Is it important to you to win the Champions League?

[paulchapo]

I want us to win it as I do every competition we enter but I think winning the title is harder and for me I enjoy it more.

For the club and owners and just to get the monkey off our back, which is put there by the media really, I'd love us to win it. With our squad and manager we really should be doing so.

 

[carlosthejackal]

If we win it then happy days , if we don’t then that’s life , the league title will always be number one priority, didn’t think I’d ever have this conversation about City in the 80’s 90’s or 00’s :)

 

[i went to rotherham]

If we are gonna do it, lets do it in real style and clean up all the domestic trophies at the same time. First ever team to do it, they couldn't air-brush that out, could they?

 

[Eccles Blue]

This is probably going to be a bit controversial but....here goes.... I don't go to watch City to win trophies, I go to watch City because I love football. The actual game of football, I support the team that I have supported for over 60 years but I also used to watch and referee school football and loved their games as well. Yes it is great to win a trophy but to me it is the football that is more important. The football and the club. Sorry.

 

[citizen_maine]

This is probably going to be a bit controversial but....here goes.... I don't go to watch City to win trophies, I go to watch City because I love football. The actual game of football, I support the team that I have supported for over 60 years but I also used to watch and referee school football and loved their games as well. Yes it is great to win a trophy but to me it is the football that is more important. The football and the club. Sorry.

Booooo!!! Eccles Blue Out!!



:-)

 

[Summerbuzz]

This season will have been a wonder, regardless of what happens now. Dias and Cancelo, Foden's emergence. Stones is back?! Gundogan coming good on his promise of taking up the responsibility of being a senior player. We're a committed unit now. Everyone adds to the mix and helps each other. That is the hardest thing for a club with money to achieve. We thank Kompany, Zabaleta and Silva's for doing it first. And immediately following the final retirement of the holy trio, we can see the new ambassadors and guardians of the club emerge. It's the best type of story to follow as a supporter. And we now get to watch a mean defence as well as a glittering attack. Winning a trophy, no matter which, just can't compete. Winning is important. But it's only one of the important things, and we've already seen so many others delivered upon.

 

[Lavinda Past]

This is probably going to be a bit controversial but....here goes.... I don't go to watch City to win trophies, I go to watch City because I love football. The actual game of football, I support the team that I have supported for over 60 years but I also used to watch and referee school football and loved their games as well. Yes it is great to win a trophy but to me it is the football that is more important. The football and the club. Sorry.

Absolutely correct. Great post.

It's clear that there is a world of difference between the thinking of fans immersed almost 24/7 in PLs/UEFAs 'modern' game and those of us who only had Saturday afternoons, the odd midweek and the Pink to influence us.

 

[James Morgan]

Absolutely yes.

 

[bluemanchester]

That may well be the case, but after we won the league in 2012 I really didn't care what anyone said about the legitimacy of our win or scale of our achievement. My worry now is that we are so conscious about what other people think and say about us that we occasionally forget why we are City fans and why we follow our club. 13 years ago we'd have merely been grateful to win any trophy for the experience of the joy of winning but now we apparently want to win things to shut people up or get one up on our rivals. A third of our fans here have said that the CL isn't important to them. I can't get why they wouldn't want to be partying with 20,000 blues until daybreak in a European city after lifting the trophy.

In many respects, the way we won the league in 2012 was our "Del and Rodney getting rich" moment. It was so great, so unique and so euphoric that nothing would ever touch it again. The thrill of the chase was over and nothing has really felt the same since. To my mind, the CL is the last chance to give me a new experience whilst following City. If you've followed the club for 30 years you've seen nearly everything. The CL is the last frontier. It's our biggest obstacle, stacked with adversaries along the way. To conquer it would be a fitting final chapter to the rise of our club.

Liked your post but I don't agree with your last sentence and hope you are wrong about it being the final chapter ;-)

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

I don't like the CL one bit. It's a money-making machine and most of the games are absolutely awful to watch. Bus-parking-on-steroids, diving, cheating, appalling officials, strange rules, shit VAR and weird decisions. The team who wins the PL is simply the best team that season, no question. The team who wins the CL has ridden their luck, dived, cheated and got lucky. So, forgive me if I don't get excited about it.

That said, it means a lot to the players, the staff, Pep and the owners. So, I'll get behind the team but in all honesty, if we never win it it won't bother me one bit.

I know United and Liverpool get giddy about it, but let's cut to the chase, slapping the best teams from Sweden, Belgium and Austria in the 60s and 70s and bragging about being the best is EXACTLY the same as someone from Huddersfield boasting they are up there with Spurs for PL titles. You can't even compare this CL to the ones in the 70s and 80s.

Liverpool go on about Europe but most of their trophies was filmed in black and white, lo-fi definition and the scruffy crowd was wearing flares, platforms and donkey jackets. Must have stunk like a zoo in their end.

Anyway, if we win it I'll still use it as an excuse to crack open more champers and piss the red neighbours off though.

 

[Dobsy]

For me and most of my generation (90s kids) winning the European Cup will feel like the pinnacle, and the end of a long journey from the grim days growing up in the shadow of THEM.

 

[glyncity]

When i hear rags and dippers ask what would you sooner win the premiership title or the champions league , i'll be honest , in my opinion you have to win both to call yourselves true champions ,they go hand in hand , if we finish second in the league from here and then go on to win the champions league , then we cant really say we are the best team in Europe , because over the season we havent proved to be the best team in our own league. If however we win the league and then go on to win the champions league then we are indisputably the Champions of Europe ... When Liverpool won the champions league , for all their bluster , they knew they'd finished second best in their own country over a full season and thats why they where so desperate to win it last year , It justified their claims of being the best team in Europe ...
Win your own league first , then you can truly go on to prove you are the best team in Europe , finish second and then winning it , to me , is just a nice trophy to stick in the cupboard and obviously a monkey off our back but still i'd be slightly disappointed..

 

[TheThirdDeano]

I would love to win it purely to piss everyone else off. Especially if we can boo the jingle in the final.

I voted no because I don’t think pissing other people off is reason alone to think it’s important!

 

[jay laruja]

Yes, it's important. No, not winning won't diminish any of our accomplishments. It would be nice to see other teams' fans scramble for something else to throw at us if we did win it though.

 

[BackofJeanette]

I would love to win it purely to piss everyone else off. Especially if we can boo the jingle in the final.

I voted no because I don’t think pissing other people off is reason alone to think it’s important!

And that is part of the problem!

Do you really think they want their showpiece game of the season beamed across the world with 1,000's of City fans booing them?
Best to get us out the way in the earlier rounds by any means !

With no fans to 'boo' it this season maybe they'll let us win it?

Naw, can't see it myself!

 

[Marvin]

I would like City to be KIngs of Europe. Who wouldn't.

Over the years City fans have built up natural defences for not winning it and seeing Man Utd and Liverpool win it. "I'm not bothered". Some have completely justified this to themselves. and even refuse to go.

 

[BigJoe#1]

I don't like the CL one bit. It's a money-making machine and most of the games are absolutely awful to watch. Bus-parking-on-steroids, diving, cheating, appalling officials, strange rules, shit VAR and weird decisions. The team who wins the PL is simply the best team that season, no question. The team who wins the CL has ridden their luck, dived, cheated and got lucky. So, forgive me if I don't get excited about it.

That said, it means a lot to the players, the staff, Pep and the owners. So, I'll get behind the team but in all honesty, if we never win it it won't bother me one bit.

I know United and Liverpool get giddy about it, but let's cut to the chase, slapping the best teams from Sweden, Belgium and Austria in the 60s and 70s and bragging about being the best is EXACTLY the same as someone from Huddersfield boasting they are up there with Spurs for PL titles. You can't even compare this CL to the ones in the 70s and 80s.

Liverpool go on about Europe but most of their trophies was filmed in black and white, lo-fi definition and the scruffy crowd was wearing flares, platforms and donkey jackets. Must have stunk like a zoo in their end.

Anyway, if we win it I'll still use it as an excuse to crack open more champers and piss the red neighbours off though.

This exactly.

I detest the corruption which is further exemplified by plans to create a super league that will give an automatic pass to any big clubs that fail to qualify through their own league standing.

Absolutely 100% fixed shit.

 

[nellyonthewing]

It’s important validation for the owners and the players but as a fan I just want us to be above the rag scum throwing rocks down at them.

 

[jonmcity]

Yes, Very important.

 

[TheThirdDeano]

And that is part of the problem!

Do you really think they want their showpiece game of the season beamed across the world with 1,000's of City fans booing them?
Best to get us out the way in the earlier rounds by any means !

With no fans to 'boo' it this season maybe they'll let us win it?

Naw, can't see it myself!

Yeah but that’s why we have to do it when we can. Imagine the piss boiling!!!