After spending yesterday playing around with Ajax, I ended up starting anew with Valencia. Much different team that when I had some good games with them a few years ago, but still a quality side. Players like Banega and Piatti are outstanding talents. Fired the entire staff but two to start out with. Mostly playing to tweak the tactic, as I'm still trying to get the Barca-esque passing tactic to work. I tweaked the shape a bit. The first match with Valencia was just some minnow but the tactic looked better than was Ajax. Only won 2-0 but had 70% of the possession and chances were 22-1. In the first couple of matches with Ajax, I was getting 2-1 wins but only getting around 55-60% of the possession. Even more encouraging, I got my midfield key, Banega, over 50 passes in the match. The goal would to be get him with closer to 100, but that means narrowing the width.
Doubt I'll go too far with the Valencia game. Just testing things out so far. I'll probably end up back at Ajax, or running something in Germany. Just need to find a lower leagues file for the German leagues, though.