Search for the good stats player. younger one with good stats and get scout reports.
Also good way is sending out a scout to search for only under 18 players (if you want great youngsters)
manual labour ftw
West Brom - Just simple not a premiership team, not good enough.
Newcastle - They losing it, the quality not there anymore and with Kinnaar not being there till late april there not going to bounce back.
Middlesbrough or Stoke - Again they both ok teams, but just havent got the cutting edge...
You can let them take control of them under team settings if you want. Just make sure you clear always your tactic *not sure how its worded, doing it via memory*
I tend to just holiday my friendlies ticking both tactics and same selection except my first season.
You should see the table be like 1,2,3 ECC and then where aresenal are ECC.
Think that what happens, not 100% but pretty much certain you get to go back into the champions league but you start in an earlier round.