Papers tomorrow.....

[Citizen in Pakistan]

God they will love it, and the season is still two weeks away !!
Man Utd play Liverpool in USA final, with money bags City dumped out and sent home !!
Get ready for the ride !!

Both United and pool should savour the moment cause that's the only cup they have a chance of winning this season,for them preseason games might be imp to win but for pellers its not and rightly so,its about getting every one some time and practice and checking out different aspects of the game rather than winning meanless matches

 

[Damanino]

We are long way behind in terms of US (or Asian etc.) fanbase to our English league rivals.

It will improve probably next 3-4 years, but still will be very far from catching up. Now its probably 90-10% if we play a game vs Pool/MU etc.
In 5 years it maybe will be 80-20, 70-30 but they will get new fans too not just us until that, but for that we would need to win many things domestically, and also have 2-3 really huge CL runs reaching semis and finals maybe.

Will we ever catch up? dont think so unless City will dominate the next 20 years in PL and CL.

Soriano wants wonderful football, beautiful style because he knows fans more likely to join to a club that plays well and successful also. We are very early in this project.

 

[Tbilisi]

Headline on BBC website this morning Frank Lampard and City..........had to search for uniteds record breaking win v RM stiffs......imagine how we would feel if it was the other way around?

 

[homerdog]

Will we ever catch up? dont think so unless City will dominate the next 20 years in PL and CL.

What makes you think we won't dominate for the next 20 years? Seems as though that's the plan, which is working well at the moment!

 

[whp.blue]

The Plastic fans the club is looking to attract will only follow City if they are Winners and wining the games in the USA and not just in England.
They will only come on board for the reflective glory and City's problem seems to be every time we tour America we do it with a team made up of Stiffs and not our first team and I feel this is counter productive.

We should either go with a full strength side or not at all imho

 

[MeatHunterrr]

The Plastic fans the club is looking to attract will only follow City if they are Winners and wining the games in the USA and not just in England.
They will only come on board for the reflective glory and City's problem seems to be every time we tour America we do it with a team made up of Stiffs and not our first team and I feel this is counter productive.

We should either go with a full strength side or not at all imho

its still better than nothing.

 

[norfstander]

Can't be doing with this sort of needy paranoia. Find it pretty hard to believe some apparently sane, fully grown adults think there's obvious anti-City bias in the media. Any United, Liverpool, Chelsea supporter will tell you the media have an agenda against them as well, it's absolute drivel. The tabloids are c*nts, full stop, whoever wins a couple of games is the great new thing, whoever loses a couple is in crisis, just bloody ignore it, it's peripheral shite that doesn't matter a jot, just support your team for ninety minutes a couple of times a week and forget the other stuff, a large proportion of which is in your heads.

 

[whp.blue]

The Plastic fans the club is looking to attract will only follow City if they are Winners and wining the games in the USA and not just in England.
They will only come on board for the reflective glory and City's problem seems to be every time we tour America we do it with a team made up of Stiffs and not our first team and I feel this is counter productive.

We should either go with a full strength side or not at all imho

its still better than nothing.

Not really lots of fans in the US now view us as losers and not as good as the rags and the dippers.

Why would US fans choose to follow us as opposed to the Dippers and the rags unlike us Mancunians they have no real affiliation to City and if you are going to pick a team to follow they will probably pick what they perceive as a wining side

 

[Allendintiers]

We learned that the whole attack to try and boost our presence in America over the last 4 years has been a complete waste of time!

Liverpool out numbered us 10 to 1 in New York, where we have had a City in the Community scheme running for 3 years, have played on numerous occasions, have set-up a football club for the city with a large advertising budget running adverts 24-7. And this is on the back of us winning the league twice in that time period too.

Liverpool have put zero effort in to building there fan base over there, and have won nothing of note for almost 10 years, yet we are as far behind them as ever. Scary to think just how far behind Utd we must be.

City need to rethink if we ever hope to get big in USA. A major USA based sponsor would probably boost popularity 20% over night, but is that likely with our links to Abu Dhabi? Probably not.

These sorts of events are attended by ex-pats, not new fans. Liverpool and United have huge established national followings here. So it makes sense that during a tour of the US, that people from the UK and Ireland, who want to show their American kids and pals what big fans they are that they all come out of the woodwork for a one off event. 109k is the sort of crowd that keeps the Glazers interested for many more years to come.

 

[FantasyIreland]

The Plastic fans the club is looking to attract will only follow City if they are Winners and wining the games in the USA and not just in England.
They will only come on board for the reflective glory and City's problem seems to be every time we tour America we do it with a team made up of Stiffs and not our first team and I feel this is counter productive.

We should either go with a full strength side or not at all imho

Exactly my thinking,from a securing a much larger piece of the global pie perspective,which is what this tour was aimed at doing,i don't think we've done ourselves justice.

The reality is,as was evident by shirts in the crowds,we have a long way to go in terms of catching the others.