tremberz Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 So I've just started my sixth season as Chelsea manager. Lampard is retiring at the end of the season (wanted him to retire ages ago but eventually called it). Terry is getting old and will retire soon. I'm struggling to get any home grown players (that are fairly decent) in my squad. I managed to register my squad with six spare spaces as I have a fairly small squad and only had 4 players home grown out of the required 8. Now, with Lampard and Terry soon to be retiring thats two home grown players gone. I have Jack Rodwell and Adam Johnson as back up players who are both home grown. The problem is there doesn't seem to be any decent young English players or home grown ones. All regens are Spanish, Brazilian, etc. and I want a few English youngsters to bring through and lead the team in years to come. There isn't any quality players. Has anyone else run into this problem? When Lampard retires I'll only have three English players and I want to have quite a few in my squad. Does anyone have any suggestions? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Things Could Get Messi Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Yes, same problem as you. My Aston Villa side has 5 England internationals but not 1 regen Englishman even though im in 2017. Only decent player I found was a centre mid but then his club want 28m. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbs Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Their nationality doesn't affect their homegrown status. You should have been snapping up high PA under 18 y.o. youngsters from around the globe to alleviate that problem, but as for decent English players, what clubs have got decent training facilities? Just a case of finding 4/5 star potential youngsters from England and 'do a Chelsea' and buy their dads a house and ferrari each!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herter Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Generally I agree, however as England manager in 2017 I have plenty of good regens in my squad and went on a 20 match unbeaten run with England using mostly regens. The reason why I agree is that even though they tend to perform well english players' attributes are generally lower than, say, the spanish regens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carmi88 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 loads of excellent prospects In my save, maybe your going through a dry patch of English talent, or have too high a standard? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTyc83 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 I noticed this problem in last years game and it seems the same thing is happening on this years game. I'm currently in 2021 and have taken over the English National Team. I have only 2 English regens in the entire squad and my English club team doesn't have any. Wayne Rooney at 36 is still one of the main strikers... If you look at the rest of the countries such as Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina or Italy there are plenty of quality regens being generated. I'm not quite sure why this problem exists as all the leagues mentioned are being run in full detail and are all set to playable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackJCFC Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 What did you do with Chalobah? He has the potential to be as good as Terry at the beggning of the game and took over from him when he retired. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTyc83 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 I dropped him from the squad. Was playing in the Championship then moved to Blackburn but he really isn't good enough on my game with his current ability. I still have Jones & Smalling at CB with Shawcross and Bennett in reserve. Still no new regens in sight when they are eventually past it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicz Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Just into my second season with Manchester United and there are loads of good, young English players in the lower leagues. About to sign a 16 year old defender from Watford who has the potential to be as good as Rio. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhhonlyfan1984 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 my long term basingstoke save im at 2020 and for the last 6 years had quite a few wonderkids come through for england and this season 2020/2021 i have 4 wonderkids from england coming up through my ranks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayIgnition Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 i was thinking about this lastnight on my Man United save, Into my 3rd season now and ive just signed Matthew French from Southampton who apparently is going to be a key member of the team... ive had a decent Welsh striker come through the youth system and nothing much else to shout about, id like to relax on the big money transfers but seemed to have picked up a few gems from Germany, Spain and France... and one from Turkey who will sign when he is 18. I just want to start bringing through some youth talent, especially home grown but it just doesnt seem to happen for me on the past few FMs. Hope this Matthew French can be something special he already has decent playmaking stats Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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