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Can you let me know too please.
Oh have i asked this already

Ho hum, another disappointment - Turi Medina will be looking for another home soon enough.

Got another player coming up to 18 and he looks like he's not going to cut the mustard either. A bit of a dry spell for my academy at the moment.



The way I did it just then was to go to any place you can see the player except the squad manager - then right-click on his name and open in new tab (otherwise you'll just get the pop-up). Then you can use that link you get in the new tab for your url.

If you try it in the squad manager you get their squad profile which isn't accessible to anyone else. I guess that's what stripey did.

Oh, have you?

Sorry...

Any thoughts on my predicament...

Two disappointing promotions already this season (three if you count the one near the end of last season).

Player A: a disappointment (73 rated) due to turn 18 in a few days. Been with me 204 days.

Player B: looking good (currently a balanced 85 up from ~30 a few weeks ago) and due to turn 18 early next season. Four days left on his current contract. Been with me 221 days.

Option 1: Renew player B's contract, let player A age out and see what I get, hope player B's chance of promotion when he turns 18 is still good and possibly he might even improve a bit more.

Option 2: Promote player B now, miss out on a potential 90-rated youth but will that give me more chance with him than if player A promotes first?

Option 1 would mean three promotions this season, one near the end of last season, and one at the start of next season. Do promotion chances reset at the start of each season or is it on a rolling basis (does anyone know and if they do are they willing to tell )

Thoughts from the esteemed company here?

I've not had a rejection in a while. Fingers crossed. Please blessed me, by the old gods and new gods and the seven

So much so, I really don't want to replace my youth coaches and scouts. Either 6500+ or retirement

Renew the youth that's still improving. There's no concrete evidence that multiple promotions in a seasons reduces the chance of your next one, and it could be the difference between a youth with a market value of 20M and a youth with a market value of 50M.

...or...seeing as he's just jumped to 97 with two days left....I could just grab him now

I feel that finding youths is quite often like waiting for a bus, you wait for ages and then 2 or 3 arrive at around the same time.

This week I added 3 youths to my academy. Two are evenly balanced, the third is a little bit off but close enough that he could potentially still make 90+. I wanted him because he plays in a position I need, and has two good feet.

Normally I wouldn't be able to do this, but over recent seasons, I have promoted a few to the first-team squad but found very few to add to my academy. I was down to six youths and another was about to be offered promotion too.

So, back to a full academy again now and hope my youth coaches start working a bit harder.

I've found another 68 rated youth at 16, I don't fully understand why there are so many good youths floating around these days?

Recruiting at 16 when they come to 18 i find they turn down promotion and leave i only go for 13-14 as i find they seem to promote as have been in the academy longer, but thats my take maybe since the youth over haul this has changed

Please point them out to my scouts, constantly find drops.

I think I may have finally found a youth with potential, rated 5 aged 11, I will find out in a year..

I hope you're right. It's worth remembering though, that even if he is 5-5-5, that could really be 4.51-5.00-5.49 which wouldn't get you a 90s player.

I recruited a 11 yr old rated 10 with perfect stats he?s now nearly 18 and he has risen to 41 not sure going for perfect even stats works tbh

How close is he to turning 18? I've just had a 17 year old go from 38 to 97 in four weeks, so don't give up hope.

I used to recruit 11-12 year-olds but I don't any longer, as there were very few with even stats at a worthwhile level. At 13-14, the occasional one turns up at level 40s or better, and they've still got time to top out in the 90s.

Agreed, but all the other youths my scouts have found seem to be very lopsided, I had to give him a go, I?ll update you as he hopefully progresses.

I took a chance on a perfectly balanced 12 year old rated 21. Within a season he'd increased to 57 rating where he has then stubbornly sat for the whole of this season. I'm hoping he'll get moving again as he gets closer to 18.

The question of whether balanced youths are worth it is quite simple. Any youth might increase or not do anything at all. But while some balanced youths may end up not improving, some unbalanced youths end up not moving at all either. The question then is whether you would rather take a risk on someone with the potential to hit 70-80 or take a risk on someone with the potential to hit 100. To me, that's a no brainer and I'll happily sit with empty slot in my academy for however long it takes to find the right candidate. They come along eventually- and if they don't, I settle for slightly unbalanced but already decent for their age, who still have the potential to be 80-90 if they train up as far as possible.

i just promoted a player who was "slim" in the academy and is 91kg after promotion. thats 200 pounds, not exactly slim.