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Yeah definitely very lucky, dude has been a key player for over a decade now as well as club captain. But yeah as you said, you might find a gem now and then but if you keep getting promoted your teams quality improves significantly every season, so you can hardly expect youngsters to improve that much every season

Having done a RTG with AFC Telford (Vanarama North/6th tier) I'd have to say youths probably won't make the Prem. All young players I had in the Vanarama North/National didn't make it further as first team regulars than League One. I have only had a single player stay a first team regular, though that was probably a one in a million chance. He was a 5 star academy graduate who I got in League Two and played 30+ game every season since 16. In general, you would probably be better of only signing young players if they are already good enough to be starting for your team in the first place

The problem is the same for me. Took AFC Telford from Vanarama North to CL/Premier League winners, yet my Reserves still get absolutely smacked by anyone they face. Their status is also still semi-pro with 0.5* reputation

I think Foxy meant that it came along with the February update, which means it would still happen if you load the old database. Correct me if I'm wrong though

I doubt that would be a problem, considering I do have their league loaded and their games are all simulated. Well that sucks I guess, kinda messes with my whole vision of developing my own youth players. Guess loaning will have to do the trick as you say, still a shame considering I have a great coaching staff. Either way, thanks for the help!

Hi, to mix it up a bit I decided to try and manage Athletic Bilbao. As some of you know, they only allow players of basque nationality to play for them. This means youth development is very important to your success. However, my entire B team needs "improved specialist coaching" or something similar. Furthermore, they seem to constantly stay in "off-season", which means they are not training. I've never had this problem with Reserve teams in say, England. Anyone know a way around this problem?

For me, when a player gets injured, his trained role reverts back to that which is seen as best by the AI. Now this might be a slightly inconvenient yet harmless bug by itself, but it presents a serious problem with players that can play across various positions. For illustration, my player Gbamin is natural in CM, CDM and CD. I was training him as a BPD. He gets injured and after recovering he is training as a BWM in the CM position. No biggie, I should only have to set him to "retrain" as CD so he can continue training as a BPD. For some reason tough I can retrain him in any role and position EXCEPT the roles available as a CD and CDM. When I set him to "retrain" as a CD it just immediately reverts back to him training as a CM. The same happens when I try to retrain him as a CDM (which he is natural in as well) though there is no problem when I try to do it with a position he isn't natural in. This has happened with other players as well.

No I was referring to the star rating the IGE shows, I thought that was unregarding the rest of the team.

Hi there I was wondering whether it would be possible for a players potential to increase during a game. For example, if a youngster has a pa of 4* (which you can see with the IGE) will this always remain the same or can it improve to 4,5* or even 5*?

Well, I'll give an example of how it happens for me. So I was playing a game with my team Everton and in lets say the 58th minute Barkley gets injured. Naturally I chose to substitute him for my backup CAM Gladwin. In the tactics screen I now see Gladwin in the line-up, though the match engine shows visuals of my team playing with 10 men. When I go back to my tactics it still shows Gladwin in the line-up, though in both the players tab during the game as well as the experience page after the match shows Gladwin as an unused sub. I play on a Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo, and this has so far happened 100% of the time from the first time I noticed it (haven't played the game too much though this year)

Not exactly the player value for me, but I do only get somewhere around 80% of the agreed transfer fee.

Not sure whether this has been mentioned already, but whenever a player gets injured during a match and you sub him, the player that gets subbed on never actually joins the game and you'll be forced to play the rest of the game with 10 players.

For me, an IF paired with a TM is working very well

From what I can see Ronaldo seems to be injured, that might explain the drop in attributes.

My favorite cheap striker this year tbh, pretty good all round attacker. Best of luck, I'm sure he'll smash the 1k in no time.