Loan Development

[borivoje213]

Does loaning to a club from an unselected league adversely affect development for that time?

I tend to be quite picky sending young players to clubs that are well matched to their ability and with good facilities. sometimes I'm being presented with only foreign clubs of inactive leagues and so far I've refrained from letting them go.

[fc.cadoni]

It's better to play games and competitive matches.

How can I improve my players’ attributes and ability?

A player’s development is an inexact science but there are plenty of ways you can improve your chances of helping their progress:

- Improved coaching staff

The better the coach, the more impactful their attributes are on improving a player. In general, the better the coaching attribute, the more effective it is on the player’s attribute development.

- Improved training facilities

The standard of training facilities has an impact on determining the chances of a player’s attributes developing, how close to their potential they can get, and how likely they are to continue developing overall. Better facilities encourage a greater chance of a player realising their true potential.. It can also have the knock-on effect of helping the coaching staff develop, too.

- Playing time

A player with greater exposure to meaningful playing time will develop better than someone who isn’t playing quite as often. Playing first-team minutes is more valuable than playing reserve or youth team football, and a young player who stagnates from their teenage years into their 20s without starting to play regular football stands a higher chance of not being able to reach their potential.

- Training

A player develops most through day-to-day training; their overall development is affected by the quality of the facilities and coaches, the teammates they are training with, the appropriateness of the schedules given, whether they train with the first team or any of the club’s sub-teams, and whether they are tasked with additional individual work outside of the team’s sessions. The more of these that are met to as high a standard as possible, the quicker a player develops towards full potential.

- Mentoring

Young players can develop by working closely, during training, with a more experienced teammate or teammates within their squad. Their mental attributes and Player Traits are the only areas affected, and the entire concept is detailed more in the Training section of the manual.

 

[borivoje213]

I'm sorry but this doesn't answer my question. I'm aware that playing competitive games is important for developing players, that's why I'm keen to send young players out on loan.

To be very specific, when you loan a player to an inactive club, they still show statistics of games played including their own performance.

Is this experience as effective to their development as being loaned to a club in an active league where their games are actually simulated?

[fc.cadoni]

Yes, will have an impact if it's active or not the league.