Wonderkid Development Guide
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How do you get that high potential wonderkid to reach their potential? It is the number one question that dictates every Football Manager save I do. I talk so much about how to sign those amazing wonderkids in the first place, but for years I have not taken the DEEP dive into wonderkid development on Football Manager. It is a good thing we have our heroic training team to lead the way.
A lot of this stuff I had never even thought about before we started working on this FM training series. The idea of specifically tailored training sessions with your youth teams was completely foreign to me, but it all suddenly made sense. There are piles and piles of good training tips in this video along the way, plus ready-made training schedules for your wonderkids to get absolutely everything out of them and get you to the Champions League title faster than ever on Football Manager.
Much Love,
FM Senpai
BE SURE YOUR WONDERKIDS ARE IN THE RIGHT UNIT FOR YOUR SPECIFIC TRAINING. IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF THE AMAZING WINGBACK THAT YOU WANTED TO TRAIN OFFENSIVELY WAS IN THE DEFENSIVE UNIT FOR TRAINING.
Steam Downloads
Youth Training (Non-Competitive): steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Reserve/B Team Training (Competitive): steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Youth Attacking Player Training: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Youth Midfielder (Technical) Player Training: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Youth Defensive Player Training: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
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Youth Training (Non-Competitive): fm-base.co.uk/resources/zeala...
Reserve/B Team Training (Competitive): fm-base.co.uk/resources/zeala...
Youth Attacking Player Training: fm-base.co.uk/resources/zeala...
Youth Midfielder (Technical) Player Training: fm-base.co.uk/resources/zeala...
Youth Defensive Player Training: fm-base.co.uk/resources/zeala...
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there’s never a time i’ve needed this more you beautiful man. just got an amazing intake with atletico minero so thank you
my Galo
Just got the excellent intake pop up last night for the first time in my 12 year St. Pauli save so I second this! You’re the fuckin man Z!
@@zcoup7257 huge W. just won my first serie a and copa libatadores in my first half season
i can hear the premier league coming already. those release fees are killers
@@mowvu5380 hate them, already had hulk mad cos chelsea bought one of the already existing wonderkids at the club. now this new batch is full of some great players so i’m praying they’ll be loyal to mineiro
I swear zealand can read minds. All I've been thinking about in my mom's basement for 6 weeks is how to develop my Zimbabwean wonder kids. Thank you zealand
Used your training for the senior team & went from just clinching playoffs in EFL 1 to top of the league & secured playoffs with about 8 games left. Currently about 10 points clear so hopefully will win the league.
Yesterday, just thought about this consept and checked for your previous videos but didn't find anything. Today you released this video. Praise Be!
You can add youth players to senior squad units. After doing this if you allow the assistant to assign the mentoring groups it will include the players brought into senior squad training. You cannot go in and pick them manually but once the mentoring groups are created you can add/remove the senior players you want to mentor the youngsters
The game has been out for months and I'm still learning new things. Thanks!
I'm playing fm21 and this doesn't work. At first they can be added to mentoring groups after being moved to the senior squad. But after I drop them back to the reserve, they disappear from the mentoring groups.
Here's a quick little tip. If you let someone else take control of youth individual training at the start of a save, generally they will set a position and role training. You can then take control over, and change the ones you don't like and only have to set it for new players.
you can just find expiring ones 😂 by the january
Gonna say this:FM does a terrible job of recognizing that your B Team is actually playing competitive matches that matter. In either Spain or Germany, I can have a B Team in a playable league, and players and coaches both will scream to move players on loan from the playable team, where they're getting regular minutes in a system that matches your own, to a team of equivalent or lower quality, with worse facilities, in a system that doesn't match yours.
No way, IRL, would I be loaning my players in competitive football out to competition in that circumstance. The game needs to recognize when a loan experience is actually better for the player. And it doesn't do that.
There's a few Portuguese clubs with B teams in playable leagues as well, and many more that can feasibly be promoted into them. But yeah, the AI does an awful job at managing them, often keeping them too empty for their own good - as a million players are loaned out instead.
@@joaopires1761 tuga power
The "staff offer to clubs" section was completely new to me. Insane. You're the man!
Maybe you could show this to Man Utd…
You mean FA Youth Cup 22 champions, Manchester United?
@@NoDirtyVids yeah…maybe they’ll turn out better than Lingard and McTominay
@@GIBBO4182 Garnacho will be the real deal..United develop more youth players than any other club in England.
@@FilthyMind1 Chelsea have entered the chat…
@@GIBBO4182 😂 Chelsea..... United hold the all time record of having atleast one youth developed player in their match day squad for the last 60 fucking years.....no one else has done that because no one has done it better and shown more loyalty to the youth than United in football history and developed them players better.
You are so good at your job dude. The way you present this information is the best. Thanks Z!
I had a young centre back whose concentration attribute went up by +8 during his development. STONKS.
Concentration seems to be the fastest developing attribute(at least in my experience)
For restrictions on loaning players out it's generally enforced on over 22's which is really not a problem you have when developing actual Wonderkids. Also the Loan Options at 6:30 never really tend to work or be enforced by your staff when offering multiple people out at a time, for my saves they may as well not be there and I heavily farm wonderkids - loaning is a massive part of that and the only way to ensure the players are offered to the correct Nation etc is do it manually 1 by 1.
It's great that when you spend a certain time at the club and develop a certain style of play, bring certain type of players to the club and have been training the players certain ways through the years, then at some point you practically don't need to set the "develop trait" setting in the individual training for younger players any more, they mostly pick it up through mentoring, which also allows them to progress more as you can then give them some other individual training (for specific attributes)
I love the obscure elements! That makes it more human, as the staff can fail in their judgement.. but actually if you’re experienced enough yourself, you know an approx level of its potential or whether the players ability is enough compared to your level.
On a side note, I haven't updated the Z Skin since it was launched. I finally just did, and the gap is THICC. The skin is so awesome my man, keep up the good work.
I play this game for so many years several hours per day and even though you gave me cool tips. I just wanna say with this rusty english of mine that I love you, Zealand. Greetings from Brazil!
With the loans, I always check the media prediction for the club as well if the club is in an active league. Player ratings are much better in a top of the table team than a relegation team. Had some loanee goalkeepers get great ratings in relegation teams mind. Be interesting to know though if a player was on the cusp of playing in the championship, whether they'd gain more from the higher rep of a championship bottom 6 team or the higher ratings of a top 6 league 1 team.
Haven’t played fm in years but in the past I would do max training on mentality stats and even on the others just enough so that training isn’t considered heavy. Mental training didn’t use much energy and had great benefits
Great video, you explained the reasoning behind your advice very clearly and demonstrated how to do everything.
Thank you Esteban for all the helpful videos 👍
This is a great video. Well done! I got a lot from this like not dong trait training for players under 19 etc.
Zealand You should do a video about loan managers and development list. These are useful and powerful tools but they need to be mastered and calibrated Right. I'm almost sure 95% of the players never use them.
I try to use these but they never seem to work, especially when I set the conditions in the staff responsibilities of the default loan conditions.
@@powermonger9090 same. The unwanted list has got much better, but the development list is buggy. Much better results just having them on the loan list.
@@powermonger9090 don't use the default condition there are two things to set up for it to work well. First, let the % of the salary and all the money settings to 0 the loan manager will negotiate for you but will instantly reject all propositions that don't offer anything.
Second indicate a Deadline if you don't, the loan manager will not start his research. I usually set the deadline to the end of the transfer window.
The rest is up to you, I usually indicate that I want my player to be a regular starter in a club with good infrastructures and lower my expectations if nothing comes. If you want you loan manager to start again just reset the deadline
@@PHATHEAD691234 the thing is that the loan manager will often find really interesting clubs and negotiate financially interesting offers. Look at my previous answer for some tips.
In my experience, even though I set minimum Regular starter (for example), my loan manager often accepts Fringe player offers for my players. Any way to actually control this, other than manually going and rejecting those autoaccepted (by the LM) offers every time he screws up?
Hello. Watched all your training videos and really helped with my first and am now thinking of taking control of my Reserve/U19 teams as well. Do you use the preseason training with them or go straight to their regular one?
Brutally good advice as always BUT..your vide from Apr 29, 2020(Tips for Developing Young Players)..that intro and that Hawaiian shirt,your dance..it is still unbeatable😎
You can take control of your Reserves/U18s training, block out the training schedule for the year & then give training back to the respective coaches. They will keep the training schedules in place, but make any changes for rescheduled matches.
This will take a little bit of time at the start of your season (or whenever you decide to do it), but save you a lot of little tweaks over the rest of the season.
Also, players will never come to you complaining about training. I do this for all 3 of my teams at the beginning of every season
How do you block the training? Every time I give the training responsibilities to the under-19 coach, they change all sets.
@@maickdick If you take control & use a template for the training each week, it should stay in place, even if you give control back. It has always worked for me, whenever I've taken the time to do it.
Gracias! Ésta era la serie que necesitaba.
CRACK!
My first time playing FM thanks for telling me all this be I had no idea this stuff was even a thing
You are just the most helpful man on UA-cam
My first training session after a matchday is always "Match Practice", followed by Recovery & Match Review. Players from the matchday get a 1 day No Pitch or Gym Work. Keeps everyone sharp & no lost day.
I used to love match practice, but now I’ve realised that unlike normal sessions it increases fatigue and always led to my players getting jaded.
I am exaggerating as they just came close to being jaded because I always tried to fight off this jadedness which completely ruined my whole playtime- and training routine.
This is a very helpful guide on this, thanks 👍
You inspired myself to create Football Manager content for Brazilian people! You're GOAT. Thanks for all your effort on bring so high quality Football Manager content!
DO NADA eu acho um comentário do Fefux em um vídeo aleatório do Zealand.
Never knew about specifying the facilities in the offer to club settings neat
I started praising players for training more regularly and it has made a massive difference. I normally only did it when I wanted to boost morale before key matches but do it is as often as possible now. The sexiest of arrows
thank you and your team for the amazing work
Thank you very much. Awesome work as always. Will certainly help me with my Benfica farm :)
One piece of big brain advice for looking for coaches is just to search HOYDs and offer them coaching roles because they’re always so well rounded and have high working with youngsters rating
then his workload will increase and reduce the effectiveness of the training.
Setting the very great and clear video aside. Where did you get that shirt? It's from the team in my hometown!
Any chance you could post screenshots of those youth training schedules for those of us playing older versions of fm?
I'm on fm20 and the schedule files aren't compatible
I freaking needed this
Thank you Z! Just to clarify, I am not on steam because I play the game on the Xbox Game Pass for PC
This video was really helpful for me thanks 💪👌🏻
My approach atm is to keep them in the u18s, training with the first team and in mentor groups. Then when they get to just the right level I start to loan them out. I don't feel like I'm getting the results I could be from doing the bare minimum so let's see if this video gives me any new tricks
10:15 sometimes role training sets to default on some players. According to FM Scout it's not important and can be left on default iff Double intensity is set
Hey guys, i have a question, is it worth playing a defense with ball player when only using 1 cb? Or a central defender?
Its a minor question but i am losing my mind at all of my cb injuries
Oh, and about the video, it helped my a little bit, because i am obsessed with training young talents, even though i am sitting with one of my best schalke teams with all the money i could have, but i still like to produce big talents for my team without using much money on big players, only when i need some depth for one position if the youngsters i find are not good enough for what i need them to do
18:48 - I'm pretty sure stacking training types like this increases injuries (from my experience).
I have a habit of flicking over to the training screen each time a player is injured in training, and in my experience (though I've not tested the theory) they came on days when that player's unit has a higher intensity. As a result, I balanced out my schedules to try not to push any particular unit too hard on any particular day.
It'd be a hard thing to test, but I'd also be curious if it effected the ability of your coaches. I.e. Basically giving your attacking coaches the day off and then being swamped the next.
On the flip-side: What's the benefit of stacking like this? I've heard phrases like "focus" and "theming", but it there a theory that FM actually has theming buffs?
I have accidentally been cracked at youth development always on fm I would send my young players to leagues they would dominate in so they would play all the time. Never considered match rating had any effect so I had been using loans right especially a lot of the time that club was an affiliate so he'd be there for a few years settled.
You are the best mate 💙
Which is more important between league reputation and playing time though?
Should I loan a player to league 1 where the reputation and quality are slightly higher, or should I loan them to league 2 where they'll play more regularly and probably have a slightly higher average match rating?
Just because you're wearing a shirt from a Belgian team (KV Mechelen) i'm subscribing !
Wife walks in on me in the gym watching the start of this video. She’s giving me funny looks and asking lots of questions about exactly what I’m watching now. 😂
Should've out the Vince Mcmahon falling back meme at the intro :D
You touched upon young players developing Physicals first, then Technicals, then Mentals. I currently have all of my U18's with a Physical type of additional focus. Does that make sense to you?
Late to the party Z, Do you think as long as the 'developing' player's reputation is below the league reputation they will still develop? Playing a wonderkid u21 player in the u23's I believe doesn't help if they are above the reputation and ability of the league as a whole. What is your opinion?
I will admit ever since I've started using your training guides, my players are improving like crazy. However in that time, two of my players have been injured for 9 months in training. Now this may just be unlucky but when I did my own training I got up to 2070 odd with only one serious injury.
The medical centre says "we've suffered 64% LESS injuries than what we would expect" which is great but do you have any advice on avoiding long term injuries?
I'm not sure it's related, I still let the AI do training and I have had several long term injuries.
I’ve had an increase in ‘small’ injuries but not had anything long term
Maybe try double checking training intensities that each player is set on, and maybe not use automatic if it’s too intense for the player. But u can also change what the automatic intensities are for different levels of condition (sorry if I didn’t explain that very well)
It does sound like your previous training regime was not enough for your players to properly develop and that does reduce injuries by virtue of having less chances for injuries to happen. For example, if they train 2 times a day with a 0.5% chance of an injury each and then 3 times with 0.5% chance, you will see more injuries even if the players are perfectly fine with training 3 times.
That the injuries were bad is just bad luck most likely.
@@alexleathem1188 Well I used to train max on normal intensity but I noticed once I changed to double we started winning games. I've stuck with double since but I do make sure if they aren't at full bar they train normal or half. I'm thinking it's a lack of fitness coaches, we only have two, so hopefully the board give us more coaches soon.
Great, informative video!
I've been using the Ajax TIPS model for youth training on a load of saves. Always had great results. But always wanted to know what to do with my B Team players who were too old for youth. Will deffo give these a go 👍
What’s the Ajax TIPS model?
Technique, Insight, Personality and Speed. Each week focusing on one of the attributes to round out the player. I found a cut and paste download on steam. I really like it. There’s also weeks for attacking and defensive work
@@garrettsheridan1779 ok thanks for the info. I’ll look into it more, I like the sound of it
@@garrettsheridan1779 Thanks for the info, can't seem to find them on steam workshop, unless it's the ones by FM Studio?
My bad. It’s on the workshop for FM21. By Passion4FM. Search Technique - Youth Training Schedule (Ajax TIPS MODEL) by Passion4FM. Let me know if any issues
very interesting topic! thanks.
I have a question, when I arrange friendlies for my B-team (in order to develop my 18+ year olds), is it recommended to choose opponents of higher reputation - or does that not count here and I should rather go for easy cannonfodder for better match ratings?
Pick a fair opponent. Don’t let them get wrecked by a higher reputation club just to kill their confidence.
are there any insights to when the scale between reputation of the league and good matchratings/results tips?
I almost never loan out players because of multiple reasons and the most important one is that the time they spent away from the club dosn't count for the time the player needs to get the local player status for the european club competitions.
In general my training facilities and backroom staff is also better than of most clubs interested in loaning the players. It's better to keep them at the club to receive training with great coaches and being mentored by the right players. I also fill up my reserves team with experienced players i can get on a free transfer or for cheap and for low wages to ensure that i have strong reserves squad that wins a lot. And you also don't lose much money if these experienced players get mad and want to leave because they never play for the first team. Just let them go and get a new one.
I just loan out players when i'm managing a club in the UK and the player can't get a work permit. Then i will buy them anyway and loan them to a small club in one of the top 5 european leagues where the player is starting almost every game. Half a season as a starter at Portimonense in Portugal and you can cancel the loan because the player will get his work permit.
what do you recommend for developing goalkeeper who have low rushing out attribute? I played different saves with different teams for couple of seasons but can't achieve any gk's improvement on rushing out attribute. aditional focus-gk sweeping didn't work... (sorry about my english... i'm still trying to learn..)
Does friendly matches in the reserve tem count for the development?
I chose to start as the Hungry Lions in South Africa. I have been leaning towards youth due to the finances and three seasons in i'm now in the top tier. The problem i am having is that my youth players are in part being poached, even though i cant seem to offer them a contract myself. What set of circumstances am i missing that allows teams to poach my players? Can i exploit this in my favour? P.S. i am using the Xbox one platform.
You can bring them up to just training so you can have them play u18s but also be in mentoring groups and have higher quality training and experience without having them in a full first team squad
Hi Zealand, because younger players develop physical abilities faster, is it beneficial to include more physical training in U21 training?
When should i use the defending, midfielder and attacking players training?
Never been so early on one of your videos before
This has always been my issue in the future of the teams, it's been vibes that I've used to develop players
vibes and whoever has the best name
Dear mr Zealand,
I play in the bundesliga ad karlsruhe, do my 2nd team doesnt do anything at all as it was in an unplayable league when i started this.
As a result my 2nd team rarely plays matches, do you advice to religiously schedule friendlies ?
Is matchrating more important than the quality of the team they play ? I can arrange friendlies against super low teams but not against bundesliga 2 or 3 teams and expect them to use their main squad
I always assumed that playing against extremely poor opp
Will the training schedule link for non steam download be compatible with fm20 for example? If not what exactly is the schedule for the u23/reserves? Is the same as the first team for example?
I’ve found a way that’s worked for me on my current save. 8 seasons in, send them on loan to Hamburg, they have a bad season, play them as a bit part player and then all of a sudden they find form and become one of the best in the league over the next 2 years. Worked wonders for one of my wonder kids and getting there with 2 others
ffs mate, you make spreadsheet simulator entertaining videos, fucking love it
I have question that may seem stupid.There are 3 different trainings focusing on def,att and mid.How should I apply them? There are units but there are no specific training schedules for them right? Please help me out
Do you have a trick or 'hack' for getting your two reserve team managers pick the players you want developed? I was hoping for an instruction in FM23 where, like in real life, certain players are given all the match time in the reserves.
What exactly is the best way to go about filling out your u23/u18 teams? Obviously you can’t have 5 star potential on everyone down there, so is signing a bunch of free agents without top end potential, purely to aid the development of the actual first team prospects the way to go?
Do you actually manage the second team or u-teams as well in terms of starting 11 or do you let the coaches there do that?
I'm pretty sure you can opt to do that but I trust my second team and u-team manager. Look under staff -> responsibility to change this.
Hi Zealand. would you buy yourself an old player who is ok with no playing time and has a good mentor personality and put him in your youth team, or does he have to have playing time to be highly influential? Having some 30-40 year old model citizen mentoring your youth team prospects could solve all the problems in one go when this works
teams do that in real life and I've often considered on FM, was gonna do it with Zlatan but he wanted big wages and two years, didn't feel worth the money even though he would have had a great impact on Sesko's development.
I’m playing as Ajax and the reserve team is playing in the first division of Holland. If they are too good for that league, I loan players out in the same division as Ajax or to foreign clubs in the highest division like Belgium or Germany.
Thoose youth training do i need to switch between them weekly? so attacking then midfield and etc.
What is the effect of playing in friendly matches on development? Some youth/reserve leagues do not play very many games so would it be beneficial to use friendlies to get more match experience for development purposes?
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Everytime ive sent wonderkids on loan they rather don't do well or just don't improve at all even from 18-20, that's with keeping these things in mind
Have you tried how much the league rep and playing time matter? Lets say I get two offers for the player I want to loan out.
The first: a rotation player in Ligue 1, middle of the park training facilities.
The second: starting player in Ligue 2, middle of the park training facilities.
Where will he develope the most? I've always picked the option where he is a first team player. Should I reconsider my life choices?
always pick which one offers more playing time.
phew thank goodness the u23 games count. I can actually keep some kids around to plug the injury holes in my first team
Zealand, I usually keep my good youngsters on first team and just make them always available for u19 team, so that they train with world class coaches instead of whatever garbage rated coaches I can attract to work as u19 coach, do you think it is still better to keep them in u19 even if there is a huge gap between coach quality between senior and u19 teams? Yes they miss a day training but the other 5-6 days of much higher quality can't make up for that?
Go to "Training" and "Units" at the top - you can add your youngsters to the senior-groups, allowing them to train with the senior players, while keeping them in your U19-team. Basically the same thing, but you won't have to "set them as available" for the U-team.
@@fckrocks
Yes but then his question remains. The youngsters have better coaches but miss out on several full training days and have matches directly before and after heavy training loads
The world-class coaches you speak of wouldn't have high "working with youngsters" that is needed at u18 level.
I would love to see some actual results in these videos so that I get the chance to compare it with the success of my own schedules and then make an informed decision which one would be the better choice. Sure, the results you share might not 100% apply to my save, but at least one gets a rough idea of the numbers we're talking about.
The issue is because of the unique nature of every player and situation there isn’t really a universal metric for who exactly good each training is, this was the best we were able to make it our tests but if you’ve gone through the trouble of testing and building one for yourself then you’re already ahead of 99% of people
@@ZealandonYT yeah, I'm aware of this issue and tried to acknowledge it in my first comment. The most "universal" metric would probably be a predefined database that is saved on the first day (so that the CA and PA are set // possibly add a transfer ban to all loaded teams/leagues, too) with an equally predefined tactic that is used across all teams of the respective club (which should thus lead to similar results in most simulations). Obviously the DB could be standardised even more but that would be hard to do for a single person. Then once the DB and tactic are in place, one puts the respective training schedules in for the upcoming season and simulate the season. Sure there will be some variances but it should give you a rough idea of how effective the respective schedule is/how effective it can be. If nothing else, adding some player progress screenshots could add some more visually appealing content (who doesn't love some "player development p*rn" with green arrows everywhere? ^^ ).
Link for the article at 18:25?
Should I use that youth 18's schedule only if I have good U18 staff?
My reserve team kinda plays 0 matches. Only at the end of the season suddenly there's fake stats. Does putting players in there help too?
But what if you have better senior training facilities & your youth teams play on the same day? (In regards to youth players training with the first team?).
So I have two players I want to develop but cant guarantee game time And have a 5 ⭐️ training facilities is the best thing is to do is to leave them in the u23’s ? Or should I loan them out I’m arsenal by the way
What a shirt!! 💛❤️ KV Mechelen
When you doing the next SYS? 'Cause I'm all out of ideas. It's not that I even have a bad save. A very good one I feel. I just don't have anything left to defeat Fiendish Dr. PSG.
Have never really been too sure about having individual role training, if you don't have any sessions in your weekly schedule that focus on individual roles how does it really help attribute development????
When I get an 18 yr old in, I tend to keep them around just so they can be a homegrown player but it does damage their progress probably. I can't really find a good balance on this, I know you only need 4 homegrown for CL but if you only keep 4 around and send the rest away then you're shackled to those 4 players and forced to give them whatever they demand as you have no alternative, so that's not a good look. Curse you Dortmund for not having a usable u23 team that actually plays in a league! *shakes fist*
Yeah I tend to do that too if I know that the player will be in the club long term and I already have some troubles with the registration. But don’t do it if u already got enough players for such registration or have other players that are well on their way to the homegrown status
It’s worse when Dortmund U-18s are one of the best U-18 teams in the world and they don’t develop for 2/3 years between 18-21.
You can often get away with a decent at best backup goalie, at least one homegrown player will be someone that will be good enough for squad rotation, and if you are out one player, you can almost always get away with an empty spot. Especially if you have a collection of u-21 that don't have to be registered.
Remember that squad players are important and valuable. A 2* 18 year old with 3* potential and a good personality is more than good enough to keep on the team as a backup/rotation player long term. He's never going to carry your team, but you need the depth and registration. Even a team of galacticos need reliable water carriers to give them some rotation. And you're better off with them being homegrowns that contribute to a positive environment in the squad.
How are the defense/ midfield/ attacker development plans supposed to be used? Am I just supposed to make the whole team train with the personalized schedules? Or can I pick different schedules for example just for the attackers?
I don't use the plans but pretty sure it's for the team training schedule so I suppose you must pick one to focus on.
hi zealand are you planning on releasing versions of these for fm24???
Zealand, does it make a difference in Mentoring if a player is in another postition/slot on the field than the most influential player?
I know it's a late reply but I think there's a possibility that the same position does something because I once asked my assistant to decide the mentoring groups and he made four groups, each for GKs, defenders, midfielders, and forwards. Some players with AM position are in the midfielder group and some in the forwards but the GK and defender group consist of players of the respective positions. Maybe it increases the rate of trait/personality transfer but I'm not sure on this.
Meanwhile, I once had a player who gained dwell on ball but nobody else in his mentor group or my team had that trait. So I'm still unsure whether new traits are randomly generated related to the player's position/role, inherited from another player, or both.
Can you look into something for me and maybe make a video on it if you can do it. Retired numbers I am managing Birmingham City the number 22 is retired but I recently bought back Jude Bellingham after promotion to the Premier League. But I can’t assign him his number 22 shirt is there a way or can you find a way of doing this. ?
Does the league a player is loaned to being loaded have an effect?