I believe youth academy is a brilliant idea with a bad execution.
As it is known, 99% of the managers, release the T player (because he is expensive/ probably doesn't fit in the positions of the team/ it's to late for the season to develop him) and 100% selling the 0T player (except for the case of "under-leveling").

The manager should have the possibility to choose what kind of player he want for his team - like in real life, a manager going to the academy of the team because he want a young defender eg.
So, this thing should work like this for example and the manager could set the position/s or for some extra T to add a special ability.

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So, if nordeus could work this and some other things, players of the game would appreciate it more than some new nice graphics.