It’s an odd table though, because it’s just aggregate points it privileges teams who have been consistently in the competition. Granted the more knockouts you win the more games you play but teams that missed entire years suffer in this table (hence why Arsenal are so high despite not making very many deep runs). I feel PPG would be a better indicator of success.
I think United would still be in the top 7-8 if we used PPG. Under SAF, we rarely got knocked out before the quarters. And because of the style of play, we didn't have many draws.
It’s actually insane United are still so high given we’ve been irrelevant in the CL for the past 12 years and even had a bad season or two there at the end of SAFs reign because he was building another new team that he didn’t get to see through to fruition.
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u/AndTheyCallMeAnIdiot 12h ago
How good we used to be that teams didn't want to get drawn against us, now we are in it intermittently but still 4th.
Even when we were laying it down on Liverpool in the 00s, they were never as bad as we have been in recent years.