It's been like that for ages... Price of 18 years old players at 124% is over 300 tokens...
They are doing as much as they can to direct (force) players towards the auctions. I haven’t had a recommended player offer that is younger than 21 years old for a long time.
what's disappointing bout new recommendation is the youngest we get now is 21yo. back then, the youngest is 19yo & that's worthwhile to spend your token to buy em. and they're only offer to you 1-2times per season.
then nodeus gets greedy and increased the youngest age & shove it to our face every 3-4days
Assistant recommendation... 18 years old, at 140%, 967 tokens... That's around 60 euros... I'm pretty sure I can buy 99%, 18 years old at auction, for less than 100 tokens and bring him to 140% for less than 250 rests (when converted to tokens, that's 230)... So, for less than 330 tokens I can have exactly the same player... Why do you think anyone would waste their money and resources, to buy a player, overpriced 3 times???