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I'd say he's not necessarily well balanced. If you multiply all his current scores by 6.25, you'd end up with a 88/94/100 youth, and that's probably your very best case scenario. More likely you'll end up with a 70 FAs player.

If I take on a low-rated youth they have to absolutely perfectly balanced. I generally don't take on anyone rated much lower than 30 for this reason.

5/5/5 could mean 4.5/4.5/5.49 as well, and then you're looking at 81/81/100 at best. Not worth the risk, in my opinion.

Agreed.

Interesting. 88 as a lowest FA sounds great to my current team though (and 70s is my new lowest limit).

But I appreciate the insight

To be clear, 88 was a best case scenario, if and only if the guy reaches 100 with his highest stat. It's probably going to end up lower than that- many of my unbalanced youths haven't had their highest stat go above 95. He also might just not improve at all. There are no guarantees here.

What's more, having a lowest Physical/Mental/Technical rating of 88 doesn't mean their lowest FA will be 88. There's a lot of variance there too.

Basically, I'm saying that the guy is not necessarily quite as good as you might think, I'm afraid!

Before your comments I was afraid he might end up with FAs in the 40s! Due to his slow progression. So yes, I'm both intrigued to keep him going as a learning exercise, and also happy the will likely be saleable (I find anyone over 55FA is able to bring back a decent return), albeit tying up a YA spot for another few years which has a cost.

He could end up not moving an inch and promoting as a 15 rated youth

I doubt it'll happen, but there are no certainties when it comes to the youth academy.

I will add that a youth with slightly unbalanced attributes, with the lowest one in the 80s, can still promote with all his fixed attributes in the 90s. It can work both ways.

I find that quite often those promotions are "fake" 90s rated players who don't actually achieve their potential. However, Rowett who promoted for me on 87/87/93 does appear to be the real deal.

Guys, when one of the three youth statistics hits 100 do the others not increase anymore? Hence why balanced youths are more sort after? Cheers, Ben

Exactly correct

Please welcome to A. Olagbegi, a promising youth rated 94/94/94.

Nice player although I would have expected better based on his youth ratings.

Yep, was just my ironic way of saying. Check out my MF Dunbar - was rated 78 and not balanced, its kinda balancing out.

Hafnar Elvsted promoted for me today, really pleased with him.

I had a 17 Yr old who was stuck on 74 with only a few days left on his contract, I wasn't sure whether to renew it or promote, I decided to renew it and in just 10 days or so he has shot up to 91, here's hoping to a few more points before he hopefully self promotes.