Death to all ITKs: Page 4 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Death to all ITKs

jones

Well done oft you can copy paste everything interesting here.

goon

I'd be happy to mate, I'll even undercut the Athletic and charge just £1 a month from anyone who wants an article.

Claudius

Just gone through this Athletic. Interesting articles and a helpful format. No wading through irrelevant content.

Clrnc

Biggest winner of this window: Lequipe. Broke the Pepe news way before others, Luiz news first and Coutinho although the latter was half true as we rejected him in the end.

Oracle is still the best out there as well

Gunner89

first month of athetlc is free. no brainer.

TambourineMan

Coutinho would have made sense now that we have let Iwobi leave.

MuswellHillGooner

Clrnc wrote:
Biggest winner of this window: Lequipe. Broke the Pepe news way before others, Luiz news first and Coutinho although the latter was half true as we rejected him in the end.

Oracle is still the best out there as well

I think Orny retained his crown with a last minute K.O.

est

😆

Gazza M

ornstein was sketchy this window, but breaking the news that the dybala deal was off was a fine send-off. saw that tweet pop onto my feed in real-time and immediately busted out laughing

Mirth

So....has anyone subscribed to the Athletic for football news? How is it?

Qwiss

Haven't got it. Know a few people who did, they say its great if you also like US sports.

Bold Tone

It's free for a month
https://theathletic.com

goon

i subbed for a year with the 50% offer, but I'd definitely check out the trial if you're not sure. I generally have stopped bothering to read the sports pages of mainstream papers because of the quality of the content, so this fills a gap for me.

Claudius

Mirth wrote:
So....has anyone subscribed to the Athletic for football news? How is it?

I went in and read an article on Liverpool and Klopp. Really well-written. Also the fact that I was able to go in and customize it so it only displays articles about Premier League, Arsenal, Lakers, Juve and Real. It’s a massive benefit to open a sports feed and daily email with no noise, just intriguing titles from guys like Michael Cox. They’re pushing their 50% special now

mdgoonah41

Claudius wrote:
Mirth wrote:
So....has anyone subscribed to the Athletic for football news? How is it?

I went in and read an article on Liverpool and Klopp. Really well-written. Also the fact that I was able to go in and customize it so it only displays articles about Premier League, Arsenal, Lakers, Juve and Real. It’s a massive benefit to open a sports feed and daily email with no noise, just intriguing titles from guys like Michael Cox. They’re pushing their 50% special now

the customization is actually the best feature of the site, imo. you pick the teams/leagues you want to follow, and that is what you see when you log in. you can still explore other stuff, but every day i am getting 5-6 articles about the teams i care about and i can read those first, and that is typically all i have time to read. works well.

its jarring going from the athletic back to something like espn, with tons of autoplay flash videos and ads all over the place.

mdgoonah41

if you are still on the fence, 50% off the athletic right now

theathletic.com/laborday50

i'll keep posting about it, because i really do hope it is the future of journalism. clickbait and annoying ads are awful and if journalism can move to a pure subscription model, i think its better for everyone.

QuincyAbeyie

The Athletic don't need astroturfers because their subscribers are doing it for free!

In all seriousness I felt kind of bad when reading the articles posted on here for free, but when I read what their higher-ups are saying I immediately feel much better.

"We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing. We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them."

mdgoonah41

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
The Athletic don't need astroturfers because their subscribers are doing it for free!

In all seriousness I felt kind of bad when reading the articles posted on here for free, but when I read what their higher-ups are saying I immediately feel much better.

"We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing. We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them."

to be fair, the guy who said that said it a few years ago and has apologized numerous times for the remark.

Captain

Pure MBA thinking. Equally brilliant and sad.

(I've got one of those)

jones

An apology doesn't count for much when it's their business model does it? I'm not familiar with them but buying the best/most renowned journalists from the competition and then growing market share by burning money with implausibly cheap initial fees sounds suspiciously similar to the attrition model employed by investor bankrolled companies like Uber, Airbnb etc.

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