Liverpool’s £9m interest represents a new media low
I have to admit that I never understand where the journalists get their inspiration, but our friends at The People sunk to new depths of desperation this morning in the hope of pulling off a real coup. If suggesting that City is willing to offer one English pound more than any other club would pay for Fernando Torres wasn’t bad enough, then our apparent £9m interest in Charles N’Zogbia saw them hitting rock bottom.
Of course as you would all expect that the reliable source used came from a journalist’s best friend ‘the insider’. It’s all so easy and obviously they believe that supporters are idiots and will buy into this sort of tripe, as long as they inform us an ‘insider’ or a ‘source close to the club’ has fed them the information.
“They are willing to pay one pound more than the best offer that comes in for Fernando,” a source close to Torres told the paper.”
“City wants to prepare a new project with Torres as their main star. Next season they want to make sure they are fighting for the Premier League title from the first moment again.”
Perhaps Liverpool should put out their own statement via the press claiming that Barcelona has tabled a £100m bid and see if this ‘insider’ is as good as his word.
Elsewhere in this pathetic excuse of a paper we have apparently sent three scouts to watch Wigan’s game in midweek to watch Charles N’Zogbia. The journalist didn’t claim an ‘insider’ on this occasion, but it must have been obvious that the French winger was the object of their attentions and not one of the other 21 players that were on the pitch that day. Let me work this out. ‘Liverpool need width in the team and with the knowledge that Hodgson has money to spend’ – absolute genius, god it is easy this journalism lark isn’t it? Perhaps one of the stipulations of working for The People is that you must make 2+2 equal five.
I know I shouldn’t get riled by this and should accept it as part of the course, but these fabricated lies simply boils my blood and the problem with them is, especially in the case of Torres, is that they simply have no purpose other than to unsettle the player. Why I am not naive enough to realise that is the sole intention to seed further headlines, I ask the question as to why the press allowed to get away with it, time after time – shouldn’t the club look to challenge these damaging headlines on a daily basis, before they fester into something that could prove problematic long term?
October 31st, 2010
I agree. In any other walk of life its libel. Football is the part of the papers where unsubstantiated rumour, or just plain old made up BS, can be reported as fact.
If Torres was working for BP as a top exec, and these rumours were being floated would they make it into print? No- one phone call from any junior lawyer would get them quashed.
It does annoy me though, because there is no consistency to what they say, and they are usually full of more mistakes than Wikipedia would allow.
October 31st, 2010
The expression is ‘par for the course’ not ‘part of the course’.
October 31st, 2010
some of the crap they come out with is a joke. however I welcome being linked to n’zogbia. think hes a quality player.
November 1st, 2010
were u not d website last week claiming ruud guillit was in line for hodgsons job as liverpool manager
November 1st, 2010
Of course the point of such “articles” is not to make you believe anything. Its to sell papers. Nothing more.
The very fact that you have read and written about it, and we are talking about it, only gives grist to the mill of their lies. they don’t care if it’s true or not, and the only reason it matters is because people start to worry these things might be true.
If we all stopped reading and listening and paid attention to things that were real, and mattered, everybody would be happier. Apart from the paper men, which is no great tradgedy!
November 1st, 2010
The People is a complete failure, it’s poorly managed, looks terrible and is the graveyard for stories other newspapers have no room for.
The only contacts their sports journalists have are other journalists. I used to buy it, only when all the other papers were sold out. I don’t even do that any more. Dis-count anything you might hear comes from it, it’ll either be made up or taken from an Internet forum…. Rubbish!
November 1st, 2010
Of all the papers that continuously put the boot in the last couple of years, the daily mail is the one paper that has been continuosly filled with sheer lies about this club. the daily mail puts the people to complete and utter shame. not once has it ever dedicated more than a paragraph about man ure’s debt situation. there is nothing but contempt from that paper when it comes to liverpool
November 1st, 2010
Brilliant article and fully agree. I honestly think someone should be regulating the written media because the sh1t they publish on a daily basis is just astonishing.
November 1st, 2010
the footballfancast website is always full of speculative nonsense so you really should be used to it by now.