Season 76 - Are you ready?

[El Pistolero]

Reducing quality is the only way for stability. I've been there, always going out in prelims facing teams 3 levels above me while I had a 4* team.

You don't have to sell your whole squad, you don't have to sell your best players. If you keep 8 of your first 11, replace the other 3 with 3*s and have 3 3* subs and no more than 14 players you'll drop overall quality drastically and you will face fairer competition. Keep those 3*s as long as possible eventually they will be 1* and it will be better and better. As soon as day 3 comes I bid on negotiations for decent players who will appear as unwanted low quality to other teams. Fill up your subs, try to get players with more than one position.

I have a DC/DMC playmaker, DL, DC, DR def wall 31 year old, ML, freekick taker MC and a freekick taker striker. That is all I need.

I will have to sacrifice these players, even though the sub MC has over 10 goals.

[Tyltyl]

Reducing quality is the only way for stability. I've been there, always going out in prelims facing teams 3 levels above me while I had a 4* team.

You don't have to sell your whole squad, you don't have to sell your best players. If you keep 8 of your first 11, replace the other 3 with 3*s and have 3 3* subs and no more than 14 players you'll drop overall quality drastically and you will face fairer competition. Keep those 3*s as long as possible eventually they will be 1* and it will be better and better. As soon as day 3 comes I bid on negotiations for decent players who will appear as unwanted low quality to other teams. Fill up your subs, try to get players with more than one position.

I have a DC/DMC playmaker, DL, DC, DR def wall 31 year old, ML, freekick taker MC and a freekick taker striker. That is all I need.

I will have to sacrifice these players, even though the sub MC has over 10 goals.

Not sure I will try the next season, maybe other one. I didn't even planned to win 3 consecutive leagues, but apparently it just happened, I'd take a break, refill all the packs and try again.
I will do as you and others have suggested, but still I think it's a wrong way to play the cup, it should just be fixed.

Sorry I just vented a little 11 seasons, only 2 cup finals and 2 defeats at the PK, when in the meantime I win the other tournaments as I side effect.

[Arion]

Reducing quality is the only way for stability. I've been there, always going out in prelims facing teams 3 levels above me while I had a 4* team.

You don't have to sell your whole squad, you don't have to sell your best players. If you keep 8 of your first 11, replace the other 3 with 3*s and have 3 3* subs and no more than 14 players you'll drop overall quality drastically and you will face fairer competition. Keep those 3*s as long as possible eventually they will be 1* and it will be better and better. As soon as day 3 comes I bid on negotiations for decent players who will appear as unwanted low quality to other teams. Fill up your subs, try to get players with more than one position.

I have a DC/DMC playmaker, DL, DC, DR def wall 31 year old, ML, freekick taker MC and a freekick taker striker. That is all I need.

I will have to sacrifice these players, even though the sub MC has over 10 goals.

@Tyltyl also never let go of the academy players. No need to even waste tokens to reduce Q. Usually a goalie, 2 defenders , one or two midfielder(s) (DMx-Mx) and 3 attacking players (AMx-ST) [ie 7 players] should be always present in most of the games. That's where multiposition players come handy. I tend to buy DL/DC, DC/DR the most since it's quite limiting for me. For that reason I'll let go of Kroos(DL), who's been in bad form for the last 10 days or so. The only single position players I'll recommend are DC, MC and ST. It's very hard to find multi position attacking players, so don't let go of them.

[HoofDaddy]

You don't have to sell your whole squad, you don't have to sell your best players. If you keep 8 of your first 11, replace the other 3 with 3*s and have 3 3* subs and no more than 14 players you'll drop overall quality drastically and you will face fairer competition. Keep those 3*s as long as possible eventually they will be 1* and it will be better and better. As soon as day 3 comes I bid on negotiations for decent players who will appear as unwanted low quality to other teams. Fill up your subs, try to get players with more than one position.
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I try to keep my 0T academy players until they drop down to 1* but I can't resist multiple token nego offers for them. There always another one coming in 12 days so....My overall quality is 81.8 but my starting 11 is 87. i really hope they are going by overall average for the upcoming season considering you can't hold back SP anymore. I should sell one of my underperforming scout strikers to further lower it but I'm not convinced he is a total wasteman yet. Also, I would feel dirty if I broke up a squad that may likely achieve a club first.