I'm implementing a many to many relationship between two models, User and Club. The documentation says "The belongsToMany relation will not use a pivot "table", but will push id's to a related_ids attribute instead.".

However, I've set up belongsToMany on both models, and when attaching or syncing, a pivot table is created named, for example. user_club. I can even specify the name of the pivot-table in my models, as well as pass extra attributes to store in the pivot-table when syncing or or attaching. When creating the relationship, nothing is stored Is this expected behavior?

If it is, then I'm having trouble getting related items. For example, I'm trying to display all the users that belong to a club with $users = $club->users();. But in a var_dump, I can't see anything related to users. Am I doing something wrong?