With player prices at an all-time high, it is to expect that even less teams will have the chance to promote and stay in higher divisions.
Back in the days the $1 mil bonus for the promotion to Div 1 gave you a solid shot to add one or two key players to compete for places 4-6. Now you can't do nothing with that amount of money... You pay peanuts... You get monkeys.
So in fact lowering the amount of FAs and taking out quality young talent is a bad idea in my opinion. At least short term... With declining user numbers it might work as intended, but thats not how,I would approach the situation.
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