Yeah, I just read some of your posts in Beck's thread. Significant quality manipulation is something that I never really did in the past and it is a sort of negative playing but given how the game is those days, there is not much choice. So, it seems that I will have to sacrifice at least a few costly players every season, and that I will have to use the scouts list for quick fixes if needed at the start of every season. My plan was to play the game the more proper way - keep a good squad of players and only replace them when they gone past their time, but now it seems that if I I want avoid +1 level Champions League, the way to go is to keep like 8-11 high quality long term players and buy short term players to fill the rest every season. They made the game more ****. How do you manage to keep such a small squad in good condition before every match or so without spending many green packs though? Small squads means having only 11-13 main players and their condition will have to be recovered manually after every match or so.