Help! I'm stuck in League2!

[karabas15]

I was playing LLM, took a Conference North relegation candidate into League 2.

We've spent 3 seasons there now, totally overachieving by not getting involved in the relegation battle, but I can't for the life of me do better.

The reason is that we just can't get better players. Nobody good wants to come, even on loan. Our star players have "decent for League 2" ratings, everyone else is still a Conference National player.

I'm assuming it's the club reputation (there are still some Conference National teams that have better rep than us).

Is there any way around this? Or do I just need to spend like 10 seasons in L2 before I can start to bring in real L2 talent?

I'm trying to train up young players using our surprisingly good youth setup, but anyone with better potential than our current star player rating gets picked up by bigger clubs.

[kiwityke1983]

Reputation seems to take ages to move upwards or downwards this year. Kills you in signing players and fairly crucially sponsorships. I won 5 straight doubles in Singapore. Still wasn't the number 1 rated team. 

[SMV90]

𝙸 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚊𝚒𝚗. 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚊 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎-𝚊-𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚋 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚎, 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚖 𝚒𝚗 𝚅𝙽𝙽, 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚛𝚒𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚏𝚏 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛𝚜. 𝙸 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚌𝚔 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚐𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎.

𝙼𝚢 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚜𝚞𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎, 𝚒𝚏 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎, 𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚗𝚊𝚙 𝚞𝚙 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚑 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝙿𝙻 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚜. 𝙸𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍, 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚊𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖. 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚋 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚐𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚘𝚏𝚏 𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚞𝚝.

𝙰𝚗𝚍, 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚎, 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢, 𝚖𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚐𝚘 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚞𝚝, 𝚜𝚊𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚐𝚘𝚊𝚕𝚜? 𝙰𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢, 𝚐𝚘𝚊𝚕𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚗 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜.

𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘, 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚔.