City's New Kits - 2019/20

new kits are always exciting to wait for, can't wait, but.......

Who does the designing? is it rep's from the club and puma makes it? or puma puts forth designs and a club rep signs off on it?
just curious, i'm sure either way they will be fine.

OK, here's the thing, as long as the person who designed our new crest doesn't have a say, it's horrible. no foresight.
Why, you ask? well it doesn't say "Football Club" or "F.C."
I live in North America and people see the logo and just think it's travel souvenirs from the UK, just Manchester in general, and i have to explain it's a "soccer" team from Manchester, and I'd get...
"oh!, i would never have gotten that, it should say so, so like Manchester United?"
the idea is to foster growth abroad but our new logo just flies under the radar. it's a total non football related logo here. shame, we should have just kept the old round one before the eagle.
If you have to explain that it's a football team, you're talking to the wrong people.
utd crest doesn't say football either
 
We don’t need FC or Football Club on the badge. We have a Women’s team and youth teams, disabled teams etc. If we all have the same badge we don’t have to worry about one being FC and another being WFC...

Plus it already has a load of facets to it, don’t need anymore jumbling it up. The more minimal and cleaner the better.

And who gives a fuck what some no marks from thousands of miles away from where it matters think? The club have spent far too long pandering to these twats and ignoring or pricing out our local fans which is why we had a situation like Saturday where we can’t sell out an FA Cup semi. They’ve spent far too much time effort and money on getting some nobody from Manhattan, Melbourne or Macau to become a “Cityzen” and forgotten we are the club of Manchester.

I absolutely agree with this. I know we need to expand our fanbase if we are to be a power in world football, but we definitely need to do more at home. I miss the days when we'd have a pre-season game at the Etihad against Barca, Valencia etc. never at home anymore for pre-season, always abroad doing self-promotion to people who won't really have a massive impact on us anyway. No offence to anyone outside of Manchester. if you've been recruited as the result of a pre-season tour then great, but I just wish they'd just think of us on the estate at home more.

and regarding the badge, having FC on there is not necessary at all. the Eagle one had FC, but it didn't say Manchester on it anywhere. The current one is a good modern take on the old one. I love it, a proper city badge.

to keep on topic, I can't wait to see the puma kits. I probably won't buy it, but as long as its sky blue it will look alright to me. I'd like white shorts, and navy/maroon trimmed socks but not getting my hopes up. its Puma, not Umbro (the only brand that actually cared about us).
 
I absolutely agree with this. I know we need to expand our fanbase if we are to be a power in world football, but we definitely need to do more at home. I miss the days when we'd have a pre-season game at the Etihad against Barca, Valencia etc. never at home anymore for pre-season, always abroad doing self-promotion to people who won't really have a massive impact on us anyway. No offence to anyone outside of Manchester. if you've been recruited as the result of a pre-season tour then great, but I just wish they'd just think of us on the estate at home more.

and regarding the badge, having FC on there is not necessary at all. the Eagle one had FC, but it didn't say Manchester on it anywhere. The current one is a good modern take on the old one. I love it, a proper city badge.

to keep on topic, I can't wait to see the puma kits. I probably won't buy it, but as long as its sky blue it will look alright to me. I'd like white shorts, and navy/maroon trimmed socks but not getting my hopes up. its Puma, not Umbro (the only brand that actually cared about us).
Talking of Umbro have you seen the side of the Hare and Hounds pub in Town this week?

 

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