I think it's important. Very important. Poor morale can override great strategies and tactics. It can make great players look sh1t and poor players look great.
I've always liked the Championship/football manager series but was always annoyed by how much emphasis was put on morale. How my awesomely depresses team would get owned by happy clapping cr*ppy teams. But with the way this season is going I'm starting to understand why the game designers put so much importance on it.
There's many reasons that our morale could be so low this year:
*departure of Suarez
*failure to remove dead wood
* decisions to play dead wood whilst overlooking the reserves and academy
Just to name three. Thoughts?