I had trimmed back my squad so I didn't really think posting numbers would help. Most of my team are 5* or recently gained 6*.

I'm only second season so I can't give info with much authority.

My central midfielders rate about 0.5-1.0 on average lower than the more consistent def and st (AMs are the glory hunters and rate highest) - the 2 CMs I have left at the moment are 6.7 & 7.1 ave after a pretty average season with my fair share of losses. But I mostly play on the flanks and my cms seem more likely to pick up bookings (naming them Graeme Souness and Billy Bremner might be the reason for bookings). Red and Yellow cards might have hurt their ratings recently. When they rate 7s or more my team is usually performing well - 6s and it depends if I'm lucky in front of goal, 5s and I've probably lost or they're off the park.

I can't comment with much experience on skill point allocation (so probably ignore this) but for CMs I'm going to try roughly balancing all ave stats since they play more a passing & def role in my team and so are expected to be all-rounders. I think I allowed my CMs def to lag a bit too much.