The autoselect depends on the budget you set and the size of the team you ask it to chose for you as it would split the player costs between this budget, I chose less players with better wages when I restarted and got some pretty decent ones out of it- Salpingidis, De Camargo, Keleman, Shovkovskiy(retiring), Kafes and Lopez all were part of my initial team so it isn't all bad... the only bit I regret was not managing my initial finances which forced me to trial players and not be able sign them so they were snatched away by other sneaky managers, bah.

*Bring back, bring back, oh bring back my Carevic to me, to me...*