General Premier League Thread 2025/2026 - See Post #1 for Mod Note

The likes of Puma, Asahi, Revolut and BYD aren't looking at how many empty seats are there on a Wednesday night. They are looking at worldwide numbers. The match was only fixed 2 weeks ago and they have a cup final on Saturday.

Again… the match being fixed 2 weeks ago doesn't hold up.

All big clubs have fixtures that need to be moved around late in the season, it's common. If a fan can't make a rescheduled match then another fan takes their seat because there is demand above the supply at big clubs.

What's not common is empty seats with a title on the line. It's almost like there isn't enough demand for the tickets or something. Like the club has over inflated something…

They do have a cup final on Saturday. Hopefully they sell it out this time as they didn't on their last trip.

Must be all that success though, I remember you could basically walk into OT to see them lift the PL for the 13th time under Fergie… oh wait

Le Bris started off really well, but Sunderland are only 4 points ahead of Leeds United and robbed 3 points in their recent clash where the PGMOL came back a week later and apologised for nobody noticing that O'Nein grabbed Struijk around the neck and hauled him to the ground in the box, for a blatant penalty. Leeds were on top, and would have gone 1-0 up, and they would now be ahead of the Black Cats in the table, so he's not done enough for me.

For the second half of the season they have slid down a hill, as opposed to falling off a cliff

Clubs are selling womens teams, hotels etc to themselves regularly. Chelsea, Everton sold the womens team to themselves. Fans need to accept that this is how things work and it'll never change and it's within the rules. I'm sure if the people complaining had there own club do the same thing the complaints would change. The PL is a multi billion industry and invited oil states and dodgy billionares a long time ago and it wont change. If City were to be properly punished we'd have heard about it now. The days of complaining about that is over. Everyone has to just suck it up and deal with it instead of living in some fantasy land where punishments will be handed out. The PL league is no different to FIFA when it comes to dodgy dealings.

mate your wasting your time here. I went into quite granular levels of details in the past on the accounts and there was an even an accountant who couldnt get his head round it despite the fact city were off the back of a treble. Honestly your wasting your time u wont change their mind regardless of any logic or reasoning you give, trust me.

That first half of the season form was never going to last, but the only table that matters is the actual league table. They’re still ahead of their biggest rivals Newcastle. They’ll be very happy with how things have gone.

Yes that's exactly what I think. We'll be told when a big fine is handed out when 10 charges out of the 115 have been upheld people will complain but the PL world will move on. For every person who says I'm done with the PL if City get off there's 10 more queing up to buy tickets and subscriptons.

City fans have being saying for years that no one in Manchester supports United, all the locals support city. If their fan base is so big why can't they fill the ground for such an important game? Surely all the locals could just bus, tram or walk to the ground?

Maybe Manchester isn't a big football city 🤔

Utd wanted City to give up Home advantage.

What about the accounts between 2009-2018?

That's because there is no logic or reasoning that can explain it…

It requires accepting the figures published by a club that have had multiple suspect sponsors and was previously paying their manager off their official books.

But you already know that

I'm talking 5 or so years from now. I help out at my local club now and again. Nearly every under 14/15/17 players are wearing Man City Haaland jerseys on them. There's a few Liverpool Salah jerseys but he's leaving. Arsenal shirts are nowhere bar the odd Ben White shirt. My point is I don't think City will be punished to the point where they wont recover very quickly. Those young teenagers in a few years will be old enough to start going over to PL matches in there 20's and 115 charges will mean nothing to them and a whole new wave of City fans as young adults will have arrived. It's no different to the wave of Man U fans in the 90's when they were winning all around them. I don't see too many UTD fans in their early teens outside of the ones who were given shirts by their parents at a young age.

The thing I think is mad is the 5,6,7 year olds wearing Ronaldo Al Naasr jerseys or Messi Inter Milan jerseys.

An Inter Milan jersey with Messi on the back would be a mad one alright :-)

The point was NEVER that the same fan should make their way to 3 games in a week.

The point is if the core group of City fans don't attend then nobody takes up the tickets. That is not the same situation we see at any other major club, especially ones that are successful year after year.