Is it important to you to win the Champions League?

[Chillidog77]

Me = No
The Club = Yes

 

[ChicagoBlue]

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.

 

[Bald fraud]

Me: No
Players: Yes

Is the correct answer. Weather we will ever be allowed to win it is a completely different matter

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

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.

 

[Blue Til Death]

I’m not fussed about it at all, give me the PL title every time .. However, I do recognise that the club need to win it to take another step up the ladder... I hope we nail it this season, then fuck it off :-)

 

[Blu1]

It is now just so we can piss everybody off :-)

 

[chris8910]

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!

 

[John Wayne]

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.

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?"

 

[creditunionhero]

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.

 

[lust overlord]

It is important.
Just not as important as the league title.
In my opinion.