A First ever - A TEN star player

[Buffs Mad]

My best guess is that the Auto-apply system is treating whole 1SP awards (applied) differently to condition based awards (ignored).

The lack of a 10th star is probably just a graphical one because there's no provision for it. Keep going and, as you say, see how he looks in the new Season. (Would be wonderful if any other eraned SP popped up or was auto-applied on Day1 but don't hold your breath. )

And yeah your Cup draw will have population as a bigger factor than at my level. But I got dumped out too but in my case it was by crap on away goals. *shakes fist at Nordeus*