Quote Originally Posted by El Pistolero View Post
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.