What's the point of Training & Youth players..?

[Tyltyl]

I never understood either. I power trained last season, but there is never enough time to get them to good condition even out of the CL and cup.
I had to sacrifice last season to get 4 and maybe 5 6* players, with 4 of them gaining the star this season. Funny thing is they were all fast trainers with a few nordgens. Gaining one star takes 30 cones (if I recall correctly) and a fast trainer gets 3 or even 4 after draining the whole condition bar. Consider also that even if you play 1 single competition, you have to play 1 match in which you lose condition even by playing defensively. That means you must have a LOT of green packs to raise even a single player. If you don't, even a 24 hours wait will not refill the bar again.

The 4* youth player is always too expensive and I would rather get one from the market with better stats and spending less tokens.

TBH I never fully understood the point of training. It helps, but not much, and if it does you will see the results the next season if you have the packs and a lot of other "ifs". Now I have a good team, but after spending a lot of time, packs, and even tokens for packs. It doesn't even guarantee a result, since I'm 1st but not by much and I'm struggling in cup.

Maybe I'm missing something.