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Oh wow, great knowledge. So I should promote them all on the same day then ideally?

All good - Vogel has headed off to get a few GCSEs and now we have great hopes for young Haru Nef. Everything crossed!

Is there a limit to the number of youths you can have then?

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If you mean at the same stage in their career, then yes: towards the end of their contract is often recommended.

Update on this one:
His fifth week (end of February) took him to 60/60/60 and then he simply got stuck until this week's update, when he has moved again at last - but only to 61/61/61. Maybe it's the start of his second wind.....

My scouts have struggled to find any decent prospects recently and the kids in the academy haven't been improving much either so it was a nice surprise to check this morning and discover the 13 year old sweeper Who joined the academy a few days ago has improved his rating overnight from 55 to 71

If he promotes, it may have been a good decision to keep him on. He moved to 80 before renewal. Since then he's improved +2, +2, +4 and this week +8. Now at 96/96/96...

He's certainly a late developer! +21 in almost 5 seasons, then +20 in 5 weeks.

Pre-updates youth though so he'll probably turn out in the 80s (if he promotes), expecting him to turn 18 and make a decision in the next week.

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I always renew the Youth contract even if they've been 17 for a while believing it might increase their chances a bit. There's always one that escapes though, isn't there!

So whilst my 100 rated youth (Hyun-ki Do) didn't have the best fixed attrbutes when promoted, as a winger I've played him out of position so far (AM) and he seems to have given me a good return on assists! 13 assists out of 15 games! I mean my league is easy and I've only trained him in pace, reflexes, stamina and concentration but he's not been that bad!

Looks like those youth coach updates were pretty valuable on this one

It's hard to know which youths are going to hit a plateau and be done growing for good and which ones are going to just stall for a while before they hit a "growth spurt" at some point and then rocket up that +20 in 5 weeks. Pretty fun to see when it happens!

What is considered good for youths?!

Age | Ranking
11 | 10
12 | 22
13 | 35
14 | 50?

I have no real idea of value or worth lol

Yes, Piper, this is a useful addition... In the past I've tended to promote at the end of contract, when 17, for most players and I'd almost given up on this player even though he looked like he had great potential. The youth report convinced me to re-sign him for a few extra weeks which, if he signs, was a good decision.

The other benefit of youth reports have added is that now that some youths appear to improve more quickly you can get a 15-16yo who has reached his full potential. In the past I would have automatically kept these on for another season at 16 but now I know they won't improve and can be promoted at 16.

When trying to spread out promotions to increase the chance of youths joining, getting a 15 or 16yo who has reached full potential can suddenly impact on plans of when you're going to promote. It adds an extra dimension to the decision making.

Scouts have returned a 52 rated 14 year old Fullback. Stats 50/51/54, fairly well balanced so he's straight into the Youth Academy

Fast forward a week and his rating has improved from 71 to 80. Pretty damn good for a 13 year old who I was umming and ahhing over whether or not to add to the academy

Has anyone had this before?

?Dear Boston2017_2nd,

Just a reminder that the contract for youth midfielder, Alphonse Ilunga, is now due for renewal. His contract expires in the next few days.

After supervising his training, our youth coaches report that Alphonse Ilunga is a strange one, alright. It is not easy to call ... I think it might be worth giving him more time, but to be honest, your guess
is as good as mine.?

Yep, I had that the other day...decided to renew as he's still only 12 and my scouts appear to be taking forever to come back anyway.

Got this message from my coaches -
Just a reminder that the contract for youth midfielder, Carlin Foley, is now due for renewal. His contract expires in the next few days.

After supervising his training, our youth coaches report that Carlin Foley has taken everything he can from the academy. He is ready to move on.

My coaches obviously don?t know what there talking about, Foley just went up from 88 to 91 haha

That's a tough one to answer because if you are waiting for scouts to find a certain standard you could be waiting a long time.. me, I do like to get youths of a higher rating, but I rarely find anything rated 50+ so I tend to go for as balanced as I can.

11 year olds, come back with some random ratings between 5-10 so I guess 1 rated 5 with 5/5/5 is better then a player rated 9 with 18/2/7 for example. but as they get higher rated and older, its much harder to find something balanced, and we never know what their potential is really? just because a 14 year old is rated 20 for example, doesn't mean he can't reach 90+ and or visa versa, if we find 1 rated 50+ doesn't mean that he is certified to reach 90+ I just take what I can get at the moment, I am envious of what other people find, which my scouts never find, maybe there's a trick to it but I doubt it, its a lottery.

also I found a 12 year old rated 31... his been in there a season, still rated 31, as balanced as I could find, not perfect balance, but maybe a couple ratings in difference. like 29 32 33 or something like that..

I guess I would say at the moment, I am happy with anything that comes rated 60+ by the time it comes to promotion, as I'm not finding these gems that everyone else seems to be finding..