I am at lvl 4. I spent the resources in facilities for the sole purpose of what will happen in the next couple weeks. I will have a top level youth academy!!!! I am 11 days from completing my lvl 7 stadium and all other facilities are there so on comes the YA.

I also have a couple of players coming to me from my current youth facility in the next few days. I love the idea of the academy almost as much as the product. I am all about immersion in games so home grown players make me very happy.

I currently only have one of the 4 previous products on the team. He is firmly in place as my starting RW and is very productive, especially considering that he plays out wide and doesn't handle set pieces (which obviously inflate stats).


Is there really a sizable difference between players coming from the top level facility compared to the next one down? I got my RW from the 3rd from the best facility and he came in as a 4* (for lvl 2) and I quickly trained him up to 6*. He gets up to 7* by the end of every season and had 23 goals and 7 assists in 33 appearances last season with a very good avg rating.


I seem to get academy players from positions of actual need. Maybe it is pure luck but so far so good. I hope I can get a FB or GK this time around as they are trouble spots.

I had thought I was set at RB as the 18 yr old Nordgen I bought last season did great but now his form is in the crapper (pulling a lot of 6's) and I don't know what to do. I don't even have a backup option at the position. Does benching them work? If so for how long should I try it?

Usually if someone plays that poorly for any real stretch I move on from them but he had such great form last season. Last night I trained him back up to 7* hoping it would get him out of the funk but another 6 this morning........Even in a 14-0 massacre of a league win (though my whole defense and GK had 6-7's)

That brings another question. How on earth can you kill a team that badly, your defense faces 15 shots, 8 on target, keeps a clean sheet, and they have crap ratings? Makes no sense. A clean sheet should be at least an automatic 7 for a keeper. The only thing that stood out was that they committed a lot of fouls, like 2 fouls per tackle which is insanely high for my team.