What's the point of Youth Academy again?

[Guido van den Berg]

I train 1 player from the youth academy per year. Never buy players from the transfer market. For my starting 11, that is.
Together with an occasional 144% (or 164%) prize player, this gives me enough quality to keep a team of 120% (start season) to 140% (end season).

So why are people complaining about the training speed of academy players? I don’t see their point.

[SuperDunk]

I train 1 player from the youth academy per year. Never buy players from the transfer market. For my starting 11, that is.
Together with an occasional 144% (or 164%) prize player, this gives me enough quality to keep a team of 120% (start season) to 140% (end season).

So why are people complaining about the training speed of academy players? I don’t see their point.

I suggest if you want to keep attacking players for longer (AML-AMR-ST or AMC) to buy them as 3* 18y on the market, wait one season and try to spend 3000 rest for all 3 of them and manage their white skills as efficient as possible. If you don t know the drills just search Apolo Rock on youtube, but it takes so much time...
After so many experiments i don t think it s worth spending on any other positions to make their whites as high as possible. Maybe because i don t have time to play friendlies all day to keep up with it.

[Guido van den Berg]

I suggest if you want to keep attacking players for longer (AML-AMR-ST or AMC) to buy them as 3* 18y on the market, wait one season and try to spend 3000 rest for all 3 of them and manage their white skills as efficient as possible. If you don t know the drills just search Apolo Rock on youtube, but it takes so much time...
After so many experiments i don t think it s worth spending on any other positions to make their whites as high as possible. Maybe because i don t have time to play friendlies all day to keep up with it.

There is absolutely no need to spend 3000 greens on a single player. If you would do that for each of your 3 attackers once in their career of, say, 10 seasons, you would need 900 greens per season. You cannot do that without spending real money.

I spend 50 greens per season on each of my starting 11 players. Yes, defenders too and even the goalie. I collect these greens during the season, mainly by watching videos. This keeps the green balance about equal, so it works fine for me.

Yes, my attackers do not have 300% white skills. But they don’t need to. I win trophy after trophy.