@Titch I'm using my Central Europe leagues option file and I did random at first before adding in some of the better teams that it missed. From memory it completely ignored Belgian teams which were in the Team A,B... slots and Anderlecht were in there which would be one of the stronger sides in the file. Quite a few Dutch teams were in (I overwrote the original Dutch teams with those) There was a mix of Austrian/Albanian/Swiss and Macedonian in what would have been the Premier and French and some Slovenian/Slovakian which were in the Spanish slots.
At least I think you are right about the retiring, they're not retiring fast enough to get new one's up to speed before your best players get old and decline. I'm just hoping 4/5 will retire together this season coming. At present I really only have 14 players to pick from out of 23 as the others are next to useless. The one good thing though is that some of those that are now 25/26 are much better than the likes of Ximelez/Espimas/Castolo were so maybe we'll get a better level out of them for longer
If we was playing ML the way it should be played then we would have sold a couple of the them in the first season.
At least I think you are right about the retiring, they're not retiring fast enough to get new one's up to speed before your best players get old and decline. I'm just hoping 4/5 will retire together this season coming. At present I really only have 14 players to pick from out of 23 as the others are next to useless. The one good thing though is that some of those that are now 25/26 are much better than the likes of Ximelez/Espimas/Castolo were so maybe we'll get a better level out of them for longer