Create Your own team advice

[magiccarrot24]

Can anyone give advice on the creating your own team? It feels almost impossible to make progress in this mode, due to not being able to replace players that are as good as your starting squad at a fast enough rate. You can't buy any players that are as good or potentially as good, and you can't develop players fast enough, eventually you stagnate because you can barely win games therefore can't gain glory which is essential for any real progress in the game.

[Andrei Baciu]

There is a sandbox in vanilla and you don't need to grow a superstar. You only need decent stats and some skills to promote. Sell player, make profit, buy better.

[_K_o_S_]

You don't listen to bits of advice from the players who were in your shoes many times. @Andrei Baciu is right - you need skills in the first place, not stats. You can find 26 yo players with skills on the transfers and with their help you can at least stay afloat in the Third league. Even without a good GK (who might be a level 1 zero class player with almost any stats but with a focus on DEF) you can win or at least not lose too much.

The main thing here is the match tactics. If you understand that, everything else will follow. I started the game on vanilla a lot of times. In the first season, when you understand the match tactics, you can sell half of the team for the good price, and buy some 26 yo players (+2 zero class from YA). FTG is a management game. It's normal to take 26yo, play with him for some time, then sell him and buy another 26 yo. The higher the league you are playing in, the better players there are on the transfer.

Btw, do you know how to make crosses? Do you often use them? How many goals you score with crosses every match? Do you know how to use wing forwards? How many goals you score with wing forwards?

[Strategic Sage]

引用自 magiccarrot24：

You can't grow a 26 year old level 1 player into a competitive player with at best a 1.5 star positional coach before they are 33 and in vanilla there isn't a sandbox mode so you really don't know what you are talking about.

In that time period you are describing you will also have gotten 14 youth players (ofc I would recommend not keeping players until they are 33). You can develop the young players, and to a lesser extent those you buy, and sell them for more than you paid for them. With that Glory and Money you can upgrade the club, including the possibility of upgrading the Scouting Centre to get more choice of players/younger players, or upgrading the Academy to get better youth players, or upgrading your coaches to develop players, etc.

some of these investments are better than others, but all of this is very much possible. The point KoS makes about tactics is also important. The better you are with those, the more you will understand what type of players you want, how to utilize what you have better, how you will be impacted by the loss of certain players which can inform who you sell and who you keep, etc.

[_K_o_S_]

引用自 Strategic Sage：

引用自 magiccarrot24：

You can't grow a 26 year old level 1 player into a competitive player with at best a 1.5 star positional coach before they are 33 and in vanilla there isn't a sandbox mode so you really don't know what you are talking about.

In that time period you are describing you will also have gotten 14 youth players (ofc I would recommend not keeping players until they are 33). You can develop the young players, and to a lesser extent those you buy, and sell them for more than you paid for them. With that Glory and Money you can upgrade the club, including the possibility of upgrading the Scouting Centre to get more choice of players/younger players, or upgrading the Academy to get better youth players, or upgrading your coaches to develop players, etc.

some of these investments are better than others, but all of this is very much possible. The point KoS makes about tactics is also important. The better you are with those, the more you will understand what type of players you want, how to utilize what you have better, how you will be impacted by the loss of certain players which can inform who you sell and who you keep, etc.

In the base game, you can't earn Glory by selling footballers. That's the main grip if I understand correctly. Therefore, my suggestion are about ways to develop without Glory at all. Your point about 14 young footballers is correct, though.

[Andrei Baciu]

I have a challenge for you. Send me you're save file or to kos to make it work and i will play it on true iron man on vanilla on the hard mode. Lets see how it gets.