IT'S TIME TO SCRAP THE FEE! Are you reading this CITY, KHALDOON, SORIANO & Co?
Question to City. How much are you actually making out of the fee? A few £100,000? Peanuts!(see below)
So that's what you'd lose if you scrapped the membership fee?
Guess what, you'd make it back in matchday ticket sales, merchandising, drink and food sales, other related City sales, etc, due to more City fans taking up the option of a free Citizens card.
Why?
Because if the Citizens card was free, 1000's, 10,000's of new City fans would sign up.
£30, or whatever the price is, for the privilege of buying a matchday ticket, no thanks.
Free! I'll have one of those. What do I have to do?
Send the club my personal details, and accept City related emails, offers, etc. I can live with that.
So Khaldoon, Soriano, Danny Wilson(who I've got plenty of time for), are you going to make City the first club in the PL not to charge a membership fee for the privilege of buying a matchday ticket? Go on! Break the mould. Be different. Be the first club to do it in the PL, if it hasn't already been done? Look at the bigger picture. Empty seats. Falling Etihad attendances in reality, even though the stadium has been expanded. Disenchanted fans. Apathy. etc. Win the fans back over. Get them back into the Etihad and give Pep and the team the support and a full stadium they deserve. Or are you going to ignore the obvious and the fans, and keep on squeezing us until more and more of us get fed up with the money making machine that has now became Manchester City (£525mill, see below), until more of us walk away?
Deloitte Football Money League 2017
Planet Football
January 2017
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/d...oitte-uk-sport-football-money-league-2017.pdf