I like players to try and get a career at July Fourth to add to realism and my playing experience rather than buy and sell your squad every 1 or 2 seasons. I want my players to play for July Fourth for several seasons. like Morrow (Starter player), Brown (Defender for 5 seasons in the early levels), Benayoun, Mappin and the original Papaleo did.
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Season 1 League: Winners
Season 2 League: 2nd, Champions League: Runners up
Season 3 League: 1st, Champions league: Quarter Finals, Cup: Play-Off
Think the best example of a young player at the start of the game developing is Jonny Lamb at Perfect Tactics, He is basically the Fenton Morrow I had when I begun the game, young player with a decent rating Morrow was a 18 year old 5*22 player when I started and he was sold at the start of season 6 when he was only 3 stars. Think every starter team seems to get this 1 young star player in their squad each. A squad of about 18 players with random ages and mostly 3* players but you do get 1 or 2 gems in there.
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