant battering from the UK media, a constant battering by the old elite and UeFA, and the constant battering of low life pundits like the ratboy whose only audience is a bunch of non thinking sheeple.
And most importantly City have done this whilst playing some of the best football that planet Football has ever seen and delivering a conveyor belt full of titles and trophies at all levels, year on year.
The ratboys pronouncements are tantamount to being merely a mouse squeak in the thunder of a nuclear explosion.
Those that need to know who and what City are, all know and reallt that's all that matters.
Exactly.
It takes some discipline or a clear much bigger strategy; in order to stay out of or above the 'noise'. The club have always impressed by their calmness and focus.
Another factor which is maybe even more important in practical terms; is that City do not have an embedded legion of supporters in the media or anywhere that has a voice. So in simple practical terms it is near impossible for the Club to be heard. That is a fact of life.
One of my points is that while the rags have wall to wall vocal support in the media and all the influence that has on the esablishment in football, it is an hegemony, all pervasive, cant get away from it. That is a double edged sword. When times are good it works in their favour, BUT when things start to go to shit, that hegemony becomes a mighty burden in that the rags as a club cannot shut all the commentry up, the commentry fractures and all and sundry start throwing in their 'solutions'.
This is what we have seen happening and more and more recently.
What the rags actually need is a quiet period where they reflect and try and sort problems out of the limelight - but they wont get it, the media mouthpieces wont be able to stop and leave them alone - they become a burden to the problem solving. You cannot over estimate the effect of this.
City are aligned - the culture at City knows what it is doing and is all well aligned - that is power and it will keep City going forward with skill.
the rags are fractured completely, multiple fractures from the players up and from the owners down. They dont know what the real aim is and they dont know what to focus on and they have hordes of influencers all shouting at once.
If they fail to get CL and they fuck up this next bit of a new manager, i will stick my neck out and say they could even start to skirt around relegation.
As soon as the Prem starts up again and they get outplayed by Brighton they will all go back to squabbling about who is to blame and what they should do.
Lastly imo a decent tactic for City and city fans is to take every opportunity to simply point out that there are 96 or whatever other league clubs out there and yet the media seem only capable of obsessing over 2. Most other fans can see this and i guarentee it does not sit well.
