My MC Giannistanis was retired last season and I had a academy MC for 8T so I gave him a oportunity... buuuut, as said, academie's should have a advantadge extra compared with others.. like some extra % progress in trainings so we should be able to buy a 4* academie and train him a SA before reach 5* and have a "complete guy" with SA and multi positions in a reasonable time... at least is my opinion, the opinion of one that used lots of times the academy...