Personally, I always leave the first transfer window of a new career open, however, when conducting a 'realistic' save, I refrain from purchasing any new players, until the January transfer window. Generally, I start with a bottom-mid table club, and need to offload 'junk' players; under 70 rated who will never play a minute, and especially the faceless players who have not been scanned and entered into the database (OCD, never have any blank players in a career mode squad) to obtain enough transfer budget to acquire three five star youth scouts, and full allotment of expert assistant coaches. At this point of the gaming cycle, I am only experimenting with the new settings, configuring the manager face, etc. The first Title Update should be released between next Tuesday and Thursday, which contains hundreds of new face scans (hopefully), recent real transfers, and missing third kit options. Only then will I proceed to create a long-term Manager Career mode save.
I like play as lower league clubs or create one. Also play as my club I support. But not being able get free agents with that is pretty annoying. Hoping they just made a mistake and will patch it. Nothing annoys me more when u have first window open and all the big signings move about.
