Manchester City* - 130 charges (and counting...)

[ILLOK]

Yeah, sure. I guess City just have a lot of fans who prefer to watch from the concourse rather than their seats, it must be that infamous Manchester weather.

[Sweeting]

Just saw a video from the former owner of the Oakland Athletics who talked about making up attendance figures because theirs was worse than some AAA Baseball teams. Said last game of the season there was an anonymous donor who bought 40k tickets which made them finish 29th (out of 30) in MLB for attendance. The anonymous donor was himself.

City’s attendances are better than most assume but there’s no way they get 53k people in there every week. It’s pure lies.

[Zoran]

We’re still twice the bigger club overall, so our following is much more wider and international. That’s no yesterday’s news, we’ve been on the scene before the end of 00’s. Don’t see why they shouldn’t expand if they can. We would expand larger if we could, as well. It’s not like they’re in a Juventus at the Delle Alpi situation. Those are still pretty good numbers.

[Sweeting]

[Limiescouse]

The queue for pies was long

[ILLOK]

Looks photoshopped, I’ve never seen the Etihad so full.

[Hope.in.your.heart]

@sandsoftime

The Cheaters are like an annoying puss filled pimple, that is on its way to growing bigger and bigger. Until enough pressure is brought to bear, from football fans in general, or big European clubs, and they manage to squeeze that ever growing carbuncle, until the rancid smelling puss oozes out… only then can football return to some sort of normality.

@RedOverTheWater

If Arsenal lose the league it will hopefully bring back into focus the 100+ charges over Man City, that quickly disappeared from the public discourse.

And if Man City somehow manage to win the CL (I hope they don’t, but it feels only a matter of time) then a concerted effort against them from some European giants like Bayern Munich and Real Madrid will be welcome.

I agree with these posts, but unfortunately, the ship has sailed already. Even if Abu Dhabi are somehow taken down (with the corrupt people currently in charge of football, I don’t believe one second that there is a chance for this to happen), there will be other clubs doing the exact same thing: Newcastle in England, PSG in France. That’s without considering the perspective opf the red mancs being taken over by a Qatari consortium.

The only way football could be restored to a state of some common sense, would be to see an organization from the outside imposing new rules. No idea who that could be though. Most politicians are every little bit as incompetent and corrupt as the football reps.

[Hope.in.your.heart]

Every time you look at a game there, there are half-filled stands. Nah, there’s just no way they reach these figures.

[mattyhurst]

There was empty seats against us.

Yeah there will be season tickets holders who can’t make it but not on the scale I’ve seen in some league matches.

They are evidently screwing the figures, I wonder if they even resell on season tickets if a fan can’t make it or just pay the money back and count it as a seat.

[Limiescouse]

The funny thing is they SHOULD be able to use the student discount thing to their PR advantage. I know plenty of people who created (so far) life long affiliations with a club close to where they went to Uni, and City could be playing that up. They could even play up the altruistic side of it - Football is too expensive and we want to give opportunities to people to experience it. Expanding their capacity to give a greater number of people affordable access to the nation’s pasttime that has become unaffordable for most should be a PR boon.

But instead they try to hide what they’re doing to pretend they are bigger than they are.

[Zoran]

As Shanks said, you first have to believe you’re the best and then make sure you are.

[Iftikhar]

So they will be diverting the New Full-back Money to buy new fans from now on?

[mattyhurst]

Yup Swansea did it very well when I worked there.

Got to see their European campaign, but then Swansea have a community feel about them. These don’t.

[Nobluff]

300m into executive suits that will be “sold out” every game buy individuals from the Abu Dhabi, with prices at 3 x market value.

[Semmy]

@Nobluff

300m into executive suits that will be “sold out” every game buy individuals from the Abu Dhabi, with prices at 3 x market value.

gotta admit, it’s pretty f’ing smart.

[Noo_Noo]

Latest installment in the dick measuring contest by the looks of it.

[1972]

@Zoran

Those are still pretty good numbers.

If you believe them. I don’t get you sometimes. The point isn’t that they can expand if they want, the point is they are fixing the attendances. But you always talk very benevolently about City. Strange.

[ILLOK]

@1972

@Zoran

Those are still pretty good numbers.

If you believe them. I don’t get you sometimes. The point isn’t that they can expand if they want, the point is they are fixing the attendances. But you always talk very benevolently about City. Strange.

Abu Dhabi plant. He’s deep cover.

[Zoran]

I was not talking about that, but whether they could fill (and how often) it in the future. I was intersted what the numbers say. Never heard clubs fix attendances, any proof of that in this case? And there’s nothing strange. I’m not a City nor a Chelsea fan, but I don’t copy opinions and have my own. You’re a grown up man (probably), you shouldn’t be that bothered about my opinions, I’m just a fan like you.

Or maybe I’m a secret agent.

[1972]

@Zoran

Never heard clubs fix attendances, any proof of that in this case?

Yes, you’re own eyes.

@Zoran

you shouldn’t be that bothered about my opinion

I’m not but it’s a forum for discussion, I thought you’d know that being a mod.

@Zoran

And there’s nothing strange

I beg to differ. It is strange that you always speak so well of them.

Each to their own.