Would you prefer to win the Premier League or the Champions League first?

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Sir Erik ten Hag

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Assuming you get a genie wish and given a choice, what trophy would you want (surely) for next season?

This does NOT mean we win one and would SURELY lose the other, though. If you choose one, you get that one and the other alternative is still up for grab depending on luck and team performance.
 
Premier League would be my preference. It’s our bread and butter.
 
We are an English club and we play in England so it is always winning the Premier League as the main thing for me.
The Champions League is a knock out Cup Competition albeit the best one to win.
 
We have only won the European Cup 3 times right?

It’s something that irritates me at how little we have won.
 
It always feels like you should win the league first. That being said our failure to win the CL unexpectedly or in down years in the league is why we’ve won so few overall.

Liverpool and Chelsea have both added to their periods of success by winning in off years in the league, particularly Chelsea.
 
Bebestation said:
We have only won the European Cup 3 times right?

It’s something that irritates me at how little we have won.
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Yeah, it’s one those annoying quirks. Several things have contributed to that record.

- early years of Fergie’s success had some crazy rules for foreign players. We had to leave out Cantona or Schmeichel if I remember rightly.
- it took Fergie a while to wise-up in Europe. Even 1999 we weren’t as smart as some European rivals. It was years too late when he started to play 3-man midfields in the knockout phase.
- Our best period of success coinciding with Pep’s Barca is just unlucky.
 
More likely the CL first since is a knockout tourney and we need to catch up on the scousers. Plus Chelsea isnt far behind.
 
Wow. Genuinely shocked to see the CL get so many votes. This club desperately needs to win the league again. That’s when we know the good times are back. Cup competitions will always have a big element of luck. A league campaign is the true measure of a manager and his team

I honestly think that some of you only care about winning arguments on Twitter about why the club you support is better than other clubs.
 
The PL is a true test of how good you are in my opinion. The only real "Fluke" PL win has been Leicester...... Even though they were brilliant.

You can win a cup with a few good games but not a league season.
 
Premier league, it's the real test of quality and consistency. I mean league titles are rather than cups.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Wow. Genuinely shocked to see the CL get so many votes. This club desperately needs to win the league again. That’s when we know the good times are back. Cup competitions will always have a big element of luck. A league campaign is the true measure of a manager and his team

I honestly think that some of you only care about winning arguments on Twitter about why the club you support is better than other clubs.
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I've seen United win the league... nine times I think? Yeah. The Champions League, only twice. Has nothing to do with Twitter.

(also, we have a better chance of winning the CL in the foreseeable future)
 
Siorac said:
I've seen United win the league... nine times I think? Yeah. The Champions League, only twice. Has nothing to do with Twitter.

(also, we have a better chance of winning the CL in the foreseeable future)
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I actually don’t know how many times I’ve watched United win the league. A lot anyway. Every one felt sweeter than the CL wins. Which get bundled in with all the other cups we won in my memory. A cup final is a great day out but nothing compares to the sense of achievement of that moment when you finally cross the line, after a long and gruelling league campaign.

The fact we have a better chance of winning the CL in the foreseeable future is why winning the league would feel sweeter.
 
Siorac said:
I've seen United win the league... nine times I think? Yeah. The Champions League, only twice. Has nothing to do with Twitter.

(also, we have a better chance of winning the CL in the foreseeable future)
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This is how I feel.

Liverpool have won it I think 6 or 7 bloody times.

Chelsea 2.

We should be better in Europe for arguably one of the biggest clubs in the world - or at least the most famous.
 
Premier League without a doubt. Did not for one minute think we’d have to wait this long when the great man retired. Now I worry how much longer it’ll be before we add another.

ETH claiming the Champions League next season would be an excellent cup run. Winning the Premier League next season would be beyond my wildest dreams; it would prove we’re back where we belong amid unprecedented competition.
 
CL. We've won far too few of those and they've been so far apart. Granted I can't actually remember anything about 1999 but seeing United lift that CL trophy in 08 was the happiest moment of my United supporting life, trophy wise that is.
 
@Siorac I should also have said that winning the CL in the same season as you’ve already won the league feels great because you’ve won the league. Which makes the subsequent double or treble feel pretty amazing. I don’t have any experience of winning the CL in a season where you’ve been second best domestically but that must surely feel a little hollow?
 
Premier League.

CL is a cup competition that any team can win given a favorable run.
The PL is the home championship that signals that this team was the best in the country.
 
Champions League needs a lot more luck to win so I'd take that and in this hypothetical scenario, it doesn't mean we can't win the league as well but in the reverse scenario, I feel like it would be a lot less likely for us to win both.
 
PL

Especially against quality opposition in the league. You're automatically a quality team in Europe.

Imagine winning the CL while finishing 5th or 6th place. Disgusting.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
The fact we have a better chance of winning the CL in the foreseeable future is why winning the league would feel sweeter.
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I get that, and also the whole 'feeling hollow' thing when you don't actually win your domestic league but win the CL. Maybe I can't think outside the context of my previous experiences: Moscow felt sweeter than just about anything (I was too young at 13 to properly appreciate the Treble, wasn't watching it with friends and alcohol), definitely more memorable than winning the league in, say, 2011.

But of course Moscow came on the back of two successive title wins so it was a culmination of years' worth of work, a coronation of a great team. Maybe a Liverpool 2005 or Chelsea 2021 style Champions League would feel lesser.
 
If it's winning one while coming nowhere near in the other, it's definitely the PL. I always find it very difficult to take CL winners seriously if they aren't winning their league or at least pushing the winners all the way. Sure they go down in history the same as others, but if they aren't even close to being the best in their country then they obviously aren't anywhere near the best in Europe and it's just the luck of a knock-out competition that gets them there.

On the other hand if we were right up there competing for both, let's say in the CL final and the PL coming down to the very last game, I'd probably prefer the CL. In that situation it'd be the real deal, even if we unfortunately did lose the PL title in that last match.

I voted PL in the poll, but my above points would be the deciding factor.
 
As Scholes once said, PL is the priority and anything else on top is a bonus.

United need to be the Champions of England again
 
If City win the league this season, then I'd wish for us to win the league next season to stop them from winning 4 in a row.

If they fail to win the league, then I'd wish for us to win the Champions League. We've got some catching up to do.
 
I created a poll with this exact same question a few years back and was surprised to learn that most people wanted to win the Champions League.

While I expected that topic to go similar to this one, I will never fail to be astounded by people preferring to be champions of England to being champions of Europe (especially after having experienced the latter less times than any other club of similar stature bar Juventus).
 
Pogue Mahone said:
@Siorac I should also have said that winning the CL in the same season as you’ve already won the league feels great because you’ve won the league. Which makes the subsequent double or treble feel pretty amazing. I don’t have any experience of winning the CL in a season where you’ve been second best domestically but that must surely feel a little hollow?
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In no way would a Champions League title feel hollow. Have you ever seen a team coming upstage for the Champions League medals with their faces down?
 
Sir Erik ten Hag said:
In no way would a Champions League title feel hollow. Have you ever seen a team coming upstage for the Champions League medals with their faces down?
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Is that even a serious question? Every player and every fan wants to win every game they play. And winning a cup final is obviously a nice feeling.

It’s still a cup competition though, at the end of the day. Frequently won by teams that aren’t the best to take part. Which is why I will always consider winning a domestic league as more of a challenge.
 
If we are good enough, we will win the Premier League sooner rather than later. I'd like to think Ten Hag has got us on the right track and it's just a matter of time.

if we are good enough, we might not even win the Champions League within 10 years.

That's how I see it. I'm confident in Ten Hag, which is why I picked Champions League. Under any of our previous post-Fergie managers, I would have picked the Prem.
 
Ch lge should be renamed as you can finish 4th and win it, so not really champions winning the cup. The league is a lot harder to win as you have to come out on top after 38 games, so for me, the Premier league.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
@Siorac I should also have said that winning the CL in the same season as you’ve already won the league feels great because you’ve won the league. Which makes the subsequent double or treble feel pretty amazing. I don’t have any experience of winning the CL in a season where you’ve been second best domestically but that must surely feel a little hollow?
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1999 we were second in 1998 to qualify. Still felt fantastic to win the treble, but we wasnt champions when we entered it that season. In fact we had to win a qualifying round to get in.
 
Premier league every day of the week and twice on Sundays

Champions League is a cup competition and can be won by mediocre sides relative to elite sides. When you think a poor Liverpool won it in 05, Porto won it, Chelsea won it twice during poor seasons.

You can't really say that with winning the PL title.

In a reality note, I think United are more likely to win the champions league before our next premier league because you don't need the consistency to win the European cup even though it's still a difficult task that we've only managed 3 times, but I do feel there's not a great depth in quality in Europe nowadays compared to the past
 
Premier League.

Whilst i'd love for us to increase our Champions League count, you can fluke a CL, winning the Premier League is a much better indicator of a good team.
 
wolvored said:
1999 we were second in 1998 to qualify. Still felt fantastic to win the treble, but we wasnt champions when we entered it that season. In fact we had to win a qualifying round to get in.
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I don’t think how we finish in the season that qualifies for the CL has any bearing on the achievement of winning it. But I do think that league performance in the season a team wins the CL can either endorse or undermine the achievement.
 
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