Quote Originally Posted by Wraga View Post
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.
You are welcome there!

Since FTs can only be judged correctly from initial market value at purchase against player quality, it is impossible to know if youths from academy is a FT, and therefore not worth it to invest any T for them. Should always sign all free youths, plus the highest rated youth which costs T to fill all possible signings, as selling one 18yo after 1 season’s training can bring in funds to buy a new 21-yo 75%-80% player. This specific age and quality of players are paramount for club finance (will explain further below).

In general, 18yo FT fair T cost is around 30T. A bit more for ST, MC & DC. Sometimes a bit less for DMC & AMC. 30T final auction price also means an extra fund cost of 35% vs 1T player. That difference has to be earned elsewhere, and they can be both from youth player development sale and 21yo 75%+ player development sale.

For a low level club (both yours and mine are at level 3), the most difficult part in squad building is the lack of funds to buy the players we would like, as income from tickets and trophy wins are minimal. Ticket income would become a lot more significant when club reaches level 5 with the corresponding level of stadium built for its capped attendance. You may refer to the following link to determine the speed you prefer to build the costly stadium (I always leave the stadium to the last after upgrading all the rest first because of funds constraints):

https://forum.topeleven.com/top-elev...prices%5D.html

The reason I bring this fund issue up is because it is very difficult to earn extra money without buying and selling 1-season squad players in the earlier levels. The extras earned via winning the quadruple is barely enough to buy a new FT in a following season, and so earning money via seasonal change of players is the only quick way to release:

1) if focused on the ‘right’ whites for performance (eg. Passing & crossing for ML/R, speed & finishing for ST & wingers), gain in value with seasonal change of the aforementioned 21yo group should be 70%. Assumed 5T bought, the final ‘gain’ % would be around 55%.
2) 18yo youths which should be backup players can be trained onto the lowest whites’ average, and could even gain 70% net value (average player training)
3) increase in base market value per club level is around 35%
4) T-cost of each 21yo should be 5
5) it is more of a balancing T and money budgets on how to operate - earn more money by player development for more FTs sooner (5 well-trained FTs should win the 60T event, hence doubling T income plus free high-star player) or save more T for later

If you intend to save as many T as possible for seasons onwards, you may well just buy 1 FT every 2 seasons, and just focus on ST/AMC and winger first. The top scorer award bonus is huge in having a reliable FK scorer to win even contests. Also, training of those players you would keep could be on the main skills only, so general quality drop would not affect performance when greys become very low after a few seasons.