i understand where you are getting at, but sometimes i think its better to have a tough group, i know its not a given, but this way the team doesnt get complacent and keeps focused troughout the group stage, we´ve seen along the years us dropping silly points to the likes of Genk, Maribor, Basel, etc when we think its a walk in the park, only to get a shock result, altough it had no effect in the end because we managed to qualify in all those times. Its 2 sides of a coin, it can go your way when you have an easy group or it can backfire badly, ( ex. United in 2011/2012), these types of scenarios can happen a lot in the Champions League if you let your guard down.
Its not like its the 1st time we had to deal with League and Champions League games in between, ok we had bigger squads back then and could mantain a title challenge and reach the latter stages of the Champions League, but now we have the issue of lack of squad depth and i get where the worries are coming from, even more because of the games we have to play as posted here already, this is all on the board who know what the team needs and are taking too damn long to make decisions. Cheers