The Athletic

Subscription based sports journo site comes to the UK, with a focus on football to begin with. Their model long form writing and to cover all teams as local papers would, starving the same papers of any talent:

“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” the NY Times quoted Alex Mather, The Athletic’s chief executive, as saying at the time.

“We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”

Think they may have missed the boat on that one tbf but they've managed to poach Daniel Taylor who is one of the best out there as well as Mitten and this lot

£3 a month for first year isn't bad though they'll need to sell advertising space by y2 as no-one in their right mind will pay a tenner a month for sports content.

Journalism is on its arse. It’s full of clickbait and btec journalists that cite a story from another source. Already seen the Athletic being cited by the guardian alone with every other ‘united news’ account on twitter.

Seems like they have a few insiders that have gotten in on the Maguire story along with a few others. This summers transfer stories have been ran by Italian journalists that are more we’ll known on twitter.

had it in the US for about 6 months its great

Custis is a big fan.

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/status/1158308412863778816?s=20

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/status/1158311180039069701?s=20

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/status/1158316588053028864?s=20

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/status/1158360469876432903?s=20

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/status/1158375028506988545?s=20

Custis is a right #@&%!.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Custis is a big fan.

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/st...863778816?s=20

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/st...039069701?s=20

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/st...053028864?s=20

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/st...876432903?s=20

https://twitter.com/ncustisTheSun/st...506988545?s=20

Originally Posted by dunk

Custis is a right #@&%!.

He’s the definition of a man-child. Definitely something quite seriously wrong with him

Paying for the shit they write....

No Ta.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Paying for the shit they write....

No Ta.

Looking forward to yet another article from Mitten about how he’s flown to Kuala Lumpur to sit down for a chat with Quinton Fortune or something.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Looking forward to yet another article from Mitten about how he’s flown to Kuala Lumpur to sit down for a chat with Quinton Fortune or something.

At Barcelona with my butties in tinfoil, I'm really turning into a Catalan....

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/c..._the_transfer/

Decent read tbf

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

Subscription based sports journo site comes to the UK, with a focus on football to begin with. Their model long form writing and to cover all teams as local papers would, starving the same papers of any talent:

“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” the NY Times quoted Alex Mather, The Athletic’s chief executive, as saying at the time.

“We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”

Think they may have missed the boat on that one tbf but they've managed to poach Daniel Taylor who is one of the best out there as well as Mitten and this lot

£3 a month for first year isn't bad though they'll need to sell advertising space by y2 as no-one in their right mind will pay a tenner a month for sports content.

Manchester United – Andy Mitten and Laurie Whitwell

Originally Posted by Vedder

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/c..._the_transfer/

Decent read tbf

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Football journalism is worthless.

Originally Posted by Hands of Scone

Football journalism is worthless.

this, especially now with club and player social media accounts. cut out the parasitic middle man (no offence, cream).

Originally Posted by Jack Duckworth

this, especially now with club and player social media accounts. cut out the parasitic middle man (no offence, cream).

None taken.

Originally Posted by Hands of Scone

Journalism is worthless.

This, with fewer exceptions than ever.

given the preponderance of false nines in the modern game...

Originally Posted by plopborsky

had it in the US for about 6 months its great

So great you now don't?

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” the NY Times quoted Alex Mather, The Athletic’s chief executive, as saying at the time.

“We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”

Sound like a great bunch of lads

3 quid a month to read articles by Andy Mitten