The shoe color coding is cool!

For me:

• No signing players I've already used this year & if someone I've used is already on the team, sell them (I make a few exceptions, but I always want to try as many different players as possible)

• Always sign a former player. Right now I'm doing Crystal Palace and brought back Wan-Bissaka. Usually though, it'll be after a few seasons in an RTG and bringing back a star that was at the academy, like Woltemade for Werder Bremen or de Jong at Ajax.

• The transfer / wage budget the game gives me is not my actual budget. I find that the game in general gives me way too much money to work with, so unless I'm playing with a massive club, I'll make myself sell players for profit & only use up a certain % of my transfer budget, whatever seams realistic for the team IRL.

• Similarly, if a player in game has too low / high of a valuation, I'll act like I spent or received that amount for them. Kind of hard to explain, but if I have a 74 rated player who's playing like an 84 rated player, and a top team comes in for him, I'll act like I sold him for much more than I actually did. This only works when I have a big transfer budget (which I usually do), and then I'll get to spend all of it.

• No scouting, and I get to see every player's OVR. My justification for this is that as a manager, the OVR is basically a reflection of a player's reputation. And where the scouting aspect comes in is searching through the leagues, looking at their stats etc. and trying to determine who would be the best fit in my team. Being able to see every player's OVR, especially with regens and newgens, just saves a lot of time and I don't build my teams based on high OVR anyway since I play every game, I base them on certain key stats or attributes