This is a headline on the Daily Express website: "Man Utd to seal first Ruben Amorim deal today as £21m medical booked"
The deal United are sealing today? - Amad Diallo's contract extension.
The medical that's booked? - for Jaden Philogene at Ipswich Town.
I know we've all seen a million examples of this kind of intentionally misleading headline. But sometimes maybe it's useful to take a step back and reflect that this is what mass media has become. At the intersection of largely unregulated free markets and digital technology, this is how our information systems now function. They are not primarily devised to inform us, but to harvest our attention. That's ultimately (yep, I'm going to get political again, sorry) why fascism is making a spectacular comeback. And it's why human civilisation is essentially fuсked.
clickbait
posted 7 hours, 36 minutes ago
This one from some time back was a great example of the genre - https://ow.ly/qa2s50UEf2c
posted 7 hours, 33 minutes ago
I'm just cynical and view most football-related stories with a huge pinch of salt, especially those that involve supposed transfers.
I would be interested to know what % of these stories turn out to be true...........probably a worse conversion rate than Haaland.........
posted 7 hours, 17 minutes ago
Russian is turning into Rob. Next well have a 'my favourite 80s teen movies' post.
posted 7 hours, 13 minutes ago
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 3 minutes ago
Russian is turning into Rob. Next well have a 'my favourite 80s teen movies' post.
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You'll never guess which one of these is my favourite -
https://ow.ly/qa2s50UEf2c
posted 7 hours, 7 minutes ago
"Player's two word response to rumours send United fans WILD", is a personal favourite of mine.
posted 7 hours, 5 minutes ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 41 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 minute ago
The media have been in overdrive the last few days. The January window is again going to be a quiet one overall so the nonsense click bait stuff is in full swing.
The 'every United player has a price' narrative over the last week is true of about 98% of players in the entire division. There aren't many footballers in the PL who are untouchable.
Standard of journalism is at an all time low.
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Poor example, SE85. United sources naming Garnacho and Mainoo as examples made it a story when 'every player has their price' isn't a story. That's on the club rather than journalists, and the coverage that came out of the Athletic on the story was responsible, unsensational and intelligent.
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Why is it on the club? I don't think for a second anyone at the club singled out Mainoo, Garnacho n Hojlund. The media took the 'no player is untouchable' and made a sensationalist story out of it. Within 48 hrs more stories came out from Kobbie's camp that he has no intention of leaving and wants to stay at United which i fully believe.
Why did they choose those 3 players in particular? Was it cause the biggest stir possible? Of course it was.
The media are not our friends and allies. Even the ones who work for M.E.N are forever leaking stuff from their inside sources.
So sorry but I totally disagree.
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SE85 two journalists at different major titles, both of whom rely on access to clubs for their scoops, reported exactly the same story, both specifying Mainoo and Garnacho, both stating this was the club's position. The Athletic in particular is very scrupulous about specifying the nature of a story: a quoted individual, the club itself, a club employee speaking anonymously, etc. I see no reason why two journalists at competing outlets would simultaneously break ethics and breach the trust of an important source in writing the story with false spin in identical fashion. Anyway, we've been through this on the other thread, you see it differently, and neither of us have anything new to say so let's not derail this one by discussing it further.
posted 7 hours, 3 minutes ago
Two BIG United names in spat shocker.
posted 5 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 41 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by Tyranny of the majority (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 minute ago
The media have been in overdrive the last few days. The January window is again going to be a quiet one overall so the nonsense click bait stuff is in full swing.
The 'every United player has a price' narrative over the last week is true of about 98% of players in the entire division. There aren't many footballers in the PL who are untouchable.
Standard of journalism is at an all time low.
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Poor example, SE85. United sources naming Garnacho and Mainoo as examples made it a story when 'every player has their price' isn't a story. That's on the club rather than journalists, and the coverage that came out of the Athletic on the story was responsible, unsensational and intelligent.
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Why is it on the club? I don't think for a second anyone at the club singled out Mainoo, Garnacho n Hojlund. The media took the 'no player is untouchable' and made a sensationalist story out of it. Within 48 hrs more stories came out from Kobbie's camp that he has no intention of leaving and wants to stay at United which i fully believe.
Why did they choose those 3 players in particular? Was it cause the biggest stir possible? Of course it was.
The media are not our friends and allies. Even the ones who work for M.E.N are forever leaking stuff from their inside sources.
So sorry but I totally disagree.
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SE85 two journalists at different major titles, both of whom rely on access to clubs for their scoops, reported exactly the same story, both specifying Mainoo and Garnacho, both stating this was the club's position. The Athletic in particular is very scrupulous about specifying the nature of a story: a quoted individual, the club itself, a club employee speaking anonymously, etc. I see no reason why two journalists at competing outlets would simultaneously break ethics and breach the trust of an important source in writing the story with false spin in identical fashion. Anyway, we've been through this on the other thread, you see it differently, and neither of us have anything new to say so let's not derail this one by discussing it further.
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And you know for a fact they got those names in particular do you?
Or maybe just maybe they heard the words 'nobody in untouchable' and thought.....hmmmm Mainoo and Garnacho are included in that and decided to run a non story in a quiet news week?
United won't be telling the press they are open to selling Mainoo specifically when they are trying to get him to extend his deal. That sort of thing doesn't work in modern times.
There are no friends in the media.
posted 5 hours, 16 minutes ago
SE85 as I said, I don't find your argument convincing, you haven't addressed the key points of mine, and it would be very boring to prolong this discussion.
posted 4 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 🏴 JA606 Class Act (U2462)
posted 2 hours, 18 minutes ago
Two BIG United names in spat shocker.
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Let me guess: some random bloke down some random pub tried to pronounce ‘Bastian Schweinsteiger’ and ‘Nikodimos Papavasiliou’ after a few pints and managed to release a significant amount of phlegm whilst doing so?