Gundogan, but never forgotten.
Serious Question: Who are City’s legends from before the Qatar takeover?
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Franny Lee, Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee, Bert Trautmann, Frank Swift, Peter Doherty (though this is arguable as his city career was massively cut short by WWII, but he was still fantastic for the time he played for us), Alan Oakes, Billy Meredith, Neil Young (not that Neil Young), Eric Brook
Weird to do this to a player who is still active in Europe and you can still play against.
Why?
There a lot of things that can happen that could make him not be loved by the fans any more. He could score in a final and make them lose a trophy, he could injure your best player I don’t know
I don’t think any of that would change what he did for City or how he is viewed by the club. I actually like that they honor their legends right after the leave the club instead of doing it 10 years later.
Not sure if it was Robben or Ibra, but their first club destroyed the statue they had of him, because he bought a stake at the rival club
Also it’s not that deep, if Gundogan did something to piss off City then they would just remove the dedication. He won’t, but it’s not a big deal if it did come to that.
Question for United fans, how many players from the 99 treble side are legends for you? Does half sound about right
I’d say 7/8.
I think it probably helps that they played the majority or all of their careers at United though, which is possibly the issue people may have with Gundogan here.
That’s a good argument. I’m looking at the squad and 7 sounds about right. How do you feel about players like Beckham or Ronaldo who spent more years abroad than at the club?
Their first CL win is a historical milestone for them and Gündoğan happened to be the captain, it makes sense to me that it has significance to City and they wanted to honor this.
It’s also not like they renamed the Etihad to the Gündoğan stadium (I don’t mind that tho). They certainly have more than one training pitch so I don’t see the reason to overreact over this.
I for one can’t wait for the Erling Haaland Centre for Kids Who Can’t Score Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.
Why would City make a training centre for United?
City vs Barcelona in the CL knockouts is gonna be awkward
People jumping the gun here. It’s a nice tribute to begin with. For all we know, he’ll receive a bigger tribute in years to come. Napoli didn’t change the name of their stadium until Maradona died. It’s always a risk paying tribute to someone in any profession to a large scale before they’ve passed incase they do something absolutely insane like murder, sexual assault, etc. Not saying Gundogan will because he seems like a decent man but other players have.
This gives me the same vibes of when Gundo got injured and his teammates had shirts on with his face like he passed on lmao
Yeah this is the same, like… as tribute? The guy is still alive. I thought he died the first time I saw it!
Damn city really doesn’t have any legends
I don’t get this, i don’t care about City really but you people used to moan about the club not having history, but now that it’s being written as we speak, it doesn’t count because, what, it didn’t happen 80 years ago? I’d say sticking around for a decade and captaining the team into a treble is pretty much worthy of this kind of recognizement