Are star ratings irrelevant?

[khris]

I ask this because i am level 6 i brought a defender my first season and a few seasons of training him daily his player stats for a defender are good HOWEVER a few seasons of this 20% star reduction thing has lowered his star rating.

But his his stats stayed and are still good and he is a much better defender stat wise than some of these higher 'star rating' defenders in transfer section. So are star ratings kind of pointless?

would you go for stats over star rating? cause it seems this game lowers the star ratings and make it seem the player is bad so you will buy new players using tokens although his stats are better

The game has a system where each star has 5 points more of cost per level, so at level 1 the 5th strt is 20 average points and at level 2, it is 25 points, and so.
Then, I would not look at the visual skills but at the programming of the player itself.
Test him, follow his ratings pattern and check out his behaviour in terms of aggressivity so only keep him if its worth in that sense.