Developing Youth Players - a step by step list
1. Read what Cleon has to say on the matter (google him), he's the best there is on this.
2. Bookmark this page:
Player Personalities | Football Manager 2014 Guide
3. When you appoint staff, look at their personality - only bring in people with the top personality types as it affects the personalities of regens you get.
4. Improve youth and training facilities asap.
5. Look for people who are Model Pros/Citizens/Leaders etc (see particular post above on this) for tutoring purposes.
6. Utilise the note making facility in game or use pen and paper. Make a list of the players that you will concentrate on for development as well as the stage of development each in (ie - second tutoring session) and what you'll do next.
7. Understand the ideas of personalities/determination/leadership etc and how they interrelate so as to ensure you pair people correctly.
8. Set up scouting to find regens concentrate on youth team championships in countries where the better youths come from (eg Brazil tho be mindful that you can buy 15 yos from there but they ll only join when they turn 17).
9. Look at your feeder clubs/find new ones - look for clubs with decent facilities, decent managers (to utilise your players better) and with particular weaknesses in their squads (to ensure your loanees will get matches).
10. Train people yourself. Individual training is imperative. Start by training according to position (look at the individual stats each option works on to ensure they increase what you want increased) on heavy for a season. Then re- evaluate and do so every 3 months. Within two years you will find yourself having to train particular attributes on heavy -eg: I like pace. Even ,my cbs must have 14 ideally 15. So sooner or later Ill train quickness till it is sufficiently increased.
11. Do not loan until your youth's personality has reached the highest personality type it can bearing in mind the available tutors.
12. If you loan people loan them for free so that you can recall them. Compile scout reports about them and talk to them once in a while either chastising or praising. Only loan if offer is for first team player and upwards. Look at how many matches they play (do so every month). If they are not getting matches then recall and re loan.
13. Do what AJAX does - ensure that all youths become adept in at least 3 positions.
14. Do not be afraid to play them. But do not rotate whole sale (my ideas as to rotating are mentioned in the initial posts of this thread.