Could we become the biggest club in the world?

[N1985]

'we can piss higher up the wall than you'.

I could piss right OVER the wall at Woolverstone County Primary School (in the fifties...)

Just saying...

JJ

You'd get arrested for that these days

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I know I will get called an FOC for this, but what is the attraction of being the ‘biggest’. I spent decades as a blue listening to rags and dippers banging on about being the biggest this, that and the other. It is just a badge that glory hunters are attracted to, it means nothing other than a loss of identity. At the moment we are the BEST football team in the world, i couldn’t really want anything more than that.

It’s a completely hollow meaningless thing.

A rag said to me once, ‘haha you can’t even fill your ground’.
I said, ‘why do we need to fill our ground?’
He said, ‘you can’t be considered a big club if you can’t even fill your ground’.
So I said, ‘why do we want to be considered a big club?’ to which he had no answer.

It means absolutely nothing.

 

[Lavinda Past]

As much as many may hate to hear it, I don't think any club will displace Real Madrid as the biggest club in the world.

We're on the crest of Pep's wave. It remains to be seen if his successor(s) will be able to maintain the impetus.

We've had, and are still having, a great ride. Enjoy it while it lasts, there may well be a few cliff edges that will need to be addressed in the next five to ten years.

 

[Ribble73]

As much as many may hate to hear it, I don't think any club will displace Real Madrid as the biggest club in the world.

We're on the crest of Pep's wave. It remains to be seen if his successor(s) will be able to maintain the impetus.

We've had, and are still having, a great ride. Enjoy it while it lasts, there may well be a few cliff edges that will need to be addressed in the next five to ten years.

Great Post

 

[woody1968]

Great Post

We know not where we’re going
Guardiola will decide
It’s not the destination
It’s the glory of the ride

 

[Deleted member 77198]

As much as many may hate to hear it, I don't think any club will displace Real Madrid as the biggest club in the world.

We're on the crest of Pep's wave. It remains to be seen if his successor(s) will be able to maintain the impetus.

We've had, and are still having, a great ride. Enjoy it while it lasts, there may well be a few cliff edges that will need to be addressed in the next five to ten years.

Nothing lasts forever, not in English football. The good thing about our fanbase is that we know it. We always told United fans it wouldn’t for them and they used to laugh. They could never even consider that they wouldn’t be that club they were from 1993-2013 ,forever.

We will eventually decline n’all… but not for a while yet, so get the maximum enjoyment out of this - like you say - while it lasts.

 

[CarlosTevez'sEnglishTutor]

United would have to go bust for us to be the biggest club in Greater Manchester. Certainly in my lifetime.

We are the best club in the world, and long may that continue, but United have had sustained success and domination during the introduction of football into the worldwide mainstream media. Real Madrid, Manchester United, Barcelona, Liverpool. In that order.

I hope I'm alive to see it as it would mean us keeping up our current level for the next 20 to 30 years. Sadly, I can't see that happening when Pep leaves in 2025. We will drop off a bit but I'm sure we will be a consistent top 4 Premier League club for as long as we have our current owners and stay in the division, charges pending. If we get relegated out of the Football League we will still have our 35-40k hardcore fans there every week.

Hate to say it but outside of Manchester and the northwest, people are always shocked to meet you as a game going City fan when working away. They're fed the bullshit in the media about empty seats etc, but the reality is we are a big club in the northwest and huge in Manchester, but the biggest clubs in the world have the majority of their season ticket holders living in different cities or countries.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

United would have to go bust for us to be the biggest club in Greater Manchester. Certainly in my lifetime.

We are the best club in the world, and long may that continue, but United have had sustained success and domination during the introduction of football into the worldwide mainstream media. Real Madrid, Manchester United, Barcelona, Liverpool. In that order.

I hope I'm alive to see it as it would mean us keeping up our current level for the next 20 to 30 years. Sadly, I can't see that happening when Pep leaves in 2025. We will drop off a bit but I'm sure we will be a consistent top 4 Premier League club for as long as we have our current owners and stay in the division, charges pending. If we get relegated out of the Football League we will still have our 35-40k hardcore fans there every week.

Hate to say it but outside of Manchester and the northwest, people are always shocked to meet you as a game going City fan when working away. They're fed the bullshit in the media about empty seats etc, but the reality is we are a big club in the northwest and huge in Manchester, but the biggest clubs in the world have the majority of their season ticket holders living in different cities or countries.

I’d add Bayern to your list n’all.

Is also think Pep will sign one more extension before leaves us. He’s got everything he needs and wants with us, he won’t get that anywhere else.

 

[CarlosTevez'sEnglishTutor]

I’d add Bayern to your list n’all.

Is also think Pep will sign one more extension before leaves us. He’s got everything he needs and wants with us, he won’t get that anywhere else.

I agree mate and Juventus. Bayern have a very strict rule on how many games you must attend a season, due to the fact so many of their season ticket holders live out of town and abroad.

I hope so, he is the best coach to ever live, in any sport. He will never get the credit he fully deserves while he is alive, unfortunately. Totally transformed the sport worldwide. I'm only 30 and the game has changed so much in the 15 years since he became a professional manager. Players couldn't even fathom being told to play out from the back or use centre backs in the build up 10 years ago, now the vast majority of top-flight clubs worldwide try to play to that model to some extent.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

It’s a completely hollow meaningless thing.

A rag said to me once, ‘haha you can’t even fill your ground’.
I said, ‘why do we need to fill our ground?’
He said, ‘you can’t be considered a big club if you can’t even fill your ground’.
So I said, ‘why do we want to be considered a big club?’ to which he had no answer.

It means absolutely nothing.

It's a good point. No one whinged about Nottingham Forest being a "big club" when they were winning European Cups. In fact Brian Clough treated it as badge of pride and mocked the so-called "big clubs." They were a smallish club but one of the best teams to ever grace English football.