I was wondering if anyone has advice on how to best maximize sides with bloated youth and reserve squads. For a change of pace I'm managing Velez in Argentina. I know many clubs in Argentina, Brazil, the big 3 in Portugal, and Ajax are all kind of like this where if I leave the reserve and youth squads to their respective managers a lot of players are just going to rot and never get enough playing time because there's just too many players. Velez has 55 players in both their youth and reserve squads, 145 players in their total squad.
Here's what I did to set things up to get as much fitness and playing time as possible: First off I took over managing friendlies for both reserve and U20 teams. I use the FLUT skin so "instant result" is available. I basically built 8 squads of 11 and saved their lineups and saved their team selections. I also nicknamed everybody in the format "R1 DCR" . meaning reserve team 1 right center back .. down the line .. etc...
It's slow going but after a couple of months everybody is fit, getting playing time and developing well. Developing young players is what I enjoy most in this game. Even if they're never going to be good enough for first team seeing them reach their potential and go on to careers at other clubs with profitible transfer clauses attached is a good bit of fun for me.
I'm just wondering if anyone else does this or has any tips in maximally managing sides like this. I'll likely pare it down to 6 youth-reserve sides in future seasons as 8 is just too many but I don't want to release a bunch of talent.
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I was wondering if anyone has advice on how to best maximize sides with bloated youth and reserve squads. For a change of pace I'm managing Velez in Argentina. I know many clubs in Argentina, Brazil, the big 3 in Portugal, and Ajax are all kind of like this where if I leave the reserve and youth squads to their respective managers a lot of players are just going to rot and never get enough playing time because there's just too many players. Velez has 55 players in both their youth and reserve squads, 145 players in their total squad.
Here's what I did to set things up to get as much fitness and playing time as possible: First off I took over managing friendlies for both reserve and U20 teams. I use the FLUT skin so "instant result" is available. I basically built 8 squads of 11 and saved their lineups and saved their team selections. I also nicknamed everybody in the format "R1 DCR" . meaning reserve team 1 right center back .. down the line .. etc...
It's slow going but after a couple of months everybody is fit, getting playing time and developing well. Developing young players is what I enjoy most in this game. Even if they're never going to be good enough for first team seeing them reach their potential and go on to careers at other clubs with profitible transfer clauses attached is a good bit of fun for me.
I'm just wondering if anyone else does this or has any tips in maximally managing sides like this. I'll likely pare it down to 6 youth-reserve sides in future seasons as 8 is just too many but I don't want to release a bunch of talent.