The Gundo.
Weird to do this to a player who is still active in Europe and you can still play against.
Bold of you to assume we make it out of round 16
It’s a flex … City is 100% confident should they face Barça they would trash them
Happens when you have no history…
It’s a training pitch, it’s not too big a deal. City built Aguero and Silva statues while they were acting players, now THAT was weird.
Why?
Because its embarrassing
There a lot of things that can happen that could make him not be loved by the fans any more. He could score in a final and make them lose a trophy, he could injure your best player I don’t know
I don’t think any of that would change what he did for City or how he is viewed by the club. I actually like that they honor their legends right after the leave the club instead of doing it 10 years later.
Also it’s not that deep, if Gundogan did something to piss off City then they would just remove the dedication. He won’t, but it’s not a big deal if it did come to that.
Perfect way to describe it is not that deep - if you’ve got strong feelings about this you need help
Not sure if it was Robben or Ibra, but their first club destroyed the statue they had of him, because he bought a stake at the rival club
Ibra
He could go play in a country that preaches hate and murders journalists and masterminds/funds terrorist attacks in order to get paid to say they’re not sportswashing while saying he didn’t do it for the money…
It’s just a training ground, not really that weird if you ask me
Serious Question: Who are City’s legends from before the Qatar takeover?
Qatar
UAE*
Franny Lee, Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee, Bert Trautmann, Frank Swift, Peter Doherty (though this is arguable as his city career was massively cut short by WWII, but he was still fantastic for the time he played for us), Alan Oakes, Billy Meredith, Neil Young (not that Neil Young), Eric Brook
Trautmann, I remember that name from somewhere. Is that not the guy who played with a broken neck?
Richard Dunne should be feeling aggrieved.
People jumping the gun here. It’s a nice tribute to begin with. For all we know, he’ll receive a bigger tribute in years to come. Napoli didn’t change the name of their stadium until Maradona died. It’s always a risk paying tribute to someone in any profession to a large scale before they’ve passed incase they do something absolutely insane like murder, sexual assault, etc. Not saying Gundogan will because he seems like a decent man but other players have.
That’s a totally fair point. But the counter argument to that is the player whom the tribute is dedicated do won’t be able to appreciate it themselves if the club were to wait until he died in order to do so. And given that the point of a tribute is to honor the person it is for, I think the person being able to appreciate the tribute themselves is worth the risk of them doing something bad.
Also, if the person does do something insane like you mentioned, its always possible to strip them of their tribute. It’s just the name of a training pitch after all.
Damn city really doesn’t have any legends
These city players for the last 10 years have won more than 90% of PL legends.
I don’t get this, i don’t care about City really but you people used to moan about the club not having history, but now that it’s being written as we speak, it doesn’t count because, what, it didn’t happen 80 years ago? I’d say sticking around for a decade and captaining the team into a treble is pretty much worthy of this kind of recognizement
It’s not even true. The Etihad as the Colin Bell stand for a reason.
Empty tinpot club
Their first CL win is a historical milestone for them and Gündoğan happened to be the captain, it makes sense to me that it has significance to City and they wanted to honor this.
It’s also not like they renamed the Etihad to the Gündoğan stadium (I don’t mind that tho). They certainly have more than one training pitch so I don’t see the reason to overreact over this.
It’s the city of Manchester stadium. Etihad is the ‘sponsor’s’ name.
I for one can’t wait for the Erling Haaland Centre for Kids Who Can’t Score Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.
What is this? The Erling Haaland Centre for Kids Who Can’t Score Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too, for ants??
“Erling, the files are IN the computer”
The sequel of that movie is terrible but has some good jokes.
Why would City make a training centre for United?
Their owners said they wanted to develop manchester when they took over. Might as well fix Old Trafford as well.
Hey, at least make sure the centre is outdated has leaky roofing than that’s a proper United investment
Question for United fans, how many players from the 99 treble side are legends for you? Does half sound about right
Rent free. On a thread about your own legend all you can talk about is United.
I’d say 7/8.
I think it probably helps that they played the majority or all of their careers at United though, which is possibly the issue people may have with Gundogan here.
That’s a good argument. I’m looking at the squad and 7 sounds about right. How do you feel about players like Beckham or Ronaldo who spent more years abroad than at the club?
I included becks in the 99 squad. I’d say it was probably more 50-50 United vs abroad for him, but it helps that he’s a United fan and still talks quite passionately about United.
I probably don’t think of Ronaldo as a United legend. He was an amazing player who went on to be one of the worlds best, but the best moments of his career were definitely not in a United shirt.
This comment thread is top tier. Almost up there with the time city donated all those AED machines
So much history this club lol
The Kevin Gundo Silva field.
Such a tinpot club absolutely gagging to honour their players as soon as oossible to add culture and relevancy
This gives me the same vibes of when Gundo got injured and his teammates had shirts on with his face like he passed on lmao
Yeah this is the same, like… as tribute? The guy is still alive. I thought he died the first time I saw it!
The guy is still playing…