“City in crisis”

[artfuldodger]

He seems to know a lot about City.

Inside?
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Pep Guardiola: 'Self-doubt, errors and big changes - inside crisis at Man City'

As Pep Guardiola and Manchester City's current crisis continues, Spanish football expert Guillem Balague takes a look at their issues - and potential solutions.

www.bbc.co.uk

One of the more balanced articles around at the moment. A good read.

 

[eastmanc]

The idea is that you spend £20 on three tickets and can see three games rather than spending £60 on a ticket for one game. It's not the team you support but it's three matches to attend. Or you see two games and save the third £20.
It works if live football is your thing, but not if City (or any other PL club) is your thing. Personally I'd sooner spend £60 on City and see one game out of three, but that's easy for me to say as I'm in a position where I can afford all home games as I have an FOC season ticket.
The mini-rags gave moaning rag fans an ideal exit route especially with the anti-Glazer element.

I understand all of that but I'm a City fan and like you say I would rather save the money and watch City. I can not understand spending money, even if it's a tenner, on a team I'm not invested emotionally in. I'd rather follow City on the radio or the TV like I've done in the past when I've had to work at the weekends.

 

[KS55]

Applying the logic of your first sentence then the club hasn’t honoured the contract either, by virtue of renewing it.

Parties to a contract can agree to vary, or renew it at in any time. That’s a basic and well established principle of contract law. As long as it’s by agreement (and how could it not be?) then an extension/renewal could not be in any way characterised as a party not honouring the contract that was superseded, because it plainly suits both parties to extend/renew at that time.

Your point that I took issue with was about Pep holding the club to ransom, which you’ve conspicuously failed to address. In what way did he do that?

I think he confused the issue with contradictory or vague statements which kept his options open as long as possible, which is not really playing fair. He was probably in two minds.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I think he confused the issue with contradictory or vague statements which kept his options open as long as possible, which is not really playing fair. He was probably in two minds.

Public statements. Meaningless. Unless you know what was said in private then any statements he made are completely irrelevant to whether he was holding the club to ransom.

Anyway, no point falling out over it. Merry Christmas :-)

 

[FanchesterCity]

I understand all of that but I'm a City fan and like you say I would rather save the money and watch City. I can not understand spending money, even if it's a tenner, on a team I'm not invested emotionally in. I'd rather follow City on the radio or the TV like I've done in the past when I've had to work at the weekends.

I've supported City all my life but I'm not averse to enjoying watching lower league football. It helps me appreciate how lucky we are to experience the amazing highs at City. Not only that, it helps support football in general.

There will come a point where if I feel City are truly taking the piss out of my support then they won't be receiving my money. For many, it's not even a matter of City abusing fan loyalty it's just a matter of personal finances and it can be difficult to justify the costs (something I wish the club would address and set a positive example of supporting their fans who struggle with funds). They make some efforts but nowhere near groundbreaking examples.

I can absolutely sympathise with the choice to attend 3 non City games vs 1 City game, and I wouldn't see it as any measure of their support for the club.

Merry Xmas!

 

[kaz7]

He seems to know a lot about City.

Inside?
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Pep Guardiola: 'Self-doubt, errors and big changes - inside crisis at Man City'

As Pep Guardiola and Manchester City's current crisis continues, Spanish football expert Guillem Balague takes a look at their issues - and potential solutions.

www.bbc.co.uk

He is not inside city nor a contact to pep , he wrote about him at barca and gets rich talking and writing about him here , he knows nothing the big grifter

 

[eastmanc]

I've supported City all my life but I'm not averse to enjoying watching lower league football. It helps me appreciate how lucky we are to experience the amazing highs at City. Not only that, it helps support football in general.

There will come a point where if I feel City are truly taking the piss out of my support then they won't be receiving my money. For many, it's not even a matter of City abusing fan loyalty it's just a matter of personal finances and it can be difficult to justify the costs (something I wish the club would address and set a positive example of supporting their fans who struggle with funds). They make some efforts but nowhere near groundbreaking examples.

I can absolutely sympathise with the choice to attend 3 non City games vs 1 City game, and I wouldn't see it as any measure of their support for the club.

Merry Xmas!

Merry Christmas to you MrFanchester.:-)