he guide to realistic league positions such as Man United, CHelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool on top in the BPL for example is to edit formations using CM prior to starting career. Do this for Champions League teams as well. This way if you;re in a group with Barcelona they'll keep pace with you if you're winnign or even gain more points off of teams in the same group. Simply set the weaker teams in the league to 4-4-2 and the top teams in any league such as Milan, Inter , Barca for example to 4-3-3. Importantly change the player positions to match so if you edit man united and use another club say man city and you want to feel closeness in the league and have top players playing in the lineup if Giggs appears as a striker in 4-3-3 formation change his position from LM to ST sko that he starts games. Positions must match for top teams for the players to play in the games for the CPU. For example Mscherano is CDM for him to be in starting lineup for 4-3-3 for liverpool he must be set as a CM.