Season Tickets - 2023/24

The amount these increases raise is negligible in terms of our annual turnover. It’s only served to anger a sizeable number of fans, and divide others at a crucial stage of the season. The club were presumably aware of the reaction it would get (hence putting it out at 6pm on a Bank Holiday weekend). The fact that they just went ahead and did it anyway suggests that they don’t really care what fans think.

I know that our prices aren’t the highest in the league, and the quality of football we are witnessing justifies the increases for some. Just because some of us can afford it doesn’t mean that we should just say “tough shit” to those who are struggling though. This isn’t a one-off either. It’s year on year increases that are hitting the poor the hardest. City are a community, and it’ll be to the detriment of us all if the club continue to price out ordinary working people.
 
Ric said:
The amount these increases raise is negligible in terms of our annual turnover. It’s only served to anger a sizeable number of fans, and divide others at a crucial stage of the season. The club were presumably aware of the reaction it would get, hence putting it out at 6pm on a Bank Holiday weekend. The fact that they just went ahead and did it anyway suggests that they don’t really care what fans think.

I know that our prices aren’t the highest in the league, and the quality of football we are witnessing justifies the increases for some. Just because some of us can afford it doesn’t mean that we should just say “tough shit” to those who are struggling though. This isn’t a one-off either. It’s year on year increases that are hitting the poor the hardest. City are a community, and it’ll be to the detriment of us all if the club continue to price out ordinary working people.
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Most ordinary working people were priced out about 15 year ago.
 
Brian's Kid said:
You dont know me so you can't assume, it's a sad fact of life that we are ALL feeling the pinch recently, but that doesn't mean the club owes us anything enough to freeze or reduce season tickets when their operating costs are rising and us fans demand ever more success on the pitch. Everything from food to clothes to fuel has risen, by similar percentages or more, why should the club absorb the increase costs, they have done their fair share over the years.
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You don't think that a football club, something which is at the heart of a community, has any obligations to its fans? Is this really what it's come to - purely a transactional relationship between customer and business? Where the club can do as it pleases as long as it brings in trophies? If that's how you see it then that's fine. If the club feels it can no longer make money in Manchester then would you support a relocation to another part of the country? We could drop the "Manchester", simply be known as "City" and play in the Midlands to attract more fans from a central location.

The club can fully well survive without such steep increases in ticket prices and everyone knows it. The increases account for £2m, give or take. The difference in prize money for beating/going out to Real Madrid is €3m. Does anyone really think that our long-term future is in jeopardy if we go out to Real Madrid? We'd be missing out on a pot of cash greater than the price increases after all.

My season ticket is going up 9.75%. I can afford it but it bothers me that many might see this as the final nail in the coffin. I'm yet to hear of anyone who can't afford it who supports the increases.
 
jrb said:
Turning on the decision makers, isn’t turning on the club or on the team. Neither of them 2 dictate the next season’s season ticket prices.
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But no one on here will say a bad word about Danny. We give him plenty of credit when he gets it right.
 
Ric said:
The amount these increases raise is negligible in terms of our annual turnover. It’s only served to anger a sizeable number of fans, and divide others at a crucial stage of the season. The club were presumably aware of the reaction it would get, hence putting it out at 6pm on a Bank Holiday weekend. The fact that they just went ahead and did it anyway suggests that they don’t really care what fans think.

I know that our prices aren’t the highest in the league, and the quality of football we are witnessing justifies the increases for some. Just because some of us can afford it doesn’t mean that we should just say “tough shit” to those who are struggling though. This isn’t a one-off either. It’s year on year increases that are hitting the poor the hardest. City are a community, and it’ll be to the detriment of us all if the club continue to price out ordinary working people.
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Agree, I don’t think they care. Wouldn’t surprise me if half the tickets on the ticket sites going for £500 are sold to them by the club. I was on at 10.01 am on Wednesday and was amazed how many tickets were blocked out in my block in SS3. Certainly not cup scheme members as virtually every seat is occupied by non ST holders for CL games.
 
Ric said:
The amount these increases raise is negligible in terms of our annual turnover. It’s only served to anger a sizeable number of fans, and divide others at a crucial stage of the season. The club were presumably aware of the reaction it would get, hence putting it out at 6pm on a Bank Holiday weekend. The fact that they just went ahead and did it anyway suggests that they don’t really care what fans think.

I know that our prices aren’t the highest in the league, and the quality of football we are witnessing justifies the increases for some. Just because some of us can afford it doesn’t mean that we should just say “tough shit” to those who are struggling though. This isn’t a one-off either. It’s year on year increases that are hitting the poor the hardest. City are a community, and it’ll be to the detriment of us all if the club continue to price out ordinary working people.
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That's one of your best posts I've ever read Ric. Now forward it to the club as this forum is the main internet mouthpiece of what us fans think. And i very much doubt any blue who is affected by the price increases will disagree with what you're saying.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
You can't be this tone deaf?

It's not a pound a week when everything else is also going up.

Is it a pound a week if I also attend with my son?

Let's call it £2 a week shall we?

So that's an extra £96 a year on top of what people already stretch to with City, and before the council tax, mortgages, gas, electricity, food and phone increases.

The average UK household has experienced a jump of an extra £500 a month in outgoings since last August.
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I may be wrong but haven’t Liverpool had season ticket prices frozen for the last 4 seasons.
 
Worsleyweb said:
I find you getting stressed about a pound a week as bat shit crazy as you find my tone deaf response. I actually cannot comprehend getting worked up about a pound a week rise on something that is not compulsory and I have had times in my life where I have no money to eat for several days! The irony when you get giddy posting music videos about us signing Bellingham for £130 million!!

And as for your comment about forgetting others genuinely I have spent several thousand pounds this year on giving free city tickets and hospitality to others. I paid £200 for a Fulham ticket today for someone I don’t even know as I promised I would sort him out with one and I got let down. So please don’t throw that one at me.
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Still not getting it?

How can you know other people's circumstances, what any type of rise right now has on their impact to afford something which, while you quite rightly state is not compulsory, we know damn fine well has us by the bollocks.

You can be flippant about it being a pound a week, but in real household terms, it becomes a another huge consideration in terms of affordability and those who pay for others.

I go to the match with my son, it's one of my biggest pleasures in life. We've not had a proper holiday in four years, my wife is a teacher, I'm self employed, it came across as condescending to read you telling others to work extra hours when they may have no opportunity to earn extra.

You further posted that you see hotels all booked, people away on holidays, using £1500 iPhones, that's not a true representation of society right now. I'm sure you see it, but I also live in a middle class area where people are actually going to food banks, which is heartbreaking to see.

One of the biggest Blues I know has been forced to move fifty miles away from Manchester, simply because he can't afford to live here.

As for my excitement posting transfer news, that's the nub. I can separate the two quite easily.

The extra income this raises is negligible in comparison to what Bellingham would earn in three months.

Others will say we can't have it both ways, but my argument is we take less through the gate than all our main rivals yet we continue to scoop up the trophies.

Our owner will earn more in an hour than what this hike achieves and is a tone deaf implementation.

My dad is 71 and retired now, he survives on a state pension, his OAP ticket has gone up £40.

City is the only thing that gets him out the house, he's not finding much left each week as it is.

I commend you sorting people out with tickets and being in a position to do so, but I don't feel the Club should be getting a free pass for the countless others who will be impacted by these rises.

I think you have a broad brush stroke perception on this one. Always happy to debate but I respectfully can't align with your optics on this one.
 
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