Khaldoon's End Of Season Video Message To The Fans

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hilts said:
Back in the day when I used to pay my fiver and wander into the kippax my hope was effort from the team, that is all, anything more would have been folly as most of my life we have been pretty shit. Times have changed and football fans are treated as customers. This is not a city problem it is the way the game has gone.

As a customer I am perfectly entitled to act as one, you want to sell a football shirt lacking heritage and produced by a shit American retailer? Fine I won't buy it. You want to charge me over £700 quid for a season ticket so players,managers and staff can live the life of Reilly? Fine I will watch a stream.

You want to produce an end of season PR stunt telling us how great we are gonna be next time? I won't bother watching.

City are in my blood nothing I can do about it, doesn't mean I have to fall for this gratitude shit or fawn over a bit of PR.
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Haha...In the day, when my take home pay was about £38 and "I used to pay my fiver" is no different to me now paying £700 of the (minimum) wage I now earn, also enjoy watching your stream but there is nothing better than watching City in the blood,which sadly seems to be draining away from you...
 
moggymoz said:
Haha...In the day, when my take home pay was about £38 and "I used to pay my fiver" is no different to me now paying £700 of the (minimum) wage I now earn, also enjoy watching your stream but there is nothing better than watching City in the blood,which sadly seems to be draining away from you...
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In fairness mate if your take home pay was £38 I wasn't watching city pre world war 1 amd it certainly wasn't a fiver then, the match day experience Ie watching it at the ground isn't that great, examples see people not bothering turning up and pretty poor atmosphere. Back in the day if I didn't go I wouldn't see it. That isn't the case anymore. if you think the odd audible chant is worth £700 quid a year over watching it on the tv fair enough. Either way we don't have to get giddy over a chairmans end of season PR stunt.
 
hilts said:
In fairness mate if your take home pay was £38 I wasn't watching city pre world war 1 amd it certainly wasn't a fiver then, the match day experience Ie watching it at the ground isn't that great, examples see people not bothering turning up and pretty poor atmosphere. Back in the day if I didn't go I wouldn't see it. That isn't the case anymore. if you think the odd audible chant is worth £700 quid a year over watching it on the tv fair enough. Either way we don't have to get giddy over a chairmans end of season PR stunt.
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Mid 80's
 
jrb said:
Hope the players saw that last bit about the fans.

Sadly no mention of expanding the stadium any further, or the long awaited Collar site development, when discussing ADUG investing in Manchester.

The wait continues.

Back burner?
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agreed mate i was hoping a question would at least be posed regards the stadium, they didn't even mention the new stand opening which was rather strange, i feel it was a subject matter that was to be left alone for whatever reason
 
So he said some things, but let enough stuff unsaid to get us speculating... In my view the only thing of importance was that the push forward continues, the rest, like players, academies, stadiums etc are just details.
 
Enjoyed listening to Khaldoon - he always comes across as someone who has his finger on the pulse - very professional in every thing he says. However the clown asking the questions needs to find a new job. Cringeworthy.
 
Kazzydeyna said:
It was a natural progression... Slag off a successful manager...check. Slag off another successful manager.... Check

Next step... Prepare the groundwork to slag off the best owners in world sport.... Check.
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Unfortunately oh so true KD.I can`t believe some of the negativity on here after a great deal of optimism from Khaldoon.Some fuckers should wonder off to to "dark side" at OT or become candledippers.
 
JoeMercer'sWay said:
more than a point, as usual, then again as proven above, talk is cheap.
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Our owners aren't perfect and they will not always get things right, but to suggest that their talk is cheap is well wide of the mark. From day one nearly everything that they have said will happen, has come to fruition. People need to separate their own disappointment at the season just gone from the bigger picture of what fantastic ownership we have and their transparency in a world where most owners of top clubs say nothing, ever.
 
Fantastic stuff from the chairman & as much of an indictment of the previous shambles as he could possibly give, whilst being diplomatic & a gentleman.

For me personally he's said everything I wanted to hear & confirmed my suspicions that the previous 'manager' was not acting in line with the agreed plan.

Great times ahead.
 
BillyShears said:
People need to separate their own disappointment at the season just gone from the bigger picture of what fantastic ownership we have and their transparency in a world where most owners of top clubs say nothing, ever.
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Good luck with that.

Neville Kneville said:
For me personally he's said everything I wanted to hear
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Without wanting to seem negative, isn't that what he wanted you to say, the whole point of these end of season things. I'm sure you probably thought the same this time last year.

For me a lot of great words, but I will wait to see what happens on the pitch.

The club itself (and CFG), are in great shape, but that does NOT guarantee winning anything in this league.
 
cleavers said:
Good luck with that.


Without wanting to seem negative, isn't that what he wanted you to say, the whole point of these end of season things. I'm sure you probably thought the same this time last year.

For me a lot of great words, but I will wait to see what happens on the pitch.

The club itself (and CFG), are in great shape, but that does NOT guarantee winning anything in this league.
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I keep hearing this reference to "words" or talking the "talk" but have the owners really promised something they've not delivered on? They can't go on the pitch and make Toure faster or Zaba faster or Vinny less injury prone. Of course there's NO guarantee of winning anything, but my point is just that they are doing everything in their power to make us more successful every season.

Otherwise if we're talking about people who are unhappy with the kit/badge/flavour of ice cream available at the Etihad - I can't relate to those people. I care about the football. Everything else is a sideshow or window dressing.

Ticket prices is definitely a thing I have agreed with others on but this is a league wide issue not one solely related to City and again, although I think the club could do more, this isn't something which should begin to morph into the kind of entitled nonsense that certain posters in this thread are spouting.
 
People need to separate the ownership of the club from the executives who run the club day to day. They are two different things.

Shiekh Mansour is the owner. Khaldoon in the chairman. They set the overall vision of the club. The "philosophy" if you will. Their vision is that they want City to be successful, they want to win trophies, play entertaining football, be seen as fantastic partners for the local community, and to be seen as ambitious and trustworthy partners to our sponsors.

Ferran, Txiki, Marwood and the executives are responsible for executing that vision. They are the ones who decide which players we buy, how much tickets cost, how much to charge for a burger, which kit manufacturer we sign up with and how much control we relinquish.

Absolutely no chance are Khaldoon or Sheikh Mansour sat around deciding how much to charge for PSG tickets or whether we'll let Nike fuck around and give us blue shorts. That's way, way below their paygrade.

The Shiekh is there to provide the vision and the finance, and he's done an absolutely unbefuckingleavable job of that. The best job any owner has ever done. Khaldoon will be overseeing the wider strategy like the CFG expansion and agreements with China. Again, he's done a phenomenal job of that, only an absolute idiot would think otherwise.

The engagement of the club with the fans, the ticket pricing, the constant fucking around with the teams identity and history, that's down to the executives lower down the food chain. These executives have done some great things, they've also made plenty of fuck ups. They're not infallible.

But Sheikh Mansour IS infallible as far as Manchester City are concerned.
 
cleavers said:
Good luck with that.


Without wanting to seem negative, isn't that what he wanted you to say, the whole point of these end of season things. I'm sure you probably thought the same this time last year.

For me a lot of great words, but I will wait to see what happens on the pitch.

The club itself (and CFG), are in great shape, but that does NOT guarantee winning anything in this league.
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Last year I was still believing that Pellegrini had been hampered by ffp.

Khaldoon has always stated the same objective, of having half the team 'homegrown'. I've had the argument re that on here on many occasions, people saying it's not possible. It is , imo it will happen. The fact he has stage managed the interview so that the bloke can ask him specifically about it, so he can put that message across yet again, & the fact he mentioned Brandon Barker by name ( a name Pellegrini has probably only mentioned once in 3 years) & also says 'the talent is there' in the academy & that the kids WILL get a chance, fills me with joy tbh.

Then says 'but let's not dwell on that' , brlliant. Just an absolute gentlemanly savaging of the previous manager without ever actualy saying anything bad.

All people like me have been asking for, is the 'chance' . Some won't make it, but some WILL & imo some could have possibly already. Pellegrini has brainwashed some City fans into believing our academy is a sham & that we don't have any players coming through who will make it.

Well the chairman disagrees, which almost certainly means Pep Guardiola disagrees or he wouldn't have set him up liie that.
 
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