It’s probably more realistic to use an ‘underdog’ club that is more likely to take the academy approach. Which club you choose to start with isn’t so important for this challenge, you can do it with any club you like. Holding onto your best players while you pursue silverware Clubs Finding players with decent stats and/or high potentialģ. Scouting enough players to fill a squadĢ. The difficulty of the youth challenge tends to evolve in three phases:ġ. Silverware should also be the ultimate goal, regardless of the team you start with. You should still be looking to meet the board objectives and avoid being fired.
This is more of a restriction-based challenge, so there isn’t a fixed aim. OPTIONAL: Use the Scouting Ladders system to mix your scouting habits up.However, how you play the game is up to you! I think it’s more fun to struggle to have enough players initially and make a bad start to your league campaign. Doing a ‘Save & Reload’ on your scouting reports is frowned upon.Release them – best to save this option for the lower rated players you won’t receive many offers for as you can only release two players per season.Loan them out on a short term basis (means you can’t use them and they’ll have a better chance of being sold in the next window).Sell them, even if their value isn’t met.Real players should be shipped out as quickly as possible:.You aren’t allowed to put a real player in your squad, even if ‘they’re just on the bench and won’t even play’.If you don’t have enough players for a competitive game, you must forfeit the game and take the 3-0 loss.Until you have a large squad, you should be signing and promoting any youth players you can, even ones with low overall and potential.During this time you should value Experience over Judgement when hiring scouts as they will deliver more players. This means you need to build up a squad of at least 18 players very quickly.The exception to this rule is the very first pre-season tournament which you may use to get your real players into form so that they can be sold.Each matchday squad must consist entirely of youth players (starting XI and bench).You can’t sign youth players from other teams. For the Youth Challenge, when I say ‘youth players’ I specifically mean those that came through your own academy.Basically, you’re only allowed to use youth players from your own youth academy. This is a fairly simple one to understand and really popular.