It's best to train 100%. That way your players' skills will imrpove much faster. I think you're also more prone to injuries but that's usually not very much a problem. (i always train on 100% and usually don't have too many injuries.)


Btw, do you guys let your B-team handle your friendlies? I hope you do, cos a player can only train once in a week, so there's no point in having them play twice a week. Also keep in mind that if you fail to have more than 8 (or 7, forgot, shoudl checl the rules for that) players on kickoff the match is considered as an abandon (5-0) and your players won't be trained.

I have some 20-22 players and let the two "teams" play the matches and friendlies respectively. I say "team" cos my B-team is obviously more of a pile of backup players, reserve keepers and even your coach. (yes, you can put them in your team, but they're teh l33t suck ) So: get yourself a B-team

P.S. if you train on playmaking only your players in midefield will train on it, if you train on defending only your defenders, etc.


Next match can be relatively important: I'm playing home (in my brand new stadium, festive opening sunday w00t!) against the 4th in my group. No problem normally, but practically his entire first team is in solid or excellent form. I will still try and play "ordinary" tactics and thrust on my new stadium and groing supporter army to get me through If i win, and the third-placed guy doesn't win his game i'm already mathematically promoted even. w00t! that money could help me pay off my fancy stadium lol



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ehe, nice to see you're aiming for the top Suga!!

Older players aren't more prone to injury no, but they DO take a whoooole lotta longer to recover from them.

For example: i have an injured 33-yr old midfielder


Markku Halmetoja 1+
11 000 Euro, 33 years, wretched form
Has solid experience and poor leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: solid


As you can see a very decent experienced playmaker, but get this: i bought him a month ago (30days!) when he was injured for 4 weeks, and he's still 1 week out


Whereas my 20-yr old keeper practically recovered from 4 weeks injury in one week.



That's the entire young-old thing eh:

young players:

->adavantages: train fast, practically don't lose any skills in their secondary stats, recover fast from injury
->disadvantages: expensive!, very low experience

old players

->advantages: cheap, lots of experience
->disadvantages: practically don't advance anymore in skills, non-trained stats go downhill quick, enormously slow injury recovery.


Best is to mix your team a bit with both. Try not to position older players in the area you train, as they usually will go crap in a season or two anyway. (if not in his trained stat in the others)

Good luck sunday!