Nobody cares.
NYCFC are a child club in a parent group. They have no history at all - I don't mean that sarcastically like the scousers, I mean it literally like in the human perception of time and space they are yet to exist as a football team.
They don't have any "true fans". They don't even have any fans. You cannot be a fan of a brand or a fan of a future possibility. This is like me coming on here and saying I'm a massive fan of Damo Jnr and we should put him up front next week - he doesn't even exist as a football player and having the possibility of him existing at some point makes me undying support for him as legitimate as your undying support of NYCFC. It's also like when somebody tells me that City promised to give a new pair of footy boots to Damocles Jnr but instead gave them to Marcos Lopes, I can't really kick off about it. One of them is somebody who potentially exists in the future as a footballer and one of them is an important youth prospect who has real feet that need real boots.
NYCFC "fans" are the laughing stock of the football world because they're supporting a hypothetical brand. They actively decided to stop supporting whichever club they supported before and instead decided to follow a new brand that has never played the game. All of this talk of "sticking through the team with thick or thin" is absolutely hilarious to outsiders. There is no thick or thin. There is no medium, climbing mountains, falling into depths of despair, or anything else. There is just nothing. A better phrase is "we should stick with the potential team that might exist soon through nothing and nothing as we have done in the present and have a long present of doing in our collective present".
It's hilarious, it really is. "We don't need Manchester Cuty to create our community, we've done it without them". They sound like a teenager dressed in black eyeliner sat in their room listening to Slayer on the CD player that their parents bought them, wearing the clothes that their parents bought them, sat in the room that their parents give them heated by gas which their parents pay for saying "I hate my parents, they do nothing for me". YOU WOULDN'T EXIST WITHOUT THEM.
NYCFC is Manchester City(New York branch) for the time being and until the MLS becomes relevant in terms of commercial opportunities and revenues. You were a club setup, notice I didn't say bought because that would mean you pre-existed, expressly by Manchester City for the benefits of Manchester City. I'm sorry that reality has hit you lot this hard but it's all you are and all you will be for the foreseeable future. Whether you like it or not you have no separate identity, you have the identity assigned to you by Manchester City. You have no separate culture, you have the culture assigned to you by Manchester City. You have no separate players, you have the players assigned to you by Manchester City.
Welcome to reality.
