I noticed your arena has training court and gym, How much do those cost?
My tier 3 gym cost 1 million to build, and I only have a tier 1 Training court, $500K.
Each tier costs $5k a week. So my 4 tiers cost me $20K, a week.
Well said Double R! Tier 3 Gym and tier 1 Training court...
The tier 3 gym will get you good cross training, and the tier 1 training court will bump your FT over the course of your dreaftees career.
To answer your other question, to increase merch you can invest in Merch Store. I have a tier 3 one and I believe that I am getting a Net +8K (remember each tier costs 5K weekly)
To increase homegrown and local, you just draft your players and build them up.
I am a "homegrown" team, so my entire team is built through the draft/original players.
Its a different way to play the game because I cant just go grab someone off the transfer portal.
Not better, not worse, just different. :-)
Enjoy the game and the main thing is to build up your arena! :-)