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You can play the Career Mode inFIFA 23in many ways. You can take on a small team with money issues and lead them to the first division, or take your favorite team and prepare them to give a European Tour by playing in the Champions League.
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There are plenty of ways to be successful in a Career Mode; you can buy young players with exciting potential or create a full team out of free agents, but the best and most profitable way to create a good team in a Career Mode is by developing your Youth Academy. It’ll give you all that you need on a team if you know how to work on it.
How To Recruit Players With A Scouting Network
The first step toward glory through the Youth Academy ishaving a good scouting Network.These scouts will have the responsibility offinding the best playersfor your team. They have two important features you must pay close attention to,Experience and Judgment statsandthe type of players they can scout.
Experience and Judgment
These two stats are important as they’ll determinehow good the players the scout can find will beandhow many players he’ll scout for your team.
A scout with high Experience, but low Judgment will bring a lot of bad players, while a scout with low Experience, but great Judgment will only bring a handful players but they will be excellent.
Your aim is tosign the scouts with the best statswithout seriously compromising your budget.
Types Of Players
Here’s when things get interesting, as you candetermine the type of playersyou can ask a scout to bring to your team. There are a lot of options, and here’s an explanation of all of them:
It’s recommended to make a player of this type play at the CM, RM, or LM if they aren’t that fast, but if they have a good Pace stat, you can play them as RW and LW.
If you want to be a goodseller team, bring a bit of anything to the mix. If you want tofocus on bringing the essential pieces for your team, focus entirely on a type of player.
There are good combinations to make your scouts work, like Physically Strong + Defensive Minded, Winger + Attacker, or Playmaker + Physically Strong. Send your scouts to bring each type of player, and you’ll have a good place to start.
How To Choose Players With Good Overall and Potential
After carefully choosing the types of players you’ll want for your team, the scout reports start coming to your desk. It’s time to knowwhich players will be goodand which players won’t make it into the Youth Academy.
In fact,it’s really easy to choose; the only thing you need to do is tobe aware of their market price.If the player has a low price (rangingfrom $100.000 to $250.000), you’ll findlow-potential low overallplayers who aren’t good enough for a big team and will take a long time to be decent for a small team. It’s not recommended to invest in these players.
Now, if the players' price starts ranging from$400,000 to $700,000, you might be havinga decent squad player that can be good in the future.It’s more of a luck thing, so invest in them at your own risk.
Lastly, if the player’s price rangesfrom $900,000 upwards, you might have a great player. If the price is high, the playerhas more chancesto be already good tobe part of the squadand might only need a loan move to develop for a bit to be ready to go.
Finding The Best Development Plan For Your Players
After bringing in the best players from the scout report, it’s time to develop them, so they can be good and ready tohit the ground running.If you gota player with a high overall(60 upwards) who hasmore than 16 years, include him in the first team andsend him on a loan.There will be a lot of teams wanting to get him, and rest assured he’ll come back as a great player ready to be the best on your team. But if you picked alow overall high-potential player, you might want toset up a Development Plan for him.
The first thing you might want to know isthe best position for a player.The quickest way to know this is byheading toSofifa’s Player Calculator,where you’ll have to write the specific stats of your player, andit’ll tell you which is the best position for him. It’s important tochange your player’s positionto the one the calculator says, so he’ll strive there and will also have great development.
Now let’s talk about theDevelopment Plans.In the Development Plan screen, you’ll see that theplayers have four essential skillsthat will determine their quality; these areSkill Moves, Weak Foot, Attacking Work Rate, and Defensive Work Rate.Ideally, you want todevelop the one your player is the best in, but in certain cases, you might want a player thathas the potential to have a role you need to cover.If that’s the case, you must see your team’s strategy and see what you need, then you must act accordingly.
Let’s say you have a greatWinger, and you want him to be back and forth in the field, trying to act as a Box-to-box player. If that’s the case, you might want to develop hisDefensive Work Rate.If you want that same Winger to get in between the opposite’s defensive lines, then you might want todevelop his Attacking Work Rate.If you want the Winger to do fast and good-quality ball driving, you might want todevelop his Skill Moves, and if you want a Right-footed Winger to play at the right, you might want todevelop his Weak Foot.Apply this way of thinking to all your players, and you’ll succeed.
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