Just to note, the purchase price has also been heavily increased, but I gained half of that by downgrading, I now have $12.5 million just for downgrading from Lv17. Thanks for spotting this.
It's rather annoying since I have a smurf with the only objective to be the richest player in the game whilst still being competitive (Snowsports). I was until this account blasted it away.
Only way this was the case is if they havent implemented age yet, but prepared the Academy for it already so it just wasnt visible. Wouldnt explain the training part tho.
Just an example, at $10'000 per day, it would take 250 days and $2.5m to train a player to reach 100 stats, granted that player would be 100 in all stats. It took me 3 weeks and $170k to train my star adc to 100 stats 70 tech. My training player would have a much lower wage, investment and points in personality as well as being much quicker.
On another note, my coaches once they were done training my adc were re purposed to train the rest of my team, I also rested my adc and trained a streamer up to 25+ stats twice selling each one for $140k each, easily covering the cost of all the coaches. This tactic is likely to be dead however in the new game.