Passion4FM's Guide to Youth Intake - How to get better regens

Nothing is more important than having some success in the annual youth intake by getting quality regens which can improve your squad depth and develop into future Football Manager 2014 Wonderkids[www.mypassion4footballmanager.com]. Here is how you can get the best regens in the annual youth intake. A Football Manager guide to player development created by Passion4FM - http://www.mypassion4footballmanager.com

Introduction

It's everybodys dream to get a 5 star regen in the yearly youth intake, a promising talent who can develop into the new Lionel Messi, next Cristiano Ronaldo or even have the current ability to feature in the first team from time to time as a sub.

Youth intakes, are quite simply acquiring new players in Football Manager – so called regens – through your youth system. This happens once a season, on a different date depending on the country. It is easy to spot in game as a message in your inbox will appear – for example: "Real Madrid announce intake of new youth players". You can see the full list of all the youth intake days for Football Manager and FMC in this list to regen dates.

What Are Regens

The Regens of Football Manager will be produced every year at the same time. The youth intake gives your managing team new players / regens freely. In fact, they are game-generated players that after a while replace real-life players as they advance in years and retire. They are usually easy to spot as they have a computer generated face.


Their starting age usually goes from 14 to 16 years on the day of intake, but can be as old as 21. They will develop according to their potential and your guidance, just as "regular" players. Eventually, as you advance through the years to let's say – 2030/2031 season – the game will be filled with only regen players and staff.
All regens will have a generated player profile image, if this option is ticked, similar to the image above.
If you don't like the generated images of regens you can go to Preferences - Interface - Pictures and Untick show pictures of generated players and staff.

How do I get a good youth intake?

All players who are generated in the annual youth intake differs in potential described through star rating. There are ways of ensuring that you will get a higher level of quality for your new generated players aka regens. This will depend on your clubs reputation and facilities.

Important facilities, when developing your own players are as follows in descending order of importance;

1) Junior coaching
2) Youth recruitment
3) What staff you choose to handle intakes
4) Scouting network/knowledge
5) Youth facilities

Most of your current level of facilities can be found in your club overview screen menu – facilities sub-menu.

You can read more about all the 5 different important areas in the original guide about how to get the best regens[www.mypassion4footballmanager.com] from the annual youth intake.

[Elf Lord]

i seem to have trouble in getting my chairman to agree to higher the junior coaching any idea's

[Cassonava]

well that was useless for anyone who has played for more than 5 minutes.

[Jepsen]

who young players are good to buy?

[puncleV]

Очевидно же и так

[FM Blank Manager]

nice one

[Yiannis The Menace]

Very helpfull! Thanx!!