• Any_Smell_5431@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    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

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    1 year ago

    Weird to do this to a player who is still active in Europe and you can still play against.

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        1 year ago

        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

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          1 year ago

          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.

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          1 year ago

          He could go play in a country that preaches hate and murders journalists and masterminds/funds terrorist attacks in order to get paid to say they’re not sportswashing while saying he didn’t do it for the money…

    • Jon98th@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      It’s a flex … City is 100% confident should they face Barça they would trash them

    • Call_me_Tetsuo@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      It’s a training pitch, it’s not too big a deal. City built Aguero and Silva statues while they were acting players, now THAT was weird.

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      1 year ago

      Qatar

      UAE*

      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

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        1 year ago

        Trautmann, I remember that name from somewhere. Is that not the guy who played with a broken neck?

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    1 year ago

    tinpot club. arsenal built a statue for wenger, who the club is names after, just this year

  • Fuzzy-Topic-2684@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a totally fair point. But the counter argument to that is the player whom the tribute is dedicated do won’t be able to appreciate it themselves if the club were to wait until he died in order to do so. And given that the point of a tribute is to honor the person it is for, I think the person being able to appreciate the tribute themselves is worth the risk of them doing something bad.

      Also, if the person does do something insane like you mentioned, its always possible to strip them of their tribute. It’s just the name of a training pitch after all.

    • JarodMMS@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      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

  • Xpolonia@alien.topB
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    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.

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    1 year ago

    ManU gonna soon open a dedicated training center for the ex club captain and legend De Gea, I am sure. As soon as they fix the leaks in the stadium roof.

  • Round-Ad5063@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Question for United fans, how many players from the 99 treble side are legends for you? Does half sound about right

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      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.

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        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?

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          I included becks in the 99 squad. I’d say it was probably more 50-50 United vs abroad for him, but it helps that he’s a United fan and still talks quite passionately about United.

          I probably don’t think of Ronaldo as a United legend. He was an amazing player who went on to be one of the worlds best, but the best moments of his career were definitely not in a United shirt.