The quality of the Football Manager experience depends a lot on the good management of the club’s resources. There is, of course, the possibility of starting a save with a European giant, but it is common for players to choose to walk from the lower divisions. In this scenario, developing and mining young promises is an essential move. And how to do it in the best way? Below, tips that can help in the process of researching and evolving future stars.
Invest in your observation center
Beforehand, it is important to assess the level of structure of the Observation Center. Depending on the chosen club, the lack of budget can make this expansion more time consuming. The better the quality of the facilities, the greater the chance of a young person with potential to develop – this added to the good professionals.
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And about good professionals, reiterating a scenario of a club without great possibility of managing the budget, it is essential to have at least one scout with satisfactory indicators of adaptability, assessment of current capacity and assessment of potential capacity.
Adaptability has to do with the ability of the scout, as the name implies, to adapt to the place where he is observing. This makes it possible for you, depending on what you define, to assign him to the most diverse countries in search of a future star.
Current and potential capabilities, measured by the number of stars, up to five, are also self-explanatory. However, for young people, the most important thing is potential ability. There are those who admit as good players those with three stars or more. But I recommend looking for those that have four or more.
Gather scouts and divide them among strategic countries
To find good scouts at lower prices, it is worth researching first and second division clubs in Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia and Chile. There are excellent ones in Brazil, but generally with high termination and salary values. And not to forget: keep an eye on the adaptability indicator – it’s not good that it’s below 10 (remembering that all indicators in Football Manager go from 0 to 20).
And which are the best countries to prospect young players? Obviously, Brazil is the best, but hardly a club of lesser expression will be able to compete with the cream of Serie A. It may be worth looking in other South Americans like Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, etc. As the budget increases, it is interesting to delve into the base categories of Hungary, Belgium, Croatia and Denmark – expanding wherever possible. And how to manage the scouts?
Define well which player to look for
Two important criteria: focus on players between 15 and 21 years old and with very good potential (from 3.5 stars). The more age advances, the more harassment from clubs with greater financial power and, consequently, difficulty in prospecting.
To facilitate the work, the ideal is to increase, whenever possible, the number of (good) scouts on the coaching staff. This makes it possible to spread them over more regions of the planet and filter more competitions and age groups of athletes.
A possible segmentation is the following: looking at players between 15 and 21 years old across the country and only with very good potential. Another is just the local Under-20. An alternative, too, is to segment by divisions.
More remote countries do not give as much return in terms of number of athletes. Even so, letting scouts take turns in different competitions around the world, throughout the season, can be a good thing.
In summary, the idea is this: improve the structure and bring in as many analysts as possible, always taking into account current and potential evaluation characteristics. Players arrive early, develop, give back in performance and even leave for vastly higher values – depending on your management.
