Do academy players count to overall quality of your best 14 players

[Samson1865]

Hi, hope somone replies quickly to this. I would like to know if players in the youth academy definatly count towards the overall quality of your 14 best players, I want to know because I don't want the quality of my team to drop below 100 for the upcoming season. My first 14 quality is 99.2% but with the academy players it would be 108%. I can't stand to have another season playing 60% and manager less teams thanks

[max8824]

Yes they do.

[Siddharth Singh]

Yes Yes Yes.