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[Mase]

There would have been the extra 10k for rags, RM, Bayern and dippers.
There wouldn't have been for Fulham, Real Betis, Hoffenheim and Crystal Palace.
We're on the top table now.
Incidentally you can get a ticket for most of their lower category league games for about 30 euros.

Can’t see Fred and Mctomminay getting the god treatment city players got last night though ……..

Kalvin Phillips and John Stones didn’t for us. Your point is terrible.

[Dimples]

IMO opinion we have become box office since Haaland joined. He is a young global superstar who appeals to younger people.
If we win trophies with him on board doing the business, the younger fans will support us ahead of MU and Liverpool.
Our global fan base then starts to make big inroads into MU and Liverpool. Our revenue streams keep rising. We start getting VAR decisions
Pre Haaland we were an excellent team, with excellent players but with no global superstars.
Worth watching but not following and spending money on subscriptions, merchandise, day trips, etc... for most of the football global fan base.

It is not every 'old' fan's cup of tea, none of the new fan base will have watched City play Bristol Rovers, York, Millwall.......
But if you want to play football at the top of the table, then this is what you have to do.

As an aside, it is a really tough gig to stay at the top table, even when you are doing a good job.
Liverpool have been in three of the last five CL finals and benefited from the huge revenues that go with it and their huge global fan base.
Despite the revenues the spine of that team is now the wrong side of 30: VVD, Matip, Thiago, Henderson, Milner, Salah, Firmino and (Mane - cashed in).
They are trying to replace them but it is a work in progress with no guarantees - Jota, Diaz, Nunez, Ramsey, Carvalho.....(I am unconvinced)
Even if most of those players work out, they will still need to buy and are unable to compete with Chelsea, MU, Arsenal, RM, Barca....

As fans I think we are very lucky and I enjoy this phase as it to will pass (despite the whinging I do about our squad size)

[City64]

IMO opinion we have become box office since Haaland joined. He is a young global superstar who appeals to younger people.
If we win trophies with him on board doing the business, the younger fans will support us ahead of MU and Liverpool.
Our global fan base then starts to make big inroads into MU and Liverpool. Our revenue streams keep rising. We start getting VAR decisions
Pre Haaland we were an excellent team, with excellent players but with no global superstars.
Worth watching but not following and spending money on subscriptions, merchandise, day trips, etc... for most of the football global fan base.

It is not every 'old' fan's cup of tea, none of the new fan base will have watched City play Bristol Rovers, York, Millwall.......
But if you want to play football at the top of the table, then this is what you have to do.

As an aside, it is a really tough gig to stay at the top table, even when you are doing a good job.
Liverpool have been in three of the last five CL finals and benefited from the huge revenues that go with it and their huge global fan base.
Despite the revenues the spine of that team is now the wrong side of 30: VVD, Matip, Thiago, Henderson, Milner, Salah, Firmino and (Mane - cashed in).
They are trying to replace them but it is a work in progress with no guarantees - Jota, Diaz, Nunez, Ramsey, Carvalho.....(I am unconvinced)
Even if most of those players work out, they will still need to buy and are unable to compete with Chelsea, MU, Arsenal, RM, Barca....

As fans I think we are very lucky and I enjoy this phase as it to will pass (despite the whinging I do about our squad size)

Good post .

[City64]

There would have been the extra 10k for rags, RM, Bayern and dippers.
There wouldn't have been for Fulham, Real Betis, Hoffenheim and Crystal Palace.
We're on the top table now.
Incidentally you can get a ticket for most of their lower category league games for about 30 euros.

Can’t see Fred and Mctomminay getting the god treatment city players got last night though ……..

Kalvin Phillips and John Stones didn’t for us. Your point is terrible.

Phillips being a sick note and Stones can’t pass forward are still streets ahead of Fred and Mctomminay

[Dimples]

There would have been the extra 10k for rags, RM, Bayern and dippers.
There wouldn't have been for Fulham, Real Betis, Hoffenheim and Crystal Palace.
We're on the top table now.
Incidentally you can get a ticket for most of their lower category league games for about 30 euros.

Can’t see Fred and Mctomminay getting the god treatment city players got last night though ……..

Kalvin Phillips and John Stones didn’t for us. Your point is terrible.

Phillips being a sick note and Stones can’t pass forward are still streets ahead of Fred and Mctomminay

Fred/McTominay Vs. for ex, DeBruyne/Rodri always makes me smile because I remember match ups like: Keane/Scholes Vs. Bishop/Whitley (no disrepect intended).
I never thought there would have been such a complete turnaround.
Never ever could have imagined MU having such a pathetic midfield duo as Fred and McTominay.

[patrickblue]

There would have been the extra 10k for rags, RM, Bayern and dippers.
There wouldn't have been for Fulham, Real Betis, Hoffenheim and Crystal Palace.
We're on the top table now.
Incidentally you can get a ticket for most of their lower category league games for about 30 euros.

Can’t see Fred and Mctomminay getting the god treatment city players got last night though ……..

Kalvin Phillips and John Stones didn’t for us. Your point is terrible.

Phillips being a sick note and Stones can’t pass forward are still streets ahead of Fred and Mctomminay

Fred/McTominay Vs. for ex, DeBruyne/Rodri always makes me smile because I remember match ups like: Keane/Scholes Vs. Bishop/Whitley (no disrepect intended).
I never thought there would have been such a complete turnaround.
Never ever could have imagined MU having such a pathetic midfield duo as Fred and McTominay.

Plus with Fred, we made interested noises, which as usual put rags in a panic and overpay.

As well known supermarket always say.

Every little helps.

[Mase]

We became “box office” when Pep decided to join us. It didn’t make us liked, but we definitely became the team to beat.