• aguer0@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Add this to the 115 reasons we already know that this club is a cheating and illegitimate state run machine with no morals. How they can continually be allowed to get away with this and face no punishment while playing with 2 first XIs with a completely empty stadium and no fans I don’t know. Someone at the Premier League needs to wake up. Has anyone ever actually seen someone wearing a City shirt in public? You’d think they’d want to keep a low profile right after paying off the referees in the Liverpool Vs Spurs game. Shameless

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      10 months ago

      I spent the whole summer in a resort town in my country and from my (admittedly anecdotal) experience the overwhelming majority of kids wear PSG and City shirts. And it’s mostly tourists from different parts of Europe. Basically kids from countries without big clubs tend to flock to the current generation of stars.

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      10 months ago

      You’re think the stadium is empty? as as season ticket holder I implore you to try and get a ticket for one of our PL games later in the season?

    • DamoDuff11@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      I’ve seen a fair few kids wearing City shirts lately. They’ve definitely made a huge dent in capturing the next generations fandom with their on field success.

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        10 months ago

        I don’t want to be that guy but this is exactly what Chelsea were doing ten years ago under Abramovich

        City in 2023 and Chelsea in 2013 have a lot of similarities when you think about it. Clubs that were largely irrelevant at the very top level for a long time and then both clubs were bought by foreign entities where the money being funnelled into both clubs attracted a lot of criticism due to the questionable morals that the owners represented

        Both clubs started to immediately find success not long after the respective takeovers and just after winning the European cup for the first time, both clubs are starting to cement themselves as established football clubs amongst younger generations

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      10 months ago

      I think someone pointed out that last season’s title winning thread on their subreddit had like 400 comments or something lol