Real Madrid - CL R16 - 2nd Leg (at the Etihad) - Price details

Just checked price for Madrid home game and I do think it's a bit high. £42.50 each for me and the missus and when you consider that a cup final trip to Wembley seems likely, it'll be an expensive time of the season for us.

I was expecting Madrid to be £35 tops, its only £15 more but still...

We'll be going regardless but I can totally understand why loads of blues would choose either to miss the Madrid game in favour of the cup final or vice versa because it'll be a huge strain financially on loads of blues.

I'll be doing a bit of overtime in February I reckon.
 
It was against Norwich in the cup think we beat them six nil I remember him falling didn't think he broke his leg though.
I seem to remember that’s correct. I can still remember it in the papers. He tried to take a short cut at half time from the director’s box. Could have sworn he broke it though.
 
Don't think he broke his leg,thought he did his back in- we put a ladder there from directors box to the tunnel in case he wanted to do it again!
 
I was talking to my dad about this. If I was a manager I’d sit in the stand and send messages by phone to the staff on the bench.

I actually remember John Bond used to do this. He broke his leg once leaping over the main stand tunnel at half time. I bet nobody remembers that!

we won 6-0 and he wanted to get down to the tunnel quick as his son was playing for Norwich and wanted to put a arm round him, didn't think he broke his leg mind
 
i have a question related with this game:

how many Seasoncard Holders does ManCity have?

i ask this because as a Cityzens MatchDay member i'd like to know if you think there will be enought tickets left for us to purchase.

On June 16 at 10 am I will be in Man City's web begging for a ticket. It will be my first time as Cityzen MatchDay member and i don't know how does it work. Any advice or tip will be appreciated :)
 
i have a question related with this game:

how many Seasoncard Holders does ManCity have?

i ask this because as a Cityzens MatchDay member i'd like to know if you think there will be enought tickets left for us to purchase.

On June 16 at 10 am I will be in Man City's web begging for a ticket. It will be my first time as Cityzen MatchDay member and i don't know how does it work. Any advice or tip will be appreciated :)

Relax, mate. You’ll get a ticket easily. I think we have about 40k season ticket holders but they won’t all buy one. I guarantee you that there will be plenty for Cityzens and plenty on open sale too.
 
we won 6-0 and he wanted to get down to the tunnel quick as his son was playing for Norwich and wanted to put a arm round him, didn't think he broke his leg mind

He didn’t break a leg, he did his back in.

As Kevin Bond put it, he fell off his wallet.
 
Just checked price for Madrid home game and I do think it's a bit high. £42.50 each for me and the missus and when you consider that a cup final trip to Wembley seems likely, it'll be an expensive time of the season for us.

I was expecting Madrid to be £35 tops, its only £15 more but still...

We'll be going regardless but I can totally understand why loads of blues would choose either to miss the Madrid game in favour of the cup final or vice versa because it'll be a huge strain financially on loads of blues.

I'll be doing a bit of overtime in February I reckon.
It's one of the biggest games we will play.
 
There are fluent Spanish speaking staff in the souvenir store.

Manchester has a very large Spanish (Student) community. Not to mention in London and across the UK.

In Spain you either support Real Madrid or Barcelona, with the rest making up the difference as a percentage.

Tickets in the City ends will fly out, not only because of Spanish people living in the UK, but because of the amount of foreign people who now live in the UK and will want to see Real Madrid. Soriano knows he can shift tickets regardless of the up take from City fans. If sales are sluggish, City will just shift more tickets via selling them to tourists, to day trippers, and to ticket agencies.

Sadly, that CL atmosphere Pep desperately wants won’t be there once again. And if he brings it up again, I hope it’s in conversation with Khaldoon and Soriano, and not at the press conference before or after the match.
 
There are fluent Spanish speaking staff in the souvenir store.

Manchester has a very large Spanish (Student) community. Not to mention in London and across the UK.

In Spain you either support Real Madrid or Barcelona, with the rest making up the difference as a percentage.

Tickets in the City ends will fly out, not only because of Spanish people living in the UK, but because of the amount of foreign people who now live in the UK and will want to see Real Madrid. Soriano knows he can shift tickets regardless of the up take from City fans. If sales are sluggish, City will just shift more tickets via selling them to tourists, to day trippers, and to ticket agencies.

Sadly, that CL atmosphere Pep desperately wants won’t be there once again. And if he brings it up again, I hope it’s in conversation with Khaldoon and Soriano, and not at the press conference before or after the match.
If City are in the game it will be a fantastic atmosphere -just like the Spurs CL game was. I don't see why the crowd or the atmosphere will be any different unless Real Madrid manage to put the tie beyond us in the 1st leg.
 
If City are in the game it will be a fantastic atmosphere -just like the Spurs CL game was. I don't see why the crowd or the atmosphere will be any different unless Real Madrid manage to put the tie beyond us in the 1st leg.

The atmosphere will be different.

And it will still be good if we are in the game after the 1st leg and through out the 2nd leg.

A stadium full of tourists and day trippers will dilute the atmosphere, regardless if we’re in the tie or not.

The Real Madrid crowd won’t be the Hamburg crowd, the Liverpool crowd or the Spurs crowd.
 
The atmosphere will be different.

And it will still be good if we are in the game after the 1st leg and through out the 2nd leg.

A stadium full of tourists and day trippers will dilute the atmosphere, regardless if we’re in the tie or not.

The Real Madrid crowd won’t be the Hamburg crowd, the Liverpool crowd or the Spurs crowd.
It wont be full of tourists though, there may be more than a league game, but at leat 90% probably more will be season ticket holders or match day ticket buyers. Certainly not enough tourists to dilute the atmosphere, which like a few C// L nights could well be better than when its left to the regulars at a league game.
In fact often a games I’ve seen groups of tourists join in more than some of the miserable s/c holders sat near me and stay longer too.
 
People always underestimate how many actual proper City fans will go to this. Ultimately those saying they won’t go are always in a minority in the real world.

The atmosphere will be different.

And it will still be good if we are in the game after the 1st leg and through out the 2nd leg.

A stadium full of tourists and day trippers will dilute the atmosphere, regardless if we’re in the tie or not.

The Real Madrid crowd won’t be the Hamburg crowd, the Liverpool crowd or the Spurs crowd.

Hopefully it will be better than our poor league crowd atmosphere when the grounds full of season ticket holders.
 
It wont be full of tourists though, there may be more than a league game, but at leat 90% probably more will be season ticket holders or match day ticket buyers. Certainly not enough tourists to dilute the atmosphere, which like a few C// L nights could well be better than when its left to the regulars at a league game.
In fact often a games I’ve seen groups of tourists join in more than some of the miserable s/c holders sat near me and stay longer too.

I’ll have to take your word for that.

We’ll see on the night.

I just hope City are still in the tie at the Etihad and don’t concede an early goal, otherwise the Etihad could be like a Morgue. :-(

Hopefully we’ll be at least level after the 1st leg, and we’ll get 1 or 2 early goals at the Etihad, which ‘will’ get the place rocking, followed by the usual nervous quietness as full-time approaches. :-/
 
People always underestimate how many actual proper City fans will go to this. Ultimately those saying they won’t go are always in a minority in the real world.



Hopefully it will be better than our poor league crowd atmosphere when the grounds full of season ticket holders.

A good indicator is my Mrs and Daughter. If they go it’s a good sign our other season tickets holders who don’t normally go to a CL game will go. She’s not sure yet. But I think She will go. If they don’t go, their seats will still sell.
 
It wont be full of tourists though, there may be more than a league game, but at leat 90% probably more will be season ticket holders or match day ticket buyers. Certainly not enough tourists to dilute the atmosphere, which like a few C// L nights could well be better than when its left to the regulars at a league game.
In fact often a games I’ve seen groups of tourists join in more than some of the miserable s/c holders sat near me and stay longer too.

Nailed it.

It’s usually season ticket holders who leave early because ‘they’ve always done it’.

As long as the tie is very much alive then there will be a great atmosphere.
 
Well if my life depended on it, I would find the £60 or whatever in March to go to this game.

Its 2 months until the home leg and blues are already moaning about money, if were being honest most blues can afford it.
This as an individual match, yes. But what about Wembley if we get there, that will be paid for around the same time as the ticket money for this comes out? What about if we beat Fulham and get another home FA Cup tie, that will come out around the same time too? What about United and Chelsea way in the league?

One or more of these games will have to be culled from being attended for many people. Wembley wouldn’t be one of them so you’re looking at the next most expensive and that would be Madrid.
 
This as an individual match, yes. But what about Wembley if we get there, that will be paid for around the same time as the ticket money for this comes out? What about if we beat Fulham and get another home FA Cup tie, that will come out around the same time too? What about United and Chelsea way in the league?

One or more of these games will have to be culled from being attended for many people. Wembley wouldn’t be one of them so you’re looking at the next most expensive and that would be Madrid.
You forgot one, what if we get past RM we've definitely got another home game, with this argument we could go on and on, its all too expensive but blues talk about Mppape and the like and want to pay £20 to watch him play , it ain't going to happen.
 
I reckon this will sell out / be full because thousands of tickets can be given to school kids if they are not selling. It would have been better for the ticket prices to be a bit lower and a sell out would have been virtually guaranteed.

Real Madrid are still a big draw for neutrals (a bit less so without Ronaldo) and the 30k or so of regulars who go to every home game will be there.

When we get hounded in the press about slow ticket sales, most Blues manage to find the money to get to the game.
 

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