Your youth facilities are different to Training Facilities, which are the facilities your players use once they generate on Intake day - these affect the development of your youngsters, and we'll look at that in more detail in a later piece. Improving your Youth Facilities will help to improve the development of your youngsters prior to Intake Day. 'Juniors' in this sense means the Newgens you're bringing through behind the scenes - your Intake players will use these youth facilities until Intake Day, when they then switch to using the club's training facilities. These are the training facilities available to the 'juniors' at your club. There are three key infrastructure points to maximise here: Youth Facilities, Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment. So, what about the things we can control? Facilities and Staff are the key areas here: your facilities affect the Quality and Potential of your Newgens, while your Staff have more influence in developing their personalities before they hit your intake screen. We cannot directly affect these, and they are hidden within the game, although they do explain why some nations seem to be Golden Boy factories, both in-game and in real life. Youth Rating refers to the potential quality and quantity of youngsters coming through, while Game Importance is how highly the country places football in their hierarchy of sport (so, for example, Italy's would probably be higher than that of Australia). There are parts of the mix on Youth Intake day that we, as managers, cannot control: your Nation's Youth Rating and Game Importance have an impact on the overall quality of youngsters in that nation. That elusive ‘golden generation’ might happen in your first season, or it might never materialise at all… I should stress at this point, that even with the best possible Facilities, Staff and infrastructure, there is still an element of chance on Youth Intake Day. K19x has come to The Byline to look at the very start of that journey: maximising your Youth Intakes to give you the best chance of unearthing those Wonderkids. Starting from well before Youth Intake Day, and running through years and years of a Newgen's time with the club, developing youngsters is an engaging and rewarding process. Developing our youngsters into world beaters brings an almost unparalleled sense of satisfaction, and FM21 gives us more control over the youth development process than ever before.

Youth Development is a massive part of everyone's Football Manager save.

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