Because you won't be a football superpower and your reputation as a manager won't be great, then you need to be shrewd in the FIFA market. Take a look at the free transfers as soon as you can (before other teams snap up the best ones) and buy any decent ones who will add value and ability to your squad. You will know because you should have assessed your team earlier on, which are the positions where your team needs the most development. Ideally, you should have two players for each location to provide ample cover, but having a utility player who can adapt to numerous positions can help to keep costs down.

If you're having a complete clear-out of players, then you'll reach a point where you can't sell any more players from your squad. If this happens but there are still people you want to bring in, go and buy a young player, for a minimal fee (or free transfer) with low wage demands and then you'll be allowed to sell the players once those new faces arrive at your club.

If you've spotted a couple of loans that you're interested in when you offer them the deal, try to organize an agreement to purchase the player at the end of the loan for a fixed price. This is crucial to improving and competing at higher levels if you achieve promotion. Whilst on loan, the players, will be growing and developing so if you've put the hard work into doing this, you want the option of keeping him at the end of the loan if possible. Also, for example, if you loan a player in who is rated 65 and he develops to a 70 at the end of the season, his price will rise significantly (mainly if he's young). The price you agreed when he was a 65 rated player will be a hugely less figure than that of his 70 ratings at the end of the year. Therefore, even if you want to buy him and sell him on, there is a profit to be made.

As soon as you've filled your team with the new players, you want, it's time to look at the contracts of those players you've kept. Renew all the ones whose contracts will be expiring at the end of your first season. If you have a successful year then not only will their wage demands be higher, they may want to move on to bigger and better clubs.
During the season (come January) you can offer contracts to players whose contracts are expiring within the next six months. This is an excellent way of snapping up players for no fee. You will have to pay slightly higher wages to get these players, but with no transfer fee being paid, it's a no brainer to dip into this market and try pick up a few players for the following season.

The next steps
Now, if you've followed the steps above, you should be well on the way to building your team up to be a successful team capable of achieving promotion. If you don't get the promotion, don't worry, repeat the steps above and build your squad even further to ensure that it has the correct blend of youth and experience to develop your squad on a budget.

If you did achieve promotion, then it's time to start spending some of your cash. Don't be too flash; however, and it's important to build slowly and progressively year on year. If you continue to do this and incorporate our youth academy tips, you should be making significant progress and climbing through the divisions.

1. Once you've picked your club, immediately sell any players that are not up to standard for the league you're in and are unlikely to develop further (players over 28/29).

2. Toggle your transfer budget down to virtual nil, so that your wage budget is as big as possible. 

3. Take a look at the free transfers for sale, and buy any decent ones.

4. Check which positions you're weak in. Buy & loan players to fill those positions. Ideally, you should have at least one (preferably two) for each area.

5. Try to locate a utility player who can play several positions.

6. Once you've sold a certain number of players, you won't be able to sell anymore. In that case, go and buy a cheap wages player (or two) on a free transfer. You will then be allowed to trade players again, once your new players have arrived.

7. Once you have sold all those you want to sell, go to the contracts screen and secure all remaining outstanding contracts (the ones due to run out within the next year).

8. Try to sign players on pre-contracts; this is an excellent way of saving money but getting better quality players for your squad.

9. Try and aim to have enough cash to buy at least one or two of your loaned players by the end of the season. It'll help when all your other loan players go back to their respective clubs.

10. Finally, remember to build slowly, year by year.

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