Pep: 'The players deserve a full stadium, we need our fans!'

BillyShears said:
Actually I see it totally opposite. Pep should never comment on attendance numbers. Football is fucking expensive and if people can't go so be it.

But the booing he should comment on as it doesn't cost us anything to stop it. Also when it comes to proposals that effect the club like FFP or rewarding historical success. That's the club's fight not ours. It effects them not us. We should therefore follow their lead. If Pep says forget it I'm good with that.
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Now that I do agree with mate. FFP and other stuff are club related issues and I trust the club to deal with them in whatever way they see fit. I'll have a moan about it like pretty much every other fan but when I boo the anthem I only do it because of the CSKA Moscow business as I see that as a fan-specific issue.
 
HoJon said:
Bayern fans were also affected and wasn't he Bayern's manager at the time? So he should be well aware of the situation as Bayern had the "Respect Fans" banners too!
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Exactly so.

I think ( as mentioned earlier ) there was some confusion in his interview, as the the attendance figure on Wednesday (due to the postponement and nothing to do with staying away in protest at UEFA ) and then the booing of the anthem.

Perhaps the club are having pressure placed on them by UEFA , hence Pep commenting, but if they weren't so blatantly corrupt and biased in their treatment of City, then the supporters wouldn't have the grievances.

UEFA are to blame totally imo and so long as they continue to favour certain clubs and wrongly punish others , the contempt for them and their competition will continue , and rightly so.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
If they want it to stop then all they have to do is refund those fans who lost money by not being allowed to attend a game they'd been allowed and encouraged to buy tickets for. At that point, our major grievance is ended.
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You are still talking about that match in Moskow?

You played Moscow 3 weeks after Bayern fans weren't allowed in the stadium...
I know that the Bayern fans went on own risk believing that they somehow could get into the stadium - without tickets. Some of them had attended every away match in Europe since more than 20 years... They rented that appartment in the neighbour building to watch the match from there-

I doubt that it was any different with the City fans that went. As much as I remember they went on own risk with the same ideas the Bayern fans had.
 
Pep is a brilliant football manager and tactician that much is clear, but he really needs to read Martin Samuel's article today, he really does. As Samuel says Pep loves the champion's league because he has always been on the right side of it with Barca and Bayern, two clubs with their fat arses sat right at the head of the table. They have been granted every privilage going and when you are in a cosy little members club like that, you never see the poor bastards outside getting battered by the bouncers for attempting to get in and sample the delights you are enjoying.

The booing lasts as long as their pompous anthem lasts and then it is over, then everyone gets behind the team. Empty seats are due to costs, not only of tickets but travel too and the logistics of getting home after 10pm in the evening, especially on public transport.

Pep is thorough in every aspect of his work and I am surprised he jumped into this argument with very little knowledge or homework done on the subject. UEFA are a corrupt self serving organisation for the old cartel and we as a club have been obstructed and stitched up every step of the way for trying to progress in the competition and this shows no signs of stopping, as the new rulings show. I will continue to boo the bastards every time I attend as I hate the fuckers and all they stand for. I will support my team as they unfortunately play in their corrupt competition but don't ever expect me to like it or them.
 
Maldeika said:
You are still talking about that match in Moskow?

You played Moscow 3 weeks after Bayern fans weren't allowed in the stadium...
I know that the Bayern fans went on own risk believing that they somehow could get into the stadium - without tickets. Some of them had attended every away match in Europe since more than 20 years... They rented that appartment in the neighbour building to watch the match from there-

I doubt that it was any different with the City fans that went. As much as I remember they went on own risk with the same ideas the Bayern fans had.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but hadn't a number of City fans already booked flights to Moscow before UEFA decided that the game would be played behind closed doors?
 
Ed2607 said:
Agree totally. He never mentioned booing but asked for fans support by attending the comp. if this is fact then 'ive got my back up, f uck Pep, I'll boo if I want posts' are needless and irrelevant, His interview was about fans supporting the team by filling the stadium and seeing the wonderful football on show.
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Wasn't he just making a connection between the booing and the low attendances? His logic seems to be that the booing inevitably creates a feeling of negativity towards the CL that leads to low attendances. If the CL games were easily selling out, I don't think he or the club would be remotely bothered about the booing.
 
Maldeika said:
You are still talking about that match in Moskow?

You played Moscow 3 weeks after Bayern fans weren't allowed in the stadium...
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The ban on your fans was separate and had been imposed as part of an earlier 1 game punishment. You played there on 30 Sep and the 3 game ban was imposed 3 days later. People had already booked and paid for travel, accommodation & visas by the time it became clear that away fans would be denied entry.

The only thing I think I got wrong was that I'm not sure any tickets were sold by City so any fans that travelled did so without tickets. But as they weren't offered any compensation, many decided to go anyway otherwise it was money down the drain. The fine on CSKA should have enough been big enough to refund those that had spent money.
 
Sorry Pep but I haven't forgotten how we were stabbed in the back by UEFA. All set for passing FFP (we worked closely with them and ran deals by them) then they moved the goal posts so "we took a pinch". Get a UEFA spokesman to apologise and maybe we can move on.
 
i think Pep should make the players get down on one knee when the uefa anthem is being played just like some are doing in the usa
 
There are almost exclusively negative comments on here about UEFA but I think they are in a very difficult position. It is the historically larger clubs that are mainly to blame for almost everything that happens. Fortunately we are now part of the group that effectively controls the Champions League. 16 of the 32 group places from 2018 will now go to the top 4 clubs in England, Spain, Germany and Italy without any need of play-offs. Every other country in Europe is left to fight over the remaining 16 places. It is becoming more of a close shop than ever but whose fault is that? UEFA attempted to make the group stages more accessible to countries outside the top 4 by making the fourth place teams compete against some of the better clubs thus allowing access to a few more minor clubs. This has had to be set aside not because UEFA didn't see it as fair but because of pressure from the top clubs.

I would like to ask what anyone on here would do if given full control of UEFA? When the cartel come knocking at your door saying that unless they get their way they will set up their own competition do you tell them to get lost and then lose Madrid, Barcelona, etc and finish up with a competition without 16 of the best teams? It's real life and maybe these clubs are collectively more important than UEFA.
 
Brendan110_0 said:
Sorry Pep but I haven't forgotten how we were stabbed in the back by UEFA. All set for passing FFP (we worked closely with them and ran deals by them) then they moved the goal posts so "we took a pinch". Get a UEFA spokesman to apologise and maybe we can move on.
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So that's never then?

The booing is totally justified. But I think the club believe that it, and the general feelbad factor around the CL, is holding us back. Which is why I think they've asked Pep to use his considerable influence to try to get the fans to call it a day.
 
Bring back the Poznan for pep, think he will love it.....

As for eufa booing, I'm sure if he knew the full story and spoke to city fans that lost money with Kiev , he would change his mind or reimburse the fans himself :-)
 
It's not about Cska away at all,that's what the press and the media just don't get especially talks port.

It's about the corruption that David Gill is party too,ffp,and all it stands for,in this country the United influence stinks rotten, and Gill is having his way at uefa too it's all bent, that's why I boo the anthem.
Our fine money got distrusted amongst other clubs,that's why I boo,gills influence,that's why I boo.it's bent and corrupt look at the new rankings and Co efficients, only Martin Samuel from the mail speaks out,cos the media love the rags.

Fuck off uefa,your corrupt organisation stinks , sick of hearing that it's about Cska away,which was out of order.ctid
 
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