The football side of City seems to me to be run very well. Academy, women and for most of the time the 1st team at or near the top of the tree. However the vision City have, has somewhere been lost. We were the club that smashed the mould of English football. Aguero dealt a hammer blow to Man Utd and the top 4 and City were set to become a new force in football. The Etihad Campus was under development. Tramway, new stand, training ground, colleges and more. A signpost for the future, but somehow this vision has got lost and we look more and more like a club heading for Arsenal.com than a football club set to displace Barcelona and Real Madrid at the pyramid of world football.
If you look in our league today, the club with hope, vision, and identity is Spurs. They have a new stadium, a young team, and their supporters, and players are buying into it. Somewhere down the line, City's fans began to lose belief in where we are going and that is entirely down to the incompetence of the executives at MCFC who think that communciation is all about the MBA giving a speech at the end of the season. I don't want to hear much from the boardroom, but I do want to see some evidence that City are determined to move forward as a football club, and that we are not settling for top 4, and maximising cash flow. We could make a start by announcing what intentions we have with the ground expansion. That can be a tremendous galvanising forward thinking effect. Stop pandering to corporate clients, and put your fans first. Ticketing. Regular supporters should get priority. Ticket pricing: I don't think the pricing is that bad in regards to season tickets, but adding £10 to season tickets was a silly move.
Three or four years ago City looked like an unstoppable train, but through our own incompetence we have managed to throw away the momentum we had. If I were Sheik Mansour, I'd be making some changes in the boardroom. They don't have much to do, but almost everything they do has been very poorly done.
