It’s a joke to be honest. I find it hard to comprehend when I see hotels booked up left right and centre. Airports packed at half term and kids walking round with £1500 i phones that people can start slagging the club off for a £1 pound a week increase? At ten pound an hour / takes 6 minutes a week to earn that expense! Spent longer than that moaning about it! Staggering.
It’s a joke that you don’t get it.
It’s not £1 a week. For some people, this is the price rise where 12 price rises in 14 years has got them to the point where they can’t justify it anymore.
It was great at £400 twelve years ago, okay at £600 eight years ago, a proper stretch at £800 four years ago but not affordable at £930 now. Some people are simply sat in the same seat in the position they stood on the Kippax in and sit with mates or family and are just watching their football club. They aren’t here for Haaland’s goals, de Bruyne dominating games, Rodri bossing the midfield or ‘Johnny Johnny Stones’; all of these things just happen to be happy coincidences that are happening to the club we support and would support if we were in League One with none of those players.
And some people pay for their family to attend n’all, not just themselves.
They could move but they might not be able to move with all four people they sit with as the club might not have four together anywhere else, and it’s actually more likely that all the cheaper tickets are unattainable anyway because they’re the ones that are most sought-after and we have very very few of them (City have a mere 1,200 at the cheapest price… Bayern München have almost 16,000 even cheaper!).
For me, it’s a proper shame that even one fan could drop away from our support because of this price rise being the one that sees them off (and it’ll be a lot more than one!) when the club don’t
need to do this for the sake of what could be negotiated by them with Dortmund as a £122.6m transfer fee for Bellingham instead of £125m (which is a fucking joke if you ask me, he’s about a £60m player!)… like I’ve already said, the daylight robbery where we got £55m for Ferran Torres could have meant years of price freezes. He was worth about £20m and we got an extra £35m on top of that, haha!
And the person you’re talking at in some of your posts is someone (I hope he doesn’t mind me saying this) who has lost his business because of financial troubles around the pandemic. It’s alright for those who can afford it… I can afford it… but there are people who are die-hards who have got to breaking point now (as there are each season). Many people have had a lot of money troubles in recent years with Britain leaving the EU, the pandemic, the energy crisis etc.
The lack of feeling for fellow Blues over 12 price rises in 14 years, price rises that absolutely nothing I can think of in my life have even come anywhere near, is a proper shame. One year when interest rates and inflation were at about 1.2%, City put season ticket prices up £12%. And in a decade, they’ve gone up around £125%. Just imagine the reaction of the country if the govt had put up Council Tax £125% over a decade… by the way, if I’d stayed on Platinum, my season ticket would now be more expensive than my Council Tax (but I ditched Platinum and went down to Gold)!
And all this when the club boast the highest revenue in world sport… £600m+
Did they
really need to make season ticket price rises this season when fans have come forward to City Matters reps and asked the club for a price freeze because of financial troubles at the moment? City fans haven’t made this plea out of cheek, we did it out of necessity as we know that many will drop away from our support with another price hike. City Matters put this to the club, the club said they will take it on board and then the club just put the prices up anyway as a bit of a two-finger salute to our plea.
Plus people aren’t slagging the club off, they’re just airing some disappointment. Besides, it’s as much our club as it is their club. They just happen to be employees of our club at this moment in time. In decades to come they won’t be employed by our club any longer but we will still be here with our club.
