The toughness of League draw and CL will be same as the previous season...
There will be 3 teams near about equal to your teams quality, 4 teams of slightly lesser quality than your team, 4 poor quality teams and 2 abandoned teams...No matter how strong your squad is this trend will follow unless you make your team so strong that the system is unable to find teams of similar quality than your team...
This is a way to make people spend money...You will gain extra advantage only when you make your squad strong after the season starts...
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So if you want to gain the extra edge then you will have to spend tokens every season...
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