It just needs a reformulation, considering the Mexican league and MLS play different season structures.
That said, Atlanta has been so heavy on the whining and excuses it’s hilarious. TFC did well last year plagued by injuries and took it to the Mexican teams, and fucked our season because of it.
NYRB did okay and still won the shield last year.
Atlanta got snuffed out after being “omg so much better than TFC lol” and proceeded to complain about everything...
Montreal made it further in CCL than Atlanta.
It’s a competition that doesn’t make a lot of sense considering the way scheduling and budgets work. But it’s not like APOEL sits around wondering why they aren’t competitive in CL and cursing the competition for spending more... it’s just unfortunate that CCL has a meaningless amount of money attached to it for MLS teams.