99% of our fans are outside Manchester apparently

[Damocles]

What's the issue here? It's simple math's. Let's say we have 100k mancunaian city fans, we'd need a global fanbase of 10m for that to be true. Admittedly I've pulled that 100k figure from my arse but you could double it or even triple it and it would still be comfortably true.

It's no different to any other global football team. Infact it would be impossible to be a club of our stature with the trophy cabinet we've got and the prolonged dominance we've displayed and have that statement not be true.

There's no apparently required in the thread title, it's undeniably true and there's no story here either. It's literally just saying we are a globally popular club

She's in marketing, she should understand that there's very little value in the truth now but instead how that truth will be interpreted or manipulated to make you look bad.

 

[halfcenturyup]

She's in marketing, she should understand that there's very little value in the truth now but instead how that truth will be interpreted or manipulated to make you look bad.

The wider objective, presumably, isn't to be a football group, but to be an entertainment conglomerate, so messaging like that doesn't make them look bad at all from a marketing standpoint. They probably use that 99% information in their marketing and business development.

What they have to realise, however, is that MCFC and all that makes it what it is, including especially the fans who turn up week after week, is still the heartbeat of the organisation and will be for a long time yet. I am not sure they fully grasp that from the CEO down as can be seen from many of the fan engagement decisions.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

What some people forget, is that a favourite football team is for life. People have to move for work or family reasons, but they don’t stop supporting the team they grew up with. I confess I never lived in Greater Manchester, but my Mum and her parents were born in Greenfield, Saddleworth. That was always my second home, and although the locals were split between Oldham, Huddersfield and City, I was quickly inducted into becoming a Blue at the age of six or seven. I had a year in Liverpool in the 1970s, and later on spent half my working life in East Yorkshire, but I spent a lot of time at Maine Road in the glory and dark days. I have only been to the Etihad once, and that was before Shinawatra, but I still love City 63 years on.

Incidentally I was born in Somerset, and still support Yeovil Town, 69 years on….

 

[David White]

For a club that is very good at taking a long-term view, it seems incredibly short-sighted to prioritise distant fans over local fans. It would hardly cause a blip in the accounts if local fans were better rewarded and encouraged with more favourable pricing, for example.

Or put it this way. The club wastes multiple times more money on poor recruitment for no long-term reward whatsoever than it would need to invest in shoring up and developing the local fanbase.

Spot on.

As for pricing it’s being discussed all over the place so it is clearly an issue. Saw someone post that it’s £48 for a kid on Boxing Day, that’s absolutely outrageous.

I choose to have my season ticket at the back of the south stand on level 3 as we stand up, sing and don’t pay over the odds comparatively, but I can’t get a season ticket for my little one now. speaking to friends they’re at breaking point and will have to move from seats they’ve had for 20 years because it’s just too expensive.

Let’s see how many of these priority “fans” are there against Bruges.

 

[KS55]

Spot on.

As for pricing it’s being discussed all over the place so it is clearly an issue. Saw someone post that it’s £48 for a kid on Boxing Day, that’s absolutely outrageous.

I choose to have my season ticket at the back of the south stand on level 3 as we stand up, sing and don’t pay over the odds comparatively, but I can’t get a season ticket for my little one now. speaking to friends they’re at breaking point and will have to move from seats they’ve had for 20 years because it’s just too expensive.

Let’s see how many of these priority “fans” are there against Bruges.

I remember when pundits were saying clubs would make so much money from sponsorship that match day admission would be free. Ha bloody ha.

 

[ninjamonkey]

She's in marketing, she should understand that there's very little value in the truth now but instead how that truth will be interpreted or manipulated to make you look bad.

Does it make us look bad though? I'm of the opinion it was a stupid thing to say and silence would have been better but I'm one of the 1%, I'm not sure the 99% would echo that opinion, they probably welcome more acknowledgement from the club.

 

[better dead than red]

Good timing, this. Those blokes in the Barcelona tops taking the piss in the away section were simply part of the "international fanbase" and local fans should be more tolerant and respectful of them. Their match day experience needs to be enhanced. ;)

 

[Lavinda Past]

I remember when pundits were saying clubs would make so much money from sponsorship that match day admission would be free. Ha bloody ha.

 

[M23 Citizen]

I remember when pundits were saying clubs would make so much money from sponsorship that match day admission would be free. Ha bloody ha.

Bundesliga | 'Fortuna For All': Fortuna Düsseldorf to play four free fixtures in 2024/25 season

Fortuna Düsseldorf have broken new ground with their scheme for free home matches as part of the Bundesliga 2 club's pioneering 'Fortuna For All' project. The second season of the scheme will see Düsseldorf play four home games where fans pay nothing to attend in 2024/25.

amp.bundesliga.com

When the PL TV revenue went up massively about 8-10 years ago, PL clubs could have let season ticket holders have a decade’s worth of freee season tickets and still been massively in the black.

 

[TinFoilHat]

99% of us live in Stockport