The right is the top one.
This looks like to be a typical “management of change” situation, where an internal champion of impacted organization(s) must be on board since the beginning
I don't

I have trained with a lot of satisfaction (and money back) players like Paolucci or more recently Lisanti (sold at 2.3M ten days ago in the worse market ever!). I bought stars as Masters (1.7M) to train them.
However, below star level your cap is at about 20K$ or less.I just saw a passable starter in South Africa, Thabo Sehularo, a decent PG but with horrible (7) JR. You cannot create not a top but even a decent performer below star, and cap is reached by 3 season of intensive training. I would not do that.
Star is good anyway, allstar is better, as I just had to change all my trainees roster to compete in this incredibly tough II series. I knew, I bougth allstar Estramin two seasons ago for this purpose, and I just accelerated now. Above superstar, you need a bunch of money to leverage cap, and A LOT of monorole training. My perennial all-star Scalambrieri, growth with monorole trainings only, hit the cap half last season, at 23 age.