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Alright, I am pretty agitated right now, Fyi. And I haven't been able to find my answer(s) to the problem in the vague SI Manual, imagine that. Apologies in advance for my very frustrated attitude. If this is an easy fix, then I will be THRILLED!!! At the start of my first season I designated my U23 and U18 Head Coaches and Asst. Coaches to completely handle everything with my Reserves/Youths, and not only to keep me informed every 2-weeks(?), but I would also click over and review throughout the season their progress. After all, those were the choices under Staff Responsibilities, right? Wrong. Maybe I am wrong. I am now approaching the end of October and both my 23's and 18's are dead last in their respective competitions! Irritating? Yes. Examining possible reasons why... I find out that neither my Reserves OR my U18's squads have any Captains, no leadership!!! So I go straight to those team's Tactics, then scroll down to Captains to quickly rectify this asinine problem! Captain and Vice-Captains have been chosen, BUT those two players (both teams) also move between the Senior squad (injuries) and from U18's to Reserves (development & injuries) and therefore, several "Stand Ins" are badly needed. Duh! So what I THOUGHT was being handled by my lower coaching staff, IS NOT being handled. I try to select or drag over a number of Stand-Ins and surprise surprise... the SI program won't let ME do other coach's jobs. Thus, I go to the Staff Responsibilities page (again) to put myself in charge of these squads -- which I really, REALLY don't want to micro-manage EVERYTHING! -- and I cannot do this either. Fine. I come here to read thoroughly in the vague SI Manual as to what my issue is and how to correct it. In this Manual for FM19 under the category "Reserve, Youth and Development Squads" it simply states: If I am totally honest, this is about as useful a detailed explanation about overseeing your Reserve and Youth Teams as reading the manual to becoming a nuclear submariner so you can fly F-22 Raptors. Am I being too infuriatingly stupid? I hope so because I'd love to have a quick easy solution. Shouldn't it be just that easy and quick!? HOW CAN I CHOOSE THOSE U23 and U18 STAND-IN CAPTAINS and VICE-CAPTAINS SO THOSE TEAMS HAVE REGULAR LEADERSHIP, or MAKE THOSE SQUADS COACHES DO THEIR JOBS!!! Thank you kindly for any help. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LATER UPDATE: July 10, 2019 -- Two weeks later into the game/season and I still haven't figured out how to appoint Stand-In Captains and Vice-captains for my U23's and U18 squads, nor how to tell my Head Coaches of those squads to do it. What is MOST irritating is that both teams continue to lose games and sit dead last in their respective competitions/leagues! Is there no one here that can help on this? Should I contact Sports Interactive directly????? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LATER LATER UPDATE: July 27, 2019 -- Many weeks later into my game/season and still no solution found. No replies or help here. Therefore, I contacted SEGA Europe Cust-Tech Support on July 11, 2019 about this. They passed on my issue to the FM19 Developers. After 16-days all they have been able to tell me is this: As this is well and good, it does not resolve my continuing problem of no Stand-In captains and vice-captains for my U23 and U18 squads when their Pre-season Capts & VC's are unavailable. Meanwhile, my Reserves and Youth game squads (apparently?) struggle with no game Captains and Vice-captains when the Pre-season selected Capts/VC's are unavailable. I do hope someone stumbles across this problem and helps. Many thanks.

York City, Premier league, in Europe, Extensive Youth Recruitment, Exceptional Junior Coaching, Excellent Youth Facilities, Huw Jennings Resolute HOYD, Under 18 Manager, Assistant, 2 coaches, 2 Lower League Youth Intake Affiliates Currently Spawning 1/2 to 1 1/2⭐️ ability max And Spawning 1/2 to 4 ⭐️ potential Reloading on intake day to test it. Should I not be yielding any ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ current ability? Like surely the boxes I’ve ticked I should have a desirable intake after 15-20 reloads?

Hi everyone, my Second team (u23) doesnt Play a single Match - also noone is Part of the team (tactic is completly empty)... unfortunetly it is impossible to select players in the Second team... so my complete 2. team is getting worst... Anyone the same problem or even better a solution. Cant believe that this isnt a bug?! cheers alex

Hello, I'm having a technical problem to register my youth team players in FM 12. When I take over my youth team, I get a message at the beginning of the registration period that it's possible to register players for my youth team. But if I click on it and get to the youth squad screen, squad registration is greyed out. It only happens for my youth team, there is no problem for my first team to register players for the league, Champions and Europa League. I'm using a patch which makes the Luxembourg league playable, maybe there has been an editing problem. I will try to take holidays at the end of the registration period while hoping that the computer will automatically register my youth team players, but in addition I would be grateful for any idea how to solve this bug. FM editor? Or using FMRTE12? Thanks for your attention!

Hi Y'all, I was using the mod that unlocks all levels of English divisions and edited to put my youth teams (U23 and U18) into the lowest level. I was just doing it for fun. However, even though they were winning, they never got promoted. I waited for many seasons. No I want to play the Spanish leagues without any leage unlocking mods. Can I still do the same thing in the Spanish leagues and have these youth teams perhaps one day to play me (the senior team) in La Liga? I heard that there is a rule that prevents any B teams to be promoted to the same league that their senior teams play. Would this rule affect my plan on the youth teams? If the youth teams cannot be promoted ever or to the same league that the senior teams are at, can I just put them in La Liga and wait for my senior team to be promoted to La Liga? Thank you!

While checking the "Coaching Team Comparison" for my U20s team, i came across this: What's the problem you might ask. The problem is that it doesn't take into consideration my goalkeeping and fitness coaches in the "Coaching Team Comparison". Obviously, I can't sign dedicated U20s goalkeeping or U20s fitness coaches, that's why I use my senior team's coaches for these areas. But they all are 4.5* and have very good "Working With Youngsters" attribute: Should i worry?

I'm using a custom db, but for some reason, I can't seem to employ any youth coaching staff at any club, no matter of level. It's not an issue I've come up against before, am using the advanced editor, the roles are there, but my board constantly advises I have no staff, and if I request additions (only available for coaches, not the managers or anything else) they reject me each and every time. Anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? I have under 23s and Under 18s set as my first and second youth teams.

Hi, Id like to see a big improvement in regards to the youth team features in FM. I understand the legality issues behind including under 16's so assuming that SI cant find a legal workaround for that then at least can we not have regens/newgens used and start including more youth teams i.e Under 14's, 13's, 12's etc etc. Personally feel this would add a lot more realism and excitement to the game, bringing a player through the youth ranks to the first team and so on! Also, to go hand in hand with this id love to see a feature that used to be in another football management sim (think it was LMA) and thats having legitimate academies in game. We all know that a lot of clubs have these worldwide and although some of these are in game they are not used well enough. I think we need to have a whole new section for academies and be able to set them up ourselves, the scouting system to be redeveloped to implement these features. I just feel this would add more realism to the game and a ton more excitement as the majority of people love unearthing hidden gems, training up youngsters and the whole scouting/transfer element of the game. Well, at least i do anyway! Ive wanted these features for years now but year in year out it seems like this part of the game is pretty much ignored and not improved upon! Love to hear others views on this (in particular SI :D)