While many great wonderkids fulfilled their Manager destiny, such as Sergio Aguero, Arda Turan, Marek Hamsik, Manuel Neuer, Fernando Torres – to an extent – Wayne Rooney, Neymar, Romelu Lukaku, and many others, the focus here will be on those who didn’t quite make it.Īs of December 18th, Barcelona were priced at 59/50 to beat Chelsea in the first leg of their upcoming Champions League tie, but back in 2006, they had a team that could walk over this Chelsea setup.Īt a time when the Barcelona team was littered with the likes of Carles Puyol, Deco, Henrik Larsson, Ronaldinho, Mark van Bommel, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Andres Iniesta, Xavi, the immaculate Samuel Eto’o, and a budding Lionel Messi, everyone’s favourite transfer target sat in the youth team.īojan was all set to be Barcelona’s greatest striker of all time, with so many editions of Football and Championship Manager rating him incredibly highly, right from his 2006 days in the youth team. Here, we’ll be looking at some of the many wonderkids that Football Manager and the game that it split from in 2005, Championship Manager, have produced over the years, why they were so loved in the games, what games they were discovered on, and how they got on outside of the simulation games. You don’t mind if you have to wait a few years for them to develop as they’ll be yours the incredible young player that you found and you developed, becoming one of the best in the world – saving you a fortune in transfer fees along the way.īuilding a dynasty is key to long-term success on Football Manager, so here we’ll be looking at the great wonderkids of past editions that allowed us to start up the youth movement, bolster the reserve and youth team, and then bring unrivalled success to the first team. When playing Football Manager, or any football management simulation game, one of your primary desires right from the beginning is to find your next star player.

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