Manager career:academy

Hi EA,

I’m writing because the Youth Academy in Career Mode has so much potential but right now it feels really underdeveloped and outdated. Here’s exactly what I’d love to see changed and improved:

🔹 The Problem Right Now

You scout a top young prospect with huge potential, but they just appear with a generic look, zero personality or unique traits, and literally just sit in a menu until you decide to promote them. There’s no journey, no development story, and it feels completely disconnected from the actual football experience. The current youth tournaments are a nice touch but they’re nowhere near enough.

🔹 What We Actually Want – Full Academy System

U18 & U21 Teams: Proper youth squads that play in their own realistic leagues and domestic cup competitions throughout the entire season.

UEFA Youth League: If your club qualifies, your academy side should compete in it too – playing against other top clubs' young talent in Europe.

Full Match & Stats Tracking: Follow every single youth game. See goals, assists, clean sheets, ratings, form streaks, injuries, everything. You should be able to see: '17-year-old striker – 26 goals in 20 games this season' and actually care about it.

Manage Or Delegate: Let us choose formations, tactics, and lineups for our youth teams – OR hire a dedicated Youth Academy Manager to handle it all for us if we want to focus only on the first team. Either way should be an option.

Real Storylines: Imagine your star youth striker is on fire, your main first-team striker gets injured in a title run, and you have to promote this youngster for his debut. That’s the kind of real, emotional narrative Career Mode is missing right now.

Scout Other Academies: Let us browse every club’s youth setup across the world. See who’s lighting up the youth leagues in South America, Europe, or anywhere else – not just the randomly generated players we scout ourselves. Give us proper global scouting visibility at youth level too.

This wouldn’t just be a small upgrade – it would completely transform Career Mode. Developing youth would actually mean something. Every season you’d have new stories, new talents emerging, and real reasons to care about your academy beyond 'wait until their overall goes up'. It would make the mode deeper, more immersive, and infinitely more replayable

the idea was completely mine but I used ea to make it more detailed and better to understand