Quote Originally Posted by reddeviljohn View Post
What I don't get is how on earth are these association managers who are on say manager level/club level 3 or 5 or 7 or whatever have the same or higher Ave quality than us than are over level 20? I I mean even if he had a stash of tokens and personal trained to 9* it would not be near the players avaliable at our levels so I can only say it all seems very fishy
They are not. In Associations only the stars of your players (and your rivals' players) are taken into account. Otherwise you could only play together and against other players with your same exact level.

Here is an example:

User A is Level 10, has all his players with 5 stars
User B is Level 20, has all his players with 5 stars

Of course the real quality of their players is very different, the players from the Level 20 user are much more powerful in absolute terms. BUT in Associations, players from user A and user B would have all 5 stars. That makes Associations the perfect place to team with other Managers who have many different levels, which is the point of this feature: Play with your friends no matter what level are they. In Associations you always see players with the stars his Manager sees them, even if he is 15 levels ahead or below you.