Football Manager 2020 – How to develop youth players
I don’t know a single person playing FM20 who doesn’t love developing youth players. It’s a great feeling when a talent you nurtured for multiple seasons finally gets first-team minutes. This short guide will tell you all you need to know about developing your highly talented youth prospects in FM20.
- Improve youth coaches
- Hire coaches who specialize in a certain aspect of training
- Good “Working With Youngsters”
- Hire a good Head of Youth Development
- Look for a positive personality
- Look for key attributes
- Determination
- Work Rate
- Natural Fitness
- Mentoring
- Create groups with appropriate positions
- Use influential players with high Determination
- Use influential players with positive personalities
- Train your youth players appropriately
- Mold the training to your tactical requirements
- Correct roles
- Correct individual training
- Mold the training to your tactical requirements
- Game time is everything
- If you can’t guarantee minutes for your youth prospects look for a loan where the player is a first-team player or even a key player
- Look out for decent facilities at the clubs loaning your players
- The higher the league, the better but a player should never be out of his depth
- Development Center
- Keep tabs on your youth players via the Development Center