Priced out?

[jrb]

Why is there a question mark at the end of the Priced Out headline?

There’s no question about it, City are pricing their own fans out from going to the matches. (along with the other PL clubs)

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

£48 for a kid against Everton. What on earth are the club playing at!

As many posters have said this is now beyond a “cock up, oh dear we’ve got that wrong or typical City” to down right exploitation and fleecing of fans. Even tickets for Brugge at home are starting around £40 for an 8pm midweek. Scandalous.
I’ve said it before but my view is Khaldoon has taken his eye off the ball and it started with the Superleague and has carried on since. I’ve no empirical evidence but the results of decisions taken are now evident on and off the pitch.
“Ah but he’s saying this because he’s an entitled glory hunter”. No, I’m in my 53rd year of match going.
It was obvious the English public would never accept superleague - same as we will never accept routinely armed police. So City could easily have said no, knowing it would all crash down and reaped the PR benefit. Now we are in a situation where the whole football world seems against us with snide and completely open (in equal measure) attacks on our, my club. So when the wolves are hemming us in covered by the vulture with the poisonous snakes lurking behind every root and branch, what does the club do……..
a) have a completely passive PR/media response and let us fans Suffer all the time
b) take the absolute piss with ticket prices
Khaldoon is the main man and I’m not impressed as of late. Really hope he proves me wrong.
c) a non coherent recent transfer policy and squad planning that seems to have had no scenario planning at all. FFS we are lucky Erling has played through.
Of course I will always love the club and always go when I can and want but if we are completely abandoned to market forces then I’m afraid the love can never be as deep as before because something fundamental/that made us what we are over 120 years of history will be gone and that’s sad.
But it will be okay because me and many, many thousands and thousands of others have done our time so that the guy with the selfie stick, twin scarf, mobile phone on constant Whatts app, up and down the aisle 3 or 4 times and his dinner complete with Ramen noodle soup and trays of dumplings from his Waitrose carrier bag (it happened next to me recently) can pay his £70 for a ticket.
Oh and he never bloody offered me a dumpling.

 

[MCFC1993]

Why is there a question mark at the end of the Priced Out headline?

There’s no question about it, City are pricing their own fans out from going to the matches. (along with the other PL clubs)

Is it is a secret priced out PL cartel clubs?

Can't be long off a protest surely?

 

[mexico1970]

Can't be long off a protest surely?

Clubs aren't deaf, they know they are ripping fans off and they just don't care. The only protest that would mean something is not attending.

Then they'll put the tickets up for sale to tourists for even more money :)

 

[MCFC1993]

Clubs aren't deaf, they know they are ripping fans off and they just don't care. The only protest that would mean something is not attending.

Then they'll put the tickets up for sale to tourists for even more money :)

Damaging the atmosphere affecting performances on the pitch. Leaving early arriving late. Definitely the season to do it too.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Can't be long off a protest surely?

It has to be done. Fans from all clubs need to come together now. This isn’t just effecting us, it’s effecting pretty much everyone. We’ve collectively had enough.

Games aren’t selling out across the league. Our fans are more powerful than they think. What’s the point in all the success if most people can’t attend

 

[blueparrot]

Clubs aren't deaf, they know they are ripping fans off and they just don't care. The only protest that would mean something is not attending.

Then they'll put the tickets up for sale to tourists for even more money :)

That’s making the assumption there are thousands of tourists. There aren’t, tourists are those that probably ever go to one CIity game. Wouldn’t like to put any figure on how many at any one game as it would be a guess, but out of 53000 there won’t be that many. Certainly not enough for it to be a basis for any grand business plan.

 

[johnnytapia]

It has to be done. Fans from all clubs need to come together now. This isn’t just effecting us, it’s effecting pretty much everyone. We’ve collectively had enough.

Games aren’t selling out across the league. Our fans are more powerful than they think. What’s the point in all the success if most people can’t attend

Wouldn’t happen in Germany

 

[Stephen230]

As many posters have said this is now beyond a “cock up, oh dear we’ve got that wrong or typical City” to down right exploitation and fleecing of fans. Even tickets for Brugge at home are starting around £40 for an 8pm midweek. Scandalous.
I’ve said it before but my view is Khaldoon has taken his eye off the ball and it started with the Superleague and has carried on since. I’ve no empirical evidence but the results of decisions taken are now evident on and off the pitch.
“Ah but he’s saying this because he’s an entitled glory hunter”. No, I’m in my 53rd year of match going.
It was obvious the English public would never accept superleague - same as we will never accept routinely armed police. So City could easily have said no, knowing it would all crash down and reaped the PR benefit. Now we are in a situation where the whole football world seems against us with snide and completely open (in equal measure) attacks on our, my club. So when the wolves are hemming us in covered by the vulture with the poisonous snakes lurking behind every root and branch, what does the club do……..
a) have a completely passive PR/media response and let us fans Suffer all the time
b) take the absolute piss with ticket prices
Khaldoon is the main man and I’m not impressed as of late. Really hope he proves me wrong.
c) a non coherent recent transfer policy and squad planning that seems to have had no scenario planning at all. FFS we are lucky Erling has played through.
Of course I will always love the club and always go when I can and want but if we are completely abandoned to market forces then I’m afraid the love can never be as deep as before because something fundamental/that made us what we are over 120 years of history will be gone and that’s sad.
But it will be okay because me and many, many thousands and thousands of others have done our time so that the guy with the selfie stick, twin scarf, mobile phone on constant Whatts app, up and down the aisle 3 or 4 times and his dinner complete with Ramen noodle soup and trays of dumplings from his Waitrose carrier bag (it happened next to me recently) can pay his £70 for a ticket.
Oh and he never bloody offered me a dumpling.

Agree with a lot of your points but to be fair, Brugge tickets start at £25, same as Feyenoord and Prague.

 

[jrb]

Originally posted by Damocles.

Revenue Segment: Matchday​

Matchday revenue increased from £71.9m to £75.6m (+5.1%)

Matchday revenue increased from £71.9m to £75.6m (+5.1%) despite four fewer paid home matches and one less neutral venue match.

As an aside, the club’s strategic report states that City played 31 home matches in 2022/23 (and therefore 5 fewer home matches), but by my count the 2022/23 total is 30 (PL: 19; UCL: 6; FA Cup: 3; EFL Cup: 2)

I’ll repost the link if anyone wants to read the financial results breakdown. It’s really well set out.

Manchester City FC: 2023/24 Financial Results

Overview of P&L, Investment, Cash Flow, and Debt

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