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There's definitely a problem with big clubs being unable/unwilling to send players out on loan to improve their CA and reputation. Just compare the initial numbers of loanees in the game with succesive seasons and you get a glimpse of the problem. DaveInci's awards file tends to improve the development of youngsters because it makes them more "desirable" to managers and clubs, but the loan issue persists, as lower league teams would rather renew contracts than bet on a young loan.

Then use the in-game editor to heal your squad. This is supposed to be a simulator. Injuries are already too few compared to real-life.

Injuries are way less than real life. Use the in-game editor if you want to cheat.

Injuries are already 25-30% less than real life. If you want an injury-free arcade game, use the in-game editor to heal your squad and whatever other cheats.

Known issue. The game has been pretty unrealistic injury-wise in the last editions. That ruined the immersion (just play a quick game in FM13 Classic Mode and compare). Let's hope they increase the number of injuries by 25-30% in order to make it more challenging. Players who complain can use the in-game editor to heal them anyway.

Stop complaining about this in a simulator. Look at the real life injury tables. The game has already too few injuries. If you want a non-realistic game, use a cheat code or the in-game editor.

I think this is a major issue for several years now. The AI just doesn't do a proper planning of their Youth and B-teams (they are either too short or too large, with too many overage players and very few loaned players compared to real life). This in turn affects player development everywhere.

Stop complaining about too many injuries. Look at the real life injury table. The game has already too few injuries compared to the real world. If you want an injury-free game, use the in-game editor or a cheat.

As a veteran player, thank you for pointing this out. We need much better AI squad building, we need top AI managers that really push the human player, we need the difficulty and realism back in our game. If they're not going to do it, at least allow a difficulty level with realistic injuries and hardened AI.

It did the trick for me. Thank you so much!

I can confirm this has not been resolved but there's an easy workaround to selecting your U21s and U18s tactic from a drop-down menu. Just follow these steps: 1. Make sure you delegate all training (global and individual) for the U21s and U18s to your youth team staff (this will make the fast access icons to the left of the main screen disappear). 2. Make sure you have the desired tactic as an option for your first-team squad in tactics screen. 3. Through your development center screen, acess the tactics screen for either your U21s or U18s. There you will see a simplified tactics menu with a drop-down option with all the tactics that are available to your first-team. Select as you wish. 4. Now you can revert to manually training your U21s and U18s and the selected tactic will be the default for those squads, even if it doesn't match your first team's. Hope this helps.

Thank you very much. It does indeed work. I'll try to look at the file closely to see what I was missing.

Somehow, this season I'm unable to reactivate this competition in the Editor advanced rules. I've tried everything that worked in previous versions and more (including changing the country holiday dates, the competition dates and any general option available) but to no avail. It seems the competition is disabled beyond the editor, so I would appreciate a confirmation from anyone else who has tried or has the knowledge. Thank you in advance