[Aggie]

My secret is 10M profit from the youth academy.

Somewhere mid last season I decided to stop training PM. This because I was training some players that were worth less after improving 3 steps (and aging 2 years). Also I had issues with the fact that if I did well in the cup, that this would be bad for my training regime. I could not train all players as from round 3 of the cup (thus losing 3/4 weeks).

Then I dived into this and found out that younger players are very expensive compared to older ones. And old players lose their value a lot slower than young players do.

Therefore I decided to go for players ranging from 29 to 32 yo. I replaced my young players with older ones that were about the same prize (but far stronger). I also made sure that I had some money left (6M at the moment) to be able to replace players as soon as they get too old (and too weak). This will not happen within the next two seasons though...

My salary atm is about 358,000 euro. Average in my league.

This should have been my most difficult season with the least expected income (a loss of 1M over the season). If I'd promote this season, then next season I'd be making a profit over the season with my higher specator income. But my current long cup run has changed this. I should not make a loss this season if I get kicked out of the cup tonight.

Right now I'm training general. With a solid/solid coach I constantly have the highest TS while PiC-ing. This will change of course as soon as I am going to be kicked out of the cup or when I meet cup opponents too strong to PiC against. But with a 6 point margin in my league I should be able to finish the season with a title, if all remains well...