How do I get a good youth system?

[louiscfc]

I'm at Chelsea and have top training/youth facilities, extensive youth recruitment, excellent junior coaching. I have a good Head of Youth Development in Neil Bath and some solid u18s coaches but my youth intake is always poor compared to other teams or if I do get a good player, they never develop as well as they can.
I want a challenge of bringing more or less all of my first team players through the academy so how do I go about doing this. e.g coaches, staff responsibilities, HoD etc.

 

[Diospectre]

Hello,

Please take a look at your club facilities information (Club Screen > Information > Facilities), there is an information about the level of your youth facility. If you find it at low level, you can ask your boards to upgrade your youth facility.

Also, you have to sign some coaches who best at youth training, they're the key part of youth development.

Check your youth training schedule, make sure it's not too high and low, you also can see at your youth players satisfaction about training schedule, ensure that they're happy or satisfied with your training schedule.

You can also warn your youth players who don't develop their playing skill (be careful of using this, your player might accept your critic or even refuse it and go angry, always save your game before doing this so you can load your game back when they go unhappy). (Player screen > Development > Training)

If you currently have top youth training facility, good youth players would likely to come to your youth squad when your main team won several tournaments, they will come in certain year.

Go back to your youth team training schedule, you can switch the tab to "Coaches" and look at the coaching intensity, you can manually arrange your training coaching into the best quality until all coaches' workload have highest star (5 stars if possible).

Also, always use squad rotation in your youth squad to prevent tiredness and injuries, those both can decrease your player developments.

Hope it helps, CMIIW,
thanks.

 

[Dihenzo]

Youth intakes are very bad in FM 14. They seem too random & scripted from what i have seen. Iv done many different saves at top clubs like Barcelona/Real Madrid for many years yet still nothing much came out of it & they have the best facilities in the world. The moment i left, BANG!! The produced very good regens. Put simple upgrading your facilities will take so much time/money yet help very little in the long run. Success does not factor into youth intake from what i know because i was winning everything, i was richest club & with highest reputation & with world class staff. The game just refuses to reward me with good regens for all my hard work. Im not saying i want all my youth players to make it to the main squad, no no no!! That would not be realistic but if i got equal/better facilities than AI surely the logical thing is i also get very good regens as them

 

[Kwarkzak]

Try building a "tiered" network of feeder teams. Ideally, you want to have feeders at different levels, so that you can always send your players to a club where they can get first team experience at their level, and "progress" every year until they are ready for first team football.

 

[shaunyboy89]

Under the age of 18 I have them paired up with tutors the whole time. Once one tutoring session is over, see if there is another tutor who could help out. Their stats seem to improve better this way than sending them out on loan. Over the age of 18 (and after tutoring them) send them to a feeder club (good comment above about using the tiered network), make sure the feeder club has good training facilities/coaches etc. And make sure the current player in that position is not better than the player you're sending or they wont play!

 

[louiscfc]

Thanks for the advice guys. I already have a few affiliates in Vitesse (which the better youngsters seem to reject going to despite them being Dutch champions), Sheffield Weds (league 1) and a team from portugal and another one i've never heard of. However, when I send them there (the first two have good facilities) they always play but NEVER develop no matter how well they play!

As you guys have mentioned, tutoring seems the best way to develop youngsters. I wish there was more information on how your player is developing from coaches etc as its a bit vague ATM IMO.

 

[apvmoreira]

I'm at Chelsea and have top training/youth facilities, extensive youth recruitment, excellent junior coaching. I have a good Head of Youth Development in Neil Bath and some solid u18s coaches but my youth intake is always poor compared to other teams or if I do get a good player, they never develop as well as they can.
I want a challenge of bringing more or less all of my first team players through the academy so how do I go about doing this. e.g coaches, staff responsibilities, HoD etc.

You may need to focus in 2 things:

the 1st is that you will need to buy some kids from other teams to get some quality and develop them as yours. Don't be afraid of doing this, remember that Messi was not born in Spain...

the 2nd thing is to focus in getting youngsters that have at least 3 stars and in report say that they will be stars in the premier. All the other rubbish guys just send them away and keep a tight junior squad, so you can have more regens coming and more chances of getting better ones.

You could also save game the 14th of March (correct me if im wrong) and load it in the 15th over and over again until good regens appear in the squad. But this is cheating and IRL i don't see no kid from Chelsea being in the 1st team, so if you are not having good regens, its Abramovich fault, not yours

 

[louiscfc]

apvmoreira, i do try and buy some youngsters from other teams but they always want ridiculous prices for them which is a pain. Obviously money isn't an issue as I'm at chelsea but ATM the save is getting a bit easy so I want a challenge of not buying many players but inheriting a lot (not all as that is near impossible) from the academy.

 

[apvmoreira]

well, good luck on that

 

[Alienman]

apvmoreira, i do try and buy some youngsters from other teams but they always want ridiculous prices for them which is a pain. Obviously money isn't an issue as I'm at chelsea but ATM the save is getting a bit easy so I want a challenge of not buying many players but inheriting a lot (not all as that is near impossible) from the academy.

If you want that challenge do a save with a smaller team from a smaller country where you don't really have money to buy players. Its more of challenge and your standards wont be as high as they are at Chelsea.

 

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