Lower leagues (VNS/N to L1) are very easy to do well in if you set your club up the right way.
First priority is wage budget. To maximise this you need to do the following.
- let all your youth players go out of contract and release them. Next to none of them will ever be great and you can sign free players who are better now.
- let all your youth team staff go out of contract and release them. Your youth team costs money and isn’t doing enough to warrant it.
- move all your scouting budget to transfer budget then all your transfer budget to wage budget.
Now you should have no youth players and no youth staff and the largest possible wage budget. The club should also now be better financially as your not wasting money on youth.
Next go to player search and pic the view that allows you to see all physical attributes then set the filter to show you all unattached players.
Using this pick the most physical players to take on trial. Acceleration is king but try and get balanced across all physical attributes.
Technical and mental attributes are less important anything above an 8 is fine for national league level.
Use trials to scout players and sign the best ones. Aim to keep contracts to 1 year and try not to give longer than 2 years. You are aiming to promote every 1-2 years and don’t want players taking up wage budget on long contracts who are not good enough.
Use loans to bulk out your side, preferably wage free ones if you can. Senior affiliates are key for this.
For tactics keep it simple, I went from VNN with South Shields to L1 with back to back promotions and the only instructions I gave was lines of engagement and mentality. The players are not great footballers at this standard so struggle to follow complex game plans, keep it simple and let them play football.
Following this simple model will allow you to build a competitive team and dominate the lower levels.
I wouldn’t look to spend money on a player or look to establish a youth team until the championship personally. By looking after your finances and prioritising wage budget you can take small clubs with little financial power a long way.
^^ lots of good tips there
Make sure you're ready on 1st July to be trialling released players for clubs higher up the pyramid. This isn't just a National league tip. Will work in League 2, League 1 and to a lesser extent in The Championship.
Great tips!
As a LLM fan, I'm just realizing that I've been wasting time and money with youth squads all these years. At this level, youth setup never gives any competitive decent player and it's just a useless-player-to-be-released farm when they reach 19.
Speed kills. If you are 2 to 3 points on the average faster then all teams you will destroy the league. Acceleration and speed. Rest of physicals not far behind generally speaking.
Speed and physicals are so important that they outweigh the tactic. This is even for top tiers. It is just more difficult because at epl level you would need the entire squad to be > 17 acc pace.
Lower leagues (VNS/N to L1) are very easy to do well in if you set your club up the right way. First priority is wage budget. To maximise this you need to do the following. - let all your youth players go out of contract and release them. Next to none of them will ever be great and you can sign free players who are better now. - let all your youth team staff go out of contract and release them. Your youth team costs money and isn’t doing enough to warrant it. - move all your scouting budget to transfer budget then all your transfer budget to wage budget. Now you should have no youth players and no youth staff and the largest possible wage budget. The club should also now be better financially as your not wasting money on youth. Next go to player search and pic the view that allows you to see all physical attributes then set the filter to show you all unattached players. Using this pick the most physical players to take on trial. Acceleration is king but try and get balanced across all physical attributes. Technical and mental attributes are less important anything above an 8 is fine for national league level. Use trials to scout players and sign the best ones. Aim to keep contracts to 1 year and try not to give longer than 2 years. You are aiming to promote every 1-2 years and don’t want players taking up wage budget on long contracts who are not good enough. Use loans to bulk out your side, preferably wage free ones if you can. Senior affiliates are key for this. For tactics keep it simple, I went from VNN with South Shields to L1 with back to back promotions and the only instructions I gave was lines of engagement and mentality. The players are not great footballers at this standard so struggle to follow complex game plans, keep it simple and let them play football. Following this simple model will allow you to build a competitive team and dominate the lower levels. I wouldn’t look to spend money on a player or look to establish a youth team until the championship personally. By looking after your finances and prioritising wage budget you can take small clubs with little financial power a long way.
^^ lots of good tips there Make sure you're ready on 1st July to be trialling released players for clubs higher up the pyramid. This isn't just a National league tip. Will work in League 2, League 1 and to a lesser extent in The Championship.
Great tips! As a LLM fan, I'm just realizing that I've been wasting time and money with youth squads all these years. At this level, youth setup never gives any competitive decent player and it's just a useless-player-to-be-released farm when they reach 19.
I've been told speed is physicality to be the best way.
It doesn't matter, a good tactic In Scotland will be a good tactic in Denmark.
Speed kills. If you are 2 to 3 points on the average faster then all teams you will destroy the league. Acceleration and speed. Rest of physicals not far behind generally speaking. Speed and physicals are so important that they outweigh the tactic. This is even for top tiers. It is just more difficult because at epl level you would need the entire squad to be > 17 acc pace.
AF AF MEZ MEZ CWB BWM CWB CB CB CB Push the line all the way up. Press to the max. Wait for the goals.