Influence of newgens quantity of an affiliate for youth intake

[Serial42]

Beyond the youth recruitment structures of the affiliated club, is there an influence of having more quality young players between a club that brings out a lot of newgen and others that don't.

Indeed, some clubs have large structures but do not come out of newgens every year according to the transfer history.

Do you have any idea on that?

[DMVian]

Good question. In my first season, I somehow added Feirense in Portugal as an affiliate with the youth option. They have pretty solid youth facilities, recruiting, etc. they then managed to get promoted in season 1 after I locked in affiliate status. In my second season, I got to the Greek youth intake window and had zero Portugese players. But I got one or two Czech newgens, which is location of one of my other affiliate.

I'm wondering if that is just plain poor luck, or if the game, maybe realistically, has said young Feirense youth would rather play in Portugal than Greece.