Honestly I'm all for the expansion of the Youth Academy feature. It's an untapped wellspring for Top Eleven.

I would definitely not mind having an extra "micro-team" that I can manage on a much more casual level. Also there is a lot of ways that the idea can be approached. Look at the training system - From a simple "Chose the intensity of the training session" it got developed in to it's own full blown feature where you chose and unlock drills, you level up, you get to manage team bonuses, etc.

It's not needed for a rework of the Youth Academy to head in the direction of "A secondary team that you have to manage". It could also be something like a mini-management segment in the base game. A game inside the game if you will.

Like having a youth team that you don't directly manage during it's matches but instead you could have specific toggles for commands as to how the youth team should do their training, ways to spend some of your Club resources on the youth team with specific benefits in mind and other such. Say that after a specific amount of time, youths from that team will start to stick out among their peers and thus pop in to a specific Academy menu, and there the manager can check their stats their names etc.
At first they will have only a single role, perhaps one that they actually train in at that very moment. And from there you can decide as to what direction the youth should train in. Essentially "breeding" your own youth players!

All in all, there are many ways to handle this as I mentioned. But a rework and a complete expansion of the youth Academy system will definitely bring a lot of flavor to Top Eleven and will provide Managers with another way to play the game - or rather another thing that may catch their interest! Maybe you'd like to just pump-out talent and don't really care about the official competitions or are just interested in the F.A.? Then just play as you like! Stuff like that.

Anyway, as @Gert already mentioned, there have been a lot of suggestions for the improvement of the Youth Academy. My own suggestion might very well be covered by another Manager already!


Suggestions are never useless @Pavel, you don't know what might come out of each one. Maybe an idea would be impractical if implemented as is, but this is how brain-storming sessions are created. Trading of ideas bring out the best ideas in the end!

Thank you for the suggestion @FRK1908.