I believe they might have sold 99% but 99% didn't attend that's for sure neither did the 99% that voted for Putin.
Pep: “I’d like more fans to come Saturday”
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I was speaking to a couple of City fans I know last week who have followed City all their lives (both well into their 50's). They told me they were bored to death with the way the team plays passing it around endlessly, there's no excitement cos they know a ruck of goals are coming against the lesser teams.
I remember I got absolutely slammed and accused of being a jealous rag when speaking to a couple of City fans a few years ago in Corbieres after a derby. They beat us and cos I said I hate watching Pep teams cos of the style of play, even when he was at Barca I got berated
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Give me end to end football any day over some soulless machine churning out results against the lesser teams with death by a thousand cuts. I wouldn't go either!
I remember I got absolutely slammed and accused of being a jealous rag when speaking to a couple of City fans a few years ago in Corbieres after a derby. They beat us and cos I said I hate watching Pep teams cos of the style of play, even when he was at Barca I got berated
.Give me end to end football any day over some soulless machine churning out results against the lesser teams with death by a thousand cuts. I wouldn't go either!
City were arguably ripe for investment due to being gifted a fancy stadium as well as being in the Premier League and piggybacking of the Manchester name.
While it could be done with anyone, it would take a lot longer to do it with the likes of Fleetwood Town. Moreover, City were able to do it before any sort of regulation was in place. Now with FFP it's far more difficult to do it.
I know City fans who do look back wistfully at the 'old' City, when they were the outsiders, the underdogs sticking it to the big corporates down the road.
Don't get me wrong, I also know City fans who absolutely love sticking the boot into United, and are happy to win at any cost. There are, however, a fair percentage who don't like the commercialisation of their club and the re-branding that has commenced over the last few years.
Them having Silva and Kompany statues in front of the stadium tells all you need to know about that club.
I am quite looking forward to the 40s. Not really missing my 20s.
just listened to a city fan on talksport saying we are the most loyal fans 32000 at maine in the 3rd division, sure Utd had more than that when we were relegated in the 70s. You can't buy history, tradition, culture embedded with things being built with merit and not just bought. City will always be a Manufactured club which majority have zero respect for.
At least that cracked me up.
Begging them to turn up
More fans? Sorry pep, there are no more
No matter how much you polish a turd it will always be a turdBegging them to turn up
More fans? Sorry pep, there are no more
What a joke having to beg your own fans to turn up. Some muppet fan on Talksport trying to defend the indefensible started off by say ‘firtytwo fousand fans in the fird division at Maine road, that says it all’. That of course will include away fans. The cesspit that was Maine road held over 80,000 at one stage. This guy went on to say ‘Liverpool fans are hard core, it’s life or def wiv them’ this in response to his ‘We are all working class local fans not tourists and plastic fans like at United’ Simon Jordan pointed out Liverpool was a working class area. He couldn’t make the case. I thought ‘The Project’ was to attract more fans to help pay for all the players and staff. Not worked has it. What an embarrassment, I bet the PR people at the council ground are going crazy ha ha ha.
I listened to that too haha when Simon said United could sell their stadium 3x over I thought the city fan was gonna lose it haha and their giving the tickets away but no one wants to go. And the other thing Simon said too which is why no one wants to go is everything they've achieved is manufactured compared to what others have done through time, hard work and determination. Souless Club
I hope Pep does more of these interviews. Hopefully he'll use the word "plastic" at some point
Keep seeing the ad pop up on my Facebook to buy tickets, always have a cheeky look and there is always tickets available.
can’t say the same for united.
can’t say the same for united.
City fan on talksport going when we were in 3rd division we pulled in 32000 fans most loyal fans in the world had me in stitches my dad and uncles all went to Utd when they were relegated in the 70s and the crowd was still in full force. City are an embarrassment and just proves you can throw all the money into it but you may have quick success but you will never have the success they truly crave that can't be bought. The likes of United, Liverpool, Villa or even Nottingham Forest have had. European and Domestic success which hadn't been bought but been done on the back of hard work, determination and over time. I hope we hear THE CITY IS YOURS at Old Trafford on Sunday
They want fans to decorate the background. They don't need fans to help pay for all the players and staff. Sponsorships from the UAE pays for all that. And of course, the players and staff agree to relatively low wages because they love the club. They love the club so much, that they agree to take on extremely lucrative side contracts to promote them (as per Mancini's contract).
Norwich averaged crowds of 29000 in the 3rd division in 2009 or something, an increase on their previous season's crowds in the Championship. They'd probably have had even more if their ground could hold more, as their average was just 500 below capacity, and it included away fans which didn't always sell out. City's boast of 32000 fans in the 3rd division isn't as impressive as they make it out to be, and other mid tier clubs can match that.City fan on talksport going when we were in 3rd division we pulled in 32000 fans most loyal fans in the world had me in stitches my dad and uncles all went to Utd when they were relegated in the 70s and the crowd was still in full force. City are an embarrassment and just proves you can throw all the money into it but you may have quick success but you will never have the success they truly crave that can't be bought. The likes of United, Liverpool, Villa or even Nottingham Forest have had. European and Domestic success which hadn't been bought but been done on the back of hard work, determination and over time. I hope we hear THE CITY IS YOURS at Old Trafford on Sunday
Sunderland averaged 32,157 spectators per game in 18/19, their first season in League 1. They're currently averaging 29,954 in 21/22, their fourth season in League 1.
Norwich and Sunderland would be around City's level were it not for the sheiks. Except from my experience, Norwich and Sunderland fans don't throw around abuse at other clubs nearly as much as City fans do. They're happy with their lot more or less, and aspire to more, but aren't nearly as entitled as City fans are.
Another reason to post the Mahrez "public" unveiling. Fans flocked to catch a glimpse of him
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Just four bigger clubs in England than city? Off the top of my head I’d say
Manchester United
Chelsea
Liverpool
Leeds
Villa
Forest
Arsenal
Spurs
Everton
West Ham
and probably more if we’re counting just fans and following, such as Newcastle, Norwich. City are just a very rich little club.
All time record signing turning up in a Nissan xtrail, in front of ten fans and one steward with oasis pumping out of a shitty speaker
Amazing!
Embarrassing. If this was an American sport, the owners would’ve moved this franchise to another city in England a long time ago.
There'd still be nobody turning up
They could win the quadruple and still not fill their own stadium. Maybe they should try buying fans instead of players next summer. Joke of a club.
Fecking hell, I've been to a busier barbecue than that!
I would love to know what planet this guy lives on. Talking about not having enough money to buy Kane in the summer (despite bidding 120 million). Talking about tough games with a tired team, with his ridiculous squad.
Now pleading with fans to come to the game. Surely he was there at all those naff, muted celebrations when they won their trophies? Nobody cares mate. You have no fans and no real enemies either. Fake team playing by their own rules.
Now pleading with fans to come to the game. Surely he was there at all those naff, muted celebrations when they won their trophies? Nobody cares mate. You have no fans and no real enemies either. Fake team playing by their own rules.
Haha yes.The ones that look more like anyone else other than Silva and Kompany
Imagine having a squad so good that has been "completed" 4 years ago and completed 3 more times after that to the point where all you want to do on a press conference is to invite the fans to come and watch.
When even your manager knows you're an empty shell of a club.
This wankery over how many fans a club has is something I'll never get used to.
Glorious
Well it's been said, city can cope without fans, and they can they dont need them, its embarrassing that a club with all that talent all the Joy's of the top manager in the world st pep, he has to beg for fans to turn up. Why bother pep in the cups, and get to Wembley send tickets back again.
Shame someone techy couldn't colour the scarf blue and white but you get the gist...
I think we had the highest attendance in any league in England (incl Div.1) when we were in Div.2
And "glory hunters". Might as well go the full hog?
Pathetic club with plastic fans and a chequebook manager begging fans to come support the team. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.