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Sell the Italian guy!

train your other two youngsters, till you get better ones by draft or buy some after draft at the transfer market. Don't spend much on talents and never buy older than 18. I would buy at your level for max. 50.000 per player.

reduce your roster to 10. You get three prospect from the draft. So in the new season you will have 13 players. That would be enough for three games a week.

I'm not so sure I'd never buy a player older than 18. I think the right kind of 19 year old can be trained into a pretty effective player for USA D.V and D.IV during his 19 and 20 year seasons, and if you keep training him I bet he would easily be effective into D.III. I've been training two 19 yo this season, and even a 20 yo. They're all popping about the same frequency within the margin of error due to unknown sublevels, and height and elastic effects. They've all become solid players, I predict they'll be good next year, and very good with one more season.

The key is to: not pay very much (the two 19 year olds were 5K and 9K), and to look for the right starting skills. I judged their starting skills not only by their salary (both had 4K+), but also that slow training skills like OD and JR were already pretty good, and their secondary skills were good. Also, no skills lower than inept, other than FT (I figure at some point I'll binge on that and ST with a cheapo trainer).

Buying 18 year olds like this would obviously be better, but it would be a lot more expensive. That's money I decided to plow into my arena.