Performance drops hardly down

[Arion]

@Tactician I won't do that always, actually I was desperate to win the league, so...
And I don't have injury problems; never had them tho. I don't sell any player for injury, as I have a decent amount of reds. Also, I only heal them if they're irreplaceable or they've been injured for more than 3 days.
I don't buy scouts too; most of my players have been playing for the past 4 seasons. I buy high quality and young players from the transfer market who can serve me for 5 seasons. I don't bid aggressively, and I also look at the negotiations list if I can get a required player.
What can be best for you: aim Top 3 every season, don't buy tokens or scouts, put a lease on your bidding (say till Round 5), and don't be frustrated to go trophyless. Don't spend injury packs on injuries less than 3 days.
I probably haven't experienced your game, so I can't feel much from you. The most for me is continual choking in the league.

[Tactician]

@Tactician I won't do that always, actually I was desperate to win the league, so...
And I don't have injury problems; never had them tho. I don't sell any player for injury, as I have a decent amount of reds. Also, I only heal them if they're irreplaceable or they've been injured for more than 3 days.
I don't buy scouts too; most of my players have been playing for the past 4 seasons. I buy high quality and young players from the transfer market who can serve me for 5 seasons. I don't bid aggressively, and I also look at the negotiations list if I can get a required player.
What can be best for you: aim Top 3 every season, don't buy tokens or scouts, put a lease on your bidding (say till Round 5), and don't be frustrated to go trophyless. Don't spend injury packs on injuries less than 3 days.
I probably haven't experienced your game, so I can't feel much from you. The most for me is continual choking in the league.

Yes yes, but do you see what I meant? All these things are not realistic or logical in terms of football, but it is in terms of business.

Also, some of what I have mentioned might be related to why you have not been able to win to league so far. What if those flaws or intentionally programmed things contributed to your league losses each season so far?

[Tactician]

I have seen a lot of things happening in this game. For some, there are logical football explanations why they occurred, for some there are logical business explanations why they occurred, and for some there are both. For some of them, they might have occurred to due to flaws. But some of them did not occur due to 'luck' as such, definitely not to the extent that some users of this forum believe. Experiments can be done to deduce whether something has occurred due to randomness mainly or not. Like I have said for explanation purposes, 'when the light intensity of a room goes low, the automatic light switches on, unless there is a failure'; there is no 'luck' as such in there.

Concerning what is described in the first post, this might be due to flaws, or due to recent changes, or due to the excessive significance of randomness in this game, or a combination of those.

There are indications in the match highlights that confirms that there have been changes. One of them is the attacker scoring 'straight' or dribbling past the goalkeeper to score rather than passing the ball back to another player. This could explain why for some users, defenders and goalkeepers are performing poorer than before.