retired_barbiej

Until recently I never bothered with youth training as i believed the players would mature on their own. In my last save with Portsmouth, the club managed to build state of the art facilities which provided me with decent players but to cut the story short i'll ask this question.

How do you train you're youngsters, I mean do you put more emphasis on technique and general control of the ball, or do you focus more on the physical side of football? If so is its successful. I ask this because recently one of the youths broke into my first team a striker now he had great pace and control of the ball but he lacked stamina and strength meaning he can last more than 10 minutes on the pitch and is often pushed off the ball

retired_elpata

In one of my other games I managed to get to 2037, I never touched youth training at all. I found the default ones to be really good for my youths.

What I did do thought was when they turned 17 move them to my normal schedules and let them develop naturally, especially the physical side of things. A player of the age of 17 can increase a lot by the time he's 22-24 in terms of strength etc.

I never liked the thought of training youngsters, because if it goes wrong and you overtrain them in a certain area, then you won't get the best out of them.

retired_krissyski

This is one of many aspects of the new training that I like very much because it is a very realistic limitation. Youth training should not be overly stressful, nor should it focus on one or two specific areas to the exclusion of all else.