Advice for Newbie with a good amount of tokens

[SimplySimon]

Yeah, I know it's late, I'm in England too!

Your players will go down in value at the start of next season, so now is a good time to get rid of a few who aren't up to standard. But don't buy 4* - with the tokens you have, you'll want to replace them as soon as you see what you can get next season, trust me

Young, high value, high quality players train faster and will recover any value lost within a few days, so they make good signings even now - then add a few more players (always young, high quality, high value) at Level 2. And train normally with a few exceptions, you can't afford to PT a whole squad on your budget but you might do it with a few of your fastest trainers

Formation is a personal preference, I play 4-4-2 classic and I've got a 100% league record over two seasons plus two cup finals this season, so it's just down to how you want to put your team out - countering others only becomes an issue when you are facing better teams, I'd rather impose my style of play

Users like dv8r and July Fourth are at a much higher level, competition for players on the transfer list is much more difficult so they buy scouts and PT using green packs (you can do this, but you'll need at least 200 and probably as much as 500 tokens per season to do the same) - while their advice and experience is useful, it's not all necessary in the lower levels

It will obviously get harder as you progress, you'll face more players who are actually playing regularly and more people who are buying a lot of tokens. But if you get a good foundation now, you'll still be able to compete

Good luck with it anyway, I hope you stick around and enjoy building your team :-)

Edit: there are no 3 game days unless you have friendlies, but you will want to either switch players or apply packs between games