Yes I have
If you want to improve your team, you need money, and the easiest way to earn money is to have a good training. Training your players is the most important thing in this game. And it looks like your training is not perfect. So here is what you need to have a good training :
- you need a solid coach, your coach is perfect, you can even keep a high team spirit during the whole season, thanks to his leadership
- then you must choose a skill to train and stick to it for few seasons. You will obviously sell for example an outstanding goalkeeper higher than a poor goalkeeper.
- recruit 17 years old players, the younger they are, the faster the trained skill will rise, and you have no young players in your team : that's a big mistake !!
- as much assistant coaches as possible, 100% training level ; and a stamina training share between 5 and 20% (mine is 11% because I don't have a lot of old players)
- finally a player gets some training if he has played a match during the week preceding the training update. It does matter where the player played (it must have been on a position relevant for the training type), the number of minutes does matter as well. The full training effect is granted to the player if he has absolved 90 minutes on a relevant position.
So let's say you want to have the best stikers of your league : you choose to train Scoring. You have to buy six young players (17 years old and less than 50 days), who have a good scoring skill (passable/solid if you don't have lots of money, excellent if you can afford it), and who are also not bad in passing and maybe winger. Scoring and Passing are the most useful skills for a striker. I'd suggest you to buy players with solid scoring and passable passing). They also need a speciality, Quick and Head are probably the best for strikers, Unpredictable is ok if your player has a high passing level). So now you have your six strikers, you have to make them play as forward for 90mn per week to be fully trained : you are forced to always play with 3 strikers, 343 and 253 are the best set up (there are also 433, 523 but it's harder to win a game). In few weeks they will level up, your attack will keep increasing, and two seasons later, your 17yo solid strikers would have been transformed into 19yo Worldclass strikers
Now you can sell several of your strikers, and with the earnt money, you can buy new young strikers and also a better goalkeeper, better defenders... that's how the training works.
Of course you can choose to train an other skill like defending (you can train up to 10 players by playing with 5 defenders per game), playmaking (but I don't recommand it, you won't earn a lot of money). Don't choose Set piece, short passes, through passes, defensive positions or wing attacks, those trainings are not fast enough or you don't earn enough money. The main training are Defending, Playmaking, Scoring, Goalkeeping and crossing.
Finally you need young players only in the trained line, I mean if you train scoring, you can play with older defender/gk/midfielder, older players are often more experienced and they are also cheaper.
If you want to win lots of game, midfield is really important, if you have the possession, you might have more chances than your foe, and if you have a good attack, you will score a lot. So you should make so that you have the best midfield in your team, midfielders are cheap to buy.
I hope it'll help you to reach the first place ^^
