I have to admit, this tutorial you wrote is more than essential and I am absolutely sure it could help me a lot in the future. Right now I have approx. 14 players below 25 and all of them seems quite useful for the next 2-3 seasons.

About the 18 yr old players, I bought 2 and had 1 from the academy but unfortunately none of them looks as a ft. Its quite odd because I paid 3m+ for one of them, but according to the training test, this player has a normal training possibility. Slowly but surely I am finding the most effective formations for this team, however I am sure there are much more what I could give a try to.

Since I am not planning to invest hundreds of tokens each season just to buy new players, at the moment I am trying to stay competent by training the players during the season, however even with rest farming it seems impossible. As I read on the forum its very rare when you can find ft players in the academy so I assume its also up to your luck.

As always, I do appreciate your time to help me. Thank you for that.