Dr. Dwayne
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Read a couple of articles over the weekend. Am I supposed to be impressed?
Compared to the regular UK press stories, yes.Read a couple of articles over the weekend. Am I supposed to be impressed?
I doubt it. I had read countless Sam Lee tweets on City's transfers but never a single article. Those journalists will still get the narrative out on Twitter.Surely football clubs would get other "mouth pieces" rather than feeding their info to the guys that only write stuff that is behind a paywall?
You are more likely to have a subscription if someone in your close group does. They are aware that most of the people who read their articles are not subscribers, but they are increasing awareness in their products.The way the world is going that everyone now wants to get paid for what they post. I'm excited for the days when Instagram and twitter cost money to follow certain people. That will be fun.
I'd be interested to know how much money papers like the Telegraph make from subscriptions? I know one person that does and they just send us the text of the articles anyway. I didn't realise for sport people like to read in depth stuff fully. Usually i just take the key points aka he scores a lot of goals, who won, how much will they cost, when are we playing.
You're not supposed to be anything.Read a couple of articles over the weekend. Am I supposed to be impressed?
You can cancel any time up to the point you pay the 30 quid, so if you sign up today you'll pay on Sept 6th. That's what I'm doing, set a reminder for the date and will cancel if I don't use it.I'm considering giving it a go with the £30 for the year offer but I already read an unhealthy amount of business news across like 4 paywall sites each day that it's probably better if I don't. BBC football and r/soccer will probably be my lot. Unless it's really really good, in which case premium content is worth paying for (like the financial times), but I can't really see how good it is unless I sign up for the free trial, at which point may as well just pay the £30.
I suppose that's fair enough, and makes sense, just not sure how much their new employers would want them to say on Twitter considering they've gotten a hefty pay rise, we shall soon see in the January transfer window and beyond.I doubt it. I had read countless Sam Lee tweets on City's transfers but never a single article. Those journalists will still get the narrative out on Twitter.
You'll get all the interesting bits on here through discussion anyway. I'm going to give it a shot for a year as £30 is only £2.50 a month. I like that the journalists hold some round tables so you can ask them questions about the articles.I suppose that's fair enough, and makes sense, just not sure how much their new employers would want them to say on Twitter considering they've gotten a hefty pay rise, we shall soon see in the January transfer window and beyond.
I personally just come to the Caf to read anything sports wise, not sure I'd want to pay to read tabloid stuff, and the super analytical pieces don't really interest me anymore.
They can't have seen much of him then. Very comfortable on the ball and a decent passer. I think it's obvious that City wanted him, Guardiola has admitted it, but we were unwilling to pay £80m + for him. I agree with that view, it is overpriced, but I thought the same about van Dijk. Hopefully Stones can step up this season.The good thing about the Maguire article was that the United, City and Leicester journalists all pooled their knowledge of the deal to create it. They took questions on it yesterday too.
One irate City fan still wasn't having it that City were really interested because they reckon Maguire isn't a good passer of the ball.
he seemed like an utter twat«The Owner» article was fun! I normally can’t stand most football «journalists» but this actually seems quite alright.
Yeshe seemed like an utter twat
Inaccurate.Instead of a load of lying cnuts spread out across various papers, they are now all concentrated in one place.
They will still be writing a load of made up bollocks, most of the time.
The papers will find a load of other liars to write their stuff instead.
He seemed like Sam Allardyce had just bought a club.he seemed like an utter twat
Defend the press if you wish, they write such utter bullshit day in day out. The vast majority are stealing a living and the standard of writing is appalling.Inaccurate.
Do some research into their articles. No need for click bait shit with a pay wall.
Got quite a reception BTL. Some weren't happy.«The Owner» article was fun! I normally can’t stand most football «journalists» but this actually seems quite alright.
I’m still not paying though!
I'm not defending the press in general. They are mostly hopeless twats but are set up to fail having to use clickbait shit.Defend the press if you wish, they write such utter bullshit day in day out. The vast majority are stealing a living and the standard of writing is appalling.
I mean, yeah it's obviously better than the Mirror and such but it seems like they took the writers who used to create TLDR stories for The Observer and charge you more money for it.Compared to the regular UK press stories, yes.
Mods can you please change this guy's name to Nietzsche7? I'm questioning my existence here.You're not supposed to be anything.
I actually read the articles via reddit.No chance I'd pay for this, everything will be summarised on Twitter anyway and anything behind a paywall can be copy and pasted by someone.
Remember hearing very similar stories when Moyes, LVG, and Mourinho came in. iPads, trees being planted at the training ground, food selection, etc. Take it all with a grain of salt.Yeah apparently some really basic stuff was off.
This is just one example.
PS: I'm not sure to what extent we're fine quoting the article. I think we should be good as long as I'm not writing out the entire article but just quoting sections.
Depends if you can be arsed to read good in depth stories or not.I mean, yeah it's obviously better than the Mirror and such but it seems like they took the writers who used to create TLDR stories for The Observer and charge you more money for it.
Mods can you please change this guy's name to Nietzsche7? I'm questioning my existence here.
I mean, yeah it's obviously better than the Mirror and such but it seems like they took the writers who used to create TLDR stories for The Observer and charge you more money for it.
Mods can you please change this guy's name to Nietzsche7? I'm questioning my existence here.
Ha. Fair enough.I mean, yeah it's obviously better than the Mirror and such but it seems like they took the writers who used to create TLDR stories for The Observer and charge you more money for it.
Mods can you please change this guy's name to Nietzsche7? I'm questioning my existence here.
Woodward spamming Rummenigge through Whatsapp instead of e-mail. Very clever.The difference to me seems like the quality has drastically gone up because they no longer need make it tantalising to get people to click. The article about the inner workings of the transfer market especially goes in depth about how shady transfer business is and how good or bad agents are and how clubs are trying to get around agents by directly contacting each other.
For example: I never realized (but it seems obvious now) that all major club chairmen and sporting directors are in a WhatsApp group together. And that there’s a subscription service that lets club advertise what players they want and what they want to sell to cut out the middlemen.
Sure but Nick aligned better to Nietzsche compared to Kierkeggard or Sartre.Ha. Fair enough.
Btw Nietzsche would say be come who you are.
They don't sign up morons.Won't be long until they snap up Balague, Luckhurst and Kaveh .
I think the Football Weekly podcast has improved since Jimbo left and I spent most of last season constantly debating whether or not to stop listening to The Totally Football Show.Only hearing about this now. Which maybe says a lot considering I am a massive reader of the Guardian cohort that have left. If Daniel Taylor (consistent award-winning football writer) is leading a group leaving (following AC Jimbo et al. from the podcast side of things) then really the Guardian must not be paying or promoting.
Notable last year that the Football Weekly podcast was repeatedly asking for "contributions" from listeners, so something is going on. Sad to hear really.
Must go now and check out "The Athletic" (terrible name BTW) - if they have any free content.
IMO people will not pay for journalism never-mind sports or football journalism.
I wouldn't believe either of those without being shown concrete proof. It would give away too much entering into negotiations for a start.For example: I never realized (but it seems obvious now) that all major club chairmen and sporting directors are in a WhatsApp group together. And that there’s a subscription service that lets club advertise what players they want and what they want to sell to cut out the middlemen.
Don't know about you, but has Koeman said anything yet?Read a couple of articles over the weekend. Am I supposed to be impressed?