Garnacho Libre
Full Member
Many fans will say the media is against their football club. After a really good think about it and some research, I've come to the conclusion that by far, it's much worse against United. For one, United news/rumours create a media buzz and frenzy's are made out of pretty much nothing a lot of the time. I understand that they generate public interest.
The reason for the thread is, how much of an impact do you think this has on players, the manager and the ownership? More importantly, how much does it influence you - the fan? By far the most negativity spread about a football club is United. We are frequently exposed to negativity. I really think this makes us, at times - basically go insane in our viewpoints when the reality of something isn't half as bad.
Sky Sports and BBC have consistently reported higher fees for cost of transfers. They report what the transfer fee can go up to when things are achieved like winning the title or scoring 20 goals in the season etc.. and the best one, Martial winning the Ballon D'or. They don't do this with City or Liverpool or Arsenal etc.. Inflated fees reported for United. Sure United have spent a lot of money, but so have other clubs. Where is the talk of the other clubs spending so much amount of money with little trophies to show for it? The media CONSTANTLY compares the United team of now to United teams of the past. It is not a fair comparison. They don't do this with other clubs.
Rashford, a United player, missed out on the Euro's squad, that became a bigger headline than players that were picked. The entire week of the FA Cup final that's all that was in the headlines along with..... an ENORMOUS amount of pressure put on Ten Hag over his future. They scrutinized him all week in the media and in pressers before and AFTER he won the final. Disgusting! Always finding a negative after WINNING a cup final against City. When Grealish who hasn't lit the league on fire since signing for City, where is the media's circus on him? If he was at United it would be a different story. They are unforgiving when it's a United player with their headlines. Headlines can have more space in the papers and TV time anything else being reported.
Souness during the euros constantly bashed Mainoo over how he positioned himself, what other youth academy player do pundits heavily criticise a kid like that? Can you name any? Just because he's a United player.
What do you all think?
The reason for the thread is, how much of an impact do you think this has on players, the manager and the ownership? More importantly, how much does it influence you - the fan? By far the most negativity spread about a football club is United. We are frequently exposed to negativity. I really think this makes us, at times - basically go insane in our viewpoints when the reality of something isn't half as bad.
Sky Sports and BBC have consistently reported higher fees for cost of transfers. They report what the transfer fee can go up to when things are achieved like winning the title or scoring 20 goals in the season etc.. and the best one, Martial winning the Ballon D'or. They don't do this with City or Liverpool or Arsenal etc.. Inflated fees reported for United. Sure United have spent a lot of money, but so have other clubs. Where is the talk of the other clubs spending so much amount of money with little trophies to show for it? The media CONSTANTLY compares the United team of now to United teams of the past. It is not a fair comparison. They don't do this with other clubs.
Rashford, a United player, missed out on the Euro's squad, that became a bigger headline than players that were picked. The entire week of the FA Cup final that's all that was in the headlines along with..... an ENORMOUS amount of pressure put on Ten Hag over his future. They scrutinized him all week in the media and in pressers before and AFTER he won the final. Disgusting! Always finding a negative after WINNING a cup final against City. When Grealish who hasn't lit the league on fire since signing for City, where is the media's circus on him? If he was at United it would be a different story. They are unforgiving when it's a United player with their headlines. Headlines can have more space in the papers and TV time anything else being reported.
Souness during the euros constantly bashed Mainoo over how he positioned himself, what other youth academy player do pundits heavily criticise a kid like that? Can you name any? Just because he's a United player.
What do you all think?