Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

waspish said:
Not worried about our capacity going up to 61k because then big premier games will sell out the important knock out champs games will sell out! Some games the attendance will be low especially in midweek games! Everything for fans around a night game is also a reason.. it’s what it is! Barcelona had 44k last night..
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Nope can't have that, don't see the point in a bigger stadium when only the big games will sell out. I don't care about Barcelona I care about City and the attendance last night was alarming IMO
 
When they decided the sales criteria for the home semi final tickets against Real Madrid (4-0 game) they lost me. It was the biggest 2 fingers to those of us who'd been buying matchday tickets for years, trudging to watch absolute crap, unable to score goals, poor players, shit results, but we did it out of loyalty and obsession.

Them when it mattered, possibly the biggest home game in our history, they decided that anyone who paid £35 for membership right up to sales day, had equal buying opportunity as the rest of us. I got one eventually, but the people either side of me were at their first ever City game, and that's just wrong, they were shouting for City, and I welcome allcomers to our passion, but you should need to put in some supporting effort to get tickets for a game like that. The club absolutely shafted us, I realised they're soulless number crunchers with no understanding of what it means to be a fan. It honestly felt like a break-up, I'll still go along, but when last night happens I've little sympathy, they're reaping what they sowed.

The RM home playoff last year was equally depressing, I was in the North Stand, largely silent, full of people who really weren't passionate City fans. My 2 lads said after that they were only interested in SS3, where it felt like there were among actual City supporters. (That's the game where there's a video of a guy in a RM top getting his hair cut in the North Stand).

We can actually fill the ground with City fans, who care, and will support the team, but we have chosen not to do so. The club needs to own last night, not the fans.

The support is there, I logged on for the second drop of Chelsea tickets, and there were more than 10,000 ahead of me in the queue.
 
waspish said:
Not worried about our capacity going up to 61k because then big premier games will sell out the important knock out champs games will sell out! Some games the attendance will be low especially in midweek games! Everything for fans around a night game is also a reason.. it’s what it is! Barcelona had 44k last night..
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The Nou Camp only has a capacity of 44-45K at the moment due to the renovations. It's not because of a lack of demand
 
Didsbury Dave said:
This is a factor. We are not recruiting match going fans as we should. We have a poor image now for kids: the cheating, empty seats, no atmosphere, money club. It doesn’t play well on TikTok which is where these kids learn the ropes.
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Whilst i dont disagree as such, the kids ARE choosing City.
As a micro example, i live in a small town 15 miles out of manchester. Most of the kids in my 10 year olds class are blues.
One lad his dad is a big arsenal supporting cockney, his lads a blue. No other blues in a family of arse on one side and rags in the other.
Amongst the “dads group” of the younger kids there is unusually a lot of blokes who have moved into the area from all over the country, coventry (cov fan), ireland (newcastle), boro fan, a geordie, halifax (leeds), some even are regular attenders at those clubs, who do their sons support? CITY!!!!

Can they get tickets? Not easily no

There was a total open net for the club to bank the next generation of supporters and they hit row z!
The club dont do community work at schools like they used to. All it would have taken was a modern day junior blues like in the 70s (ironically that support saved us in the 80s) to set in stone these future blues, but the club ballsed it up!!

So i agree that the clubs rep is tarnished to a point but how have they combated that? By galvanising the support? Dragging new ones in? Backs to the wall in it together?
Nope none of the above. The opposite in fact.
Therell be a case study at some point about how city fucked this up

What a fuckin shame
 
There was more than 35,000 last night, but evidently some blues were facing a choice of Galatasaray or Newcastle, and not enough could afford/be arsed to choose both resulting in both attendances falling below capacity

As for the atmosphere, I didn't think that it was too bad in the First Half, but then everyone seemed preoccupied with the other scores, and the uncertainty seemed to spread to the players

Also, whilst keeping our friends close and our enemies closer, we need to learn from the rags how to communicate the importance of a new song and how it keeps everything relevant

There's currently some social media footage of their fans singing a new nursery rhyme, whilst going into the Emirates last Sunday, and I guarantee that by next Sunday it will be spreading across the swamp.

In contrast there seems a strange reluctance to embrace anything new at the Etihad

Even "Walker and Akanji" seems outdated and is hardly going to motivate Nunes and Khusanov
 
Gray said:
I just do not get the North Stand extension, they will only fill it about 5 times a season?

Crazy.
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No it will make money. It’s an upgraded fanzone, hotel, shopping experience and museum with conference facilities. And we’ll start hosting more internationals and UEFA finals due to the facilities. Then there’s the concerts.

It might take time to take hold on the stadium bowl side but it will.
 
eyalluvitt said:
Remember the Hamburg game when they needed us so made it a fiver
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I do I was there. Didn't remember it was Hamburg, but yeah stewards walking round telling everybody get in for £5.

I don't think they would allow that now, they would rather have the empty seats than give their fans something. I don't even think they recognise their fans anymore. They're lost to commercialism. It will bite them back
 
Bluesince1979 said:
Whilst i dont disagree as such, the kids ARE choosing City.
As a micro example, i live in a small town 15 miles out of manchester. Most of the kids in my 10 year olds class are blues.
One lad his dad is a big arsenal supporting cockney, his lads a blue. No other blues in a family of arse on one side and rags in the other.
Amongst the “dads group” of the younger kids there is unusually a lot of blokes who have moved into the area from all over the country, coventry (cov fan), ireland (newcastle), boro fan, a geordie, halifax (leeds), some even are regular attenders at those clubs, who do their sons support? CITY!!!!

Can they get tickets? Not easily no

There was a total open net for the club to bank the next generation of supporters and they hit row z!
The club dont do community work at schools like they used to. All it would have taken was a modern day junior blues like in the 70s (ironically that support saved us in the 80s) to set in stone these future blues, but the club ballsed it up!!

So i agree that the clubs rep is tarnished to a point but how have they combated that? By galvanising the support? Dragging new ones in? Backs to the wall in it together?
Nope none of the above. The opposite in fact.
Therell be a case study at some point about how city fucked this up

What a fuckin shame
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Great post, all the club needs to know. Only takes one dad to take his lad and bring 3 or 4 of his mates with him.
Same for teenagers , like to go together for a day out, but will they jump the hoops to do it ?
Surely these things can't go unnoticed by the club.
 
Georgian Maestro said:
The Nou Camp only has a capacity of 44-45K at the moment due to the renovations. It's not because of a lack of demand
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they also struggle to sell out alot at nou camp, loads walked away from it after previous management running the club.

Can you guess who was involved there, that is now involved behind the scenes at our once loyal club?

Atmosphere was truly awful throughout, Galatasary were possibly the worst set of fans to come to our place in the UCL this season, very quiet.
 
mcfc315 said:
Nope can't have that, don't see the point in a bigger stadium when only the big games will sell out. I don't care about Barcelona I care about City and the attendance last night was alarming IMO
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100% agree.

I don't care how people spin it, the ground with the new north stand in some games next season is going to look bad for the club.

I love City, but I am not delusional and under this notion that we are a 60k every week fanbase yet. We are not even a 55k every week fanbase yet.

Manchester is the 3rd biggest City in the UK and we have the rags on the doorstep.

No other 3rd biggest city of their country in Europe has a City and United in it, one filling it with 75k and the other 55k. Not forgetting Liverpool 45 mins down the road.

Our core home support is still sitting at around 45-50k.

I always thought the club got the whole stadium expansion wrong and premature back in 2014 when they built the 3rd tier in the South Stand.

Should have left the stadium as it was at near 50k and should have created a big supply and demand scenario which would have naturally lead to a more organic stadium expansion.
 
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