The most challenging part of our potential situation (No CL) is the difficulty in bringing in players that can get us to the CL positions right away. That means signing the likes of Pastore, Neymar, or Benz go way down with these players having their own personal ambitions. No one can blame these players for opting to choose another club if that is the case.
Our new stadium will only go so far and if we don't have CL next year than I am sure the seats won't come close to selling out which means we won't be making that 35-40m annually that Blanc mentioned a month or so ago.
When Agnelli said that if we don't get CL this year then we face a very big problem. And indeed we will...funds to buy players necessary to get us up a level, the luxury of having the appeal to even attract these kinds of players, the people paying for tickets in a new stadium won't be as easy to fill as once thought, keeping our good players long term when new contracts need to be signed...the list goes on and is indeed becoming more complicated.
I blame the coach but I also blame the players for arrogance against teams like Lecce.