Manager mode: Spending experience points - In Manager mode, access the experience points menu. Near the top of the screen is an option you can toggle if you wish to have the experience points spent automatically. Turn the autospend off. Save up until you have about 40,000 experience points, or roughly a third of a season. Then, go back into the menu where you spend your points. You can spend a lot more points in one go. This makes it easier to decide what aspects of a player to upgrade. When you have 40,000 experience points, turn on the auto spend. The CPU spends the points better if there are more to spend.

Recommended team - Use the following players.

Ronahldino
Eto'o
Henry
Rooney
Cech
Shevchenko

The following is a great set of players to have on Manager mode. These players are quality buys if you can get them quite cheap and you are looking for players who develop into the 96+ category overall rating.

To find the best players, do a search for all players aged between 16 to 19. You can find some 17 or 18 year olds with a rating of 90. These players only cost about $7 million because of their age, and you can make them worth about 40 in a season if the play well for you.

Goalkeeper: Bruno

Defense: Micah Richards
Defense: Vincent Kompany
Defense: Sergio Ramos
Defense: Dani Alves
Defense: Gareth Bale
Defense: Raul Albiol

Forward: Cristiano Ronaldo
Forward: Nani
Forward: Sergio Aguero
Forward: Created player
Forward: Lionel Messi

Midfield: S. Aleksander
Midfield: Fernando Gago
Midfield: Francesq Fabregas

Use the following players in the future:

Zubaer Alam
Nani
L. Messi
Alexandre Pato
Bojan
S. Brown
P. Mertesacker

Use the following players.

Starters

GK: Petr Cech (Chelsea)
DF: Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United)
DF: William Gallas (Arsenal)
DF: Ashley Cole (Chelsea)
MF: Ronaldinho (Barcalona)
MF: Nani (Manchester United)
MF: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)
MF: David Beckham (LA Galaxy)
ST: Obafemi Martins (Newcastle United)
ST: Tierry Henry (Barcalona)
ST: Carlos Tevez (Manchester United)

Substitutes

GK: Shay Given (Newcastle United)
DF: Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspurs)
MF: Damien Duff (Newcastle United)
MF: Owen Hargreaves (Manchester United
ST: Lionel Messi (Barcalona)

Reserves

GK: Pepe Reina (Jose Reina) (Liverpool)
GK: Kasper Schmeichel (Manchester City)
DF: Gary Neville (Manchester United)
DF: John Terry (Chelsea)
MF: Frank Lampard (Chelsea)
MF: Nolberto Solano (West Ham United)
ST: Didier Drogba (Chelsea)
ST: Dimitar Berbatov (Tottenham Hotspurs)