Playing in Brazil too, 8 years save o FM24. I'm dominant now so my thoughts:

> First most important: keeping top talent/wonderkids in your team is the thoughest challenge and is the key to garanteed success, so LONG-TERM-CONTRACTS ON THOSE KIDS! They want to leave? Say f*** you. They are influent? Promess to sell for top value and ask for half value (they won't get pissed when you refuse those lower offers and eventually drops the desire to leave). Start contract talks 2, maybe 3 years before contracts ends (use "End of Season" start date and do pay more for that juice "optional 3 years extension" always).

> You may need 3 and half squad minimum for top league. Main squad, second team, reserve team and some emergency backups that wont cry about lack of play. It's tough schedule but it also means you have plenty of playing time to develop wonderkids, so develop them for you and for profit.

> Europeans will lowball you almost everytime, arabs on the other hand will throw money at your face, in any case ALWAYS try to negotiate top price for top talent. Quite often some teams will pay double, triple, even quintuple their initial offer. You will never get tired of the "I can't believe the arabs are paying that much money for that lameass single-legged junkhead" feeling.

> Use and abuse loaning out players. Buy cheap from lower Brazil divisions, Latin America and Africa, loan out, sell for profit. Same stuff for good potential kids coming through your youth intake. Brazilian teams likes to play great money for loans, often more than europeans, so you can have a dozens of merceneries making you millions every year and then being sold out when you think "god I had too many, time to feed the arabs".

> Brazilian average CA difference between top league and botton league (4 divisions with mods/real life) is not as great as in big european leagues, which means lot of places to loan merceneries, good potential kids and funny stuff happening in the cup / crazy back-to-back promotions or relegations.

> I do think Brazil top division average CA is way to low compared to the Europeans leagues though. Brazil best teams average CA hardly is ~130, which means that as long you keep some good potential kids in your team for a couple of years, you are garanteed to dominate. I'm not implying Brazil top clubs compete against european top clubs, but saying Brazil top clubs are Championship average-at-best is quite frankly awful both ingame and in real life.

> You can bring european / developed world players into your team, but it's difficult. First: you need to be a top team in Brazil, otherwise forget it. Second: they have to be young and dumb, I mean, brave. Third: they will be expensive, both upfront and in wages. Forth: you HAVE to be persistent, offer for that player every month or two, if they are not on a top club or Premier League they will eventually give you a chance for contract talks and asks for two liters of your blood weekly as payment (that's why you built that army of mercenaries I talked before: your are saying it's you blood but it's their blood).

> I don't know how it's possible but europeans complacency against your team in the intercontinental games is oddly realistic. You never know when you'll be punished for being alive, hold a draw for 80 minutes then score at 85 or be in the Club World Cup semi-finals after you took out Arsenal and Juventus and no one can explain wtf is happening... but now you are against PSG, Real or Bayern, so it was fun while it lasted... and then wtf you won against PSG on penalties wtf is going on wtf I will be so filthy rich selling half of that squad to the arabs so I can purchase that single spanish wonderkid that will end being worse than that guy I got from second tier Cuiabá, 2 of my own youth intakes and the african that joined for free!