Help Mentoring

[ron1hy]

Hi. What does it take for a young player to have the option to be mentored?

Thanks 

[Ian]

I think there just has to be a few experienced older players in your squad that can play in similar positions to your youngster that will usually show up as mentor options.

If you click the actions button at the bottom righthand side of your youngsters profile and click the find a mentor options button I’ve highlighted below you should see all the player options available as mentors for said player.

 

I think 24 years old is the cut off point for when a player can no longer be mentored and I’m guessing they could then maybe mentor another player. Can’t be 100% on this though at this stage and others might know better.

[ron1hy]

Ok. It's just that my 20yr old centre back should be able to be mentored but he doesn't have the option.

Thanks 

[Scratch]

6 hours ago, ron1hy said:

Ok. It's just that my 20yr old centre back should be able to be mentored but he doesn't have the option.

Thanks 

I thought one of my players had the same problem, but then found that was because he is already being mentored by someone! Pretty confusing (not easy to tell if someone is being mentored).

Edited November 23, 2019 by Scratch

[ron1hy]

Ok. Is there a way to find out which youngsters have/are being mentored?

[gray631]

Has anyone played long enough yet to find out if it actually makes any difference?

[Ian]

50 minutes ago, ron1hy said:

Ok. Is there a way to find out which youngsters have/are being mentored?

If you click on the training page and then on the little options icon at the top right next to the current date and time, you’ll get the following options pop up on the right side of the screen. Click on the mentoring one and you’ll end up on a page like the second picture below which shows all of the players being mentored.

[SophiaFM]

I brought in Zlatan just to mentor Haaland at United. Done a great job!

[ron1hy]

1 hour ago, Ian said:

If you click on the training page and then on the little options icon at the top right next to the current date and time, you’ll get the following options pop up on the right side of the screen. Click on the mentoring one and you’ll end up on a page like the second picture below which shows all of the players being mentored.

Thank you so much.

[ron1hy]

17 hours ago, ron1hy said:

Hi. What does it take for a young player to have the option to be mentored?

Thanks 

Funnily enough, the player who I thought couldn't be mentored was already being mentored 🤣🤣

[Ian]

5 minutes ago, ron1hy said:

Funnily enough, the player who I thought couldn't be mentored was already being mentored 🤣🤣

Yeah I think the game could be a bit clearer with this as if a player is either mentored or mentoring a player then there’s no option available in the players actions section I highlighted last night. I don’t see why in this case there couldn’t be a link to the mentoring section but maybe they’ll add something in later. 

[samhardy]

Is there any evidence that the mentoring actually makes a noticeable difference?

[ron1hy]

Yes it normally shows in the players stats. I would like to think that there will be a report after about how it went. I'll keep you posted.

[Nucleus]

23 minutes ago, samhardy said:

Is there any evidence that the mentoring actually makes a noticeable difference?

It’s fucking stupid. Recommended mentor for Andreas Pereira? Nemanja Matic, so he can “improve his ability in the air”

He’s 4 foot tall at best ffs, nothing will improve his ability in the air

[samhardy]

So that's one yes and one no

[Ian]

I’ll run a little test on this tonight.

[Tigahz]

47 minutes ago, Nucleus said:

It’s fucking stupid. Recommended mentor for Andreas Pereira? Nemanja Matic, so he can “improve his ability in the air”

He’s 4 foot tall at best ffs, nothing will improve his ability in the air

You didn't sell matic?

[Thirsk]

1 hour ago, Nucleus said:

It’s fucking stupid. Recommended mentor for Andreas Pereira? Nemanja Matic, so he can “improve his ability in the air”

He’s 4 foot tall at best ffs, nothing will improve his ability in the air

You never know, Matic could be selling him magic beans!

[Nucleus]

1 hour ago, Tigahz said:

You didn't sell matic?

No offers, so he’s rotting in the reserves whilst trying to get a dwarf to head the ball better

[FuddledFox]

13 minutes ago, Nucleus said:

No offers

Jose isn’t at Spurs yet in the DB so you have no hope of getting rid of him.

[Ian]

Little test:

Early July to end of September.

Gomez mentored by VVD:

Leadership change: +2

Decisions change: +1

Spoiler

Trent mentored by Clyne:

Tackling change: 0

Spoiler

Elliott mentored by Milner:

Leadership change: +3

Spoiler

Pedro mentored by Hendo:

Leadership change: +3

Spoiler

Make of it what you want but seems to me that if their leadership attributes continues to increase like this then we’ll have 3 young potential captains at the end of the season. Pedro and Elliott are sat in the first team and haven’t even played a minute yet. Seems to be only the mental attributes that are greatly effected by mentoring to me.

I may continue this on.

[Jack]

I really like this feature, it’s helped a lot of my players immensely (Maguire->Tuanzebe, Shaw->Williams, Martial->Greenwood, Pogba->Camavinga)

[Scratch]

Am I the only person to have players go backwards?

[SirSpankorama]

1 hour ago, Scratch said:

Am I the only person to have players go backwards?

No, you are not. If Ryan Fraser (4 aerial) mentored your wonderkid (12 aerial) your wonderkid may well end up with a 9 aerial. Therefore make sure your mentor is better in every area.

[Dianto Billy Nova]

59 minutes ago, SirSpankorama said:

No, you are not. If Ryan Fraser (4 aerial) mentored your wonderkid (12 aerial) your wonderkid may well end up with a 9 aerial. Therefore make sure your mentor is better in every area.

Really? I should check the mentoring again now

[SophiaFM]

I also had Matic mentoring Ruben Neves who I signed, but out of all things, to improve his aerial ability lol. Matic is the biggest waste of space, I like how you can demote players to reserves but it’s impossible to get rid of him, same with Mata 

[Scratch]

1 hour ago, SirSpankorama said:

No, you are not. If Ryan Fraser (4 aerial) mentored your wonderkid (12 aerial) your wonderkid may well end up with a 9 aerial. Therefore make sure your mentor is better in every area.

Whew, glad I'm not the only one... Everyone else I've seen talk about Mentoring has only mentioned the positive, so I though maybe it was just me. In case it helps others, this is I typed in a different thread:

Initial thoughts on the mentoring thing: I can see it would be great at a big club with some star players mentoring promising youngsters, but it's not so useful in my current situation (in the Championship with Forest).

My mentors are only average and the promising youngsters they are supposed to be mentoring quickly become as good as them through traditional methods (playing/training etc). When I went to the mentoring screen I was shocked to see about half of my mentoring relationships were actually lowering attributes on the younger players! 

Also, the mentors need to be better than the young player at ALL the things you want them to develop. By that I mean they need to be the right shape for how you want the youngster to turn out.

I had one young striker training Aerial and I was surprised to see it go down from 12 to 11 for no reason I could see. When I looked into it, I found it was because he was being mentored by Zach Clough who only had 6 for Aerial. When I set up the relationship, it said that Clough could help him develop Dribbling, which seemed worthwhile, but I didn't realise that he would go backwards at things Clough wasn't good at! I broke the relationship and he got upset, but he scored a goal off the bench in the next game, levelled up and had his Aerial go to 16...

So mentoring seems of pretty limited use to me right now. When these players have developed and turned into strong players and are old enough to mentor the next wave - then I might see results, but until then I will use it sparingly...

[El Choco]

All I've had so far is aggression raised for tough games against string opponents and leadership. 

 

I've bought a few players expiring or no club, Alex song, abate, Dante, pizarro, caballero just to mentor haha. Waiting to see if other stats like passing, tackling, decisions go up yet

[Snip]

For me all 3 senior players I used for mentoring are now unpopular, which is fun!. Think I'll give it a bit of a miss for a while.

[broodje kip]

Mentoring currently doing well if the mentor are a better player except if it’s Matic from what I see

Matic is seriously an utter sh*t