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There are several things that I would be delighted to see coming into the game. First, I would love to have more possibilities to increase revenues. As financial fair-play molds the Football horizon, it becomes more and more important for the clubs to generate more revenues by signing sponsors or investing in facilities. And that’s the point I would love to see deepen. I would love to have the choice to invest in more facilities. As an example, if you take an example of Olympique Lyon. They have invested in a new stadium and a new training center. But in the same area they have built other facilities which are not directly related to football but still have synergies with the other facilities in order to generate more revenues. They have built a Hotel, Offices for companies and even a high rated medical center for the inhabitants living in the area. And they plan to build a new structure which can welcome concert and European basketball games. And all these revenues serve the club. Another possibility could be the fact to create a franchise in MLS or another country just like Manchester City did with the New York City Football Club. And like Olympique Lyon wants to do with the feminine. These increases reputation and revenues around the world Talking about revenues I would love to have more details throughout the year about the revenues and not only a summary at the end of the season. Example: - For each commercial facility - The ticketing - The shirts: how much sold and how much per player, per country. - Related products per player, per country When you stay in a club for a long time and that you ask for building a new stadium. It would be cool to be consulted for the design and the naming of the new stadium. I am not saying that the manager should decide but I think he can be consulted to give his opinion. I would also love to have the capacity to build a youth academy in other countries. And see the level of the infrastructure for each academy. So it could be possible to decide to improve a specific training center at the expense of another. The final point that I would love to see is an emphasis on the Pre-Academy and a revamp of the Academy. Concerning the Pre-Academy, I would love to see some of the best regen coming from the elite Pre-Academy of each country. Such as INF Clairefontaine in France which is the best in France but doesn’t have any A Team since they are specialized for the youth program. Only the best youth gets to be accepted by INF Clairefontaine. If you don’t know it Anelka, Henry, Ben Arfa, Mbappé and others come from there. But in the game we don’t see the best French regen coming from there. Then the player got to choose national club, they want to join. We must have the possibility to hire youth from well know pre-Academy or even amateur clubs. All the best youth doesn’t come from nowhere to your club. And the clubs do a big work a scouting young player in order to sign them in their academy. These brings me to the point which more ways to recruit the regen nationally first and then at a greater level. With this comes the fact that Scout should have the possibility to be dedicated to find the next regens who will join the Academy. The clubs should also be able to organize some kind of holiday’s traineeship or some testing session for the youth. The goal is to cast the best regens and the one who fits the club's culture, objectives or strategy. The scouts and the staff dedicated to this task could give a report containing their opinion about the player current level and development. They can say if the player has potential, if he physically he will have a good development, if he meets all the requirements to become a professional footballer. We know how hard this is to become a footballer and this even if the player has the potential. This could be applied to the player within the academy. Also dynamic potential would be needed (but someone already suggested it in another topic). Clubs may have the opportunity to negotiate with the best youth and their relatives (in a legal way of course) in order to recruit them. This is what happens in real life ( it has been the case for years) and now more especially with financial fair play. I know that this part could be sly and crafty due to legal and ethical concerns but I think it can be done by applying it within the legal framework and for the youth when they are in age to negotiate. (16 years old). Some regen may choose money, some others may choose the nearest club to be close to their family, some may choose the club with the greatest reputation, and some may choose the club which has the most famous academy or the academy with the best infrastructure. Or some may choose the club which offers them the best promises for their career. There are plenty of possibilities to go through.

Okay, so for the first time since along ago I have been able to play a number of seasons high enough to produce a first team of regens from my own academy with my own style of play (reserve and u19 tactics are set to mirror my first team tactics anytime). I do appreciate the fact that my youngsters have a high level of (my) tactical understanding when they break into the first team (thumbs up for that) but I'd love that the players pairs gelling in midfield or central defense (such as X and Y have a fairly decent partnership having played together often) could be acquired in youngster teams. If I'm not mistaken, that does not happen evn though youngsters play together for seasons. Am I right? And if I am, would'nt it be a nice feature for that kind of managing ?

You all probably heard of the football academy of the French FA in Clairfontaine, which generates high potential newgens in game almost every youth intake. The youth intake is up for grabs for every club, because they don't have any contract from Clairfontaine, as they are listed as a club with amateur status. For my new save with Everton in FM19 I would like to create a IRL existing academy, that is located in Cyprus and is working together with Everton FC. I'd like to create an academy that much like Clairefontaine is getting youth players every intake and also is not able to give the youth players any contracts, as they are amateurs, but the difference is, that Everton should have some kind of option to grab the players they feel good enough for their youth team. Is something like that possible to create with the editor or could it only be achieved by hardcoding?

Could anyone help me out with setting up under 23 and under 18 custom tactics. My first team plays with a target man but i can't change this role to somehting more suitable for the youth teams without changing the first team? or at least i can't see where to do it. I really want to have custom tactics for the academy teams. Cheers

Please give some attention to the function of managing in America, and how the youth system works there. With the financial restrictions that are present when managing in the MLS, the only way to really sustain long-term success and growth is through a good youth program. But in FM17 there isn't a whole lot that you can do with that. There are no U18 or U20 leagues and no real way to develop youth players other than playing them in the first team or loaning them out to a 2nd or 3rd tier American team that FM won't even simulate games for. There is also the issue of the U.S. Development Academy, which is seemingly the only way to find American players under 17, but you cannot sign players from the academy, it is just locked.

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Intro & Overall Results Summary GoodyBye “1860 Munich, the city's other club, are struggling to become noisy neighbours.” ---theguardian 1860 Munich is the oldest club in Munich. Being one of the founding members of Bundesliga in 1963. They won the league in 1966, and has played a total of 20 seasons in the top flight. Now, the club is playing at 4th tier. 1860 Munich are famous for producing stars. Julian Weigl ,Bender bros, Kevin Volland, Fabian Johnson and Julian Baumgartlinger are the most recent examples. They are full international for their respective country. Who am I? I am Javier Lok, 36 years old, former professional footballer and German International, I had 57 caps and one goal for Germany. I was born in Munich. I spent over 10 seasons in professional football and I won Bundesliga, Chmapionship League, German Cup . I joined 1860 Munich when I was 10. I made debut after 8 years. Then , I moved to Signal Iduna Park. I rejoined The Lions and hoped to bring them back to Top flight but I failed . I retired at the end of season . Part 0 May 30, 2017 May 31 2017 ESPN: Managing director and president Peter Cassalette resigned this morning and the owner also left the club. June 2 2017 2100 June 5 2017 A new president Bjorn Kruse phoned me and said ‘Javier, Come On, We need you , We need you to bring it back to glory’ ‘Although you dont have any coaching license, it’s okay. Your reputation and leadership gonna help us make through this storm’ I replied ‘Errrr…. Let me consider a few days…’ ‘Alright, look forward to hearing from you’ June 10 2017 I phoned Bjorn in the morning , told him I wanna be the new manager of the team. We met in the afternoon and signed the contract. The official appointment will be announced 2 weeks later. This will be the greatest challenge of my life. Despite I have been SKY Sports analyst 2 years. I never consider coaching,it is much difficult. I don't want to be next Gary Neville. PS: Update monthly with results and stats. To keep things Simple Not fascinating wording. Appreciate any feedback and comments Long Term Goals: Use as many youth products as possible. Promote to Top Flight within 5years.