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What has the CL got to do with how united we are?Yeah. In my opinion, some people are overrating qualifying for the Champions League. We have not benefited from qualifying for this season's competition other than in a purely financial sense:
- The quality of our summer signings was not better than the previous two windows.
- We seem to be a worse team overall than we were at the end of last season.
- We are less united as a club than we were at the end of last season.
We even managed to recruit "elite" coach Conte outside the CL.
Being in the CL is purely:
- financial gain to further improve the squad and competiveness
- the chance to pit ourselves on the biggest stage (i.e. What football is all about)
Those are 2 very big reasons to want to be in it. Can also throw in that other euro competitions suck in comparison.
But point taken that we can still improve even if we miss out.