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I don't quite remember the exact message in the "promise" or what to call it, but i promoted several players from my u19 team to the first team and used them a lot. I do not recall the message being about having to "sign young players". I am quite sure i would have taken that into account when i read it. I'll report it as a bug when i get home from work. Needless to say, really gutted that my save got ruined because of this, especially since everything was going so well and i had a terrific youth intake aswell.

I am quite furious right now and i am not sure if it's a bug or if there is something i can do about it. I am playing as Sochaux in France, and halfway through the first half of the season i asked my board to increase the youth intake, seeing as my goal with the save was to use as many homegrown players as possible. They agreed to increase the junior coaching but for the recruitment they wanted me to promise to "give young players first-team opportunities" to at least two players. I figured this would be an easy promise since my whole team is young anyway. Fast forward to the end of the season i and i have cruised to an easy promotion. I have also extensively used young players (i mean 90% of my squad is very young) and even played like the last 5-6 games with mostly youngsters (17 year olds) starting, since i had won the league. The board is very pleased with me and everything and i have a B rating. After the season is done i am then immediately, without any warning, fired; for "failing to give first-team opportunities to our young players". Absolutely shocking. There is nowhere in the game to even see this invisible "promise" that i made earlier in the season, all i can i see is a happy board. Also, i have gone way over the promise with using tons of youngsters all season. I also got a fantastic youth-intake with a golden generation, and it is now all down in the drain because "the most complete game ever" can't function properly. Has anyone experienced this before? Is there anything i can do to avoid my game being ruined? Is this actually a bug? I am fuming. If this means the end of this save i am not gonna bother to pick up this travesty again.

It's good that the AI will rotate their squad and give playing time to youngsters but it needs to be tweaked so that it's used sensibly. City or Liverpool wouldn't leave out 5 of their star players in the opening match of the season vs. Luton. That would just be bizarre. Rotating youngsters in should be used more often if they have a tight schedule, or if the match doesn't have a big importance. Let's say City are leading the league comfortably and are playing Real Madrid in the UCL mid-week, it would absolutely make sense to rest many star players.

Any changes to youth development/recruitment?

The funny thing is they marketed it as "the most complete edition to date", but the game is not complete at all. They seem to make the game more incomplete with every edition. It's honestly hilarious.

Couldn't agree more. I am currently not bothering starting my long-term LLM save until i get any updates on whether or not this has been fixed. There is something wrong about youth development for sure, and it was the same in FM23. In my beta-save i noticed many times that i found a really good wonderkid at the age of 15/16, who looked destined to become a big star, but i started noticing that they did not seem to develop at all. I had one guy who i was finally able to sign when he turned 18 just to notice he had barely had any development at all, and didn't start developing in my squad either. I get that not all players should reach their potential, but it happens way too often. The same happened in FM23. On all my saves so far in this game, Estevao, who i believe has like one of the best PA in the game(?) is still in the Palmeiras B team at the age of 19-20 with barely any development. There are many things about FM24 that bothers me (AI rotation and IQ, player valuations, player wages, promises etc.) but as someone who mostly enjoys to develop their own players instead of just buying wonderkds this is just gamebreaking for me. I am tired of having a "golden generation" that just turns out to be a complete failure.