More competitive teams are always welcome :)
If you want quicker develop you should concentrate on stadium and training center. With 3 seasons of starting bonus it's possible to start training level 10 and then you can train normally your players. After that i was already medal contender because my young team improved every season.
When i started i sold most of greek scum that was there and buyed average u21s who were able to play in my first team. I builded youth center to level 3 for youth team and then waited to training-10 before continued with that quicker. Every window i got couple of new and better youngsters and sold weaker and older plus youth center products. Now my academy can give me good enough players to keep in top of league but i am ambitious for more euro success. Low popularity of league don't let me get bigger stadium and other better facilities.
Your loans look nice add to squad. Defenders are far too old to my standards but without decent training there is no big difference. Permet had long times team of cemetary and every season had to spend all money for next corpses.