Football Manager 2020: 10 Expected Wonderkids You Must Sign
These hot prospects will drive your FM team to trophy after trophy for years to come.
There really are few games quite as addictive as the Football Manager series. If you know, you know - the game having been cited in numerous divorce papers! This is a franchise that has had gamers hooked since way back in 1992, and FM won’t be slowing down any time soon.
One of the most enjoyable elements of the FM series, of course, is nurturing future generations of superstars who will lead you to complete and utter dominance. Well, unless you’re at a lesser club whose young stars are simply cherry-picked by the big teams and money men. But still, the point here is that youth is so often key to achieving success on FM. As such, we all end up frantically trying to unearth the next wonderkid who will become the crown jewel in our FM crown.
It’s likely that you will have an idea of what big-name players will be wonderkids on Football Manager 2020 – it doesn’t take a genius to work out that Marcus Rashford might be alright, or that Matthijs de Ligt isn’t all that bad – but we’re looking to give you one-up on the opposition here, as we take a look at some lesser-known talents who seemed destined to have that famed wonderkid tag placed on them when FM2020 is released in November.
10. Harvey Elliott - Fulham
If you remember, it was Harvey Elliott who made waves this past season by making his first-team debut at the age of just 15. The young winger famously made mentioned about how his schoolmates were asking for autographs the next day, and the future most certainly looks extremely brilliant for the Englishman.
With Fulham now relegated to the Championship, it’s expected that Elliott will become a fixture of the first as Scott Parker’s side look to secure promotion back to the Premier League at the first time of asking. Despite how much Parker would love to keep hold of his hottest prospect, though, there are already several of England’s biggest teams sniffing around the youngster.
Only this week, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is reported to have made an approach to take Elliott to Anfield. And given Klopp’s record of developing young talent, particularly at Borussia Dortmund, it could be extremely hard for Harvey Elliott to turn down any such approach from the excitable German.
Whether Elliott is still a Fulham player or not by the time FM2020 gets here, he should be somebody you should immediately be taking a closer look at.