Soriano and Begiristain what do we want?

[jollylescott]

This is a simple question.

Success, on and off the field to rival Europe's elite. We need household names for commercial revenue gain and we need a top manager to steer the way to the top. Getting passed group stages should be a prerequisite of the job, not a mammoth task. We will play a uniform playing style from kids to starting eleven (4-3-3). We will need to ensure kids are taught well but also retain them, no good bringing them up and them plying trade elsewhere, we need them to bleed blue (not always possible but a kid with loyalty is a huge asset).

First and foremost they will want to right wrongs. This will start with culling overpaid fringe-players and first-team players who don't quite cut the mustard. We will have an eleven as good as anyone's and a bench capable of changing games and youth more than able to step up.

FFP will be adhered to, as much for good PR than anything else, I don't suppose HRH Mansour will protest too much being as he's an accomplished businessman.

Finally what I hope the owners want more than anything else is to make things to Mae sure that City doesn't lose its core values. Fans mean everything to clubs, I hope genuine fans who earn modest incomes aren't priced out, for me that's as big a travesty as losing Silva and Aguero on the same day to United. Players come and go but fans remain, the future should ALWAYS be based around them.

Excellent post. Especially the last paragraph. I hope the bigger stadium also translates to affordable prices for the grassroots supporters. I still remember Joe Hart helping out the little fella with cancer. They were a lovely family who were all mad about City. City must never forget that a lot of their core supporters are battlers.

So my wish from Txiki and Soriano is that they always make sure that a home game is affordable for a working class family.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Get rid of that enoying little turd at half time behind the new desk at the side of the pitch

Dietmar Hamman?

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Bring back the Kippax choir

Hot Bovril at half time

Bring Helen's bell out of retirement

Free car parking for 30,000 cars next to the Etihad, and a free hand wash and wax valet whilst you are in the match

Season tickets reduced to a maximum £150...(half price for kids)

Anybody leaving before the final whistle, (unless a medical emergency) given a life ban

Half time entertainment by majorettes and The Dobcross brass band.

 

[hgblue]

This started promising until it turned once more into a 'Sack the Manager' thread.

I'm getting to the point where I want Mancini to stay just so he p*sses certain posters off, even more than he does now. It'll also mean we're still winning things.

If he does get sacked though, I'll be on the new manager like a tramp on chips if he doesn't win every game or the CL in his first year. Then, I'll blame the board and ask for their head on a plate because my chips were cold, just for the sake of it.

Forza Man City.

I'll tell what will be funny if Mourinho does come here, and that'll be watching all his detractors squirm with embarassment as he delivers trophy after trophy. Didsbury Dave probably has a little black book with all your names in it ;).

"Squirm with embarrassment"?! You clearly don't have the first clue why people don't like or want Mourinho here.

You've posted this crap before.

Tell you what, fella; why don't you try and actually read what people say about Mourinho when they say why they don't like him. Then you won't have to pop back with that same line again.

It has absolutely nowt, at all, to do with thinking he will fail here.

You don't want him here because you don't like him. I get it. I just think that once he does get here (if he ever does), that point of view will be made to look very silly. I'd give it a month before he has the vast majority of City fans eating out of his hands.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

You don't want him here because you don't like him. I get it. I just think that once he does get here (if he ever does), that point of view will be made to look very silly. I'd give it a month before he has the vast majority of City fans eating out of his hands.

A month?!?!?

One press conference.

 

[The Future's Blue]

You don't want him here because you don't like him. I get it. I just think that once he does get here (if he ever does), that point of view will be made to look very silly. I'd give it a month before he has the vast majority of City fans eating out of his hands.

A month?!?!?

One press conference.

A bit sad really as we all know that us fans will support any manager that comes in, regardless of their thoughts.

 

[Matt the Giant]

Success, on and off the field to rival Europe's elite. We need household names for commercial revenue gain and we need a top manager to steer the way to the top. Getting passed group stages should be a prerequisite of the job, not a mammoth task. We will play a uniform playing style from kids to starting eleven (4-3-3). We will need to ensure kids are taught well but also retain them, no good bringing them up and them plying trade elsewhere, we need them to bleed blue (not always possible but a kid with loyalty is a huge asset).

First and foremost they will want to right wrongs. This will start with culling overpaid fringe-players and first-team players who don't quite cut the mustard. We will have an eleven as good as anyone's and a bench capable of changing games and youth more than able to step up.

FFP will be adhered to, as much for good PR than anything else, I don't suppose HRH Mansour will protest too much being as he's an accomplished businessman.

Finally what I hope the owners want more than anything else is to make things to Mae sure that City doesn't lose its core values. Fans mean everything to clubs, I hope genuine fans who earn modest incomes aren't priced out, for me that's as big a travesty as losing Silva and Aguero on the same day to United. Players come and go but fans remain, the future should ALWAYS be based around them.

Brilliantly put mate. Says it all really.

 

[NipHolmes]

Success, on and off the field to rival Europe's elite. We need household names for commercial revenue gain and we need a top manager to steer the way to the top. Getting passed group stages should be a prerequisite of the job, not a mammoth task. We will play a uniform playing style from kids to starting eleven (4-3-3). We will need to ensure kids are taught well but also retain them, no good bringing them up and them plying trade elsewhere, we need them to bleed blue (not always possible but a kid with loyalty is a huge asset).

First and foremost they will want to right wrongs. This will start with culling overpaid fringe-players and first-team players who don't quite cut the mustard. We will have an eleven as good as anyone's and a bench capable of changing games and youth more than able to step up.

FFP will be adhered to, as much for good PR than anything else, I don't suppose HRH Mansour will protest too much being as he's an accomplished businessman.

Finally what I hope the owners want more than anything else is to make things to Mae sure that City doesn't lose its core values. Fans mean everything to clubs, I hope genuine fans who earn modest incomes aren't priced out, for me that's as big a travesty as losing Silva and Aguero on the same day to United. Players come and go but fans remain, the future should ALWAYS be based around them.

Brilliantly put mate. Says it all really.

Cheers (and you too Jolly).

Mae = make, Mae is my missus auntie by way.

 

[peoffrey]

People are talking about affordable seasoncards and match tickets but that's really unlikely to happen whilst the ground continues to sell out.

 

[NipHolmes]

People are talking about affordable seasoncards and match tickets but that's really unlikely to happen whilst the ground continues to sell out.

It's unlikely to happen period. However there must be a concious effort to offer affordable seats. If so make the third tier cheap so that lower income fans have an option rather than be.priced out full stop. If we don't do this then we let down fans and are no different from greedy clubs we all hate.

#together is keeping us together rather than divides based on incomes, when we go through the turnstiles we are all equal, we are all Blues, regardless if whether one can afford to buy beers and pasties and the other brings in their own food and drink. Long may that continue. I'd hate to see the club price out fans, it'd be a travesty.