City announce first ESport signing

It's a smart move commercially. We will get a lot of grief over this though I suspect :)
 
I've been in touch via twitter with the club,told them i'm quite good at Call of Duty and if i wear my City shirt whilst i play it will they pay me?

My only problem with this is i wish i could get payed for playing computer games.Bet he isn't even a City fan.
 
I can try and drink 10 pints of ale on 'Walter's glass half full' and talk more nonsense than I normally do if City want to pay for the beer? Ha Ha
 
I can't see much piss-taking going on, a lot of clubs are doing this now.

The removal of 'FC' from the badge already showing that 'Man City' plan on broadening into much more than just the football 1st team.

Pretty irrelevant to us football fans in a way but commercially very clever, trying to turn us into a global Red Bull or NY Yankees type franchise which is recogniseable to people from all walks of life whether they know about football or not.

Edit: Thought I remembered another PL club doing this already:
A lad called Sean Allen signed for West Ham in May in a similar move.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36231379
 
I wondered when this would be happening, it's the fast growing "sport" in the world and its huge in the Asian markets, smart move by city especially if they start to hold the contests there.
 
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Esports is absolutely huge and shows no signs of slowing down. It's smart business for City to get in on it. I used to be involved a bit with clans when i was younger, won lots of competitions and won what i thought was some good prizes at the time but that was before Esports became what it is now and is nothing compared to what is won now. Multi million dollar tournaments are held for all manner of games regularly. sadly i no longer have the reaction times to compete just when my one useless skill becomes potentially useful.
 
Interesting, sure I seen a German team in esports recently think is was Schalke 04. Definitely a good move because its a huge market, no matter what the "gaming's a waste of time" people say
 
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