Pep: 'The players deserve a full stadium, we need our fans!'

[lucashm]

If City fans don't understand why UEFAs shitty anthem gets booed they need to give their heads a wobble. These cunts introduced a wholly unfair FFP regulation, then bent the rules in order to punish City, who had gone out of their way to conform. Gill's current attempt to skew prize money in favour of the 'elite' clubs shows they're still at it. This organization is corrupt to the core and I'll continue to boo the anthem unless their is a direct appeal from the club's hierarchy to stop doing it.

sorry...what? no offense intended, but you guys have made 0 effort to comply with the FFP, unfair are what they did to the smaller clubs like (partizan i think) who were excluded from the CL for breaking the same rules you guys broke, and yet all you guys got was a fine.

 

[Don Karleone]

Fuck sake

 

[Marvin]

How about we give ourselves some credit for turning up twice in 24 hours? It was easy for me, but plenty will have been working and travelling from outside Manchester and at 24 hours notice it's not easy in the working week.

With no ticket sales, and only refunds going through, the attendance was remarkable. It wasn't announced but I think it was over 40,000. looked more than Steaua with few away fans and that was over 40,000.

Anyone who was there last night will have thoroughly enjoyed that. it was one of the best nights of football I can remember in a long time. Best I have seen City play in Europe and a really good atmosphere (after a slow start). We maintained our performance level for 90 mins which was very impressive.

 

[NeilYoungIsBack]

East level 3 was open and mainly full.

I sit in East level 2 and so don't get to see how full the 3rd tier is. I assumed it would be about as full as CB tier 3 was, ie not that much, but I'm glad to hear it was otherwise.

I seem to recall that the top tiers in East and CB were open to start with, but then the 3rd tiers were greyed out on the seat map from at least last weekend as they were trying to boost sales in the lowest tier.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

sorry...what? no offense intended, but you guys have made 0 effort to comply with the FFP, unfair are what they did to the smaller clubs like (partizan i think) who were excluded from the CL for breaking the same rules you guys broke, and yet all you guys got was a fine.

Piss off. You obviously don't know anything about it. City worked immensily hard to comply with FFP and were only deemed to have failed on a technicality which UEFA conjured up. the club were absolutely furious about it but still took the sanctions which weren't only an enormous "fine" (which was simply a cash donation to UEFA) but also a restriction in squad numbers which affected our campaign.

 

[blueinsa]

sorry...what? no offense intended, but you guys have made 0 effort to comply with the FFP, unfair are what they did to the smaller clubs like (partizan i think) who were excluded from the CL for breaking the same rules you guys broke, and yet all you guys got was a fine.

Chelsea fan in smacked arse shocker.

Loving the lesson in financial fair play from a fan of a club owned by Roman and the fake concern for the little clubs pmsl.

 

[lucashm]

Piss off. You obviously don't know anything about it. City worked immensily hard to comply with FFP and were only deemed to have failed on a technicality which UEFA conjured up. the club were absolutely furious about it but still took the sanctions which weren't only an enormous "fine" (which was simply a cash donation to UEFA) but also a restriction in squad numbers which affected our campaign.

ok then, fair enough

 

[jollylescott]

The players have bought into Peps ways, the least we as fans can do is the same. I am a booer myself but if Pep wants us to stop he will have good reasons, so I am happy to comply. Believe in Pep.

This.

 

[Marvin]

sorry...what? no offense intended, but you guys have made 0 effort to comply with the FFP, unfair are what they did to the smaller clubs like (partizan i think) who were excluded from the CL for breaking the same rules you guys broke, and yet all you guys got was a fine.

FFP is not about regulating the rich clubs to protect smaller clubs, it's about trying to preserve the reduced power of clubs like AC Milan and Manchester Utd. Who drafted the rules? The owners of those clubs for self-interest not for the interest of football.

You also do not know about how the rules were implemented and measured against City. City made big efforts to comply and thought they had, but they moved the goalposts, but that is all boring now.

 

[jonmcity]

FFP = Firm-Fixed-Pro established elite