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[YA] The best things to do to pull good players

Written by ricky_96

A good management of the YAs can make you earn a lot of money. In the meantime you can also help your U20 & NT squads: in fact the more players are pulled, the stronger your national teams will be. If you want to learn what to do to be a good manager, read this short guide!

For little HT nations like Bangladesh, it is really important to manage the Youth Academies well. In fact there are only few teams, so the possibilities to pull a player who will be part of the U20 are quite high. What’s more is that little nations’ young players are really expensive on the market, so if you don’t want or you can’t train them in your senior team, you’ll earn a lot of money by selling them. That’s why I decided to write this little guide, that will allow you to learn some tricks and thanks to them making your talents grow well will be easier.
The first things you have to do after opening your YAs are hiring 3 scouts (or 2 if you don’t have much money and you want to save it), because the more scouts you have, the better possibilities you have to find a good player, and put your team into a 4 teams series; if you do it, you’ll be able to play more matches (when the league ends you can play two matches in the same week) and your players will have less possibilities to be disqualified (at the end of every championship yellow and red cards are removed). As it happens for the senior team, you play a league match per week, while you can only organize a friendly every three weeks. Every match must be played with “Play creatively” tactic, so that it’s easier to discover if one of the players has got a speciality.

You can call your scouts every seven days; here are some pieces of advice to follow:
- Never accept when the scout finds a 17 years old player
- Accept a 16 years old player only if the scout tells you he has a good skill (at least passable)
- Always accept a 15 years old player, unless you know his overall skill is weak
- Always accept the 3rd player (or the 2nd one if you only have 2 scouts) to remove him from the players pool if he’s bad and then fire him (while if he’s good you naturally have to keep him)
In fact a player can only be promoted to the senior team when he’s 17 years old and he’s been in the YAs for a season or more.

At the beginning, you don’t know the skills of your players, but you have to discover them. Every player has a current skill, who can be improved by training and a maximal skill, which is the best he can reach. The primary training allows you to discover the current skill of one of the players who receive 100% training (i.e. if you train defense, the current defending skill of one of your defenders will be revealed), while the secondary makes you know the maximal one. When a player reaches the top in one ability, the bar becomes yellow. Because of you can’t choose the players who enter your team, you have to decide what to train looking at your best players’ skills. It’s important to remember that setting the same training as primary and secondary gives a malus, so if you have a good forward it is better to train scoring and shooting, instead of scoring + scoring.