Ferran Soriano: City positioning themselves as “club of the future”

I think many fans underestimate Ferran and Txiki's success compared to Woodward and United here. Before their arrival in 2012-13 Premier League season we ended 2nd behind our local rivals and Ferguson won the league. Also 2 years of failure in UCL 2011-12, 2012-13 as we could not pass group stage both times. Then after Ferran/Txiki

2013/14 PL
1. City
7. United

2013-14 UCL
We passed group stages this time 1/8 finals

2014-15 EPL
2. City
4. United

2014-15 UCL
1/8 final

2015-16 EPL
4. City
5. United

2015-16 UCL
Semi-final

2016-17 EPL
3. City
6. United

2016-17 UCL
1/8 finals

2017-18 EPL
1. City
2. United

2017-18 UCL
1/4 finals continuing

Ferran and his team introduced club with Iberian beautiful, technical football, set unique football philosophy for academy and now club has its own identity than 2010-2013's City which according to neutral's was team of thugs who obsessed with united. Now united with mourinho is obsessed with us. We are more elite now.
 
rachel scarborough said:
I think many fans underestimate Ferran and Txiki's success compared to Woodward and United here. Before their arrival in 2012-13 Premier League season we ended 2nd behind our local rivals and Ferguson won the league. Also 2 years of failure in UCL 2011-12, 2012-13 as we could not pass group stage both times. Then after Ferran/Txiki

2013/14 PL
1. City
7. United

2013-14 UCL
We passed group stages this time 1/8 finals

2014-15 EPL
2. City
4. United

2014-15 UCL
1/8 final

2015-16 EPL
4. City
5. United

2015-16 UCL
Semi-final

2016-17 EPL
3. City
6. United

2016-17 UCL
1/8 finals

2017-18 EPL
1. City
2. United

2017-18 UCL
1/4 finals continuing

Ferran and his team introduced club with Iberian beautiful, technical football, set unique football philosophy for academy and now club has its own identity than 2010-2013's City which according to neutral's was team of thugs who obsessed with united. Now united with mourinho is obsessed with us. We are more elite now.
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This is the GDM thread sorry.
 
rachel scarborough said:
I think many fans underestimate Ferran and Txiki's success compared to Woodward and United here. Before their arrival in 2012-13 Premier League season we ended 2nd behind our local rivals and Ferguson won the league. Also 2 years of failure in UCL 2011-12, 2012-13 as we could not pass group stage both times. Then after Ferran/Txiki

2013/14 PL
1. City
7. United

2013-14 UCL
We passed group stages this time 1/8 finals

2014-15 EPL
2. City
4. United

2014-15 UCL
1/8 final

2015-16 EPL
4. City
5. United

2015-16 UCL
Semi-final

2016-17 EPL
3. City
6. United

2016-17 UCL
1/8 finals

2017-18 EPL
1. City
2. United

2017-18 UCL
1/4 finals continuing

Ferran and his team introduced club with Iberian beautiful, technical football, set unique football philosophy for academy and now club has its own identity than 2010-2013's City which according to neutral's was team of thugs who obsessed with united. Now united with mourinho is obsessed with us. We are more elite now.
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We've only been past 1/16 on two occasion. This season and 15/16
 
Has any one got a link or simple explanation of how City was formed? (Sorry bit off topic I know). I thought we changed name to City from Ardwick. Never read anything about it just 'common knowledge' like Utd and Newton heath.
 
We have excellent people running the club. Football is a business and bigger marketing revenue comes from more people watching us play. You get more people watching by plqying good football which is why Pep fits our off the field strategy as much as he does our results aim.

Winning trophies attracts new fans but our football attracts higher tv audiences and more sponsors which generates more money. Quite simple. The rags are resting on their history but they can be surpassed if they keep playing such dire football.
 
FrankSwift1 said:
Has any one got a link or simple explanation of how City was formed? (Sorry bit off topic I know). I thought we changed name to City from Ardwick. Never read anything about it just 'common knowledge' like Utd and Newton heath.
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Joshua Parlby became the Ardwick manager in 1893. The following year Newton Heath joined the Second Division. Both clubs were based in Manchester but neither carried the name of England's second largest city. Parlby argued that the club should change its name from Ardwick to Manchester City. As Gary James points out in Manchester City: The Complete Record (2006): "The selection of the name was directly aimed at creating a side to represent all of Manchester and so, for perhaps the first time in the history of the region, there was an organisation to represent all Mancunians no matter what their social status, background, or place of birth." The management committee agreed and the club became known as Manchester City.

There were also financial problems within the club at the time so it was probably motivated by the prospect of a wider appeal increasing revenues.
 
FrankSwift1 said:
Has any one got a link or simple explanation of how City was formed? (Sorry bit off topic I know). I thought we changed name to City from Ardwick. Never read anything about it just 'common knowledge' like Utd and Newton heath.
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We were formed on the 23rd September 2008 when some dirty Arab with money to burn wanted a play thing
 
FrankSwift1 said:
Has any one got a link or simple explanation of how City was formed? (Sorry bit off topic I know). I thought we changed name to City from Ardwick. Never read anything about it just 'common knowledge' like Utd and Newton heath.
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You may want to read the books by Gary James. He explains everything, including when City started to use the blue shirts.
 
SWP's back said:
Don’t get Gary James started on that.

You just ignore St Marks (West Gorton)?

St_Marks_1884.jpg


Can you link me the references to when we first wore blue though?
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I may need a lie down!

On the blue though - Ardwick were wearing royal blue and white stripes in 1887 and moved to Cambridge Blue and white quarters then MCFC was Cambridge Blue.
 
SWP's back said:
Don’t get Gary James started on that.

You just ignore St Marks (West Gorton)?

St_Marks_1884.jpg


Can you link me the references to when we first wore blue though?
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Honestly, that picture is Gorton FC not St Marks

And Manchester City had no pre-running clubs.
St Marks became Gorton who became Ardwick. Manchester City formed on their own and Ardwick and City were two different clubs existing at the same time. Then the two clubs merged.

There was nothing before City. Just 16th April 1894, Manchester City Football Club in light blue
 
aguero93:20 said:
Have you got any proof of that? I've never seen anything to suggest the two clubs existed or played at the same time.
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Gary James said it on two different occasions at talks of his i went to. One for the new badge at the CFA and one for a talk about why football became the main sport in Manchester at Central Library
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Gary James said it on two different occasions at talks of his i went to. One for the new badge at the CFA and one for a talk about why football became the main sport in Manchester at Central Library
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Ok, everything I've seen refers to Manchester Central being outside the football league and the two Manchester clubs inside the league (Ardwick and Newton Heath) not bearing the Manchester moniker so Ardwick deciding to change to Manchester City FC after a reorganisation. Nothing about the two clubs existing simultaneously. In fact in the 1893/94 season they played the first 27 games as Ardwick AFC (who were dissolved after the 27th game) and the final game as Manchester City FC (who were playing their first ever fixture), suggesting that the two clubs didn't, in fact, exist at the same time.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Honestly, that picture is Gorton FC not St Marks

And Manchester City had no pre-running clubs.
St Marks became Gorton who became Ardwick. Manchester City formed on their own and Ardwick and City were two different clubs existing at the same time. Then the two clubs merged.

There was nothing before City. Just 16th April 1894, Manchester City Football Club in light blue
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Again, I’ll go with the published City historian on this.
 
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