Football’s Most Valuable Young Talents In 2012

By: The Offside | March 22nd, 2012

britains The Portuguese internet portal Futebol Finance released their interpretation, meticulously constructed in method of course, of the game’s most valuable young talents – the 21 & under variety. It’s unlikely to serve as a cheat sheet for anyone’s current FM game, considering all the names are known and will cost a sheikh or two already.

Neymar, Goetze, Balotelli, etc. etc. etc. Basically the shopping list of Manchester City and the two ladies in Spain – particular the Spaniards, as El Clasico fields a combined one name on this list – plus a few more clubs from time to time.

The club names are as impressive as the talents, but that’s of no surprise as scouting begins in the embryonic stage these days. Of course, it’s also a reflection of their respective transfer values, a big reason England is making such a strong showing.

(Xherdan Shaqiri’s already been snapped up by his conquerors – looting for spoils of war indeed – Bayern Munich.)

(Minimum and maximum values given.)

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The remaining 15 can be found at the page, where you can also wonder why Bologna doesn’t transition to the far more excellent ‘Bolonha’ permanently.

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Striker

James Forrest is definitely a player worth watching out for next season.
GenManTel

Neymar will surely be on the top in next 4/5 years along with Balotelli and Hazard, but we have to look at these young players minds too. They should never be under a great stress and we shouldn't force them to become better and better with every minute of the game, their time will come when they're ready for it.
Josh Tarrant

A good list and have built many a FM team using these players.
Will be interesting to see where and when Neymar turns up. Surely most likely it will be Barca - which could potentially just take all the fun out of football as they carry on dominating football for another 5 or 6 years.

hazard, Gotze and M'Villa are most likely on the move this summer. Where do we think they will end up?