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Football Manager Youth Facility Guide
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| Football Manager Youth Facility Guide |
When playing Football Manager an area of interest for a lot of players is to try and get a number of young players from your academy into your first team. It goes without saying that for your first team to be successful you need to have good players in your team. So how do you go about making sure you have the best youth players coming through your academy?
There are a number of ways to develop and train your young players, but when they initially come through to your youth team, the only way to get better players through is to improve the facilities of your club. When it comes to youth players, there are three facilities that effect how good the players are. They are your youth facilities, your junior coaching levels and your youth recruitment levels.
I will discuss each of these below and confirm what they effect.
Youth Facilities
The best way to think of youth facilities are how quick will your young players develop while at your club. If you think about it logically, where would a young player develop quicker, training on a muddy field in the middle of know where or in a nice indoor facility that has excellent training equipment. The answer is of course the second option. Of course it is essential to make sure you have the very best coaches your club can afford. The training facilities however are important to make sure when you do have youth players at your club they are able to train in a nice and modern environment.The youth facility levels are as follows from worst too best:
Basic
Poor
Below Average
Adequate
Average
Good
Great
Superb
Excellent
Top
Junior Coaching
The junior coaching facilities will determine how good the current ability of your players is when they first come into your youth team. Of course on Football Manager, players come into youth teams from about the age of 14 and older. It’s their development before the age of 14-15 that junior coaching effects. At most clubs, they might have players from as young as 6 training with them. If a player is with a club since the age of 6, how good if the coaching the player is getting? If its minimal, then you can expect to get players into your youth team that do not have very good current ability. If you have exceptional junior coaching, then there is a better chance of your players coming through with better current ability.The levels of junior coaching are as follows (from worst too best):
Minimal
Basic
Adequate
Average
Good
Excellent
Exceptional
Youth Recruitment
Youth recruitment will determine where you are finding players. I like to think of youth recruitment as follows. Imagine you are a small team playing in the midlands of England. Will you have the resources to send scouts etc to Spain and other countries to find young players? The answer is most likely no. You are more than likely only able to watch young players within about a 10-20 mile radius of where your club is based. If your team has better youth recruitment, they will be able to scout a larger area of players and so the chances of finding players with better potential will increase. Think about Barcelona signing Messi when he was just 13 to their academy, their well-established youth recruitment means they are able to find the very best players from all over the world.The youth recruitment levels are as follows (from worst too best):
Limited
Basic
Fairly Basic
Average
Above Average
Established
Well Established
Extensive
As I have mentioned it is important to make sure you have good coaches at your club and a scouting team with good knowledge of different countries, however you also need to make sure your facilities are in good shape so you can develop players quicker and increase the chances of good players coming through your academy.
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