Subject: training strategy

Everyone has to have a training strategy, what is yours?

I sold my team a couple of seasons ago and bought a bunch of young trainees who all had bad pace, but good talent and midfield skills. My plan was to train a lot of pace and then a lot of defence to create great defenders/defensive midfielders. Now, I have a lot of 20 year old players with excellent pace, excellent tech, solid passing, excellent defending and solid playmaking (on average) and I dont know what I should train over the next couple of seasons.

As an ambitious manager who has a relatively-new team, my strategy has been profit-oriented from the start. The more my team is worth, the better I can do in the long run. I'm aiming at a team that can make the CPL in say four seasons, and hold its own in the CPL in another two or three after that.

In the first couple seasons, I got 22 young players with poor-to-good pace and trained pace, pace, pace until they were worth selling. As I sold them, I'd get new trainees with better non-pace stats, since their value goes up faster per week of training.

I picked up a 16-year-old Polish keeper three seasons ago on a lark, and much to my surprise he started popping in pace every two or three weeks. I figure that if I could train his keeper stat up to unearthly or better, it would probably get me just about as much profit as training a whole squad of middling pace trainees, so that's what I started doing this season. Until he took a 4-week injury )-:

If I had a bunch of 20-year-olds like yours, I'd pick playmaking or passing, probably the former, or maybe even both, and train them up to excellent or even farther. One of their stats (tech?) has to get up to outstanding or incredible, to make them stand out in the transfer lists. 22-year-old midfielders with excellent across the board and incredible tech (or playmaking, or passing) should be worth a fair shwack.

I train only Canadians and I try to train pace, passing, PM and technique every season (and sometimes defense as well).

I use a brilliant or magical coach that have unearthly in what I want to train and magical or brilliant on the rest to get "random" pops.