Darko, it's a bug whereby every single player (!) you search for in career mode - youth academy players included - no longer show a status such as "At the club since X", "Showing great potential", "An exciting prospect" or "Has potential to be special".
Instead, I'll say it again, every SINGLE player (!) now has "Contract already accepted" where the potential status is normally displayed.
When searching players for transfers you rely on the potential status massively. The same when scouting youth players.
So many times a youth player will have 80-94 potential listed, but the status of "At the club since" let's you know they'll be 80-81 at best. So you NEED the potential status to be working and letting you know if someone "Has potential to be special" or is "An exciting prospect" - Contract already accepted being shown for every player in the save suddenly, renders the game useless.
This must be a bug and it needs fixing ASAP.