Must be all those shirt sales
I’m sure all of it is above board ;)
Uh-huh. Sure they did.
I don’t know how they can just let blatant financial fuckery go. At some point the government aught to step in.
The biggest problem with city isn’t even the cheating but that they’re owned and funded by a literal state. Huge conflict of interest for any governance. The UK government won’t let anything happen to the UAE’s plaything
Guessing nobody has actually bothered to read the reports huh. Not what we do on Reddit is it
Which is a pity since you can see all the different things they are doing and expanding on. Their online and social media outreach plus their youth programs are miles ahead of other PL teams.
It’s easier to wank off about 10 years old sponsorship deals.
Well you wouldn’t be here without those (and you wouldn’t be a fan without those) so it makes sense sweetheart.
r/soccer is the cesspit of football discussion. No nuance, just bitter ramblings of the chronically online making the same few jokes over and over again and twisting facts to suit any narrative that excuses why their own team isn’t winning trophies.
They’re STILL cooking the books even with the 115 charges over their heads? You’ve almost got to admire it!
“Revenue”
Pep can never do what Mourinho did with Porto. He always needs a team that either has world class players already or someone with a big budget to buy world class players. Not taking away from the fact that he is a great coach.
Sheihk mansour seething right now
I’m out of the loop here…
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This is why I am on Reddit 😂😭
Hilarious
A true underdog tale 😂
Add this to the 115 reasons we already know that this club is a cheating and illegitimate state run machine with no morals. How they can continually be allowed to get away with this and face no punishment while playing with 2 first XIs with a completely empty stadium and no fans I don’t know. Someone at the Premier League needs to wake up. Has anyone ever actually seen someone wearing a City shirt in public? You’d think they’d want to keep a low profile right after paying off the referees in the Liverpool Vs Spurs game. Shameless
Man City jerseys are some of the most common amongst kids in my neck of the woods
The fact people don’t realise your comment is satire lol
You’re think the stadium is empty? as as season ticket holder I implore you to try and get a ticket for one of our PL games later in the season?
You took the bait my friend
I think someone pointed out that last season’s title winning thread on their subreddit had like 400 comments or something lol
LOL
I’ve seen a fair few kids wearing City shirts lately. They’ve definitely made a huge dent in capturing the next generations fandom with their on field success.
I don’t want to be that guy but this is exactly what Chelsea were doing ten years ago under Abramovich
City in 2023 and Chelsea in 2013 have a lot of similarities when you think about it. Clubs that were largely irrelevant at the very top level for a long time and then both clubs were bought by foreign entities where the money being funnelled into both clubs attracted a lot of criticism due to the questionable morals that the owners represented
Both clubs started to immediately find success not long after the respective takeovers and just after winning the European cup for the first time, both clubs are starting to cement themselves as established football clubs amongst younger generations
Yeah no duh. Success begets fans the only difference this time is where the clubs got their money. the richest clubs have always had the most success and thus the most new fans.
I genuinely don’t think I’ve noticed a single kid wearing a city shirt in London (have seen some adults). Quite a lot of PSG ones but otherwise it’s still pretty much the usual suspects
don’t those kids get made fun of at school tho
It’s fake. I heard the club give them our for free
Yeah that’s factual.
Yep I remember getting the train to Manchester from Chester the weekend City won the treble and the amount of kids wearing City shirts was crazy
I see loads of City shirts in London nowadays
I’m very new to football. What are the rules around sponsorships? A team can take funds from literally any company as a sponsorship? I assume there are rules around this (and sounds like City has broke the rules) but I find it hard to believe that everything they’ve done to get here is illegitimate?
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How are you a mod of our sub. Fuck off
I spent the whole summer in a resort town in my country and from my (admittedly anecdotal) experience the overwhelming majority of kids wear PSG and City shirts. And it’s mostly tourists from different parts of Europe. Basically kids from countries without big clubs tend to flock to the current generation of stars.
Lol yeah, in France in the summer I saw a shop with four kids kits hanging outside. PSG, City, Inter Miami and Al-Nassr. No need to guess the players on the back.
Basically kids from countries without big clubs tend to flock to the current generation of stars.
Kids from all countries do this, look at all the United fans in the south.
95% of the ‘Old team’ flairs here are that. I’m an American and tons of people are United fans, did they just draw United out of a hat to support? No they were good and wanted to watch good football when they were younger.
The funniest thing is that they don’t even try to hide it.
In one season they were the club with the most income!
more than real madrid!
They behave like cheaters. When you don’t punish cheaters, they will continue cheating!.Lots of kids wearing City shirts in Vietnam TBF.
The world’s most valuable footballing brand, a club which cannot sell out its stadium. All its very real perfectly legitimate sponsors. Nothing to see here, move along, move along.
City sell out every game except midweek cup games against league 1 teams
Not just the tickets even the merchandise as well. I have seen people walking around with Liverpool, ManU, Arsenal, spurs and even Chelsea’s shirt or other merch but never Manchester city.
pretty sure their stadium sells out every game, you think winning a treble and 3 leagues in a row wouldn’t blow up their commercial revenues?
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t because I have eyes.
Lmao they do not
Source: register
you’re an American liverpool fan how would you know
You’re obviously not British, if you were you wouldn’t be arguing this so what does that make you?
I’m very new to football. What are the rules around sponsorships? A team can take funds from literally any company as a sponsorship? I assume there are rules around this (and sounds like City has broke the rules) but I find it hard to believe that everything they’ve done to get here is illegitimate?
Downvote me bc my team is better than yours and you’re jealous
Money has ruined the game.
But it was fine in the 70’s and 80’s when Liverpool were the richest team in England due to their owner.
It’s hilarious seeing it. I hate city dominating but the are literally doing what United have done for 20 years under Sir Alex… Buy the best players and dominate the league.
I think people are more angry about where the money comes from (which wasn’t an issue when Liverpool and United dominated respectively) and the fact that regardless of spending a lot of money, there is growing evidence that City have been ignoring the existing financial rules for years anyway
Again, you’re not wrong. Where the money comes from is a valid, but in my opinion, separate argument from the money ruins football thing. As for the breaches, I agree, the rules may have been brought in by the current elite to limit competition or you may disagree with that. It’s irrelevant if the rules were in place and broken there should be punishments.
difference is neither club had a unethical, backwards state backing them for non sporting reasons
And Liverpool before that, Chelsea after it, and so on and so forth.
Shankly might have picked the players back in the 60’s but it was Eric Sawyer who arranged all the financing. In other words, they needed money to build the team and sign the best players.
Go back far enough and once the wage cap was lifted every team used money to buy success. Some also tried and failed.
Also in Liverpool (the city)back in the day the biggest team were 100% Everton. Once Liverpool became successful (under Shankly)those percentages began to change. In other words, there were plastic success chasing glory hunters even back in those days.
No one will ever admit this though.
Also in Liverpool (the city)back in the day the biggest team were 100% Everton. Once Liverpool became successful (under Shankly)those percentages began to change. In other words, there were plastic success chasing glory hunters even back in those days.
I know what you’re saying but that is a really modern way of looking at it. This is forgetting a significant thing in the way football fans behaved in the 50s and 60s, at least in Liverpool, can’t speak for other places obviously, but it was extremely common for people to ‘support’ both clubs. You had your preferred chosen side of course but it was far from unusual for people to attend the match of whoever was at home that week, Everton or Liverpool.
You know what im not even going to argue, you’re a Newcastle fan obviously you’re trying to justify it 🤣
English football…
But what’s the real number though?
Manchester City post Premier League record revenue of £712.8m*