City launch MLS Franchise

[raininspain]

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE SMALL

You signed Phil Jones, we bought New York City ????????????

 

[joe_canada]

Look at how the news is spreading on Twitter... http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...eferral&utm_content=NYCFC&utm_campaign=Unpaid

 

[oakiecokie]

makes our season ticket prices seem an even bigger dropped ball.

Really no need to push prices up like that, they could have(and should have) catered to the traditional fan market and kept pushing revenues everywhere else.

You have to reward loyalty, buying great players and winning trophies is only all well and good when those fans who went for the past 30 years can afford to get in the ground each week to watch.

City could also have made a huge statement and been the pro-active club in driving down ticket prices rather than putting them up.

It makes no sense when we can make money doing stuff like this why they feel the need to take more money off the poorest market, damaging the identity of the club they're trying to sell to the world.

If you want to sell yourselves as something different to the traditional clubs you have to keep the essence of what makes us different, a local, community club who looks after its own and then everyone in its sphere.

City are making it feel like they are far too interested in looking after the people in the wider sphere more than their own, which makes us no different to any other top football club in terms of identity at the end of the day.

I really hope they take this on board for next season, season tickets and match prices should be one thing they protect and safeguard. If they had a small group of fans working on an area like that I reckon we'd come up with a superior solution.

Sorry but what on earth has this new venture got to do with ST prices ??

It triggered it because it's obviously a way to make a lot of money globally and therefore made it feel even worse that they'd shunted up ticket prices for no good reason.

So are you suggesting that we are subsidising this new Club from our FFPR monies ? Cant see it myself.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Since the sheikh and his business partners are incredibly successful and very shrewd, I think we can assume that there is some relevance to our club that he is setting up a similar business outside the jurisdiction of UEFA and out of the sphere of influence of pratini.
Hopefully all will become clear in the fullness of time!!

 

[taconinja]

MLS is roughly equivalent to the championship in my opinion as far as footballing quality and such goes, so this is actually very, very interesting when you consider certain possibilities such as loaning academy players to NYC FC where they will get decent competitive action. Any profits (and MLS clubs are profitable when run correctly) will go to City itself for FFPR purposes. City will get a chance to develop youth players from the States possibly if they do this correctly, and that can be good too (and not just from a marketing perspective.)

This is really positive for City.

 

[Oohvonkyvonky]

We're the pride of Man...Hattan, We're the pride of Manhatten...

 

[Blue Coop]

Yet another attempt to popularise "soccer" in the states. It's a minority sport there. Pele and Becks couldn't change that and neither will we.

This is why I am very happy to see a partnership between City and New York Yankees, rather than just City. The Yankees are obviously huge over there, and their involvement already brings in a lot more interest to the sport from the baseball community, and I think the partnership is going to provide the right foundation to make this a success. A minority sport in a country the size of America is still a bloody big sport, and has countless revenue and global exposure opportunities.

 

[unlikelyfan19]

Yeah, and the NYCFC looks like it's colour will be SKY BLUE.

HELL YEAH.

The US is the only rich country in the world where "soccer" has a lot of room to grow. The Yankees are the US baseball version of the rags. Most popular club, most glory-hunting twat fans. And this is awesome! Damn right I want to tie in with that lot.

We want to catch the filth, even Liverpool and Arse in revenue because of this FFP crap. This will help. Fuck yes this will help. More US City fans the better. Lots of crap Nike City kits being sold, lots more money we can use on players.

Great news! We need to keep fighting the global war against rag filth and now we win the battle of NEW YORK CITY.

Honestly, the Rags are worse. New York is just huge, and many people have lived there, are from there, or have a tie there somehow. I have never met anyone that supports them that doesn't have a genuine tie to the city. Now people wear the hats a lot, but I think that's more fashion thing than anything. It just became a "cool brand" (debatable, I know) in American culture, but most of those people wouldn't tell you they "support the yankees". It just became a brand for the city itself.

 

[argyle]

Yet another attempt to popularise "soccer" in the states. It's a minority sport there. Pele and Becks couldn't change that and neither will we.

Might never be as big as American Football etc, but there is still money to be made.

Plus the demographics in America are changing with more Hispanic and Filipino people etc than ever and many like football.

 

[FantasyIreland]

And the comment from one of the mongs on Sad Cafe

Disgusting. Fucking City *****. Fucking Yankee *****.

Yet on a public forum you deem your own language acceptable?