MEN banned from the press conference today | Some journalists banned for running articles without approaching United for comment first
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Lot of shit stirring by MEN, but this takes the cake.
By banning journalists from press conferences, United are effectively showing contempt for supporters, for we ask questions on their behalf.
- Luckhurst
By banning journalists from press conferences, United are effectively showing contempt for supporters, for we ask questions on their behalf.
- Luckhurst
Tells me that the answer is more simple than we are making out - ten hag hasn't been able to get the best out of this group of players, including many that he picked himself. In most games this season we have had by far the better personnel and the worse performance.
We saw some attitude problems Vs Newcastle no question. But most likely this is the tide turning against the manager after so many similar performances this season, which happens at every club eventually.
I would be in favour of keeping the manager for now, mostly due to the buy out, not because I have any confidence he can turn this around. I expect a new regime will put their own man in if the results and performances are this bad. They will of course rebuild the personnel - but with a clean start I expect
We saw some attitude problems Vs Newcastle no question. But most likely this is the tide turning against the manager after so many similar performances this season, which happens at every club eventually.
I would be in favour of keeping the manager for now, mostly due to the buy out, not because I have any confidence he can turn this around. I expect a new regime will put their own man in if the results and performances are this bad. They will of course rebuild the personnel - but with a clean start I expect
Who are these players? They have named half the squad. Shaw, Sancho and dalot think all that ?
The ones that exist in Luckhurst’s head.
Lurkhurst doesn't speak for me. I can assure him of that.
MEN Mentioning the Munich Air Disaster and Tom Jackson in their statement is downright shameful from them.
What a fecking idiot
Correct. They are acting like they are one with the club just because they've been around for a long tie. feck right off.
I'm not a fan of cancel culture, but I think he should be sacked. He is just an utter cnut.
It's not journalism if it's speculation, or not true, it's lies, and too many fans are too quick to believe the lies that the media push out.
God, I miss this guy. I really do.
It's absolutely pathetic from Luckhurst. He's had an absolute barrage of abuse since he poster that abberation of a response too, not that he will care. Making these grandiose claims then making out you're impartial without ever telling us who or how they GET these stories? If it's a wantaway like Sancho (or Lingard before we got shot of him) who even cares what they think
Wrong. See, this is the issue with how press report things. If you actually listened to what ETH said in that interview, you'd see it was a pretty innocuous comment taken way out of context. If that was throwing players under the bus then Pep has already thrown Gvardiol, Nunes and Phillips under the bus.
Sure, why don't they name their sources; who are the leaks. If they want to be friends with the club and if they certainly don't like seeing us in crisis, the least they can do is reveal their sources.
That's not how journalism works.
Luckhurst is talking shite and surely knows the only 'supporters' he's representing are the perpetually outraged lot who click on content to be annoyed by it.
Poor little Luckhurst making it out as if he’s been kicked out from reporting on an armed conflict as opposed to reporting football gossip from a disgruntled squad member (who could it possibly be? I’m guessing the conversation was had over a game of fifa pro clubs) and reporting it as fact without contacting the club, and then acting as if he’s just a concerned friend. feck off.
Not that I disagree with banning journalists for being too unethical or lazy to do their job properly, in fact I think every club should do this every single time it's warranted....but it isn't going to look like a good move if we get thrashed by Chelsea tomorrow or Liverpool in a week or so, at least one of which is quite likely.
Would have been better to challenge them in the press conference on anything that the club knows is untrue or out of context.
If its relevant, well sourced investigative information then sure.
Vague random source stories about unamed player being unhappy or such and such unidentified person whining that the training isn't very nice etc. I really could not care any less about. It unfairly reflects badly on ALL the players and isn't any kind of important insight into anything at all.
At best it's pandering to some whining man baby who's probably just sulking at being subbed off a few times, and at worst its completely made up, and there's no way to tell which because there is no substance or relevance to such pointless garbage to ever trace it back to anything.
Journalism is supposed to be investigating and reporting the truth (using actual evidence) about matters of interest to the reading public. Not gutter ball narcissitic sh*t stirring
Would have been better to challenge them in the press conference on anything that the club knows is untrue or out of context.
If its relevant, well sourced investigative information then sure.
Vague random source stories about unamed player being unhappy or such and such unidentified person whining that the training isn't very nice etc. I really could not care any less about. It unfairly reflects badly on ALL the players and isn't any kind of important insight into anything at all.
At best it's pandering to some whining man baby who's probably just sulking at being subbed off a few times, and at worst its completely made up, and there's no way to tell which because there is no substance or relevance to such pointless garbage to ever trace it back to anything.
Journalism is supposed to be investigating and reporting the truth (using actual evidence) about matters of interest to the reading public. Not gutter ball narcissitic sh*t stirring
Have you ever read Luckhurst’s stories?
And I mean … STORIES.
The guy’s a total kernob and may as well put a City top on. He’s fecking heartbroken when we win and says something like “United made hard work of a team a top six side should easily beat… the best side lost”.
Did you make his head bigger?You really just have to look at him to see that's all he is.
I wonder if Luckhurst or others are gonna ask Pep or Klopp how they feel about the ban United put.
As long as the club backs him, he is in a position of strength.
They’re not supposed to report what they hear
I understand what you mean but journalism is also not checking only one side, if there even is one. This is just lazy journalism and even if it is true which wouldn't be surprising, his text just smells like he is just fishing for reactions. Nothing else. Just pure negativity. You can even look at what he wrote today. He knows what he did. You can really feel desperation.
As a newspaper, talk about Munchen, talk about other stuff to get our emotions are really low class. They should make a apology tonight. Disgusting. Or our club should ban them even more. They talk about that they represent us. They don't. They represent them self. Nobody else. We don't need them to tell us what is happening at our club. We have our own sources. If they want to be journalists, they have lot to learn from former journalists.
I'm waiting for posters to say "but Ten Hag isn't SAF".
The point is, to be a top manager you often have to be completely and utterly ruthless. With the press and with your team. Its a trait that's non negotiable for success at this club in my opinion.
They'll never reveal their sources but whoever reported that 'Sancho is training like a beast' story was taking the absolute piss.
Their source for the beast part was obviously Sancho.
Why have men been banned from attending @rimaldo ? I thought you’d be the best person to ask.
Sexism is rife.
Sexism is rife.
Man they are buthurt about being banned. Good. Feck em
That statement invoking the Munich disaster, and the journalist who lost his life, in an attempt to prove their historic links to the club was very ill-advised.
They're not doing themselves any favours.
They're not doing themselves any favours.
Get rid of these shit-stirring numpties
We all predicted a fight would be picked with a player next, who knew EtH was thinking on a much bigger scale and targeting the media.
Sure he hasn’t made this decision alone but it’s a massive mistake. You do things like this when you have cache and job security. The wolves will be circling round him like we’ve never seen before.
He’s not SAF or Jose, he’s not built for this beef.
Sure he hasn’t made this decision alone but it’s a massive mistake. You do things like this when you have cache and job security. The wolves will be circling round him like we’ve never seen before.
He’s not SAF or Jose, he’s not built for this beef.
The absolute brass neck of MEN.. if they cared about the club as much as they propose to, they’d get in touch with the club directly and point out which players are selling stories from inside the dressing room, instead they choose to publish said stories to stir the pot and see what sticks, then when the club decides enough is enough.. they’re actually paragons of virtue and its the clubs fault for not looking closer to home???
Parasites…they should be boycotted for this kind of stuff
We should do what City do and ask them to justify every word they print
Parasites…they should be boycotted for this kind of stuff
We should do what City do and ask them to justify every word they print
It’s fair to say the replies to that are not supportive… almost to a man (and woman).
A nice spread between abuse of Luckhurst, disgust at what The MEN has become and asking them to name the source(s).
They must have thought they could play the “we’re the noble press getting bullied by United” card. Not working
I find this funny but this won't end well for us.
I detest the MEN, and Luckhurst. I've not read it for a few years, but the guy that used to be the city correspondent was biased to an almost comical degree. It was like reading a city fanzine. And we get this dipshit, who seems to hate the club and never says anything positive.
Had to drink a couple of pints of water after reading that article, there was that much salt in it. Hope they ban the prick for longer.
Had to drink a couple of pints of water after reading that article, there was that much salt in it. Hope they ban the prick for longer.