Disclaimer: As of today a few days after the video a background song got caught and was demonetized With KZfaq I submitted it mute the song but leave the audio, and instead KZfaq instead of muting the song had replaced ALL audio between 7-10 mins Im trying to solve this but best believe it’s not meant to be like that😂

Thank you mate for understanding the situation of City fans. It's not always black and white as many rival fans like to think to up their own ego.

Teams with history, repeat history. Manchester City is creating history.

City was in league 2 or 3 at the time when my dad visited England back in 1990s. He was kind of free & his colleagues who were from manchester took him to a city game, his words were " I'm surprised how many fans a club coud have like those when a giant club from that city actually exists". Right now, whenever he hears city doesn't have any fans, he just smiles.

As a FC Copenhagen fan we had Manchester City in our Champions league group and i was actually surprised by the fact that they filled up the away section I didn’t get a ticket to the game because it was sold out but I watched it at home and tbh they didn’t really sing all the game but I have seen some people say it’s because they don’t have any chants and I don’t know if it’s true but if they do get some good chants they could definitely be up there with some of the best away fans

It’s so ironic that everyone says “nobody cares” but literally everyone does when they say this, it’s actually so ironic

Here in South Africa Man City fan base has grown phenomenally over the past 7 years.

In the 1930s, Manchester City reached two consecutive FA Cup finals, losing to Everton in 1933, before claiming the Cup by beating Portsmouth in 1934.[15] During the 1934 run, the club broke the record for the highest home attendance of any club in English football history, as 84,569 fans packed Maine Road for a sixth-round FA Cup tie against Stoke City - a record which stood until 2016. Research carried out by Manchester City in 2005 estimated a fanbase of 886,000 in the United Kingdom and a total in excess of 2 million worldwide, although since the purchase of the club by Sheikh Mansour and City's recent achievements, that figure has since ballooned to many times that size. -wikipedia. No fans ?

As a city fan. This video was amazing. People really dislike City and will complain about us but I think City in the next generation will be talked about more. Great video 🎉

I am from Argentina and I started supporting Manchester City in 2010 when Tevez arrived. At that time. nobody knew about City and if you did, it was because it's the Man United derby. Now, in 2023, you could walk the streets and find kids wearing their jersey (Probably Álvarez or Agüero in the back), people watching their games every weekend and supporting them. The fanbase is growing a lot after 13 years and it looks like it will keep going in that way. I'm so proud to be a City fan.

Whether big or small, success is measured not only by the number of titles won but also by the growth of a team's fan base. Every team has the opportunity to make history and write their own story. Let's celebrate the growth and success of our favorite teams and continue to support them on their journey. #teamspirit #sportsfans #success

As a City fan i prefer it when we are fewer fans. It makes our victories even sweeter. Others say we are still a small club and i smile knowing they feel immense envy inside lol

every goal and every trophy has still been the same feeling throughout, ive been a city fan my whole life, remembered vividly our first premier league and i was in tears, and the emotions with every important game gets me shaking, we are city 💙

I really don't think City fans will care about anything like this and when it comes to the attendance in the FA cup semi final, they'd had just went to Munich and there's a cost of living crisis going on.

I don’t take as much of an issue with City than I do with teams like PSG. They literally weren’t relevant until they got bought by a country. City were at least a half decent team with some history

Spot on. All these rival fans want to make sure everyone knows they “don’t care about City” even though they can’t stop talking about City.

Don’t care what people think of us went Munich with all my mates last week 🔵🔵

Well I agree with what Mourhinio said at United they are making history. And also when do they eventually have “history” they’ve won more trophies in the past decade more then United Arsenal Chelsea and Tottenham so my question is when does the whole City have no history thing come to an end. Also there signings have been fairly smart. City have signed players for very low wage wise might be different but United fans say oil money acting like they haven’t spent 1 billion in the last decade

Man City doesn't suffer from tourism. It's the working classes that have supported them through thick and thin. They are more susceptible to cost increases and trying to keep up with the amount of games they need to attend.

It is what it is. We shouldn’t hate on them. People always like to think about the history of a club but you need to be around a long time to make history.People can do what they want and support what they support. Leave em be

As a Man United fan, I can tell you more than anyone. When your on top, other club fans will always find something to throw any kind of shade they can at you because YOU ARE ON TOP. That's it. We earned our spot at the Top while Chelsea bought their way into it. But we both got Hated for 1 Reason. WE WERE ON TOP. Fans using HOW city got on top with MONEY as justification for hate, is just SOUR GRAPES.

I must admit I laugh at the banter about City not filling seats or the fans being fake but you make an excellent point. It is probably true that they might get less excited for a trip to Wembley than say Newcastle for example. I can’t imagine PSG is much different since they are essentially guaranteed to win the league so their only focus is the champion’s league. One of the many valid reasons for criticizing the Super League is the fact that seeing some of the big clubs play week in week out will lose that magic you get from earning your place in a tournament. City fans have just seen more success in recent years than any of us can fathom.

Machester City doesn't have great history; they are creating the history right now.

Exceptionally well spoken.

When someone says they don’t care about Man City it doesn’t mean they don’t talk about Man City, take it like this : if they weren’t winning something they wouldn’t even be whispered about. I’m an Arsenal fan : we haven’t had the most luck over the years but people are constantly on our case. Same goes for Utd; Chelsea & Liverpool (with or without recent success) - City winning the league to me is like Leicester winning the league, it has happened (though it continues to happen still feels like. Okay…) & trust, I really would rather they continue to, over the above mentioned other clubs | I’m not hating on them I just don’t care or at the least harbour any animosity towards them cause like I said as long as that trophy isn’t red or dark blue I really could care even less 😂😂 I og love watching them play -

Keep up the good work these videos have been so good lately

Bound to like any video you post. You are top-tier.

killed this one man. youre a premier soccer doc creator

Very fair assessment mate. Top video. Keep up the good work.

i know this has nothing to do with this video but thogden is such a tory

Man City is an inspirational team. It's like a little kid nobody talks about achieving greatness when the big kid became a failure for having pride. I'm a Man City fan and i sometimes lose hope in their games. I learn that even the greatest team has been through a time when they couldn't stand as champions.

Good video, this is the kind of rational and down to earth analysis that football needs. Im new here and still have to watch your videos with subtitles because English is not my first language and you speak a little to fast for me haha but I’m still enjoying the content though 😂

People underestimate how hard it is to win at the etihad That place is becoming a fortress The atmosphere there is becoming electric Today against arsenal the fans cheered every single tackle or interception and we booed and whistled any arsenal fan on the ball It was nice to see😂

Thank you for this. Man city gets so much hate undeservedly SOMETIMES and it’s good to see someone to take a step back and actually really look at things at a deeper level

People that are comparing City to Chelsea forget that Chelsea prior to Abramovich were a club consistently in the top 4-6 winning multiple FA Cups and European Cup Winners Cups. Abramovich was the golden era but Chelsea did have success prior with players like Wise, Zola, Desailly, Vialli yet still faced this level of criticism if not more being the first ones. Even today rivals banter Chelsea about prior to 2003.

People say city have no fans because half of them are glory hunters and care about their glory after being bought out by the UAE and nothing else. Pre 2008, they had a true fanbase like any other club.

I’m certain there is and always will be City fans who are true to the club and who either witnessed their true struggles before the takeover. However, as time goes on, there will be, without question, people who can only relate to the history of City post-takeover. For example, I’m a long time Premier League follower in America (Liverpool fan). Here, City is held by ESPN and other sports media in just as much regard as United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea because they’re always winning championships. There’s next to no acknowledgement of where City came from and no acknowledgement of how City became what they are today, which is because of the takeover.

As a City fan I speak for everyone when I say this about other fans not caring about our success: We do not care

Great analysis, mate. I think you covered all the main points perfectly there. 👍

We fill out away ends..all the time. Decent that like it a lot you got a new subscriber.

Thanks for understanding. I’m amazed we had as many fans as we did under Stuart Pearce. We scored 10 goals at home all year 😂😂

Even without city breaching rules rival fans will always hate us cos city just have a better side than half the teams In Europe

Great vid as always Liam!

Honestly as city for 35 years I don’t really care about what the haters think or their opinions. In fact the more they hate more we love. Having said that we are happy with the amount of fans we have, very happy. About our team we are very happy because our team have set an unprecedented standard in this beautiful game of football in England or perhaps in the world, great FC Barcelona was the benchmark everyone talked about, but every rival fans and neural fans know very well City are par with that Barcelona team, and honestly it will go beyond that. You rival fans and city haters know very well every time you take a breath all that comes to your mind how to up against city, how can we better than city etc all rival fans club , bloggers, podcast all talk about city city city , how can we stop city. In a way all city’s rival fans are city fans exclusively formed to hate us. Finally as a city fan all I say is you can dwell in your past and dream we will keep going toe to toe each and every year , our great owners have laid the foundation, we want more haters ….. match if you can on the football pitch, or our club management from the cleaners to the coaching staff and beyond.

9:26 this is so true. I live in India and here majority of the people of my age who were born in laste 90s support Barca, Madrid, united, Chelsea and arsenal. Mostly people of my age group started watching football in early 2010 but some before that as well as later. Hence I hardly see any guy in his 20s supporting Liverpool and arsenal. But the younger generation I see supporting teams like city and psg.

I think the reason why people dislike city (including me) is because their growth is not organic. Since they were bought, the amount of money they have is much bigger than all the the other big clubs except maybe Chelsea. Not only that, they continuously are investigated and accused of breaking the FFP rules. A smaller team like Leicester winning the league is one of the most amazing things that can happen. A relatively small club getting bought out and suddenly dominating the league for 6 years due to the ability to spend so much money that they can have injuries and underperforming players and still be able to replace them from the bench. The same goes for PSG and all the other teams that just get invested billions in, start winning and then say "why are people not happy for us"..

Someone in football talking sense about Man City fans - finally

It's not that they're small. It's that they're not passionate. Imgine if a Portsmouth fan could see his team win every week in the prem. He would be jumping with joy, doesn't matter if hes at the stadium, in the pub or at home. That's because their fans love their club, alot of man city fans became man city fans during their life while 99.9% of Pompey fans were born Portsmouth fans..

This is a very unbiased opinion... I love how you narrated it.... You earned a new subscriber

I feel a little bad for City fans too. As a kid I admired them, as they were viewed kind of how Palace, West Ham or Newcastle fans were viewed now. But in 20-30 years, most City fans under 50 will have known pretty much nothing but success, and the "die hards" will talk about how they were there in the tough years, when they only won three titles in six years. It is going to be impossible for City fans to be admired in decades to come.

Thx u bro for understanding and explaining everything bout our club ❤❤❤

As a chelsea fan an original oli money team I believe that citeh are a big club cuz of our oil brotherhood.

I think their Saudi Arabian take over put a giant * on every accomplishment the modern era of City. Aside from City fans, quite literally every other fan regardless of league or club don’t view city in that same light of other historic clubs even if their achievements are comparable. Hispanics here in my state (Arizona) admire their football and players, myself included, but we have little respect for the club overall. Similarly to how we view Madrid and Barcelona although not as harshly as many Hispanics are aware of their history dating back to the 60’s or even back further. The Hispanic football community generally held respect to Barcelona and Madrid’s dominant eras because it still felt semi-natural and they could respect those clubs partially (due to La Liga’s clear bias to those 2 clubs at the time). But Manchester city to our community is such an anomaly. We move on quickly in daily discourse from them when in contrast, we would speak of Madrid and Barcelona for weeks on end about their recent games in the mid 2000’s up to late 2010’s.

I have always hated the “City spend money” argument by rival fans. Like, when your clubs were successful, they had the most money outta all the other clubs, especially united, and leached out all the top players from the other clubs namely law, cantona rio and keane. City have used the investment by the Abu dhabi group the best they could, growing the stadium and the facilities around the stadium, and now are reaping the benefits of their investment with success in terms of trophies and as well as overall profit. I cannot understand how people intend to explain the success of their clubs without the influx of money. It is a business, you need investments to start something, and need competent people to act upon that investment. Just that city got lucky with the people who had handle of the money. And that’s why we are successful

The Man City fans before the takeover are obviously amazing, loyal and loud fans. It is just the tourist and glory hunter fans they have got since that let the fan base down. Although definitely no one cares when they do well because their fan base is still tiny compared to other clubs.

I think the thing with city is a similar situation to clubs like psg. Think of it as being at school, you have a kid that's fought hard to get where they are gets accepted into a prestigious university and are on track to doing well for themselves. Then look at it from the point of view of a kid who has had everything given to them. They still work hard, they get the same results as the kid before but because they've not had to struggle in the same way it's a less impressive feat right? As much as I hate United being a Liverpool fan I respect what the club has done to get where they are. I don't hate city and I actually really like their squad as its full of great personalities and talents, but the club itself doesn't feel right, it's synthetic almost, like a dystopian future where everything is shiny and clean. What they've done after the takeover is impressive and ill never take that away from them but you can't buy respect

City and Newcastle will be the next man utd and liverpool in anout 20-30 years

As a Bayern fan, i felt this, especially in the Bundesliga

Thank you so muchh for thiss videoo ❤❤❤

Very well researched and presented 👍🏾

Thank you for this, I’ll still be Man City through and through whether they hate or not

Obviously I'm no fan of City but it's such a monumental cope when people say this ''nobody cares, when City wins it's like no one wins'' stuff. Tell that to the people reading the list of honours on Wikipedia in 20 years time.

This was so beautifully explained. Completely changed my perspective

Nice vid brother👍👍 Citeh!!

Been a city fan since I can remember. First game I went was against Scunthorpe in the cup when I was about 5/6 . But I get shit for being a “glory hunter” but yet I’m 20 born in 2002 . Had a season ticket for 13/14 seasons thanks to my dad n being from Manchester only me n my best mate are city fans out of a group of 10 lads. City fans are proper mancs. We have a loyal fan base that has been in the tough times and now we are lucky to be where we are. People hate us because well they ain’t us. Simple as that

I teach in Vietnam and he's right about future generations, when I ask my students who they support.. most say City. Sure it's in Asia, but it's showing their increasing global reach. Haven't met a single Liverpool fan and only one Arsenal fan (the team I support)

Love it! Subscribed!

Thank you Vizeh 💙🤝🏾

When United or Liverpool was dominating the English league their fans didn’t get bored. They always filled out their stadium. Their manager didn’t have to beg their fans to fill out their stadium. Because everything was earned. It took them years to slowly build up to that moment and not a financial takeover.

You know mate that was the best explanation I've heard, that we're brilliant 👏 👍 well covered

Your videos are very well made (from a subscriber).

your point about the end about billionaires was so spot on.

You know you’re doing well as a club when other fan bases resort to “ah but you’re a small club” or “ah it’s just cause you’ve got money”.

I personally think the criticism City fans get is unfair. I think social media has a big part to play as I do genuinely believe that what would people of the 70/80s say about Liverpool as they were dominant. As were United in the 90/00s. Radio stations like talkSPORT doesn’t help them as most presenters just chat rubbish and easy digs at them on most social platforms City get slated for anything they do. Also still can’t get my head around us winning at turf moor I was expecting a good 4-0 thumping 😂

They won the treble and everyone's already forgotten about it lol

City do have history but problem is that they didn't get so much attention like Liverpool Manchester United whenever they win they got labelled as oil money but in last 10 years United spend more money than City yet they fail to win trophies consistently as City

It's a complicated set of circumstances. Mainly because I do think Manchester City does have its own history pre-takeover but all that people within this generation are going to remember is mainly the Abu Dhabi United Group takeover, the FFP allegations and then all these meme clips on their "lack of fandom." Video overall is dope as hell, Viz. Excellent job demonstrating both sides of the argument here.

People like to bash on City for being a buyout club, meanwhile the money that they've spent compared to what Chelsea or Man United have been spending is barely a lot. They've been much better at managing their expenses and keeping the longevity. Now they're generating a lot of prize money, which makes them even richer and more successful. Considering the players that they have, they have been really good at getting the right players at the right time.

Over time City's fanbase will grow they are the new kids on the block and other rival fans will say what their gonna say it's the nature of the beast

Perfect KZfaq Clip - 💯% perfection

They are creating their own history and gaining new and younger fans

One of the best videos I've ever watched and hopefully it will teach fans of the "big clubs" not to always find reasons to hate on teams out performing them

wow! love the newcastle explanation at the end. SPOT on. people who say they only have success from "blood money" are out of the loop

In women’s soccer, Barcelona and Lyon are the equivalents. They win every game so it doesn’t make sense to be excited about getting an easy goal against a lower team

as an american city fan since 2013 (yes you can call me bandwagon but i stuck with them from there on out plus i was fckn 10) I find it so annoying that anything city does is just clowned upon simply because we are city. this video is full of facts, so cheers for that.

People are just mad that they decided to pick Manchester city to fund and not their own club and pick apart any success we will ever have. It’s not our fault we are just happy to experience the success we are having.

Thank you!

Korean now 33 years old beecame City fan about 11 yrs ago when they beat Man Utd 6-1. All Koreans were Man Utd fan because of Ji Sung Park. Partially I hated Korean United fans as they were too protective of Ji Sung but more importantly I was captivated by the style of football Man City played and David Silva's majestic play. Think everyone becomes a fan for a different reason and regardless it is good for game of football. On final note about being bought out, if that is considered as a problem, we are only allowing traditionally strong teams to stay strong. Yes City spent a lot but over the course of history or more recently, think it is a sensible spending.

0:46 i think perfectly encaptulates why most fans really dont care about City. People usually said it to wind them up but with their 100 accounts of ffp rulebreaking has really turned so many (if not all) fanbases against them. Hand on heart its why i wont value or recognise their achievements until the matter is put to rest

As a City fan, I tend to try and avoid talking about footie on social media due to all the hate Manchester City gets. Yeah, I get every club gets hate but not to this extent and the arguments are literally all the same. Needless to say though, I love this club. I remember the first time I went to the etihad and it was an absolutely incredible experience. 💙 #Giverespectotheblues

To me as an American and Liverpool fan I believe that Man City being a rival are still a big club but they are not small club what so ever

Top vid man.

I'm a toon fan and could agree more. Man u have so many fans because under furgie, they blew everyone else out the water with how much they would spend to win the league and trophies continuously for a long period. Which in turn made them more attractive to foreign football fans. Just because it was longer ago doesn't mean it's better. People always have rose tinted nostalgia glasses on. City are making history right now, in 20/30 years time they will historically be immense and people will look back and remember when city dominated the league like we do now with man united. Also attendance percentages where released today and city have the second highest average attendance behind only newcastle...

Can you do a video on West Brom on how Lai Guochuan has ruined the club.

I'd disagree(about the lack of celebration) Don't think I ever saw Old Trafford get tired of success Everyone takes a dig at city because they didn't earn where they are they bought their way into the top of the table just like chelsea did You can talk however you want about the effort and money it takes to stay up at the top but again *they never earned where they are they just shoved money at it over and over and over again* Don't think I've ever seen Barca or Madrid or Bayern or PSG fans get "tired" of winning either The idea that they shouldn't be celebrating scoring against a championship side in a match they expect to win when it's a match that gives them the possibility of more silverware is silly, but Pep and his players have already proven they don't have a winners mentality(except for KDB) so I don't really expect them to respect every comp or put in as much energy and effort into every win. They spent their way to the top finally reaching it properly when the Prem took a massive dive in quality due to financial meltdowns and a massive shift in not just administration but rules ownerships and even playstyles so they have basically only had what 3 arguably 4 opponents for the past near decade? Pretty easy to win silverware when you don't have a lot of clubs that are up to the task of even fighting for the top of the table let alone winning it, they also never won a CL despite all that time of supposed "dominance". It's almost like the Prem's quality had dipped so when they went to europe and weren't the biggest kid on the block anymore they got shown up or something

city is just too big for its own good. like there are some loyal fans in there but most of the fans have just come for the money and would probally leave again if the money left again. meanwhile, if united or arsenal were relegated you can damn be sure that most of the fans would stay.

I believe the problem is that a lot people who are new to football just become man city ‘fans’ because they win shit and is the club is just career mode (unlimited money, no ffp, buy whoever tf u want)

City might win 5 leagues in 6 seasons. I understand why other fanbases hate them

Life long Blue and this just makes me chuckle, I was there in '99 (and before) where we were held up as an amazing fan base following a crap team around the third tier. Now I'm a plastic supporting a team ruining football. It's amazing how success changes perceptions, I'm happy enough supporting my little old club 🦈🦈🦈

I'm Aussie and been a city fan since I was 8. Everyone my age was on United, Arsenal (bandwagon), or Leeds (Kewell and the other aussies). For whatever reason I chose City. We proceeded to bounce down then up the divisions, and far as I'm concerned having to live through that was rewarded by the happy tears of the Aguero goal and the success that's followed. I realise that the money may be gone one day and we may fall down the table, but l'l love the club just the same.