[Player development in B-team (active)]

 

20 horas atrás, Brian disse:

It's a fantastic way to develop your youngsters. The fact that they're playing in the second division of a country (number 38th in the world). This means the best talents play there when they're 17 or 18 y/o and then at 18/19 when playing time matters most their in the first team or another league to get playing time. 

When I'm managing Ajax, I use the following method:

• First year: Ajax U18
• Second year: Jong Ajax (Netherlands second division)
• Third year: Move to the first team, loan or sell. 

Maybe at Volendam, you want them to play for 2 years at your Jong team for development. In real life, most Jong Ajax players play between 40-60 Jong games before making the jump to the first team.

Thanks! Great to have insight from someone on the same league system.

[Player development in B-team (active)]

I have the same question.

Playing with Volendam, currently on Netherland's first division, playing CL etc., and recently my B team started playing in Netherland's second division, which has 2,5 stars reputation. My facilities are 4,5 stars or better, all coaching areas with 4 or better, including the B team.

Are the games played for the B team enough for development as far as playing time goes?

[FM22: B Team with invisible matches]

I'm playing FM22 with Volendam (dutch team), won Europa League in 2027 and currently on Champions for the first time. I noticed that my U18 is now competing at the UEFA youth league, so far so good.

But I've also just noticed that my B Team is apparently playing invisible valid league matches with amateur teams from Portugal, and only Portugal (at least so far?). I can't see these matches on fixtures/schedule, and only noticed them because (1) I had some loans there with fees after x league games - that would never trigger because they were just emergency backups - and I received a massage saying one of them was close to triggering the clause; and (2) the players were tired when I wanted to play them in an easy league game.

I could find the games through the 'form' of individual players, and some of them are even being played in positions that I don't use. The games are also invisible on the clubs they played against, and their players dont even have the information on their 'form'.

I recently added Portugal main league as competition, but with 'view only below'.

Is this some kind of european competition? Since Netherlands don't have any league for B teams, did I somehow got pulled into a lower portuguese league? How can I see the schedule for them?