Khaldoon's End of Season Review 2025

I was ignorant of the success of Bahia and Melbourne City, so I enjoyed being educated, and I shall follow results more closely in future. I am naturally less interested in this than the first-team, so I wasn't as engaged with Part 2. The case is obviously still out there in the ether and remains something that cannot be discussed. I cannot wait until it is all over and he can finally speak in those strong terms he promised.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
Exactly, 3rd place and CL is nothing to be sneezed at. It also isn't an achievement either and had you said our season would have panned out as it did, at the start of the season. We all would have been hugely disappointed. Khaldoon started the interview yesterday talking of 3 finals on the spin etc as a positive. Winning a third of them isn't a positive. That isn't me saying we have to win them, it is saying that getting to finals and losing them isn't something to claim as a positive, but after our season of very little positives, maybe it is and I am wrong.
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Lots of faffing about, but at least you got there in the end
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
It would save a lot of time if people actually read my posts. I HAVENT SAID WE HAVE TO WIN TITLES, I HAVENT SAID WE HAVE TO WIN IT ALL, EVERY SEASON. I have dealt with worse than your Spurs comparison, much worse. Growing up and going to Maine Road couldn't be any more character building buddy.

Exactly, 3rd place and CL is nothing to be sneezed at. It also isn't an achievement either and had you said our season would have panned out as it did, at the start of the season. We all would have been hugely disappointed. Khaldoon started the interview yesterday talking of 3 finals on the spin etc as a positive. Winning a third of them isn't a positive. That isn't me saying we have to win them, it is saying that getting to finals and losing them isn't something to claim as a positive, but after our season of very little positives, maybe it is and I am wrong.
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Maybe?
 
I’m gald he addressed and spoke about the discontent between the fans and the directors, and acknowledged that issue this season.

I look forward to further positive announcements later this year regarding ticket prices, engagement between the directors and the fans, etc.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
Well he can’t say anything about the charges, he promised there will be swift transfer business, he paid tribute to KDB, Skip and Howard, answered all the questions the best he could. Good Chairmen never say anything they might regret later, remember Ratner?
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It would just be nice to have a bit more top berting.
 
jrb said:
I’m gald he addressed and spoke about the discontent between the fans and the directors, and acknowledged that issue this season.

I look forward to further positive announcements later this year regarding ticket prices, engagement between the directors and the fans, etc.
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Yes, I thought he said what he could say bearing in mind he is between Mansour and Soriano. "I'm not happy" pretty clearly means to me that Mansour wasn't happy.

And that trust thing again, important in the regional psyche. Mansour/Khaldoon trust Guardiola, Guardiola trusts Mansour/Khaldoon. Mansour/Khaldoon trust the fans. I suppose we should trust Mansour/Khaldoon to get Soriano (who I don't trust an inch) on the right track. With pressure on Soriano and CM, where necessary, to come to the right conclusions, of course.

I recognise Khaldoon has to credit CM as the official channel, but I personally think it's clear that continued fan action is required, when appropriate, to make sure issues continue to be properly addressed.

I also think CM, armed with this "statement" from Khaldoon, should push for more frequent meetings on ticketing issues so that improvements don't get unnecessarily delayed or postponed. This is serious stuff.

Just my take.
 
halfcenturyup said:
Yes, I thought he said what he could say bearing in mind he is between Mansour and Soriano. "I'm not happy" pretty clearly means to me that Mansour wasn't happy.

And that trust thing again, important in the regional psyche. Mansour/Khaldoon trust Guardiola, Guardiola trusts Mansour/Khaldoon. Mansour/Khaldoon trust the fans. I suppose we should trust Mansour/Khaldoon to get Soriano (who I don't trust an inch) on the right track. With pressure on Soriano and CM, where necessary, to come to the right conclusions, of course.

I recognise Khaldoon has to credit CM as the official channel, but I personally think it's clear that continued fan action is required, when appropriate, to make sure issues continue to be properly addressed.

I also think CM, armed with this "statement" from Khaldoon, should push for more frequent meetings on ticketing issues so that improvements don't get unnecessarily delayed or postponed. This is serious stuff.

Just my take.
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The fan protests did have an impact on Sheikh Mansour and Khaldoon. They don’t want to see and hear about that, along with the seeing 1000’s of empty seats at the start of the matches when the fans were protesting.

I’m 100% sure Khaldoon is a man of his word and he will have instructed Soriano and Danny Wilson to work with City Matters on behalf of the fans.

Hopefully we will see some more tangible evidence of that before the new season starts and throughout next season?

I think the North stand will see big changes in seating arrangements
and pricing from what was originally proposed by the directors. It could, could become the home end we all wanted it to be?
 
Khaldoon speaks eloquently, but we don’t learn much from this PR exercise with Chris.
As a perennial awkward bugger I would say to Khaldoon:
We don’t have a full time CEO as Soriano spends a lot of time on CFG business.
There has been the discord about ticket prices and the extension at the North end will not be the blue wall you talked about at the planning stage, but has been modified to bring in more matchday income.
First, could we serve the fans better with a full time CEO and second, is City destined to become just a profit centre for CFG?
Just askin’
 
KS55 said:
Khaldoon speaks eloquently, but we don’t learn much from this PR exercise with Chris.
As a perennial awkward bugger I would say to Khaldoon:
We don’t have a full time CEO as Soriano spends a lot of time on CFG business.
There has been the discord about ticket prices and the extension at the North end will not be the blue wall you talked about at the planning stage, but has been modified to bring in more matchday income.
First, could we serve the fans better with a full time CEO and second, is City destined to become just a profit centre for CFG?
Just askin’
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That's why Bailey is as hand picked and told what to say as the City Matters candidates, so kindly vetted for us by the club.
 
Giovinco said:
Surely Chris could have at least quoted specific issues which we’ve had during the year?
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I'm fairly certain he has to have his questions over to Khaldoons team weeks before the interview, at which point he'll be told which topics he can mention, and which ones not to press on too much

I doubt Bailey is daft enough to put his gig at risk by looking to ask questions which could ruffle a few feathers
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
It would save a lot of time if people actually read my posts. I HAVENT SAID WE HAVE TO WIN TITLES, I HAVENT SAID WE HAVE TO WIN IT ALL, EVERY SEASON. I have dealt with worse than your Spurs comparison, much worse. Growing up and going to Maine Road couldn't be any more character building buddy.

Exactly, 3rd place and CL is nothing to be sneezed at. It also isn't an achievement either and had you said our season would have panned out as it did, at the start of the season. We all would have been hugely disappointed. Khaldoon started the interview yesterday talking of 3 finals on the spin etc as a positive. Winning a third of them isn't a positive. That isn't me saying we have to win them, it is saying that getting to finals and losing them isn't something to claim as a positive, but after our season of very little positives, maybe it is and I am wrong.
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Khaldoon explicitly said the season was tough and one in which our level had fallen.
 
I usually get the impression he is straight with fans. But that bullshit about the horrible shirt being a great success and popular with fans was very disappointing.
Just own it. It was dog shit. And actually if was such a great success how come it disappeared so quickly. Hardly saw one being worn in the crowd.
 
GaudinoMotors said:
That's why Bailey is as hand picked and told what to say as the City Matters candidates, so kindly vetted for us by the club.
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The club want to neutralise opposition through City Matters, which will only be representative if 1894, MCFC Food Bank and Trade Union Blues are included in negotiations.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
If you got told at the start of the season, we would scrape CL football on the last game,
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You did this on another thread the other day. We didn’t scrape CL football on the last game. If we’d lost that game we’d still have got CL football. In fact if we’d only got one point from our last two games that would still have been enough, subject to not getting hammered in one of those two games. That would have been scrapping through.

Given where we found ourselves at the turn of the year, it was fairly comfortable in the end.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
It would save a lot of time if people actually read my posts. I HAVENT SAID WE HAVE TO WIN TITLES, I HAVENT SAID WE HAVE TO WIN IT ALL, EVERY SEASON. I have dealt with worse than your Spurs comparison, much worse. Growing up and going to Maine Road couldn't be any more character building buddy.

Exactly, 3rd place and CL is nothing to be sneezed at. It also isn't an achievement either and had you said our season would have panned out as it did, at the start of the season. We all would have been hugely disappointed. Khaldoon started the interview yesterday talking of 3 finals on the spin etc as a positive. Winning a third of them isn't a positive. That isn't me saying we have to win them, it is saying that getting to finals and losing them isn't something to claim as a positive, but after our season of very little positives, maybe it is and I am wrong.
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Wouldn't it save even more time if nobody did?
 
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