For me, it's time for a rebranding with re:the club crest.
It's not 'clean' enough. It's too busy. A bird, a Latin worded ribbon, a shield, three stars, a ship, "M.C.F.C", three stripes...there's too many things going on. And when it's out up alongside other crests (whether altogether on a full league list or even one-on-one to another badge) it has to be downsized to fit all the shit on and our badge actually looks smaller than other crests (when it isn't but the stars and the ribbon make it have to be downsized because it's too tall otherwise).
Here are other reasons:
Anything, the bird, red in away kits, anything we have should have nowt to do with that fucking club! And them having the bird on their 1958 FAC final kit doesn't sit right with me.
The Latin is shite and I remember my old RE teacher at school telling me when the crest first came out that Superbia means an arrogant/think too much of yourself 'pride'.
The three stars are a fucking joke!
And I don't like how our club name is not on the crest. We are "Manchester City F.C." not M.C.F.C. We are Manchester's club and the only City to ever win the league title. Those words/names should be on our club crest.
As far as the old retro crest goes: We are no longer in Lancashire, no matter what any old shire folk would like about that old crest. So going back to the old crest shouldn't happen. There are parts of South Manchester that have never been part of Lancashire as it's always been South of the River Mersey. The red rose (the emblem of a family from Lancaster, 55 miles away) has no links to these places.
I think it should be a modern version of a disc (so we don't have to have a silly shield around it like Nike keep dishing up) that has Manchester connotations only.
Like this old one but with more modern lines, colours and font:
(big one not the small one)
These two are great:
