U18 (Academy) - please help me

[nash123]

Gaining and performance of a new player have no relation (not direct I mean - of course a fast trainer can be a higher quality player, maybe get a successful sa too).

Why do you think, you are right?
Nordeus (said, they) improved academy-player. Only a few people bought them before, because of their high cost, so there weren't enough experience, if academy got (more) talent like others?
I bought them, because of the announcement and I needed the ST.
All U18 after annoucement, I see (my wife had one, another FA member 2,...), perform very well.

How many tokens you spend for them ?

GK: 14, but as you know from another thread, I was really annoyed by my old one. So I took the risk.
DC: 10
ST: 8

You also see, our FA is at gold 2 (for sure promoted to gold 1), I kept the whole team 3 seasons -> 3x 35T,... so the costs every 10 days can't kill my tokens...

For myself, IF academy-player are better, I'm ready to take the costs.

I also see advantages:
-) I don't have to wake up that early at seasonstart again, to maybe get some good FT (at my timezone, I have to be there at 4 am)
-) It's not for sure, you got a FT, and it's not sure to get it for less than academy player. -> on my server, there are at least two chinese manager, I saw them at bidding wars (more than 60 rounds)

[nash123]

improved means better q (early 5* player) for less token (14 T).
But when Teda asked if that means also better performers, we had no answer.

That's what I mean: who knows, if academy players were good (better than other) before?
Maybe they were good, but noboday bought them. So, with the less cost, more manager try them and if they saw the U18 player perform better, they think it's the improvement.

so the cheap one is a fast trainer ? interesting

GK (FT): 8 games, 7 clean sheets - and he made a lot of saves.

GK: 14

nope, it was the GK (14T), but this says nothing, because my wife bought a 14T player, who wasn't a FT.

At the moment...
and todays saves