Sort of the same for me, but I'm a Liverpool fan and I fucking hate Man United with a passion, but I respect them, and as for Liverpool not having as lucrative tv deals as Arsenal or Chelsea is just laughable.
Edit: As you said, Liverpool are still one of the most popular teams in the world even after the bad recent years, doesn't that tell you something about our fans?
I said maybe, but after doing some Googling and thinking, it's probably just no. Utd on top, Liverpool behind them.
Yes it says something about your fans, and yes, I know if the same happened to United, our fan base would drop a lot more than the fan base of Liverpool did.
I'm not one of those persons though, I'll keep supporting them. The same thing happened (and is still happening) to my favourite team, Club Brugge, they have a superb history but the past 6 years were quite bad. A lot of things happened, bad luck, bad purchases, ....
Fan base didn't drop at all, this season the vocal support is still just as strong as when the shit began.