Youth Money Economy Freekick Strategy

jgphoenix talking:

The most successful teams in the Freekick economy and in terms of talent level all seem to practice the same technique. After saving some money and establishing their team, they started purchasing superb talented youths at the age of 15-16. These youths sold from anywhere between $1 and $5000, had good potential, lower current skills. They trained these youths up and sold most of them between age 19-20 to get maximum value. From there, they worked their way up, buying talent with some currents and great pots for between $5000 and $10000. Once again, they trained these players up and sold them between 19 and 20 years of age while keeping a few for seniors.

From there they spring-boarded pretty much into the NT (national team) category where they would just buy up youngsters (no matter the cost) who had absolutely ridiculous potential. They'd train them up and again sell them at 19-20 to get money for funding or when they're youth national team stars. The thing to know (and I don't know whether the transfer list works like this anymore) is that those wonder kids will sell for between $50,000 and $150,000 between 15-16, but once they're trained up into national stars they'll sell for well over $300,000, usually upwards of $500,000. This is how the most talented clubs and richest clubs made their money.

I was a successful youth coach but got way too attached to my kids and never did the selling part *laugh* or I would've been rich too... Then again, I never went into the bidding wars for the definite future NT players. I was more a fan of buying great talent for under $50,000 a player. I hated the thought of putting so much money into a player that could get all his raises in CO. But, mathematically if you risk it, long term it pays out for you every time. I guess the important thing to do is stay within your budget, establish your teams, and make sure to sell off most of your youth talent over a year before they turn adult 21. Best of luck in creating a phenomenal youth team!

19-20 year old's tend to have more value than 21-23 year old's simply because they can be used as Youth league players for an additional year and still have room to mature, whereas 21-23 year old's either are done with the youth league or can remain for only the end of the season. Typically a team can't use them right away and need to spend time training them. So they won't sell for as much. If you intend to make any amount of money on a player try selling them before they hit 27. After that, the market goes down tremendously. Even at 26 years old, the market seems to bottom out a bit. Train your player up in key stats and sell them, the earlier the better. I wouldn't really sell a 21 year old you can train up if you want to make a big profit. Either sell him before 21 or sell him after 24 or 25.

That strategy may not be the most optimal for you. It wasn't for me, but then again, I was never a financial guru in this game... my strength was as a tactician. Some of the other veterans might have different ideas also- the best thing about Freekick is there is no one right way, although some ways are better than others!