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Why? What's wrong with Pittsburgh?

Quite a rough A&E department there I believe

Why risk it, though? Leave him in as long as possible, I'd say.

Is it The Pitt(s) then?

Have they stealth nerfed the academy recently? I've promoted 4 midfielders that all had YA ratings over 90 this season, most of them were balanced and around 95, and 2 of them still came out with some FAs in the 80s. The guy that turned 18 today was rated 94/95/96 and his lowest FA is 87. I was really relying on these youths to replace my aging midfield in a few seasons time

ER... I don't know about that

"They"??? To whom are your referring, FS?

I'm just used to referring to the dev team as "they" when referring to games, I always forget that in this case it's "he"

Very good

Not sure about that. I had the opposite happen, a youth player in the high 80's who had FA's in the 90's when promoted.

Juts had a 75 rated youth turn 18. Lowest ability at 66.

After promotion his lowest FA is 81

Before the last youth update there were occasionally low quality youths who would promote with all 90s FAs, but they would never actually train to that level. I haven't heard of that happening recently though

As far as I know, nothing has been changed recently.

I have also had more than one youth with similar ratings who promoted with disappointing atts, over quite some time. One of mine, for example, was a 94/94/94 who had a lowest FA of 81/82 plus other atts in the 80s. That's just one example but others have also mentioned similar in this thread.

Maybe, having more good youths since the academy update to 12 youths, results in more disappointing promotions than was the case previously.



One of my best rated defenders was also below 90 in the youth academy. Rare but it can happen.



Not so long ago, I also had a youth who, I think, finished at 7x but had all 80+ atts.



Overall, there seem to be good promotions and disappointing promotions. It's just a case of accepting the lows with the highs.

Oh dear I?ve done it again!
16 year old German winger has joined my youth academy, with stats:
47-05-36, fat fingers pressed wrong option

Whoops! I guess this will turn out to be a one year contract.....

Quite possibly or just let his initial 56 days run out

That is 1 year...

Goodness me. Can I possibly turn down a 14 year old youth rated an unbalanced 88? He should hopefully get to 90 at least but probably won't go much higher. Do I take the risk or do I actually turn him down?

Youd probably still quadruple your money back minimum. If you have the space, maybe worth taking a punt. You never know...

Space is always the limiting factor. I've had to promote early recently to free up space for new scouted youngsters. Fortunately for this youngster, I have 2 spaces available following 4 promotions early this season. If he was taking up slot number 12 I'd have turned him down.