Ladies/Gents,

Please bless me with your wisdom. I can't choose the best way to manage my squad and would love some advice.

Lots of my friends have a first 11 and a few good subs. They play the same formations with, perhaps, a couple of variations and have quite a few 1-2 star players in their squad to keep the ave. rating down. They do well, generally speaking, and always do very well in the cup.

I prefer to have (almost) 2 entire teams, with no player less than 5 stars by the 7th day of the season. This allows me to play 2 strong teams every day and play, within reason, any formation within the game. However, I always come up against a much better team in the cup and lose out on the rich spoils this brings.

At level 12, I'm reaching the point where everything is becoming about $$ and sense the cup revenue is going to become crucial.

How do you guys do it?