The Gundo.
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!
The guy is still playing…
Gundogan, but never forgotten.
Get out
City vs Barcelona in the CL knockouts is gonna be awkward
Why would it be awkward? It’d be nice seeing him at the etihad again
What about Benjani?
It’s a training pitch, not a statue guys. They already have multiple training pitches already. It’s a nice little tribute to a player who contributed to the club for 7 years.
Really thrived under Pep, incredible player
How do I get there from the Fabian Delph parking garage or the Scott Sinclair memorial bench?
So much history this club lol
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.
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.
Perfect way to describe it is not that deep - if you’ve got strong feelings about this you need help
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
Ibra
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…
Because its embarrassing
Bold of you to assume we make it out of round 16
Happens when you have no history…
It’s just a training ground, not really that weird if you ask me
It’s a flex … City is 100% confident should they face Barça they would trash them
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.
Serious Question: Who are City’s legends from before the Qatar takeover?
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
Trautmann, I remember that name from somewhere. Is that not the guy who played with a broken neck?
Empty tinpot club
Richard Dunne should be feeling aggrieved.
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.
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.
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
It’s not even true. The Etihad as the Colin Bell stand for a reason.
These city players for the last 10 years have won more than 90% of PL legends.