City are bloody stupid. If they’d priced Spurs fairly, then people might have had enough money spare to buy a ticket for tonight n’all.
But, no, it was £71-73 for Spurs and then about 9,000 empty seats tonight.
They never learn our boardroom. They’re so disconnected from the fanbase it’s ridiculous.
Constant Season Ticket price rises sees fans come out of the Cup Schemes because they can’t justify the ST price rises year after year (most years above the rate of inflation, one year inflation was 1% and ST prices went up 12%!) so they ditch the CL Scheme.
Everything is just too expensive at City.
I had a look at the full adult prices at the PL grounds at the weekend.
For full adult prices (normal tickets), it was:
Leicester v Chelsea £46-72
Bournemouth v Brighton £37-52
Villa v Palace £55-78
Fulham v Wolves £37-85
City v Spurs £71-73
Absolutely no flexibility at all with City’s prices. It was £71 on the very back row of SSL3 and £73 near-ish the halfway line in CBL1. Yet people could pick up tickets for as low as £46 or £37 at some other PL grounds. Leicester, Bournemouth, Villa, Fulham and City fans were all doing is the same thing as each other - just watching the team we support play football - so why such a disparity in prices?
Then the CL pricing this season… bearing in mind that there’s an extra home game to pay for in the League Phase compared to previous Group Stages.
2022-23 Group Stage prices: Dortmund £25, Copenhagen £22, Sevilla £22 = £69
2023-24 Group Stage prices: Belgrade £27, Young Boys £27, Leipzig £27 = £81
2024-25 League Phase prices: Inter £52, Sparta Praha £30, Feyenoord £30, Brugge £30 = £142
That Inter price (the price of the previous two years of quarter and semi final prices), came in a week where we also had Watford at home in the EFL Cup and Wolves away in the PL to pay for.
Even tonight’s £30 ticket seems a good price from the outside (especially compared to the disgrace that Villa’s pricing has been for the CL), but it’s 11% more expensive than all three of last season’s Group Stage games, 20% more expensive than the 2022-23 Group Stage game against Dortmund and 36% more expensive than the 2022-23 Group Stage games against Copenhagen and Sevilla.
Where’s such a jump in prices come from?
No wonder Blues don’t turn up for nights like tonight. It’s a constant kick in the teeth for us - ‘thank you for your tremendous support’, now give us more of your money, no more, no more…
How do they expect families to shell out those prices for Spurs and then expect them to also then pay for another game in the same week?
And I’m sick to death of sitting with fans of the opposition in our stands. Every week, the attendee to my left is a different foreign fan and half the time they’re a fan of the opposition we’re playing against. Bored of it me, it’s fucking shit.
City, realise your a football club from a city called Manchester. Do some outreaching around the city, get in touch with lapsed fans you’ve priced out through pure greed, get some local fans in the ground, make some initiatives like a CL League Phase bundle where if they commit to all four home games they get the discount the Cup Scheme does.
The Etihad isn’t some fucking theme park for knobheads who support the team we’re playing against to come and take the fucking piss. The stadium should be full of City fans, and we have more than enough City fans to even fill the expanded 62,000 Etihad from next year onwards every week with just fans from the local area. But you’re neglecting that and are whoring yourself out like a cheap prozzie. Sort it the fuck out City I’m fucking sick of this shit.
