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Farce of a game...
...when you can become a top 15 club before reaching the prem just by deliberately relegating your team from the prem to the bottom tier and working your way back up. Makes you think what's the point!

I don't think that this is aimed at me, but it might well be one day. That one day is some way off.

I tried to make it in the top Division - I was an abject failure because I hadn't prepared properly - I didn't have the players to compete, and I didn't have the funds to buy more. My coaches weren't good enough to train my youths to anywhere near good enough.

What I have done is to sell all the assets of the squad and invest that into the stadium and spending my time searching for decent youth players.

But it's true - I'm absolutely looking to start at the bottom again, it's not without it's costs though - the ticket price drops and you really are starting over with your club rating - but it's the game - if it were illegal, I wouldn't do it.

In some ways this is replicated from real life.

To be able to compete with those teams who have 50 seasons of success, you have to do something different. Liverpool and Manchester United attract the best players because of their history. Chelsea and Manchester City had to throw money at the issue, far more money than they earned.

IAG doesn't allow me to throw 300m credits at a team from a wealthy investor, so I've done my, limited, analysis and know how I can improve club rating. And this appears to be the best way. It's a long game and requires a lot of patience. And it's boring.

But this does seem to be the best way to do it if you weren't here at the start.

If it becomes against the rules, then I'll stop. However, I don't believe it is club destruction if it's part of a long term plan.

It's not aimed at anyone personally, it's a flaw with the game that's been/being taken advantage of.

You say "...It's a long game and requires a lot of patience. And it's boring." That's where we differ, a lot of managers have played the long game, which is the whole point of it and it's not boring. Frustrating, yes, where you've spent seasons building up your club just to see serial club hoppers bouncing their way up to a top team through sheer luck and building up their rating that way, whereas others go for the relegation and promotion strategy. If you're the sort of person who buys a game and the first thing you do is look for the cheat codes online to give you everything upfront without putting in any effort, then yes, this is a way to succeed in this game, just a shame it's not been changed over the 69 seasons how IAG calculates team and manager ratings.

Just seen your team, you seem to be taking a lower ranked team and working with that. That's not what I was commenting on. I was commenting on taking a top 100 ranked team from the premiership and deliberately playing players put of position to get relegated season after season to hit the bottom tier and them gain massive ranking points by playing against manager less teams season after season to build up your rating
Seems that, in this game you get the same points for winning against a 900 rated team as you do for the number 1 rated team.

Don't disagree here...

Kinda wishy there were an FA Panel (GM Level) that could click a Yellow Card warning to Managers doing this.

A removal of Club, ie sacking, would then incur a rating hit on the Manager too - thus ensuring his next Club would be weighted by his 'hit rating' too.

Aye it no be easily promoting the game, but it would be the right challenge for the right man..