How To Effectively Use The Youth Academy In FIFA 13

A popular feature regularly used in FIFA 13 is the Youth Academy, where you can send out scouts all around the world and sign up young schoolboy talent to your clubs Youth Academy.

From there you can nurture young talent until they are 16 years old and either add them to your first team or send them out on loan to other clubs till they are ready to be added to your main team.

This feature is a great option for clubs in lower leagues due to the often extortionate amount of money that managers need to sign lucrative players to their team, where such clubs do not have the financial prowess to purchase such talent.

The Best Potential From The Youth Academy

So how do you use the Youth Academy with great effect? Well the first thing you must do is hire a decent scout that will find the cream of the crop in youth talent, now this can be very expensive in the lower leagues due to budget limitations.

But hiring a scout of three star rating or more is highly beneficial to you finding suitable young talent for your team, choosing the cheaper one and two star scout options will not give you value for money in the long run.

The next two options you find in the scouting section, is the location in the world you want your scout to setup his scouting network and the sort of ideal attribute you want your player to possess.

These two options are entirely up to your own personal preference for the type of player that is suitable for your team, but you may want to setup your scouting network in South America, where all the most skillful players tend to come from.

Signing Youth Players With The Highest Potential

Now each week or so your scout will email you a report on the young talent he has found, and you can look at the young players and choose which ones you would like to sign into your Youth Academy.

If you truly want create great young players to play in your team or sell on for some much needed transfer funds, then looking at the players potential is vital to obtaining such players.

A player potential of between 88 and 95 is the best sort of youth player to sign into your Youth Academy, and signing these players quickly is essential to not letting these players sign for rival clubs.

Sending Youth Players On Season Long Loans

Once these players reach 16 years old inside the Youth Academy you can offer them a contract to sign for your club, when you have chosen a player and signed them into your team it is then beneficial to send your Youth Player on season long loans.

You can of course add them to your team and play them regularly so their skill rating rises, but if you are in a lower league you really want to loan them out to teams that are in the higher leagues and therefore your youth player will be playing better quality football and their skill rating will rise much quicker.

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