I suspect they're up to something different this year. They made so much money selling memberships before the Real Madrid semi-final, they'll likely leave the sale as late as possible, to sell more memberships. Also I wouldn't be surprised if they stagger the sales this year, releasing for individual games a few weeks beforehand, and selling more memberships, i.e. "City v Arsenal coming up", "buy a membership to have a chance of a ticket". We'll be in a lottery for a limited number of tickets with hundreds of thousands of "new members", loyalty points are irrelevant. United sell about 330k memberships annually, so @£35 each that's £11.5m, City will be looking at that that model. I might be wrong, banking all the matchday revenue in July is surely attractive, but Haaland and the Treble have opened up the Membership treasure trove. The "legacy fans" will lose out, judging by the number of City jerseys on the streets, our ability to get tickets is about to change drasticallly, and the prices will be eye-watering. I suppose it's progress, the success has been wonderful, we've gone to see some awful muck down the years, the last 10 have been amazing. When the opponents chant WWYWYWS, we've alway laughed, we we right here watching the shit. Next season many more in our ground will be day trippers, and glory hunters. At least the ground will be packed every game, it always pretty much sold out, but the unused "sold but empty" seats will disappear, and that's good. I genuinely welcome all the new fans, I just wish my "loyalty" points meant something when it comes to getting tickets.
It feels weird, the newbies are all flocking to see Haaland, that's a factor of his sheer goal numbers, and the media hype, he's considered in the top 2 in the world, but no disprespect to Erling, we've had much better footballers in past, the Silvas, KDB, to name but 3, a real football fan should have been bursting to get to see those guys play, but the TikToK and Insta fans just want to say they've seen Haaland.
Good luck to the fellow "Legacy Matchday Members", after what they did to us for the UCL home semi-final I really fear the worst this year when it comes to getting tickets.
