Investing in the Youth Academy (YA) can be an important decision for your team. Generally speaking it's difficult to make a profit from the YA, but that's not the only reason to invest. You might want to invest for roleplaying reasons, for the chance of a great player or because you don't feel comfortable with the transfer market.
The Youth Academy graph from the rules shows the distribution of player skills at 17yo for different
levels of investment. You can see there is a massive benefit in paying just 50k/week into the YA and beyond this it's diminishing returns. Broadly speaking you need to invest around 100k to get a similar return to pre-YA days.
Don't be fooled into thinking it will all be brilliant. Even with a maximum 300k investment 5-star academy only 17% of 17yo youths are 4 skill and under 2% are 5-skill.
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