Is it important to you to win the Champions League?

Is it important to you to win the Champions League?

  • Yes

    Votes: 206 67.5%

  • No

    Votes: 99 32.5%
  • Total voters
    305
If there was a choice the league every time for me. I want us to win everything obviously but I feel that the chumps league is a stage managed closed shop and after the run ins we've had with the cartel and UEFA I'm convinced well be stitched up at every opportunity.
 
I don't invest myself in this manner for things I can't really control, so it wouldn't ruin my life if we didn't.

Of course, I'd be delighted if we did, and it'd be very useful to get the monkey off of our backs with this one.
 
League every time for me.
If you offered me one league or ten of this corrupt competition I'd take the league every time.
If and when we win it, the knob heads who are saying we will never win it will start saying that we've only one it once and this team or that team has won it x number of times.
 
bluemanchester said:
Me personally, I got great enjoyment from the Gillingham play off win. Followed by the first title win in 44 years. Other than bragging rights I am not too fussed if we do not win the corrupt competition even though I have been to many away ties. Am I in a minority?
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Remember those two highs? Beating top class opposition in a famous stadium in a world class city with the eyes of the world on us would be just as good. For me, anyway. I’d cry I think.
 
Yes I want to win. Seen some of the best teams, best players and managers at The Etihad. Some amazing away trips. Premier club comp in Europe wouldn’t have seen a team like we have now if we didn’t want to win. Win for the owners Pep and the players that’s why they are here
 
01cravend said:
It's every rival fans go to argument against us..."come back when you win the champions league" so once we do, they'll have nothing.

Even taking that away of course you want to win the biggest competition in club football, you're being disingenuous if you say you don't want it.
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I agree but we will still get “come back when you’ve won six, la”
But then it should only be for Champions.
 
It is an objective acknowledgement of excellence, even if it is only a snapshot of 90 minutes here and there. It is how teams are graded.

I’d like to not only win it, but be a perennial European power that gets to the last 8 every year, the last 4 every year or two, the Final every few years, and develops a tradition for winning it every now and then.

That is extraordinarily hard to achieve because to unlock a CL win takes the key...a decent draw, a good, possibly even surprising, result every now and then, and the rub of the green in those tight moments that decide games.

Only a fool thinks that best team in Europe wins the CL every year, but that mantle comes with the trophy, because opinions differ, but a W nullifies the naysayers.
 
Yes. It’s something as a kid I always dreamed of winning after watching Liverpool win it in 1977. Wins for Forest and Villa followed and I sat there and looked at the joy on the fans’ faces in the stadiums. I wanted City to do that, I wanted to be one of those fans.
 
Previous seasons I haven't been bothered. The desire to obtain the Premier League has far outshone that of the Champions League. That's even with all the away days in the Champions League. However, this season I want it more than ever! So to answer the question more simply... fucking hell yes!
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Yes, I want it more than anything. I’d give up all three other trophies for a year just to win the big one, although I’d be absolutely devastated if I couldn’t be there.

It’s the only way to eclipse the Fa cup win in 2011 and league win in 2012.
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Very well said.

I was brought up on stories of Billy McNeill and the Lisbon Lions, Capello's AC Milan, Red Star in Bari and Cruyff's Ajax winning three in a row. I believe you have to differentiate between the shortcomings of the present-day organising body and the illustrious competition steeped in history, prestige and sought after by just about everyone. I think we have to win it in order for most people to change their minds.

I have spoken to a lot of sensible fans of other clubs at varying levels in the football pyramid and none of them can understand why our fans are so blasé about the competition. When I say it's due to perceived corruption, they say something along the lines of "and you don't think your title win in 18/19 was a season fraught with dubious decisions to try to stop you?"
 
We need to win it.
Our players want to win it.

However I do not have the same emotional attachment to it. Its now a made up bastardisation of a competition to suit armchair fans who consider watching on the tele equates to watching games live. Its like the skybet advert claiming watching a live game on the tele is somehow a "live " experience. It is not and never will be.

I cried at the end of the Gillingham game the FA semi against the Scum the final against Stoke. I was in tears when Vinny scored against the Rags to put us ahead on goal difference and again when we played QPR.

There was a tear in my eye when the King came on for the second half when we played Newcastle.

When (not if) we win the CL I will smile and celebrate with my adult children ( if I am still alive and kicking), however it will not bring me to my knees as other moments did.

I want to watch us win each and every game.
 
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