Hopefully you found these tips useful! Like the video if you did, and feel free to check out my Newcastle save on my channel linked in the description as we go for 5K subs - Thanks All! - Jake

Another thing to consider, you can actually negotiate your affiliate club deals so that they send players into your invisible youth teams. It actually says this in game.

after all the years of playing FM i only developed one real world star player highest possible , he was center mid and PSG bought him for 400 mil E , yeah i cried that day because he was so loyal but club stuff refused to not sell him , he was just erfect player ,that was my best Fm run ever

Great video, just had a woeful youth intake at Leicester in my first season so great timing 😉

Affiliate clubs do increase your youth intake, only if the affiliate relationship has the affiliate club send their youth players to your academy to train. This is how clubs like Borussia Dortmund will get great Australian players. It is a specific kind of relationship. An unproven one, that I believe, is Youth Coaches knowledge or nationality has some affect. I always seem to get newgens from the foreign nation of my youth coaches' nationalities.

As a youth academy only player since ~2014 I am glad to see some many more people taking an interest in this side of the game. The more people that show an interest, the more SI will look to develop it in the future... hopefully! Keep up the good work fella.

Amazing tip with the preferred formation, I kept wondering why I got DM's when I don't play a system with DM's.

I think you’re right about the last point. I hired defour as one of my u18 coaches at ballymena utd and after a few years I got an elite youth come through that was Belgian.

You forgot to the most important one actually take note of when the youth Intake appears and go actually look at other clubs don't forget these are essentially free agents so won't cost you anything. My best ever wonderkid came in bornemouths youth I take but I signed him up based off his stats. Let's say it worked out pretty well 774 games 854 goals at one point he went 3 seasons without scoring less than 100 goals a season his worst was 1st season when he netted 15

Great tips sir, I have an awful time with youth, I will implement some of these, I play on xbox and tablet, so don't have a great pc

Great explanation about the first year youth intake! It was easy to understand but lot of people dont get it.

Fantastic video, in depth and well articulated. Thank you for the tips.

Another great guide from Jake. Could you do a video on how to develop high potential players that do come through? Loans are the obvious one but how effective are they really?

I always start in national league north and my youth intakes are only bad first time in league 2 then my first two years in the premiership but that’s down to facilities and everything needing improving

As a youth developer manager (This is literally the only thing i do in this game since Championship Manager days) I turn what ever club into Prime Era of Barcelona. Some clubs take longer then others obviously. But its a true passion of mine This video is spot on, i like it very much! All the tips you have mentioned is 100% correct, some more effective then other ofc. But heres some few tips that i did not hear. -Hire Internationally capped staff from the country you are in. Their national reputation will boost your club reputation. Normally i make sure a former national hero is the u18 manager. (Normally he have kinda bad Coach stats but high determination and motivation etc) He will also develop with time to become better. Example: Zlatan in Sweden. -Spend alot of money on youth coaches, Fitness, Goalkeeper, etc etc. If you have the highest avarege staff will make people see your club in better light. This is not a hidden fact, players often ask when signing contracts to improve coach staff etc, this also would mean AI Youth are looking at those factors when choosing club. Affiliate clubs: Always make sure to get a couple of them with rule: To send their youth to train with your club. And you would prefer to have a couple from your own country that your club is in. And also in countries with historically good youth regens, also make sure those countries are loaded up into your save to make sure those countries keep up to standards) But last and most important, patience. When your squad is on the top. Many of your youth intakes will feel mediokre, with maybe 1-3 Good youths per season. But just like in real life. A Golden Generation appears once every ~10 year and you can never know where you are in the Cycle :) Also something i cannot confirm. Apart from your Manager reputation. You will also get new stats depending on your actions like: Sign young player for first team Use young players in low priority cups Etc. I do believe the more of these that appeals to young players you have the better. And this goes for your u18 manager to.

I just steal everyone else’s for pennies usually, I just go to transfers and onto the youth intake option, have to check it often as not every clubs youth intakes are same day

Youth dev is so frustrating. You spend a lot on all the facilities needed with little result. It’s the same with loans out of your 18 year olds. Fm should reward players that make the effort

Good video 👍

All my tests have shown me, that the first youth team IS the strongest on AVERAGE. I experimented with the editor, and almost always things were like this. Although new youth comes after improvements in condition and reputation, the average level is the same, or worse. Sometimes, true stars appears, but they are exceptions from the rest of the team. P.s. sorry for the bad English

I’ve seen everyone say that the dynamic youth rating is based on success of clubs in the nation but would it not make more sense to be based on the national teams performance? If it were to be based on clubs, nations outside of Europe would never be able to match European youth ratings. Let’s take China as an example, I believe they’re the number 1 or 2 league in Asia, and quite consistently dominate the Asian Champions League, yet their youth rating is average at best. This would just turn Europe into an even bigger powerhouse than it already is. If they used national teams performance, we would have more obscure nations move up, and they even have a dynamic ranking page for all nations in the world already. What are your thoughts on this?

I never thought about 1st youth intake. It is not statistically significant as I only play one club in FM22 in Slovakia and my 1st youth intake produced CM that currently plays for Chelsea. I haven't had player like him in next 6 intakes. Upgraded my facilities and hoping for the best :) Thanks on tip to get better Head of Youth. Cheers

My HOYD's reputation is only 1/2 star, but he is professional, 19 in both working with youths and judging potential and he does a great job at getting kids into my system imo. His predecessor was 2.5 stars and "balanced"" with 14 in judging potential, and he was always hit or miss with the youth intakes. No consistency and a fair amount of undesirable personalities. Even the ones who looked like they would be great 4.5 - 5 stars would have some serious flaw like 4 work rate or low DET. So I don't think it matters.

Brought in a Head of Youth development of 4 star rating. In the next season, He has got me 3 players of 5 Star rating. 👍

For me it always seems to be the second or third intake that is best for me. The first one is usually shit

Thanks for the video. Any feedback or knowledge if the U18's Manager has any impact at all on Youth Intakes?

How do you add players to your U19 team?

Why does that new gen look like Jim Halpert?

The more they play in the first team the more they improve I always build a great team then only sign 16-21 year old

fun fact about Iceland. There's 1 in 22 chance that you play for the national team :')

A few thoughts. 1. I hate how they do Stars 'Relative'. If the guy is a garbage truck driver, rate him garbage truck driver. Upper Division Teams have no use for him, but my team can use a few Garbage Truck Drivers, and can afford them. This way, when I get a legit guy on the Team that a big team might be interested in I can understand the process of Transfer. As it stands, I have an MVP from a Team that was the Championship Runner-Up (We lost the Championship)... and yet no one is interested. Probably because he was the Best Garbage Truck Driver in the League (It was the MLS, we're bound to have some legit World Players but we probably still haven't caught up to Countries that have been serious about Futbol for a long time). 2. Maybe we solve this with Two Ratings... the Global Stars and the Club Stars. My GM should be able to say "Here in Podunk, kid is a 4.5... but on the World Stage, kid buys tickets and sits in the bleachers." 3. The thing I look at over Stars now is what their Position suggests are the Core/Secondary Abilities. Then I take them, add them all up, divide them by how many abilities... ta-da, I have a 20 Point Scale. At MY Current level, if you rock an 11, you're probably a Starter. I do have to be careful, although I don't use a Weighted System yet, because a 19 in Determination can skew things. But at my level, that 19 in Determination, put into a Mentor Group... might pay off more than another guy on the Roster being just as futile on the field as everyone else and NOT providing Mentor Value.

My Head of Youth’s preferred formation and tactical style has changed over the course of the season to my preferred formation and tactical style..perhaps there is a dynamic element there?

Elliot Anderson is your hot prospect? The Hackerman has arrived!

You guys are worried about youth intake, I have to struggle with my team's captain being disappointed because I took his armband away and put it on him. Yes, you read that correctly

I am with Swansea in Sky championship and one kid 15 years old from my Youth intakes have Guide value 19-26 millions! is it a bug? or this happens in Fm22 Never saw anything like this before in my 15 years of Fm user

Not just a summer, the entire season : max 6 under 21 signings a season for English teams in EPL

Can't wait for the full release, that's when I install Logo's etc. Hope there a name change for leagues and clubs out quickly. Manchester UFC looks awful.

the subtitles are saying "wounded kid" lol

Youth coaching improves CA of the players coming through.

If you want your youth intake to display full five start potential, then sell your star players…. I’m stars are relative to your team…

Use fm genie scout.

The first is always the best. I have FMRTE and I always check the potential etc.

In years pf playing only with small teams because i dont like major teams i have never had a world class player even thouth i had the best staff posible everything updated to state of art facilities and being years in a row club nr1 in the world even winning ucl 7 times in a row becoming boring to play. So i believe that random chance fucked me every time

You want to know why the first intake seems to be the best? Its because you normally improve your team after year 1. The "star" rating you get are relative - relative to the rest of your team. So if you start with a poor team, a poorer quality player who is relatively better than your other players will have a higher star rating for his CA or PA. By year two, year three etc - if youve brought in higher quality players your best youth prospects will have to have a potential ability BETTER than your new star players to have 4/5 stars. So what you're probably seeing is your overall team improving - not that your youth intake players are getting worse or not better.

My board is obsessed with the youth academy and they accept every request that has to do with it.

Good luck playing 100 years in Indonesia to find the next Messi 🤣

I will definitely look for a skin that shows percentages rather than hearts and thumbs. The argument to remove percentages "as not realistic" is weak at its best. irl you can see the player... here you cant. but at least the number tells you something -and more than those shitty icons. If you really follow their reasoning the attributes shoult be in numbers either. Of course they should. Don't remove good stuff.

If you win, you dont need youth wonderkids... if you need wonderkids, you are not winning... 🤣

Ajax😍