Too much emphasis is being put on the CL being a cup competition and the belief that claiming it doesn't qualify a team as the best team in Europe. It's not about whether it makes you the best team, it's about breaking through barriers that stand in a respective clubs way, achieving what you haven't previously achieved. We've now firmly established ourselves on the domestic front. But there is a conspicuous spot in our trophy cabinet.
The Champions League final is the biggest game in the club football calendar; there are zero conceivable metrics that refute that fact.
When we were taken over in 2008, what did you dream about City achieving? Winning the Premier League? Absolutely. Winning the FA Cup, the League Cup? Absolutely. Winning the Champions League? Of course we did. I dreamt of winning the Treble, the Quadruple, you name it. Any City fan that says they haven't daydreamed, even the once, about City winning the Champions League since we were taken over is lying through their two front teeth. All this talk of preferring League Cups and FA cups is just a defence mechanism put up because as a club there is one mental block we just can't seem to break through, winning the most illustrious trophy in club football. It's a different type of challenge to tearing through a domestic like a juggernaut, it's a different type of pressure; and it's one that we're yet to handle and overcome. We need it to complete the set and become immortal.
