Young players are too poor to ever use

[nikolgiorgos]

do they have any purpose

0T academy players are the most valuable if you want to go for the Cup (and maybe the treble )
find 4-5 of them and keep them for many seasons.

[gogs67]

0T academy players are the most valuable if you want to go for the Cup (and maybe the treble )
find 4-5 of them and keep them for many seasons.

Yep.
I've also got five 6* scout academy players in my team but here are my long term academy 'low Q' players.