Help! Shortage of under 23s

[cjhill44]

Hi guys, need a bit of advice please.

Starting 2nd season with Man Utd. I was advised not to renew contracts for a lot of the under 23s as they had no potential at the club so I let them go.

The ones that do have potential have been sent on loan so now I barely have enough players to field a team for under 23 matches. I am unable to recall them. 

Its still pre-season 

I have made a few first team players available but ideally need to get some youngsters in. Can I ask the board to do this? 

[JordanMilly]

You'd have to scout for some young players to buy, you can't just ask the board to do that for you.

[Maldini's Heir]

2 hours ago, cjhill44 said:

Hi guys, need a bit of advice please.

Starting 2nd season with Man Utd. I was advised not to renew contracts for a lot of the under 23s as they had no potential at the club so I let them go.

The ones that do have potential have been sent on loan so now I barely have enough players to field a team for under 23 matches. I am unable to recall them. 

Its still pre-season 

I have made a few first team players available but ideally need to get some youngsters in. Can I ask the board to do this? 

I play in Serie A but I've loaded up a few extra leagues (Germany, Spain, France and England) and at the end of each season I go through the youth leagues in each of these countries and sign the youth players with the best records.

For example in Germany, which is a really fertile country for youth players, I go to one the of the teams e.g. Bayern, click on their youth team and then click through to the page where I can view the Detailed Player stats. This gives the age of the players. I then try and sign the players with the most goals, assists, clean sheets etc. 

I got carried away doing this and ended up signing too many youth team players!

I am now going to limit myself to the three each season so I can properly develop them.

[cjhill44]

Ok great will try looking at the other leagues that are playable and see if I can get a few names in, just need enough to put a team and subs out. It would be nice to have an intake of academy players as well but I think this happens around March 

[Mitchutd]

8 hours ago, cjhill44 said:

Ok great will try looking at the other leagues that are playable and see if I can get a few names in, just need enough to put a team and subs out. It would be nice to have an intake of academy players as well but I think this happens around March 

You can ask the board for a Trial day, that might turn up some players worth hiring.

I've found it a challenge to keep these teams. You either have to accept that you'll need to keep players that ultimately will be short of first team potential, or always have quite thin teams.

[Maldini's Heir]

9 hours ago, cjhill44 said:

Ok great will try looking at the other leagues that are playable and see if I can get a few names in, just need enough to put a team and subs out. It would be nice to have an intake of academy players as well but I think this happens around March 

The really interesting thing I found was that the scouts were not rating players who were actually performing. So you might a player with the highest  number of goals or assists or man of the matches, yet the scouts rate him as two star player. Doing this gives you a real sense that you've uncovered some gems.

[jcp1417]

I always liked to pluck the random 21 year old from some lower league team. True that his PA would be crap but it's a good story