@SuperDunk as I can see the game right now, there are two ways of playing TE.
Just for fun, to spend some time waiting the bus or drinking a coffee.
Or going for titles, play as trophy hunter.
For the 2nd you must drop quality.
In that case you must not touch the academy players.
They raise quality or to get a good one you must spend a lot of tokens, without knowing if he is a fast trainer.
So remove them all.