City V PSG ticket Prices: Club Statement

[philiph20]

Personally I think the fans on here having a go at our owners for charging £60 for a champions league quarter final are a joke.

They should remember where we were before the takeover and the fact we were on the verge of administration.

The reason we have these games are due to our fantastic owners and fans shouldn't forget that.

We do not have the fan base of the rags, Lpool, Barca, Madrid etc and some of the fans are acting as if we do and demanding lower prices.

Be very very careful what you wish for blues.

No we don't have the fan base of the clubs you mention, we have a smaller hardcore and very few day trippers, our supporter base is less affluent and many quite simply can't afford it and the game is in all likelihood going to be well short of capacity because we don't have enough casual fans to take up the slack.

 

[citysince88]

I'm fortunate enough that I'm able to afford to pay the £60 to go to the game. I appreciate thousands of Blues aren't in as fortunate a position.

When the ticket prices were released for the PSG game, I was very disappointed, and I expressed my views at length on the other thread. I was still considering whether to attend the game because it's the first time seeing City in the CL quarter final so I wanted to see a little piece of City history.

But what price do you put on that? Tens of thousands of die hard Blues and their families being shut out, so the club can make a few extra hundred grand? I wasn't fully decided.

I think the club's statement today has made my decision for me. The arrogant and dismissive nature of it is something I'd expect from the faceless "Biggest club in the world" over the road who long ago forgot about the fans that helped get them there. I always thought City were different.

I want to totally distance myself from that statement from 1894 with it's sly dig at Garry Cook. There was no need for it, and it was completely misguided. Garry wasn't everyone's cup of tea, but you could never accuse him of not listening to the fans. He regularly attended Supporters Club events, Points of Blue meetings, and when he sent out questionnaires it was because he genuinely wanted to hear fan's views.

Since Sorriano became CEO all of that has stopped. He has deliberately put a distance betweeen the club and the fans. No more opportunity for fans to give negative feedback, no engagement with the fans whatsoever. The questionaires they send out are so loaded that they are an insult to intelligent people. He's been CEO of Manchester City for over 4 years and the only time I've ever heard him speak was at the launch of his pet project at New York City.

I never felt more engaged with and connected to the club than when Garry Cook was in charge. I've never felt further away from it since Sorriano was at the helm. He would do well to remember the last Chairman who created such a divide between the club and fans was Peter Swales, and the fans sheer will and dissatisfaction eventually forced him out of the club.

City fans are often divided on a lot of issues, but when their backs are against the wall and they unify, they have extraordinary powers of determination. The Swales Out campaign and the record breaking attendances in the 3rd tier of English Football are testamount to that.

So what to do in protest at these prices? I have seen other threads suggesting a walk out on 60 minutes of the West Brom game. I don't think it will make any difference. There has been widespread outrage on Bluemoon and social media, the 1894 came out with their good intentioned but misguided statement, Kevin Parker who is usually so fawning in his praise of the club has come out and had his say. Good for him for having the balls to come out and speak up for the fans he respresents in the supporters clubs.

I'd love to be there at the PSG game to experience a little bit of history and enjoy the game. But some things are more important than that.

As I said in the other post, the best attendance we can hope for is 40k at £60 a ticket. The club could have charged £35 a ticket and had a 55k full house. But they would rather do the former because it means they'll get an extra £200k-£300k revenue for the game, even though there will be 15,000 empty seats and thousands of Blues unable to attend because of the financial cost.

The club know the fan's feelings on the cost, and they have chosen to not give a toss. That is their prerogative.

They have made it clear they are only interested in the amount of revenue they bring in from ticket sales for the game. So there's only one way to make them realise they've got it wrong, and that is to not buy a ticket. That's the only way they are going to realise that sticking their fingers in their ears and not listening to the fans will only get you so far at this club.

Spot the fuck on.

you can stick your quarter final up your arse.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Strict definition means adjusting your pricing in real or close to real time based on demand. It's what insurance companies, airlines and hotels do (among others). So if it was fully implemented, prices would be set at a certain level when tickets first go on sale. That might be high for a derby and low for a midweek game against Watford. Then prices would be adjusted up or down based on take-up so the closer you got to the game the price might be higher if demand was high or lower if they were struggling.

City don't really take it that far but the fact that a Saturday 5:30 kick-off v West Brom is priced differently to a 12:00 Sunday kick-off v Stoke tells its own story.

Airlines like Spanair maybe?

 

[philiph20]

Airlines like Spanair maybe?

Ouch

 

[Shaelumstash]

Personally I think the fans on here having a go at our owners for charging £60 for a champions league quarter final are a joke.

They should remember where we were before the takeover and the fact we were on the verge of administration.

The reason we have these games are due to our fantastic owners and fans shouldn't forget that.

We do not have the fan base of the rags, Lpool, Barca, Madrid etc and some of the fans are acting as if we do and demanding lower prices.

Be very very careful what you wish for blues.

What a strange post.

It's precisely that we do not have the fan base of "the rags, Lpool, Barca, Madrid etc" that the pricing structure for this game is so flawed.

If any of those clubs charged £60, and priced out their local, hard core support, then tourists and corporates would pick up the slack, buy the tickets and fill the stadium.

The difference at City is, we don't attract anywhere near the same level of tourists and corporate tickets. If our local, hard core support don't buy the £60 because they can't afford to go, no one is going to pick up the slack. There are going to be 15k empty seats instead.

The club know this full well. They are exploiting the hard core fans who can just about afford it, and they are squeezing out the rest.

As I said in other threads, the club would prefer 40k people paying £60 than 55k people paying £35 because it means they will get an extra few hundred grand in revenue. It's short-sighted and it's small time.

The bigger issue is, what happens if we beat PSG and get Barca in the semi's, how much then for a ticket? £100 minimum? Where does it stop?

 

[BlueMooner123]

What a strange post.

It's precisely that we do not have the fan base of "the rags, Lpool, Barca, Madrid etc" that the pricing structure for this game is so flawed.

If any of those clubs charged £60, and priced out their local, hard core support, then tourists and corporates would pick up the slack, buy the tickets and fill the stadium.

The difference at City is, we don't attract anywhere near the same level of tourists and corporate tickets. If our local, hard core support don't buy the £60 because they can't afford to go, no one is going to pick up the slack. There are going to be 15k empty seats instead.

The club know this full well. They are exploiting the hard core fans who can just about afford it, and they are squeezing out the rest.

As I said in other threads, the club would prefer 40k people paying £60 than 55k people paying £35 because it means they will get an extra few hundred grand in revenue. It's short-sighted and it's small time.

The bigger issue is, what happens if we beat PSG and get Barca in the semi's, how much then for a ticket? £100 minimum? Where does it stop?

was you this unhappy last year when the tickets for Barcelona Last 16 were announced? if so then fair play, if not then why?

Don't understand the media attention this time round. Most of us won't be paying '60' either.

 

[Shaelumstash]

Spot the fuck on.

you can stick your quarter final up your arse.

Thanks mate.

It's a shame, because I really wanted to go to this game, but I think the price, and the attitude the club have shown this week could be a bit of a tipping point.

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Afraid of success. That's what it is.

55 quid for the top ticket isn't extortionate now that I've had time to think about it.

It's a one off game. It's cost the clubs owners a hell of a lot of money to get us to this point. Do people think this comes for free?

This goes deeper than the cost of a ticket for one match

 

[moomba]

Afraid of success. That's what it is.

55 quid for the top ticket isn't extortionate now that I've had time to think about it.

It's a one off game. It's cost the clubs owners a hell of a lot of money to get us to this point. Do people think this comes for free?

This goes deeper than the cost of a ticket for one match

£60 for the top ticket.

Unless you're suggesting that nowadays you need to have a season ticket or pay £35 (or whatever it is) for a cityzens membership to be worthy of anyone giving a shite.

 

[guvnors son mcfc]

This is the reality. I go to the game with my wife and my 20 year old son.

We had season tickets in the North Stand and my then teenage son had a junior season ticket.

We had great seats and will never forget the Adebayor header v Arsenal as our seats were right behind the goal around 20 rows back.

On my sons 16th we were forced out of our seats smd chose to sit in the East 102, fantastic seats but now the prices had jumped up.

The success came, the FA cup. The trips to Wembley, the season cards, the cup schemes to keep up the points to make sure I didn't miss the Wembley trips I had dreamt of all my life.

The Platinum scheme to keep your points high and ensure you didn't miss out etc.

The Agueroooooo moment, champions and still in my great seats but prices creeping up and my son now becoming an adult albeit at college and Uni.

I ended up with £6 grand on my credit cards juggling all the cup schemes and season tickets and never missed. Paying for three adults is tough going with travel parking and refreshments etc.

This season I opted out of all cup schemes trying to get my finances back in order and also moved out of my amazing seats to sit in the gods of the new south stand 3rd tier.

I was gutted at first missing the cup games and felt I was letting down my club. After a while I stopped giving a shit about the cup games and the Champs league.

I hate my new seat as I am a mile above the play the players look like ants and it takes an age to get back to my car.

I am seriously considering not even renewing my season cards next year and I've been going for 41 years.

I will be gutted and City have been a huge part of my life. I was named after our "King" but I knew deep down that my club was going down the Rag route.

The atmosphere reflects the fan base.

OT used to be a cauldron of vocal local Salfordians. It is now a library of tourists.

As others have said I never joined the City life for the glory or success. I just want to watch my team play and make some noise whilst not making my family bankrupt in the process.

I'm now sat in the gods and the lower tiers and the better seats are filling up with half and half scarf wearing tourists who don't give a real shit about my club.

Where will they be if we ever become shit again.

The Hamburg quarter final was full of real Blues. "REAL MAN CITY FANS"

I will not be attending the biggest night in our European history on financial grounds ! Yet there will be plenty there watching City for the first and possibly only time.

This sums it all up for me.

A very pissed off lifelong blue