we need both….. we need to be able to manage our players like we would be able to irl

Agreed. That reminds me that the player morale system is not there yet and this is blocking a lot of other nice features. After the star player system it will be either player morale or a reformulation of the player evolution model which has clearly become predictable and mostly flat.

Personally I think there need to be more things added to the game that keep me wanting to play. At the minute, there is virtually nothing to do once you have picked the team, this doesn’t seem right to me for a management game.