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Twice in my experience I have taken over a club with rubbish "coaches" but excellent "youth coaches". So the solution is sack the "coaches" and promote youth coaches to "coaches" by offering new coaches.

Is there anything wrong with doing this? Am I missing anything?

Whats therefore is the point in youth coaches?

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If you buy kids then they won't become nearly as good as they could be if you have no youth team coaches... youth team coaches are just as if not more important than your first team coaches in reference to grooming young talent :)

Edit: As stated above, if you have general coaches with good 'Working with Youngsters' then they could cover that I guess.

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Youth coaches are more effective training youth players, first team coaches are more effective training first team players, and general coaches are for teams that can't afford to specialise*

The difference isn't something you're going to notice unless you pay real attention to training, which is why I always just hire general coaches.

*depending on their attributes of course.

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Give scouting knowledge if they're from different countries, and I believe that they may help finding good regens

I seem to find that making Youth Coaches full "coaches" means paying them a bit more. But the result is that you have their skills shared through the whole squad.

I'd also like to know the evidence that suggests a "youth coach" is better/enhanced by coaching the youth players or only youth players.

Equally, the reverse for 1st Team Coach. Whats the point in having an average 1st team only coach?

My problem is sacking the rubbish ones costs me a fortune!

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No one knows except SI. IMO they added them to the game but forgot to implement the training module as originally intended and as a result they are kinda useless. Ive had no problem training youth players with normal coaches. Besides they are in your u18 at most for a year or two.

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I dont bother with youth coaches or really bother too much with training.

Most youth players will be no-where near their PA until 22-24 years of age and as far as I can tell, and from the tests i have seen in the other forums, it doesn't make much of a difference how good their coaching was during 14-18.

If you want good youth players, scout ones with high PA through scouts, train them on specific styles and then give them lots of play time. They will more often than not reach their high PA, regardless of how good the youth coaches were.

The game usually favours high proffessionalism & determination in players. Also those with high ambition. This is more important for a player to reach their potential, above youth coaching.

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Another issue is that some of the best coaches will only sign a "first team coach" deal. Now to cover them not coaching the youths, you could bring in an extra full coach, or pay half as much for a youth coach.

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If anyone can provide evidence that a youth coach with exactly the same stats as a general coach will coach youth players better, I would be very interested. My understanding is that the only difference is what players can be trained by a particular coach.

As an analogy, a GK coach with 16 for the "coaching GKs" attribute would be less effective at coaching GKs than a general coach with 17 - no?

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