I have been playing Football Manager for a few years now, but I am still struggling to master youth development in the game. While I have had some success with scouting and signing young talent, I often find that my youth academy players don’t develop as well as I hope.
I am currently managing a mid-tier team, and I’ve been investing in facilities and coaching staff, but I still feel like I am missing something. Here are a few specific questions I’m hoping the community can help me with:
- Training Schedules: What’s the best approach for creating personalized training schedules for youth players? Should I focus on specific attributes early on, or aim for balanced development? - Mentoring Groups: How effective are mentoring groups, and how should I set them up to ensure my young players benefit the most? - Game Time: How do you balance giving youth players enough game time without negatively impacting your team’s performance? Is it better to loan them out or keep them in the squad? - Hidden Gems: Are there any tips or tools you use to identify high-potential youngsters in your youth intake?
I’d love to hear any strategies, experiences, or tips you have on this topic. Whether it’s about specific tactics, team instructions, or hidden features in FM, I am all ears!
I have been playing Football Manager for a few years now, but I am still struggling to master youth development in the game. While I have had some success with scouting and signing young talent, I often find that my youth academy players don’t develop as well as I hope.
I am currently managing a mid-tier team, and I’ve been investing in facilities and coaching staff, but I still feel like I am missing something. Here are a few specific questions I’m hoping the community can help me with:
- Training Schedules: What’s the best approach for creating personalized training schedules for youth players? Should I focus on specific attributes early on, or aim for balanced development? - Mentoring Groups: How effective are mentoring groups, and how should I set them up to ensure my young players benefit the most? - Game Time: How do you balance giving youth players enough game time without negatively impacting your team’s performance? Is it better to loan them out or keep them in the squad? - Hidden Gems: Are there any tips or tools you use to identify high-potential youngsters in your youth intake?
I’d love to hear any strategies, experiences, or tips you have on this topic. Whether it’s about specific tactics, team instructions, or hidden features in FM, I am all ears!
Thanks in advance for your insights!!! Expand There are some things you can do with development, but the most important part is signing the right kind of players. That means generally a good/great starting point for their age, a good personality and obviously high potential. You can find some training schedules on this forum. Many threads started by harvestgreen22 contain tons of different options and analysis. I'd warn that most of those schedules produce weird players, so perhaps some general principles. You don't actually need that many sessions per week to reach quite close to the cap that the game seems to allow. 3-4 sessions per week on double intensity get you almost there. In the end you can even leave the schedule to your assistant - it should be good enough. One key part of training seems to be the intensity and I'd never leave that to assistant/on default. Either use settings from harvestgreen22 or maybe ZaZ https://fm-arena.com/thread/12971-training-and-resting/ (those under "current test"!). That way you keep your players fresh, with less injuries while still maximising growth.
Mentoring is kind of useless. It's very hard to fix a bad personality. Much better strategy is to simply sign good personalities, when you can afford to.
After players reach about 19 years of age they desperately need game time in order to progress so at that point you either need to give them solid minutes in your team or find a good loan for them.
Hi everyone,
I have been playing Football Manager for a few years now, but I am still struggling to master youth development in the game. While I have had some success with scouting and signing young talent, I often find that my youth academy players don’t develop as well as I hope.
I am currently managing a mid-tier team, and I’ve been investing in facilities and coaching staff, but I still feel like I am missing something. Here are a few specific questions I’m hoping the community can help me with:
- Training Schedules: What’s the best approach for creating personalized training schedules for youth players? Should I focus on specific attributes early on, or aim for balanced development?
- Mentoring Groups: How effective are mentoring groups, and how should I set them up to ensure my young players benefit the most?
- Game Time: How do you balance giving youth players enough game time without negatively impacting your team’s performance? Is it better to loan them out or keep them in the squad?
- Hidden Gems: Are there any tips or tools you use to identify high-potential youngsters in your youth intake?
I’d love to hear any strategies, experiences, or tips you have on this topic. Whether it’s about specific tactics, team instructions, or hidden features in FM, I am all ears!
Thanks in advance for your insights!!!
catherinebennett said: Hi everyone,
I have been playing Football Manager for a few years now, but I am still struggling to master youth development in the game. While I have had some success with scouting and signing young talent, I often find that my youth academy players don’t develop as well as I hope.
I am currently managing a mid-tier team, and I’ve been investing in facilities and coaching staff, but I still feel like I am missing something. Here are a few specific questions I’m hoping the community can help me with:
- Training Schedules: What’s the best approach for creating personalized training schedules for youth players? Should I focus on specific attributes early on, or aim for balanced development?
- Mentoring Groups: How effective are mentoring groups, and how should I set them up to ensure my young players benefit the most?
- Game Time: How do you balance giving youth players enough game time without negatively impacting your team’s performance? Is it better to loan them out or keep them in the squad?
- Hidden Gems: Are there any tips or tools you use to identify high-potential youngsters in your youth intake?
I’d love to hear any strategies, experiences, or tips you have on this topic. Whether it’s about specific tactics, team instructions, or hidden features in FM, I am all ears!
Thanks in advance for your insights!!!
There are some things you can do with development, but the most important part is signing the right kind of players. That means generally a good/great starting point for their age, a good personality and obviously high potential.
You can find some training schedules on this forum. Many threads started by harvestgreen22 contain tons of different options and analysis. I'd warn that most of those schedules produce weird players, so perhaps some general principles.
You don't actually need that many sessions per week to reach quite close to the cap that the game seems to allow. 3-4 sessions per week on double intensity get you almost there. In the end you can even leave the schedule to your assistant - it should be good enough.
One key part of training seems to be the intensity and I'd never leave that to assistant/on default. Either use settings from harvestgreen22 or maybe ZaZ https://fm-arena.com/thread/12971-training-and-resting/ (those under "current test"!). That way you keep your players fresh, with less injuries while still maximising growth.
Mentoring is kind of useless. It's very hard to fix a bad personality. Much better strategy is to simply sign good personalities, when you can afford to.
After players reach about 19 years of age they desperately need game time in order to progress so at that point you either need to give them solid minutes in your team or find a good loan for them.