I am a tourist.. and will be in the UK 2nd week of August.. and wanted to watch Utd with my 7 year old kid ..
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Nik (@Rood), Jamie (@Vault Dweller) and Ed (@That'sHernandez) give their end of season awards out! They celebrate the best players, goals and moments of the season (there were some, honestly) and also give out awards for the worst and most disappointing players/moments of the season.
They then discuss all the latest transfer rumours and get into the potential ins and outs this summer at Old Trafford.
Season ticket holders, if you have any single for games feel free to direct message me on here and I will have them off you. I'm not buying direct from the club as they have totally taken the p!55.
I've bought off several people off here before.
I've bought off several people off here before.
Looking for 2 tickets for opening day against Arsenal please. Need to maintain my streak of being at OT at opening day. Thank you.
Well yes but I was asking whether you're a paid club member or not - you don't have to live in the UK: https://tickets.manutd.com/memberships.
The only 'official' way to get standard tickets is to buy a membership for you and your child. Then, when the ticket ballot opens , apply for a ticket and keep your fingers crossed.
To be completely honest its extremely unlikely that you will successfully apply in the ballot, but not impossible. So up to you whether you think £40 on membership is worth it to apply. I would suggest probably not.
The other option is buying hospitality from the club (a few hundred £ per ticket) or buying second hand from a tout - also very expensive and potentially risky.
That’s a good point, just checked the renewal confirmation and the T&Cs are linked to last season, guessing they’re going to slip in some changes at some point.
https://www.manutd.com/en/help/terms-and-conditions-of-sale
Bought tickets for Brighton and will probably try for Arsenal ballot, but honestly think that might be it for me.
I get inflation and all that, but difficult to see how the club can justify this after we've been so bad these last 2 seasons...
I get inflation and all that, but difficult to see how the club can justify this after we've been so bad these last 2 seasons...
Yep. Very sad. They’re not arsed about young fans in the slightest. We live a few miles from OT and will now rarely go. Always thought I’d go regularly with my son like I did with my Dad.
Jim was the worst thing that's happened to our club. I'm not affected as I'm a ST holder but this is so upsetting.
I'll continue to resell my tickets on the caf for FV. Will absolutely not ever resell to the club for them to sell at tout prices.
I'll continue to resell my tickets on the caf for FV. Will absolutely not ever resell to the club for them to sell at tout prices.
No.
Not a paid club member.
I read an article earlier on the BBC about City’s season tickets and their required usage is 16 games out of 19. They must have a sell back or transfer system like us as it did go on to say that the season ticket holder must attend 10 of the 16 games. It didn’t say how that’ll be monitored.
I hear you about the waiting list. We spent four years on a row of ten seats, eight of which were owned by one family and only one person from that family used their ticket, the rest were sold on regardless of who the opposition was, and I know they held tickets elsewhere in the ground too. It’s really unfair.
Yep
On the site right now and it says no general admission tickets available, does that mean its sold out? Or that they'll be released closer to each match? I used the site last year and would always see plenty of seats available for match day tickets. Is that from ST holders that have returned their ticket for a particular match?
They won’t all have gone on sale today. There’ll be further releases by the club as the season goes on plus random ticket will appear closer to match days when season ticket holders sell back.
I had emailed the club asking what the ticket prices would be before renewing my membership, they basically said it was a secret and wait and see on the day. I was expecting it to be bad but the prices and categories are way worse than what I expected.
Has any season ticket holder forwarded a ticket to a member yet? Was there any charge?
Try living abroad and paying for flights , accommodation etc . I average about 15 games a season I doubt I will hit that number this year. A ticket is the equivalent of the cost of a hotel now .
Jim had really fecked us over.
I don’t think that there’s a charge if it’s to a member, I think last season we could forward to non members for a fee (£10?).
That's good, hopefully that hasn't changed.
Hopefully, but you never know what surprises they’re going to spring on us.
Think I heard that we’ll be charged an admin fee if we sell back to the club within so many days of a game though?
Looking for 3 tickets for Arsenal at home in August. Not bothered by sitting together so happy to take singles if they're going 
Beginning of the end of old trafford. Working class mates priced out of attending games. Stands full of tourists.
The fact they announced this now and not before collecting membership renewals is so snide.
Won't be long before our season tickets will be priced the same.
The fact they announced this now and not before collecting membership renewals is so snide.
Won't be long before our season tickets will be priced the same.
Wouldn't mind they hounded everyone to renew as well. That auto renewal deadline landed just enough days that nobody could cancel their memberships in protest. Apparently you get 14 days, they did it on the 31st May.
The clubs rotten to the core.
Fact they have asked us all to renew our season tickets without sharing the T&C’s is also shady as feck.
Question about resales...
A mate bought tickets for Brentford later in the season, my account is linked with his and I said he can use my membership to buy tickets
I reckon I won't be able to go, I mean it's in April, so who knows (and our season will probably be over by then anyway)... But wondering if we'll have the option to put tickets up for resale? He didn't buy flexi tickets. I think with flexi you can return to club and get a refund. But can members put tickets up for resale either way? Or is that option only available to ST holders?
I feel like I've probably had this information before, but it's a bit difficult to remember all the rules sometimes...!
A mate bought tickets for Brentford later in the season, my account is linked with his and I said he can use my membership to buy tickets
I reckon I won't be able to go, I mean it's in April, so who knows (and our season will probably be over by then anyway)... But wondering if we'll have the option to put tickets up for resale? He didn't buy flexi tickets. I think with flexi you can return to club and get a refund. But can members put tickets up for resale either way? Or is that option only available to ST holders?
I feel like I've probably had this information before, but it's a bit difficult to remember all the rules sometimes...!
Only for ST holders.
I got a membership for my mum last year thinking she could take the lad to a couple of games that they changed the date for and I was unable to go to. No such luck.
Nice one, thanks for the quick reply!
Haha, might be posting on here trying to sell a ticket on come April...
Jup. Beginning of the end. And if you think we hit rock bottom yet - nope, we are not even close. This club will vanish in no mans land before it gets better again in 5-6 years.
Yet. They are coming for us next. No way they're going to allow a gap as large as this to season ticket prices if they continue to sell out
Absolutely
I know loads of friends and non friends who didn’t renew their season tickets for this season and those who had lower sited tickets you can guarantee were not put up for resale, and I’ll ask fans in those seats the question.
It’s not just United it’s also happening to City and Liverpool . The club in an ideal financial world would love to dilute the amount of season ticket holders like me. Get to the ground, meet my mates for a chinwag, go in, take my seat, have a good whinge , leave and go home, nothing spent. They want the tourist to turn up 2 hours before kick off, spend £100’s in the shop, buy some food before during and after the game, ( and in the unlikely event that we win, will return )
This is ideal when we play Fergie football and win but any more seasons like last season and the tourists will go elsewhere and the local working man and family will be watching from home.
It’s not just United it’s also happening to City and Liverpool . The club in an ideal financial world would love to dilute the amount of season ticket holders like me. Get to the ground, meet my mates for a chinwag, go in, take my seat, have a good whinge , leave and go home, nothing spent. They want the tourist to turn up 2 hours before kick off, spend £100’s in the shop, buy some food before during and after the game, ( and in the unlikely event that we win, will return )
This is ideal when we play Fergie football and win but any more seasons like last season and the tourists will go elsewhere and the local working man and family will be watching from home.
I phoned the ticket office on the day after the period ended for ST holders to swap seats.
Got told they hadn’t allocated new seats for those booted out behind the dugout and no new season tickets would be released.
Basically swapping season ticket holders for tourists that want to say they’ve been to OT.
After all the talk of putting the Manchester back in to Manchester United from Jim. Bolllocks.
Got told they hadn’t allocated new seats for those booted out behind the dugout and no new season tickets would be released.
Basically swapping season ticket holders for tourists that want to say they’ve been to OT.
After all the talk of putting the Manchester back in to Manchester United from Jim. Bolllocks.
I was one of the unfortunate ones to have had a ticket in the South stand 8 rows behind the United home dug out, fantastic seat as long as you didn’t mind some old dodderer telling you to sit down every time anything exciting happened , a couple of seats away from Angry Ginge, very topical atm.
Anyway I have had to relocate to the next block , and my old seat is now a padded seat at £599 a game for the likes of Spurs and £799 for the Dippers.
Anyway I have had to relocate to the next block , and my old seat is now a padded seat at £599 a game for the likes of Spurs and £799 for the Dippers.
I find it genuinely upsetting mate have had to try and take a step back from it.
Chelsea charged £12,000 for those seats last year. Yes I know it's London but the average football fan in London isn't earning 20x what someone in Manchester is earning. The alternative is, the club keeps ticket prices low and then cuts down on what it spends on the squad. We all know United fans wouldn't tolerate that for a second. As much as I dislike some of the people that run the club, there's no winning here. United froze ticket prices for over a decade, no other top club did. The club was losing money at mind boggling levels every year. There's not much they can do unless you want the club to go under.
Before people say Glazers out, yes I agree whole heartedly but even if you took out the amount we're paying in interest to service the debt of those parasites, we would still have made a huge loss year after year. It's unsustainable and it's reminiscent of Leeds United and they thought they were too big to go under too.
I’d genuinely rather us not win the league for a little while longer but be able to go and watch my club every week.
It wouldn't be a case of us not winning the league, it'll be a case of us potentially going under. I don't think people realise just how dire our financial outlook has been for years now. We don't have a sugar daddy to sustain that and PSR now prevents it. City and Chelsea won the lottery that they were a sugar daddy's play thing before these rules came into play.
You may not mind us not spending but just take a look at the transfer forum, after us having signed Cunha on the first day of the window, people are already moaning about not having wrapped up Mbuemo. You think this fan base would tolerate it? No chance.
You can make the economical argument all you want, but there's no excuse for the way the club are behaving - mid season hike last year with no comms, now this nonsense of every game being categorised as Cat A/B apart from Wolves and Sunderland? It's inexcusable.
My old man was saying he thinks the club and many other clubs will look to do away with season tickets all together in the near future. When you look at the difference that standard tickets are costing then it does feel like STs are a sitting duck for the club right now. It does feel like there’s something in the pipeline.
There’s the fan base and actual fan base.
I don’t think actual match going fans would be anywhere near as bad as people on forums and fans from half way across the world.
I don’t think the financial situation is as dire as some are making out, if it was we couldn’t spunk £125m on 2 players. I get it’s not amazing and he’s had to make a lot of tough decisions but he’s ripping the heart of the club out.
Proper fans inside the ground won’t be there in the next 5 years. Fans that have been going for decades that chant, sing and get behind their team are being replaced with ‘fans’ that go to see a game as a spectacle.
I know it’s part and parcel of being a big club but when you’re prioritising a 1 off game tourist for a seat at £600 over someone that’s had the club in their blood for decades it’s gone to shit.
Absolutely breaks my heart if I’m honest.
I'd happily see the club stop wasting hundreds of millions every summer if it meant tickets were affordable again.