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
No not at all. It continues to be the Emperor's New Clothes and pales into significance for me compared to being Champions of England.

I can understand why it seems such a prize for other European Leagues as most of those are dogshit one or two horse races, but being the Champions of a England where probably 10 teams could be comparative in the CL, is far more an achievement than being German, French, Spanish or Italian Champions (where you can roll over 95%) of teams and then concentrating winning the CL as your main effort.
 
It is now purely to tick it off at last. Win it once and its done. It won't be easy as anything can happen in knock out football.
 
Having done lots of Euro away's after spending years of dreaming of going it would be slightly hypocritical to say no, its get the monkey off our back time which will no doubt happen sooner or later. Will winning it compare to a day at Wembley turning Utd over or the Aguero 93.20 moment I doubt it very much, the trophy seems ever so tainted by UEFA's constant persecution of our club.
 
Nope. Would rather be Champions of England. All day and every day.

I don't care about other fans and I feel that a lot of Blues want to win it just to shit them up. Fuck them.

You can be CL winner and finish 5th in England. Utter shite.

Champions of England...... Sounds better to me.
 
I have no emotional feel for the Champions League. I hate its contrived format and the corruption of the officials who run it. The Premier League will always be the number one target for me. But until we win the CL we will never get the global respect that this magnificent team deserves. I think that winning it would transform the club's reputation across the world (not in the UK where the racist media will still prevail). We have simply got to win it to cement our place in history. Pep's team deserves it.
 
Yes
Winning the league is the ultimate achievement but the champions league is more prestigious and is important to the club off the pitch as well as on it. Plus we need to get the monkey off our back because it's one of the few sticks left to beat us with
 
For the club I think it’s important we win it ASAP.

For me as a fan it would be nice to win it but if it was a choice between the league and CL I’d go league every time.
 
If we want to be the best we have to win this cup. City as a club want the recognition and prestige that the chumps league brings.

Personality, I would like to win it for 4 reasons:

1. The owners would be delighted.
2. Help us attract players that deem it important.
3.It would annoy and boil a lot of piss.
4. Get the monkey off our back.

All that aside. I hate the corrupt bias greedy bastards. The whole FFP racket is a fucking disgrace.
 
Nope. I genuinely don't see it as this pinnacle of football that it's marketed as. Its a heavily weighted cup competition where the draw has a big say on the outcome, its quite often that the winners are nowhere near the best team that season even in their own league.

I want us to win it because I want us to win every single competition we enter but its always the league as the priority every single time and then the cups all trail that by some distance.

Shutting up the bitter bastards and ending the cliches would be nice but couldn't really give a fuck about that.
 
Yes it is important, the Club will be elevated to the next level if we win the Champions League, and I believe we are close to winning it, we just need a bit of luck, and once we do win it we could go on and win it again. City will then be recognised through out the world, and that will bring its rewards and recognition, which I want for our Club.
 
creditunionhero said:
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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100%. With you all the way on this. The obvious corruption within UEFA and the way in which this competition is being run has chipped away at any feelings I had for it. There is something fundamentally wrong about a knockout competition that can be won by a team that loses 4 games along the way. Whilst I would obviously enjoy it if we won the CL, no way would I feel the emotion of those moments you mention.
It's a tick the box event for me, just to win it and shut a lot of people up. Winning the PL is a much tougher ask and therefore means more to me.
 
I don’t enjoy Champions League football. I find it frustrating to watch. It’s like a different code of football to the Premier League and an inferior code at that. No matter how bad we think PL refs are, the CL refs are fucking appalling! Refs fall for every dive and the games are too stop-start-stop, the games really lack flow.

I find the group stage (“stage” is the right word because the seedings make them staged as fuck) boring! And I find away goals an unfair concept, and the fact that the away team in the second leg potentially get an extra half an hour of extra time to score them is proper unfair.

I don’t enjoy CL nights at the Etihad. With tourists and away fans all over the home end, and the shit drum atmospheres of away fans just droning on-and-on with no words over-and-over. I actually find CL nights really annoying! The only games I’ve really looked forward to and enjoyed the nights (but not the results) were the Liverpool and Spurs games because there were fewer tourists, no away fans noticeable in the home end, and the atmospheres weren’t annoying as fuck.

However, I go because the players need our support, and they and everyone in the management team and boardroom really want to win this competition, and for the club’s stature it is the next step for us to take. Overall, take away the shit parts of it and just thinking of the prestige of winning it; yes, it’s important! But it won’t mean as much to me as winning the PL does (and take Brian Clough and Pep Giardiola’s comments on the same thing over the years, they’ve stated the same). I think a lot of that is because I only think about the CL when the games are coming up, and only playing a maximum of 13 games a season in it, it’s not really on my mind that much; whereas I live and breathe the PL.
 
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The question of the poll was "Is it important to you to win the Champions league".

Nah, not really.
But at the same time I want us to win every single time we enter the field, no matter against who, no matter which competition.

But I fully understand that it is very important for our club, for the players.
 
Mayor West said:
Nothing to be said that already hasn't been said. players want it, the club wants it, the media judge you by it.

Me personally? Couldn't care less.
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Man after my own heart MW.You only have to look at all the bent bastards than have have been "found out" at UEFA,to see why I hate the twats and the competition.
I stopped going to CL home games some 2 years ago but I can understand why the Club wants it.
 
Yes. It’s a badge of pride And further underscores this teams brilliance. Would be a fitting reward for Fern and Kun. Would love it for Pep and the whole management team. At the very least it would stop the stupid questions from Dipper/Rag loving journos.
 
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