Football Manager 2021: 12 Essential Improvements It Needs
5. Expanded Youth Setups
At the moment there’s the Under-19s and you have control there. You also have players that can be poached from your youth setup that bigger clubs will pay you back for when they sell-on. What if you had more control.
Sports Interactive should include u10s to u16s and have control over which sort of player is developing from that side. You could steer recruitment at an early stage and have players retrain into your senior teams positions so you know well in advance who will fit your systems.
It would be easy to spot the next Messi hiding in your under-14s squad, then it would be up to you to develop him into the demi-God he is destined to be.