youth academy doesn't suck

[dv8r]

For value, signing the token player is a huge waste of tokens. Why? 4 star player for 12-24 tokens, I can buy my own 5 star fast trainers for 1-3 tokens on auctions.

Free player is useless at lower levels.

[Moel]

For value, signing the token player is a huge waste of tokens. Why? 4 star player for 12-24 tokens, I can buy my own 5 star fast trainers for 1-3 tokens on auctions.

Free player is useless at lower levels.

Not all servers are equal. On mine a 5 star player is not very common and go for usually 30 + tokens. I've seen them up to 70+ tokens. Even 3 star 25 yr old can go for 15 tokens.

[Razz]

For value, signing the token player is a huge waste of tokens. Why? 4 star player for 12-24 tokens, I can buy my own 5 star fast trainers for 1-3 tokens on auctions.

Free player is useless at lower levels.

Exactly.
I don't care how fast a trainer they are a 4* player isn't going to keep pace with the rest of my squad. I usually buy market players at just below 6*, and good ones will get about 3/4 to 7* by season end, after dropping a star they then get to 6 1/2 in the second season, 6 1/4 the third, barely hit 6 the fourth season and after that they only stick around if I can't find a decent young replacement.

A 4 star youth academy player would have to be almost a 5 star and an absolutely amazing trainer (gaining a full star per season).

Now I know there are the occasional super trainers out there, but I can't gamble 18-20 tokens on it when i can almost certainly get 3 or 4 (or even 5 or 6, with luck) almost-six-star 18-19 year olds off the market for that amount of tokens.