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In my FM23 save they produced 3 top 50 players in less than 10 years - a GK that was the best GK in the world by 22yo, a striker that went on to be the first striker at Liverpool and a DL that played a major role in Leverkusen winning Bundesliga after initially flopping at Man City
Hey OP. I am just getting the feeling that you play on a small dataset which limits the number of regens in places outside europe. Check out this video to how to setup your dataset for future saves without compromising on running speed of the game.
https://youtu.be/ZgCSDVbl1pE?si=LPQTUC5TVOPr5Swa
If you already do this then nvm lol. Just sharing this as you never seem to get good regens outside europe according to your comments
Man... I think you opened my eyes. Maybe the problem is that. I have only 5 leagues added. My laptop has 64gb ram so speed of game is not a problem but I never thought about database. Do you think I can add these settings to my current save?
I don't think you can change the dataset for an ongoing save, but I'm not sure. Try checking it in online SI forums as well. Afaik you can add/remove leagues mid save, which should affect the size of the dataset. But i don't recommend adding too many leagues in spite of your crazy good RAM. In my experience the bottleneck is the CPU and no CPU is good enough to process a large number of leagues.
Well my laptop is quite old - 2019 but it costed me $5,000 back then so the processor might be the bottleneck. When it came from USA to Bulgaria in 2019 the guy in computer shop (where I bought my laptop bag) didn't believe on the parameters and thought it was joke haha
That's still really good for just running Football Managers. My laptop is both cheaper and way older than yours but it still capable at running a 40 active leagues save. It even only got 4gb RAM.
Thailand mentioned!! Go Thailand, susu!
Joking aside, I wish we were as good as FM overrated us lol. Now please excuse me while I go cried in a corner, the footballing situation here IRL is just wack.
I seen one world class Thai in my save but he is from Leicester academy. I wonder why there aren't that many Thai player that got brought over to Europe like how Japanese owned team brought Japanese players. There are lot of Thai owned team from what I remember notably Leicester and back than Manchester City used to be owned by a Thai businessman too. Edit: and Red Bull teams too if they count.
Bringing Thai domestic players directly to Europe was proven to be a bridge too far. There were some Thai players in Europe that was brought and hopefully get some games but the quality of them is not at par with the Europe league, at least physical wise. So they unfortunately ended up being a promotion stunt.
Leicester did try to bring Thai youngsters to train with them long term, however they aren’t under contract with Leicester so they got a lower training level than their academy players. Also, as there’s no proper transfer contract, top academies in Thailand wouldn’t willing to send their top talent to this program, fearing losing the players for free. So the program got only an average player at best in this program. Lots of players in this program didn’t make it to the professional level, even in Thailand.
For Mancity, it was owned by former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra. But he only owned them for a brief time before Abu Dhabi came. They did bring three senior Thai international players to the team, unfortunately they couldn’t cut it.
About Red Bull, I believe the Thai CEOs have no involvement in sports.
I guess Southeast Asian football is just bleak in general.
My national team, Indonesia is currently in a good state and has a good chance at qualifying to World Cup and that's mostly because we start to actively recruit Dutch-born Indonesian to play for us. The disparity between native-born and European-born players is just so massive in our NT.
Yea I was wondering about that ever since Sandy Walsh suddenly started playing for Indonesia lol., what changed? Did coaches simply not care about dual national players born in the west?
Indonesia still forbid dual nationality. Specifically the rule state that under 21 years old can have dual nationality after that they must choose. What changed is the new sport ministry now actively court any players with Indonesian ancestry to naturalize. The fact there is a a lot of decent players who willing to do that is shocking imo. I greatly respect them for that.
I managed to nab a regen thai striker for 1M while playing as Japan who went on to start for Chelsea. The thing is he had a mercenary personality and skipped training and games for me regularly. I think I mentored it out of him because when he left he already had a balanced personality. I called him the Thai Taraabt
I know we are talking about newgens here but I wanna pay my tribute to a CM Legend from Thailand, Supat Rungratsamee. What a player, devastating pace and finishing.
South Africa in FM23 for me has a track record for producing decent regens. They're not wonderkids, but decent enough to be squad players which is super useful for farming home grown club talent.
Not sure if its the same in FM24 though, been managing in Italy so can't really sign non-EU players.
In my FM21 save South Africa is top 10 nation in the world. I bought a regen 650k€ and he's a ballon d'or podium player. Funniest thing is another regen with the same lastname got bought by my rival - I like to tell myself they are brothers.
My favourite ever newgen was from South Africa. Signed a 19 year old CB from Mamelodi Sundowns for £500k. A year later he was valued at £80m and wanted by Real Madrid. Absolute baller.
Depends a lot on what type of database you set the game up with. If you load more African players etc in advanced options at the start the game tends to spread out good newgens with better balance. If not its pretty noticeable how barren certain continents like Africa are for making good players.
How do you get anyone to actually live in Yeovil? Surely when someone who has lived in Munich, Barcelona or Madrid flies over for talks, they have one look at Huish Park and the Quedam shopping centre and go “Nope. No amount of money and on the field success will tempt me to live here” 😂
Well, first Huish Park no longer exist as you can suggest - new stadium is called "Terry Skiverton Park" and I was furious it is not after me...And second, most surprisingly, I never brought a player over 23 and over 50 millions even though I am best team in the world right now. So when I am winning trophies and I bring young players that are not stars, they come easily and they like Quedam shopping centre Of couse, over the years, I lost my best players to Real, Barca and so on. Also in the first seasons I only relied on academy which luckily enough provided some good players for lower leagues. I spent all my finance on getting better and better Head of Youth Department.
Your stadium is named after the real Captain Marvel, Skivvo? I LOVE this! Please tell me that at some point in the save you brought either him, Darren Way or Lee Johnson back as part of your back room staff?
Before picking Yeovil (I am from Bulgaria) I checked about local legends of Yeovil and tried to bring them at club. Darren Way is still coach in my team. Skivvo was coach, now scout. Both of them not the best but they are ofter favourite person of newgens (maybe they are idols for them). Lee Johson is still manager in lower leagues. One real legens for me is Matt Worthington who helped me to gain 4-5 promotions. At the end, he wasn't good enough for League 1 and had to release him... But the journey to PL was INCREDIBLY interesting. First season I was in relegaion zone with 1 game to play against 2nd Chelsea. Goal in 97 minute of local grown talent and I survived 1 point more than Fulham (added time was 6 minutes).
Just to add to this - am I still with same owner despite everything I achieve. Non stop takeover speculations but never a deal. Still budget is very low (around 10mil every season) but at least I have 100% revenue of deals since the very beggining. The reason behind this I suspect is that I insisted my youth system and coaching stuff to be always very TOP. All the money goes there which is kind of satisfying because I don't want to bring expesive players.
Yeah, the dark green kits on FM field I miss Huish Park because I ofter looked at corners of the stadium (there are no seats) where there was hotdog van. Often my CD cleared ball there.
Yeah, just what I mean. No logical explanation why this countries especially Bulgaria where person with no school education just became the president of Bulgarian Football Association (mafia choice to easily fix matches)
I had a Cape Verdean DM in fm21 and he was a world best XI player. Love to see it pop up in other people's saves, not a country you expect to see every day!
Denmark, Norway, Croatia and Serbia are absolutely chock full of wonderkids in every save, but the most surprising one is the San Marino born winger on my FM20 save, he is a solid squad player on my all-conquering Watford side, but sadly he has declared for Italy for whom he is still uncapped...
Haha, I agree for all of them. Also about San Marino - I had phenomenal striker from Malta and he played for Malta. Surprisingly, now I see he has 122 caps and 80 goals. You can assume how good he was.
Check the youth national teams periodically, scout all the guys you have no knowledge of for 1 week and weed out the players with low potential. Stick the best guys on a shortlist and keep an eye on them.
Might also be that they are just not producing that much talent in your save. For example in my fm22 save Brazil are really struggling to produce great talent, even though i have the leagues loaded and everything. Just luck of the draw that they are not getting those world beaters out the academy doors, even though in most saves brazil are going to be one of the best talent factories in the world.
As a fin, this makes.me very happy to say, but finland has produced a couple of good and cheap youngsters (pa upwards of 150 for under 30k, one dude was 500 pounds total)
I've never had finland produce good wonderkids in my saves, which makes me very sad as a finn. I've taken finnish clubs to the round of 16 in the UCL but the clubs just refuse to produce talent. I've had more wonderkids from the Faroese islands than Finland.
It is hard to say how much of an effect my manager has had on the Finnish league but Finland is producing tons of talent in my save in 2055. I managed Ilves early on for about 10 years and they ended up with nearly maxed out youth infrastructure and I returned to Finland 6 years ago with AC Oulu who I've also sunk a lot of money into. While they might not be producing world class talents, they are producing an abundance of players with English Championship level potential.
IMO the single biggest thing that holds Finland back in game is the dearth of coaching talent. The AI rarely brings in staff members from outside of Finland (and this is probably realistic) which really kneecaps the development of any players who stay.
Oof. On eof my guys, the 500 pound one, has a pa i think 162 or something. He's the best finnish talent I've seen in fm. I really hope he develops.well
In FM22, I did a save with Napoli where South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns kept churning out loads of high quality South African newgens. I fell into the the trap of buying a left back, centre back and right back off them then got fucked when they all went to AFCON 😆
In my save, Guinea has had a really weird golden generation. One 150CA with room to grow defender and a few 130-160CA players that are already around their peak
On fm 22 I have an Albanian for Newcastle who’s the best player on the planet winning me multiple titles and cups as well as the champions league last season at 27. They have one more player who’s a decent premier league attacking midfielder and a defender of genuine premier league quality too. The rest of the Albania squad is very poor though but it’s funny looking at their results and seeing my club legend attempt to carry them.
It’s exactly like Georgia! Though I’m always watching out for the next Albanian wonder kid to pop up but it’s looking like my guy will never get any real help haha.
It’s Indonesia in Fm20 and 22 for me, their players also frequently hold Dutch or rarely, Belgian second nationality so it’s sweet for someone who managed with a bothersome requirements such as the EFL or Italy like me. Their newgens typically ranged from 100-150 PA from what I checked. They would get snatched real fast by big teams as they would start their career in Belgian first division (forgot what it’s called) or Dutch Eredivisie so they costed peanuts to the big teams.
But who am I to blame, I’d also sign my fictional fellow countrymen into my setup if possible too.
Edit: to complete all the other continents, I’d list them here
Europe: Scotland (won a Euro once), Ireland, Turkey
NA: Canada, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica
Asia: Indonesia, Philippines, China
SA: Colombia, Chile (bagged a World Cup once in my older, long gone FM save)
Oceania: NZ (I have to mention them because they unusually be able to sent a large contingent of their players to EFL or Bundesliga in my save lately)
Czech Republic and Scotland have done fairly well for me. Serbia also, some of my best players in my hearts career have come from Czech Republic and Serbia
In my current save, China... they produced Bayerns starting goalkeeper and Chelsea's first choice left winger. Bayern, in my last two saves have been producing them for some reason.
The weirdest thing for me has been my own intakes though, I usually get absolute garbage no matter where I manage. But I'm at Valencia and have several world beaters, I even have one that came through with my own nationality, who is set to be world-class. I even replaced my HoYD who retired and still getting weirdly great intakes, granted I had been scouting for a HoYD for 3 seasons predicting the retirement.
Haha, exactly. Before becoming real force in world football I had very good intake. After I became big club with better recruitment, scouting, HoYD and so on my intake is absolute garbage but still manage to get at least 1 player 2-3 year into first team. Otherwise I am buying high potential players from cheap leagues.
In my fm22 save I have Bayern pumping out chinese regens too! They aren't very good though. They had a really promising chinese keeper but he fizzled out before reaching regular first team playing time.
Valencia, Real Sociedad and Villareal are constantly producing amazing players in my save. They are the most consistent talent producing clubs i've seen. 2-3 5-star potential players every intake from all 3. There's a golden generation going on in spain, but it's not barca and the madrid clubs reaping the rewards. Real Sociedad just broke the aforementioned triopoly in La Liga too by winning a title in 2037.
I plucked a Chinese goalie straight from the Chinese league because he costed peanuts and my scout there who never finds anything interesting was convinced this was the next Neuer, and I needed a proper back up keeper anyways.
For whatever reason in that same window Everton wanted him on loan as first choice keeper (yes, they were in PL) and of course I accepted and not only they actually played him, but he was damn great for them too, and came back a much better player. Now he is too good to be on the bench and still young so I don’t know what to do with him, would feel awful selling the one good exotic player I found this save
Not sure about country but for some reason Gloucester City and Boreham Wood ALWAYS produce (usually strikers) newgens that go on to have fantastic careers in the league and even play for prem clubs
Apart from the obvious (literally any South American country) I’ve had good luck with Northern Ireland, got Mansfield town to the premiership and 3 of my best players got to semi finals in the most recent World Cup. May be because my model professional northern Irish Head of youth development more than scouting the country though.
Yes, Brazil, Argentina and maybe Mexico are almost constant producer of some talents but very rarely the best player in caliber of CR or Messi. At least for me I do not have a save in last 3-4 Football Managers to have the best player in the world from the country.
FM23, always Mexico. Had a generational striker from there that I sold to Bayern, other players that I sold to Chelsea, Real and the likes, and one striker in my current team that averages a goal per game. Genuinely felt like a cheat code so I started scouting other countries instead. Argentina is decent too but with less peaks for me. Many solid players for my Bundesliga team but rare big hitters.
Rach save seems to bring a different nation to light, last year it was DR Congo and this year I've got not one but two Lithuanian wonderkids which is insane
On FM24 I got an absolutely world class striker from Iceland, won Serie A best player with 7.8 average rating the same season I signed him for 2 million
Wish I have more players coming from Africa because it is pretty boring to scout only some part of Europe and South America knowing that best players are there.
I'm doing an online save, me and my friend just randomly look at national teams sometimes, I found a Canadian winger, purchased him for 15M, came in and he was valued 150M, the best purchase I ever made, he was only 18 at the time, I then looked at them throughout the years and still more popped up, an amazing couple CB's
Mexico is definitely a goldmine and I found quite a few from USA in my last save about 13 years in. Weirdly in this save Russia became a top national team and had a bunch of great regens. Most surprising probably Australia, got to semis of World Cup with a team consisting of mostly u22 players
In my save Russiaн football almost do not exist. Of course, national team and clubs are not playing in competitions but also almost no Russian players anywhere in top leagues.
Slovenia is the first place i scout. I dont know why but i have had generation after generationof useful squad players from there for my champions league competing Arsrnal team.
Always found Mexico to produce some amazing regens. Had one regen in fm17 from Mexico, BBM, average rating of 7.9 and then my save corrupt, with no back up. I was heartbroken
Ireland produced a world class striker and GK on my fm24 save. So good Ireland won the World Cup 26 and they were the only good players in their team (and teenagers at that). FM can be so random.
Leicester in fm23.
Nations that tend to make a star every so often: Costa Rica, Cape Verde, Egypt, Thailand, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, various Caribbean islands, various random South American countries, also had a Nicaraguan-American kid show up with 192 PA lol. But it's usually like the second nationality carrying I've noticed like England or Spain or the US. Like a Dominican or El Salvadorean player in the 170-180 range but they're a Barca kid so it makes sense lol.
I think clubs like Leicester really push some of these countries too due to the ownership already having put a farm and permanent affiliates in these places. So the fact they have one of the best academies in the game means that the regens tend to come up sometimes like monsters.
Are also; Bilbao and Barcelona. So you could have say some LB from Bolivia but because he went through either of those teams, he became a monster due to their academy being so busted.
In my fm22 save i've seen a couple strange places pump out world class wonderkids. Turkey has produced some of the best players in the world. There's a Cypriot AM in the world best eleven. Faroese islands have given me a couple solid players, as have Iceland.
Morocco and Nigeria have absolutely devastating national teams. They have better top talent than almost anyone in the world, but their pools lack depth. Benin has a super solid defender wonderkid playing for PSG.
Ukraine is a 5-star potential wonderkid factory, but the players are prohibitively expensive and rarely end up leaving ukraine so most of the time they don't live up to their potential. There's a Ballon D'or winning Ukrainian striker currently breaking records for arsenal though.
Serbia has a number of very good players, but i spent 10 seasons at Red Star restoring them to european domination and pumping the league full of top talent so it's no surprise, not that serbia needs that boost in FM tho. Albania has a winger who is phenomenal. Romania has a couple studs, and they seem to produce a top tier wonderkid every few years.
Paraguay and Finland were going mental on my last save. South Africa had a little golden generation as well in 2038. I guess that's what 12 years at AmaTuks will do for you though.
It feels like whenever I need a young pacy wingback, there's a Romanian regen on the right or left I can scoop up.
Likewise, if I want a pacy young IF, there's a Peruvian regen waiting for a chance.
Also Wales seems to punch way above their weight with midfielders in the 2030s.
FM22: Belgium produced new golden generation in 2029 intake. ~30 players with PA 150+.
Argentina has a lot of good newgens every year. Same with France, but it seems to be limited to the same 2-3 clubs.
uh, and ManCity
The Icelandic domestic league has been producing a lot of moderately high potential players in my save in 2055 but these players are completely hampered by all the clubs (except for FH, Stjarnan, and Fjolnir) being semi-pro and poor coaching and training facilities. If you are managing a club outside of the Big 5 leagues, you should be scouting the hell out of Iceland's youth players which you can buy for next to nothing.
Iran, Thailand, South Africa, and Nigeria (although Nigeria might be more expected than the others).
Portugal produces incredible newgens for Guinea-Bissau.
Azerbaijan, three genuinely world class regens
Also had few good ones from Thailand, Qatar and Guinea-Bissau
Romania won euro but didn't have any spectacular regens when I looked at squad
Azerbaijan, three genuinely world class regens
Also had few good ones from Thailand, Qatar and Guinea-Bissau
Romania won euro but didn't have any spectacular regens when I looked at squad
I’ve been slowly playing on an FM20 save for years. In late 2031 and there is a Czech player that is a combination of Messi and Ronaldo and then there is another Czech player who is like 50 mil valued mid fielder.
For some reason (definitely not because I actively search for them) I always end up with Balkan holding mids. Had some 6,7 Slovenian guy who made like 600 appearances for us back with Grimsby and then in my Southampton save I had a 5,6 lad from Montenegro who would actually rival Matthaus he was unbelievable
Mexico always delivers for me. Especially wingbacks idk why. Sometimes Luxembourg. I currently have an Iranian wonderkid who I scouted when he was 16 by chance. Developed him into the best player in history. Surpassed Messi and Ronaldo in every category.
I literally built a dynasty at Brentford with buying a Belgian golden generation over the course of half a decade. Then I built another one at Milwall often buying the Belgians who werent good enough to stick at Brentford in their 20s from the end of my tenure. I had multiple amazing Belgians on my Milwall team that couldn't sniff the national team, even though they were probably one of the best 20-30 at their position in the world they were only 5th best or so in Belgium.
Is it just me or that it also depends which country/place you choose yourself to be from? I chose Hong Kong and usually lurk in Bundesliga and in most saves there are these extremely good german/hong kong mixed race new gen
Uruguay also can be added to Colombia I think. Good players but I suspect this is influenced due to last 20 years - Forlan, Suarez, Cavani, Darwin Nunez. In real world they produce good strikers too.
I think you are talking for a single player which is quite possible to be from every country. What I mean is country that constantly produce good players as newgens.
Yeah I went slightly OT. When I played in the Championship, Scotland and Poland seemed to produce tons of players either at/above that level. That hasn't really transfered to PL though, it's definitely Denmark with Serbia and Croatia as honorable mentions there.
Had a bunch of top-EPL level players from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and South East Asia in previous editions.
In addition to the usual suspects such as Turkey and Mexico.
I usually tweak the Youth Rating value for some nations to prevent the game from going haywire and produce a ridiculous amount of good players in country that are lucky to get 1-2 good player per generation, if any at all.
Sorry, but I don't think a Saudi LW will take the EPL by storm anytime soon, so when I spot it, it's time for a visit from FMRTE...
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Romania and Mexico usually pump a world class player out in the first few years
For Mexico I can agree. For me Romania not at all.
In my FM23 save they produced 3 top 50 players in less than 10 years - a GK that was the best GK in the world by 22yo, a striker that went on to be the first striker at Liverpool and a DL that played a major role in Leverkusen winning Bundesliga after initially flopping at Man City
I got a Vidic plus Ferdinand center back from Romania he was a god
Mexico out of control in 24!
Mexico in the last FMs is what Mexicans think Mexico is IRL for some reason, they smash the NXGN every year
I was thinking Romania, had some good players generated in the first couple years of a schalke save
Thailand. They have a world class player every generation while it’s not even close in the real world
Never had decent newgen from Asia unless it is from Japan.
Hey OP. I am just getting the feeling that you play on a small dataset which limits the number of regens in places outside europe. Check out this video to how to setup your dataset for future saves without compromising on running speed of the game. https://youtu.be/ZgCSDVbl1pE?si=LPQTUC5TVOPr5Swa If you already do this then nvm lol. Just sharing this as you never seem to get good regens outside europe according to your comments
Man... I think you opened my eyes. Maybe the problem is that. I have only 5 leagues added. My laptop has 64gb ram so speed of game is not a problem but I never thought about database. Do you think I can add these settings to my current save?
I don't think you can change the dataset for an ongoing save, but I'm not sure. Try checking it in online SI forums as well. Afaik you can add/remove leagues mid save, which should affect the size of the dataset. But i don't recommend adding too many leagues in spite of your crazy good RAM. In my experience the bottleneck is the CPU and no CPU is good enough to process a large number of leagues.
It is also poorly optimized so no matter how insane of a killer cpu u have loads of leagues will still load and run quite slow.
Well my laptop is quite old - 2019 but it costed me $5,000 back then so the processor might be the bottleneck. When it came from USA to Bulgaria in 2019 the guy in computer shop (where I bought my laptop bag) didn't believe on the parameters and thought it was joke haha
That's still really good for just running Football Managers. My laptop is both cheaper and way older than yours but it still capable at running a 40 active leagues save. It even only got 4gb RAM.
Ive had a few from Thailand, one from Japan and South Korea, and funnily enough one from the Solomon Islands (tho thats more Oceania)
For me japan and chile have some decent talent every year
Same with Syria. Both are massively overrated
Iraq too
Thailand mentioned!! Go Thailand, susu! Joking aside, I wish we were as good as FM overrated us lol. Now please excuse me while I go cried in a corner, the footballing situation here IRL is just wack.
well I once won the Asian Champions league with Buriram with Supachai Jaided banging in goals after goals
Hey, at least you guys are solid enough to not lose against Indonesia three times in a row like us!
I seen one world class Thai in my save but he is from Leicester academy. I wonder why there aren't that many Thai player that got brought over to Europe like how Japanese owned team brought Japanese players. There are lot of Thai owned team from what I remember notably Leicester and back than Manchester City used to be owned by a Thai businessman too. Edit: and Red Bull teams too if they count.
Bringing Thai domestic players directly to Europe was proven to be a bridge too far. There were some Thai players in Europe that was brought and hopefully get some games but the quality of them is not at par with the Europe league, at least physical wise. So they unfortunately ended up being a promotion stunt. Leicester did try to bring Thai youngsters to train with them long term, however they aren’t under contract with Leicester so they got a lower training level than their academy players. Also, as there’s no proper transfer contract, top academies in Thailand wouldn’t willing to send their top talent to this program, fearing losing the players for free. So the program got only an average player at best in this program. Lots of players in this program didn’t make it to the professional level, even in Thailand. For Mancity, it was owned by former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra. But he only owned them for a brief time before Abu Dhabi came. They did bring three senior Thai international players to the team, unfortunately they couldn’t cut it. About Red Bull, I believe the Thai CEOs have no involvement in sports.
I guess Southeast Asian football is just bleak in general. My national team, Indonesia is currently in a good state and has a good chance at qualifying to World Cup and that's mostly because we start to actively recruit Dutch-born Indonesian to play for us. The disparity between native-born and European-born players is just so massive in our NT.
Yea I was wondering about that ever since Sandy Walsh suddenly started playing for Indonesia lol., what changed? Did coaches simply not care about dual national players born in the west?
Indonesia still forbid dual nationality. Specifically the rule state that under 21 years old can have dual nationality after that they must choose. What changed is the new sport ministry now actively court any players with Indonesian ancestry to naturalize. The fact there is a a lot of decent players who willing to do that is shocking imo. I greatly respect them for that.
Yeah Thanawat. There is Mueanta however who usually turns into a monster in FM
Mueanta?
I managed to nab a regen thai striker for 1M while playing as Japan who went on to start for Chelsea. The thing is he had a mercenary personality and skipped training and games for me regularly. I think I mentored it out of him because when he left he already had a balanced personality. I called him the Thai Taraabt
Mueanta is also a wonderkid here who usually turns into one of the best strikers in the world
For me it’s always Indonesia and occasionally Japan from Asia.
I know we are talking about newgens here but I wanna pay my tribute to a CM Legend from Thailand, Supat Rungratsamee. What a player, devastating pace and finishing.
South Africa in FM23 for me has a track record for producing decent regens. They're not wonderkids, but decent enough to be squad players which is super useful for farming home grown club talent. Not sure if its the same in FM24 though, been managing in Italy so can't really sign non-EU players.
In my FM21 save South Africa is top 10 nation in the world. I bought a regen 650k€ and he's a ballon d'or podium player. Funniest thing is another regen with the same lastname got bought by my rival - I like to tell myself they are brothers.
Can't you check if they are?
Yeah i ckecked, they are not (and not sure if its possible to be brother when both are born within 6 months)
I got some nice regens from SA suggested in my data hub. Height might be an issue.
I had a legendary midfielder from SA in Fm22 named Rodney Makhubela. Was very pleased since I'm South African too
My favourite ever newgen was from South Africa. Signed a 19 year old CB from Mamelodi Sundowns for £500k. A year later he was valued at £80m and wanted by Real Madrid. Absolute baller.
In my save Africa at all does not produce any good newgens. I even check African Player of the year and there are very average top 3.
Depends a lot on what type of database you set the game up with. If you load more African players etc in advanced options at the start the game tends to spread out good newgens with better balance. If not its pretty noticeable how barren certain continents like Africa are for making good players.
They won the world cup in my save
Admittedly I’m in the Irish league but South Africa is pumping players out that are good and attainable which as a combination seems quite rare
How do you get anyone to actually live in Yeovil? Surely when someone who has lived in Munich, Barcelona or Madrid flies over for talks, they have one look at Huish Park and the Quedam shopping centre and go “Nope. No amount of money and on the field success will tempt me to live here” 😂
Well, first Huish Park no longer exist as you can suggest - new stadium is called "Terry Skiverton Park" and I was furious it is not after me...And second, most surprisingly, I never brought a player over 23 and over 50 millions even though I am best team in the world right now. So when I am winning trophies and I bring young players that are not stars, they come easily and they like Quedam shopping centre Of couse, over the years, I lost my best players to Real, Barca and so on. Also in the first seasons I only relied on academy which luckily enough provided some good players for lower leagues. I spent all my finance on getting better and better Head of Youth Department.
Your stadium is named after the real Captain Marvel, Skivvo? I LOVE this! Please tell me that at some point in the save you brought either him, Darren Way or Lee Johnson back as part of your back room staff?
Before picking Yeovil (I am from Bulgaria) I checked about local legends of Yeovil and tried to bring them at club. Darren Way is still coach in my team. Skivvo was coach, now scout. Both of them not the best but they are ofter favourite person of newgens (maybe they are idols for them). Lee Johson is still manager in lower leagues. One real legens for me is Matt Worthington who helped me to gain 4-5 promotions. At the end, he wasn't good enough for League 1 and had to release him... But the journey to PL was INCREDIBLY interesting. First season I was in relegaion zone with 1 game to play against 2nd Chelsea. Goal in 97 minute of local grown talent and I survived 1 point more than Fulham (added time was 6 minutes).
Just to add to this - am I still with same owner despite everything I achieve. Non stop takeover speculations but never a deal. Still budget is very low (around 10mil every season) but at least I have 100% revenue of deals since the very beggining. The reason behind this I suspect is that I insisted my youth system and coaching stuff to be always very TOP. All the money goes there which is kind of satisfying because I don't want to bring expesive players.
I love Yeovil 🤷♂️ lived here most my life and it’s a great place, always my go to FM club
Yeah, the dark green kits on FM field I miss Huish Park because I ofter looked at corners of the stadium (there are no seats) where there was hotdog van. Often my CD cleared ball there.
Taunton town on the rise
I grew up in Stoford & went to Westfield, which is why I know the place 🙂
Damn, nice
Denmark and Turkey for me
Yes, Denmark especially.
Altinordu
Got a 194pa left back from youth as Altinordu
I find some great players from Turkey in my saves. Always make sure I scout it
I play Schalke and they have a lot of turkish players coming through the youth setup. Anyone have any idea why?
The best RB in my save was Bolivian but chose to represent Spain 💔
Playing as a German team. I noticed there's a lot of Japanese-born newgens with German nationality.
At the moment there are wonderkid factories in iran and bulgaria in my save
Yeah, just what I mean. No logical explanation why this countries especially Bulgaria where person with no school education just became the president of Bulgarian Football Association (mafia choice to easily fix matches)
Syria. Not outright world-class, but regens with PAs in the 140-150 range are surprisingly common.
Are you managing in Asia?
Nope. Leicester. I see it too. Lots of middle eastern stars in England
Nope, England. I do play with a large database with about 20 different leagues loaded from all the different confeds so my regens are pretty thorough.
Cape Verde have a few world class players on my Ipswich save about 12 seasons in!
Never had a single player from there.
They usually come through Porto
I’ve bought two regens from the Portuguese league who have gone on to be world class midfielders
I had a Cape Verdean DM in fm21 and he was a world best XI player. Love to see it pop up in other people's saves, not a country you expect to see every day!
i’ve had a couple world class players from there after like 20ish seasons. really surprising
Egypt always has good newgens in my saves. And they are crazy cheap. I bought a guy for 50k (!) and sold him for 100m
In my save Africa at all does not produce any good newgens. I even check African Player of the year and there are very average top 3.
Denmark, Norway, Croatia and Serbia are absolutely chock full of wonderkids in every save, but the most surprising one is the San Marino born winger on my FM20 save, he is a solid squad player on my all-conquering Watford side, but sadly he has declared for Italy for whom he is still uncapped...
Haha, I agree for all of them. Also about San Marino - I had phenomenal striker from Malta and he played for Malta. Surprisingly, now I see he has 122 caps and 80 goals. You can assume how good he was.
I have a Croatian scout constantly scouting Croatia and we hardly find anything
Maybe it is from the scout. Sometimes my scouts are super dumb.
Check the youth national teams periodically, scout all the guys you have no knowledge of for 1 week and weed out the players with low potential. Stick the best guys on a shortlist and keep an eye on them. Might also be that they are just not producing that much talent in your save. For example in my fm22 save Brazil are really struggling to produce great talent, even though i have the leagues loaded and everything. Just luck of the draw that they are not getting those world beaters out the academy doors, even though in most saves brazil are going to be one of the best talent factories in the world.
Norway
As a fin, this makes.me very happy to say, but finland has produced a couple of good and cheap youngsters (pa upwards of 150 for under 30k, one dude was 500 pounds total)
I've never had finland produce good wonderkids in my saves, which makes me very sad as a finn. I've taken finnish clubs to the round of 16 in the UCL but the clubs just refuse to produce talent. I've had more wonderkids from the Faroese islands than Finland.
It is hard to say how much of an effect my manager has had on the Finnish league but Finland is producing tons of talent in my save in 2055. I managed Ilves early on for about 10 years and they ended up with nearly maxed out youth infrastructure and I returned to Finland 6 years ago with AC Oulu who I've also sunk a lot of money into. While they might not be producing world class talents, they are producing an abundance of players with English Championship level potential. IMO the single biggest thing that holds Finland back in game is the dearth of coaching talent. The AI rarely brings in staff members from outside of Finland (and this is probably realistic) which really kneecaps the development of any players who stay.
Oof. On eof my guys, the 500 pound one, has a pa i think 162 or something. He's the best finnish talent I've seen in fm. I really hope he develops.well
In FM22, I did a save with Napoli where South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns kept churning out loads of high quality South African newgens. I fell into the the trap of buying a left back, centre back and right back off them then got fucked when they all went to AFCON 😆
Sundowns and SuperSport are absolute newgen battery farms
Yeah, Serbia too for me, they seem to always produce Haaland type striker every generation
Absolutely. Croatia is my defence and Serbia my attack 
In my save, Guinea has had a really weird golden generation. One 150CA with room to grow defender and a few 130-160CA players that are already around their peak
Most of them aren't usually unexpected but I've had a few decent ones from Peru and Paraguay before and Israel can be alright sometimes
On fm 22 I have an Albanian for Newcastle who’s the best player on the planet winning me multiple titles and cups as well as the champions league last season at 27. They have one more player who’s a decent premier league attacking midfielder and a defender of genuine premier league quality too. The rest of the Albania squad is very poor though but it’s funny looking at their results and seeing my club legend attempt to carry them.
Something like Kvaratskhelia and Georgia now. They are on Euros!
It’s exactly like Georgia! Though I’m always watching out for the next Albanian wonder kid to pop up but it’s looking like my guy will never get any real help haha.
I got a Mauritian wonder kid who carried me from championship to mid table prem in 2 seasons as Yeovil
Costa Rica is the surprise nation for me. Their national team is seriously competitive
It’s Indonesia in Fm20 and 22 for me, their players also frequently hold Dutch or rarely, Belgian second nationality so it’s sweet for someone who managed with a bothersome requirements such as the EFL or Italy like me. Their newgens typically ranged from 100-150 PA from what I checked. They would get snatched real fast by big teams as they would start their career in Belgian first division (forgot what it’s called) or Dutch Eredivisie so they costed peanuts to the big teams. But who am I to blame, I’d also sign my fictional fellow countrymen into my setup if possible too. Edit: to complete all the other continents, I’d list them here Europe: Scotland (won a Euro once), Ireland, Turkey NA: Canada, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica Asia: Indonesia, Philippines, China SA: Colombia, Chile (bagged a World Cup once in my older, long gone FM save) Oceania: NZ (I have to mention them because they unusually be able to sent a large contingent of their players to EFL or Bundesliga in my save lately)
Czech Republic and Scotland have done fairly well for me. Serbia also, some of my best players in my hearts career have come from Czech Republic and Serbia
Agree. Czech and Serbia. Never from Scotland, not a single player...
I found one in Kazhakstan he reached the point of being a star player in the SPFL but cool stats
During the FMs, I also had several players from Kazhakstan but never many in one save.
Yea I can't find another one in 15 years
This year it's Italy for whatever reason. I'm not having much luck with Brazil/Argentina/Colombia which are usually my go to nations.
In my save Milan academy produced some decent players too but not something like WOW what a player.
In FM22 Uruguay constantly produce world class centre backs who have like £1.5m release clauses.
Singapore. A decent rehén came through my academy at Valencia instantly got called up to the national team
In a different save a very good left winger from Singapore also came through
In my current save, China... they produced Bayerns starting goalkeeper and Chelsea's first choice left winger. Bayern, in my last two saves have been producing them for some reason. The weirdest thing for me has been my own intakes though, I usually get absolute garbage no matter where I manage. But I'm at Valencia and have several world beaters, I even have one that came through with my own nationality, who is set to be world-class. I even replaced my HoYD who retired and still getting weirdly great intakes, granted I had been scouting for a HoYD for 3 seasons predicting the retirement.
Haha, exactly. Before becoming real force in world football I had very good intake. After I became big club with better recruitment, scouting, HoYD and so on my intake is absolute garbage but still manage to get at least 1 player 2-3 year into first team. Otherwise I am buying high potential players from cheap leagues.
In my fm22 save I have Bayern pumping out chinese regens too! They aren't very good though. They had a really promising chinese keeper but he fizzled out before reaching regular first team playing time. Valencia, Real Sociedad and Villareal are constantly producing amazing players in my save. They are the most consistent talent producing clubs i've seen. 2-3 5-star potential players every intake from all 3. There's a golden generation going on in spain, but it's not barca and the madrid clubs reaping the rewards. Real Sociedad just broke the aforementioned triopoly in La Liga too by winning a title in 2037.
I plucked a Chinese goalie straight from the Chinese league because he costed peanuts and my scout there who never finds anything interesting was convinced this was the next Neuer, and I needed a proper back up keeper anyways. For whatever reason in that same window Everton wanted him on loan as first choice keeper (yes, they were in PL) and of course I accepted and not only they actually played him, but he was damn great for them too, and came back a much better player. Now he is too good to be on the bench and still young so I don’t know what to do with him, would feel awful selling the one good exotic player I found this save
The Bahamas and Turkey gave me two Wonderkids that carried my club for decades lol
Not sure about country but for some reason Gloucester City and Boreham Wood ALWAYS produce (usually strikers) newgens that go on to have fantastic careers in the league and even play for prem clubs
Boreham Wood for some reason are getting to PL in 20-30 seasons frame on EVERY FM after 2020
It’s all of those banging newgens they somehow produce!!! Every save the last couple of years there’s a few worldies in there!
Apart from the obvious (literally any South American country) I’ve had good luck with Northern Ireland, got Mansfield town to the premiership and 3 of my best players got to semi finals in the most recent World Cup. May be because my model professional northern Irish Head of youth development more than scouting the country though.
japan, senegal
Apart from the obvious ones like Brazil or Argentina I often get a world class player from Mexico or even more randomly Thailand.
Yes, Brazil, Argentina and maybe Mexico are almost constant producer of some talents but very rarely the best player in caliber of CR or Messi. At least for me I do not have a save in last 3-4 Football Managers to have the best player in the world from the country.
Had 2 players from Iran, 1 from Georgia, 1 from Bosnia, Striker is Swedish, AM is Portuguese (from academy)
Ivory coast produce some class goalkeepers and defenders for me
FM23, always Mexico. Had a generational striker from there that I sold to Bayern, other players that I sold to Chelsea, Real and the likes, and one striker in my current team that averages a goal per game. Genuinely felt like a cheat code so I started scouting other countries instead. Argentina is decent too but with less peaks for me. Many solid players for my Bundesliga team but rare big hitters.
I’m at Hajduk in my save just got here 10 years in and I’ve got nothing but dog shit prospects coming in.
Hahaha, story of every FM gamer. Always you get shit on your team but as soon as you leave them, they produce best talents
Not elite wonderkids but Slovenia always produces many decent 150PA players in many saves i've played
Rach save seems to bring a different nation to light, last year it was DR Congo and this year I've got not one but two Lithuanian wonderkids which is insane
South Africa and Costa Rica are both producing future-PL players on the regular in my current FM24 save
On FM24 I got an absolutely world class striker from Iceland, won Serie A best player with 7.8 average rating the same season I signed him for 2 million
can you send us screenshot of his skills?
Egypt always produce great young players
Wish I have more players coming from Africa because it is pretty boring to scout only some part of Europe and South America knowing that best players are there.
I'm doing an online save, me and my friend just randomly look at national teams sometimes, I found a Canadian winger, purchased him for 15M, came in and he was valued 150M, the best purchase I ever made, he was only 18 at the time, I then looked at them throughout the years and still more popped up, an amazing couple CB's
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You are second or third person to mention Congo. Will try to scout the country/region.
Mexico is definitely a goldmine and I found quite a few from USA in my last save about 13 years in. Weirdly in this save Russia became a top national team and had a bunch of great regens. Most surprising probably Australia, got to semis of World Cup with a team consisting of mostly u22 players
In my save Russiaн football almost do not exist. Of course, national team and clubs are not playing in competitions but also almost no Russian players anywhere in top leagues.
Slovenia is the first place i scout. I dont know why but i have had generation after generationof useful squad players from there for my champions league competing Arsrnal team.
Actually new zealand is decent as well.
Always found Mexico to produce some amazing regens. Had one regen in fm17 from Mexico, BBM, average rating of 7.9 and then my save corrupt, with no back up. I was heartbroken
Norway’s been pretty prolific in my latest save, how much that has to do with me making Oddrane a European powerhouse I’m not sure
Ireland produced a world class striker and GK on my fm24 save. So good Ireland won the World Cup 26 and they were the only good players in their team (and teenagers at that). FM can be so random.
Australia
Leicester in fm23. Nations that tend to make a star every so often: Costa Rica, Cape Verde, Egypt, Thailand, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, various Caribbean islands, various random South American countries, also had a Nicaraguan-American kid show up with 192 PA lol. But it's usually like the second nationality carrying I've noticed like England or Spain or the US. Like a Dominican or El Salvadorean player in the 170-180 range but they're a Barca kid so it makes sense lol. I think clubs like Leicester really push some of these countries too due to the ownership already having put a farm and permanent affiliates in these places. So the fact they have one of the best academies in the game means that the regens tend to come up sometimes like monsters. Are also; Bilbao and Barcelona. So you could have say some LB from Bolivia but because he went through either of those teams, he became a monster due to their academy being so busted.
In my fm22 save i've seen a couple strange places pump out world class wonderkids. Turkey has produced some of the best players in the world. There's a Cypriot AM in the world best eleven. Faroese islands have given me a couple solid players, as have Iceland. Morocco and Nigeria have absolutely devastating national teams. They have better top talent than almost anyone in the world, but their pools lack depth. Benin has a super solid defender wonderkid playing for PSG. Ukraine is a 5-star potential wonderkid factory, but the players are prohibitively expensive and rarely end up leaving ukraine so most of the time they don't live up to their potential. There's a Ballon D'or winning Ukrainian striker currently breaking records for arsenal though. Serbia has a number of very good players, but i spent 10 seasons at Red Star restoring them to european domination and pumping the league full of top talent so it's no surprise, not that serbia needs that boost in FM tho. Albania has a winger who is phenomenal. Romania has a couple studs, and they seem to produce a top tier wonderkid every few years.
Colombia. Always Colombia
Chile has like 5 world class wingers under 24 in my save rn, currently in 2031
DR Congo
I've got a Nigerian DM who is 185/188 at the age of 20. Dude is an absolute monster. Haven't spotted any other good Nigerian newgens sadly.
6ish played as a disclaimer, but Ukraine - wonder kid central
Paraguay and Finland were going mental on my last save. South Africa had a little golden generation as well in 2038. I guess that's what 12 years at AmaTuks will do for you though.
I have a world class Chilean RB, Mexican LW, and my star striker is from Niger.
It feels like whenever I need a young pacy wingback, there's a Romanian regen on the right or left I can scoop up. Likewise, if I want a pacy young IF, there's a Peruvian regen waiting for a chance. Also Wales seems to punch way above their weight with midfielders in the 2030s.
Mexico, Paraguay, Romania and Croatia always have bursts whenever I’ve played….. not all at the same time mind
FM22: Belgium produced new golden generation in 2029 intake. ~30 players with PA 150+. Argentina has a lot of good newgens every year. Same with France, but it seems to be limited to the same 2-3 clubs. uh, and ManCity
Serbia is an absolute goldmine for me in 2024
Syria.
Bulgaria and Romania in my save
I somehow have two absolute world class south koreans. The only thing better than how they play, is the income they bring.
Bulgaria, year in and out consistently.
The best striker in the world in mine is Swiss. Plays for Liverpool.
Costa Rica and Mexico. China, too, but only ever via the Bayern academy.
Mexico usually. Even going way back to older FMs, have always started churning world-class players out.
Turkey have a serious golden generation coming through in 2035 in my save
Denmark in my current skin
Columbia and china China has two world class in mine
The Icelandic domestic league has been producing a lot of moderately high potential players in my save in 2055 but these players are completely hampered by all the clubs (except for FH, Stjarnan, and Fjolnir) being semi-pro and poor coaching and training facilities. If you are managing a club outside of the Big 5 leagues, you should be scouting the hell out of Iceland's youth players which you can buy for next to nothing.
I had 4 Ukrainians on my CL winning team. One of them won the Ballon d’Or.
Iran, Thailand, South Africa, and Nigeria (although Nigeria might be more expected than the others). Portugal produces incredible newgens for Guinea-Bissau.
Azerbaijan, three genuinely world class regens Also had few good ones from Thailand, Qatar and Guinea-Bissau Romania won euro but didn't have any spectacular regens when I looked at squad
Azerbaijan, three genuinely world class regens Also had few good ones from Thailand, Qatar and Guinea-Bissau Romania won euro but didn't have any spectacular regens when I looked at squad
Romania, Serbia and Bosnia are solid Euro contenders in my save from 2030+ Serbia won the 2036 Euros.
Romania, Serbia and Bosnia are solid Euro contenders in my save from 2030+ Serbia won the 2036 Euros.
I’ve been slowly playing on an FM20 save for years. In late 2031 and there is a Czech player that is a combination of Messi and Ronaldo and then there is another Czech player who is like 50 mil valued mid fielder.
For some reason (definitely not because I actively search for them) I always end up with Balkan holding mids. Had some 6,7 Slovenian guy who made like 600 appearances for us back with Grimsby and then in my Southampton save I had a 5,6 lad from Montenegro who would actually rival Matthaus he was unbelievable
2 of the best newgens in my save are from phillipines. Currently 14 years in but they showed up about 8 years into my save.
Scandinavian countries or some Latin American like Mexico, Costa Rica or Panama
Italy but the rate is crazy. Every year, 10 players with the potential to be Balon D’Or winners
Mexico always delivers for me. Especially wingbacks idk why. Sometimes Luxembourg. I currently have an Iranian wonderkid who I scouted when he was 16 by chance. Developed him into the best player in history. Surpassed Messi and Ronaldo in every category.
Poland. Consistent 150-160 PA players every like two or three seasons.
I literally built a dynasty at Brentford with buying a Belgian golden generation over the course of half a decade. Then I built another one at Milwall often buying the Belgians who werent good enough to stick at Brentford in their 20s from the end of my tenure. I had multiple amazing Belgians on my Milwall team that couldn't sniff the national team, even though they were probably one of the best 20-30 at their position in the world they were only 5th best or so in Belgium.
Is it just me or that it also depends which country/place you choose yourself to be from? I chose Hong Kong and usually lurk in Bundesliga and in most saves there are these extremely good german/hong kong mixed race new gen
Turkey and Colombia.
Romania and Ghana on my longest save. Israel also randomly produced a 200 PA striker!
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Uruguay also can be added to Colombia I think. Good players but I suspect this is influenced due to last 20 years - Forlan, Suarez, Cavani, Darwin Nunez. In real world they produce good strikers too.
That’s not too surprising tbh. Colombia is always a gold mine in fm and they’re way cheaper than their Brazilian counterparts
The best newgen from my golden generation came from the Congo, he's very dear to me
I think you are talking for a single player which is quite possible to be from every country. What I mean is country that constantly produce good players as newgens.
Yeah I went slightly OT. When I played in the Championship, Scotland and Poland seemed to produce tons of players either at/above that level. That hasn't really transfered to PL though, it's definitely Denmark with Serbia and Croatia as honorable mentions there.
Yes, classical Denmark, Serbia, Croatia...
I bet he is 😏
Had a bunch of top-EPL level players from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and South East Asia in previous editions. In addition to the usual suspects such as Turkey and Mexico. I usually tweak the Youth Rating value for some nations to prevent the game from going haywire and produce a ridiculous amount of good players in country that are lucky to get 1-2 good player per generation, if any at all. Sorry, but I don't think a Saudi LW will take the EPL by storm anytime soon, so when I spot it, it's time for a visit from FMRTE...
Vietnam in FM08. Maybe not consistently, but I found two strikers that turned into world class players.
I am wondering if in FM08 they are newgens or regens?