Hello DAAS, welcome back,
Veterans are incredibly cost-effective, especially if you are a new team or a team running low on finances, do you need help setting a short term goal for your team to profit as much as possible while you are without a salary floor?
About veterans, they are very cheap to buy, normally you replace them after 1 season or 2 seasons, they have high experience and often higher stamina, both of these attributes can provide you a big competitive edge.
Normally when I'm tanking, or short on cash I go for veterans, because I don't want to spend that much. But there are also high cost veterans, incredibly well rounded players, those builds are normally more expensive.
Ideally invest every single penny you can for now into the arena, get some cheap 10k players, 5 of them, and the rest can be 3k players, so no more than 60k salary while you are not paying salary floor. As a new team you are going to be put into much easier leagues, so your opponents will be similar teams, you can easily finish top 4 or maybe gain a promotion in your first 2 seasons.
Get your arena to 12000 / 2500 / 250 / 25 as fast as possible, this is ideal for III., when you arrive in II. you can increase your arena, we have a whatsapp group, do you want to join us? We are more than 40 members of the Portuguese team.