I'm trying to reach that.

And get rid of those expensive LB's, QB and TE... They will cost you around 150 VIP seats a week which is the same as 16.500$.

You won't be promoted this season anyway.

/2 cents

maylie wrote: Agree with most of the stuff on here - think you need to lose the players you are buying on high wages, which are going to cripple your growth. If you bide your time, you'll be able to pick up 3.5* and 4* players on the market for between 1 and 10'000 that are on basic wages that will improve your squad and if between 16 and 19 years old, they will grow with your team.

But until you have decent coaches, paid for by a decent size stadium there is no point buying players.

SrednaD wrote: Only train other skills if all three physicals are capped.

Beware the stamina 20 bug.

...which is why you buy cheap young talent already physically developed!

6k for a 17 or 18 strength (can't remember, he's at 19 now), 11 speed 3.5* talent 17 year old, 10k for an 18 strength, 15 speed then 18 year old with 4.5 star talent, both with 14 intel and ok other skills etc. It can be done with some hard work and some luck!

There are also positions where physicals aren't so important. Sure, lack of training facilities mean they won't get the skill set as quickly, but you really don't need to at a lower division. A base for a team needs to start somewhere, and while your first guy may never full develop into his maximum, he'll still be useful enough to keep around as you develop your second batch after all your infrastructure is built (training halls, coaches, fitness halls, etc). It's roughly 18 training cycles a season. With a teamwork of 1, and only 2 in attack coaching, no training hall, and focus on passing (so 65% of points here), an 18 year old will still go up a minimum of over 12 passing before he reaches 28 years old, by which time he can still play perfectly well - just not train as well. And that's if you keep coaches at only 2 in attack, never build a training hall, only ever train on average, only ever get 8 base training points (the minimum considering it's 10+/-2), doesn't count the training he already has in that skill when you got him, doesn't count the amount in that skill he started off with (1-5 for non-academy), and doesn't count the offseason weeks we get (ie it only counts the 18 cycles during the actual seasons for a total of 180). While you would have an acceptable passing skill of 12+starting, you admittedly wouldn't have time to train vision and all that, but then again... will it really take you 10 seasons to finally get coaches and build training halls?

Though obviously guys that need high physicals AND skills take a lot longer. But there's still no reason why you shouldn't TRY build a platform to gradually blood in new talent as long as you don't go too far out of the way and spend too much.