How to develop and tutor youngsters to become future world stars in FM18

Everyone who have played Football Manager 2018 or any of the earlier versions know that feeling when your youth academy finds that crazy good 5 star potential 16 year old regen or when after spending ages on scouting finally find that unknown 17 years old with crazy stats in a low league team in Uruguay.

But signing a promising youngster is one thing, actually having that youngster reach his full potential and become that world class player you always know we could is something completely different. This guide shows you how to do it.

Beginners guide on how to tutor and develop young players in Football Manager 2018

This is a step by step video guide on how to develop and tutor your youngsters to become future world stars in FM18.

If you are an experienced FM player this guide might not bring anything new to your table, feel free to help others out instead, share your tips and tricks in the comments below, let us know if there is anything you don't agree with and why.

Here is a very short text summary of the guide
1. Find out if your club is currently good enough to develop youngsters. Do that by checking out training facilities and youth facilities. Secondly check out your coaches. If you have bad facilities and/or coaches it’s going to be very hard for your players to reach their full potential.

2. You can improve your facilities by asking your board and you can hire better coaches. But if you start out in a very bad situation, which is often the case if you do low league saves it usually going to take a couple of seasons before you have gotten everything up to a good level.

3. Tutor your most promising youngsters. (see the video for a lot more info about how to tutor, what tutoring does and who is a good tutor).

4. The most important thing is for the youngster to get a lot of first team experience. A good way for him to get that if he is not ready for your first team yet is to loan him out after you are done with the tutoring. When you loan a player out make sure to only loan him out to clubs where he will be playing a lot of games. If he is going to be a backup player sitting on the bench he might as well stay in your club since you probably have better training facilities and coaches. (more on this in the video). Also make sure to loan him out to clubs that are not below his ability and clubs that have good training facilities (more about this in the video)

5. Have him play for your first team squad as young as possible. The first season maybe as an rotation player who often come off the bench and who starts most cup games. And for the second season he should be playing most games. If he can’t get a spot in your team go back to step 4 and loan him out, preferable to a club that play as high up in the league system as yours.

[Deseast]

Super guide, lots of stuff I wasn´t aware of even though I consider myself a veteran i FM

[Jarl Bagge]

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[Ater]

JB yeah I sometimes decline loan deals to foreign nations for that reason. When it comes to ball winners they have their time and place, maybe not in every game, but for an example when you are up against a stronger opponent in a tuff away game for other games I usually prefere a box to box myself.

[JB]

I don't use the ball winner haha, too many cards and you can't tell them too ease off. Box to box midfeilder with more closing down seems to do the trick in my 4-4-2. There was a bug where the ball winners rating would get punished a lot, something to do with the way the engine interpetted their closing down as an error. They rarely seem to get high ratings unless it's someone phenominal.

[JB]

If you want them to become a home grown player be careful loaning them out too much as they can lose the home grown status. They will still gain the trained in nation status if they play in the same nation as your club however.

[Ater]

Great advice JB, I usually have to opposite problem myself, there is hundreds of promising young RBs and LBs available but never any fantastic ball winners, maybe I should try to do it the other way around.

[JB]

Good advice. Not much I would add. Consider retraining them to a new position if you don't have room in your team or they don't suit your tactic. My current right back started as a ball winning midfeilder for example. It's easier to get them to be a natural in this version than it ever was.

[Boss Sauce]

Good guide, thank you