I am currently in Orlando, Florida and I am seeing Haaland city shirts for sale and been worn. The thing that really gets me is whenever I tell Americans where I am from their reaction is “a great sports city” or “Manchester City and United”, that is their first thoughts. That is in contrast to a conversation I had with a couple around Maine Road pre-match 30 years ago when the American lady (in all honesty) said that Americans had heard of Manchester United, but had never heard of Manchester City”.
It really feels like we are witnessing the development of a major global big football club. I wouldn’t change the journey we have been on for the world but you have to wonder if we had the right backing and chairman (not Swales!) decades ago we would have already have been there a long time.