Football Manager 2011 Best Young Players: Wonderkids and Hot Prospects

Football Manager 2011 Best Young Players: Wonderkids and Hot Prospects
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FM 2011 Hot Prospects and Wonderkids

This year’s release from Sports Interactive offers a slight tweak on the winning formula and a couple of new features. You can read about the game in our Football Manager 2011 review. One of the addictive hooks is the ability to build your team and seek out some of the best young prospects around. Taking youngsters and transforming them into multi-million pound football stars is hugely satisfying and in this guide you’ll find a list of the best young players in Football Manager 2011.

Each of our FM 2011 wonderkids or hot prospects is listed by name and divided into age groups. You’ll also find their positions, age, current club and value. In the majority of cases you’ll have to pay a lot more than the listed value to secure them. These players all have the potential to be superstars but they’ll need the right training and encouragement to make it.

Best Young Players in FM 2011 – 16 Year Olds

Lucas Digne DL/WBL 16 Lille £1.4 mil
  • Jack Robinson DL 16 Liverpool £725k
  • Romario DR/WBR 16 Vitoria £625k
  • Tobias Figueiredo DC/DM/MC 16 Sporting £200k
  • Zeli Ismail AMR/MR/ST 16 Wolves £1.4 mil
  • Mateo Kovacic AMC/MC 16 Dinamo £500k
  • Bryan Rabello AMC/MRC/AMR 16 Colo Colo £475k
  • Suso AMC/MC 16 Liverpool £1.3 mil
  • Abdallah Yaisien AMC/MRC/AMR 16 Paris Saint-Germain £1.2 mil
  • Toni Silva AMRL/MRL 16 Liverpool £875k
  • Harry Kane ST/AMC 16 Tottenham £975k
  • Lucas Piazon ST/AMC 16 Sao Paulo £750k
  • Francisco Alcacer ST 16 Valencia Mestalla £1.7 mil
  • Piotr Parzyszek ST 16 De Graafschap £700k
  • Amine ST 16 Sporting £1.1 mil
  • Lenny Nangis ST 16 Caen £900k
  • Marko Livaja ST 16 £0
  • Marko Maletic ST 16 FC Utrecht £220k

Best Young Players in FM 2011 – 17 Year Olds

  • FM 2011 Wickham

    Alphonse Areola GK 17 Paris Saint-Germain £1 mil

  • Jack Butland GK 17 Birmingham £625k

  • Matej Delac GK 17 Vitesse £3 mil

  • Serge Aurier DR/WBR 17 RC Lens £1.9 mil

  • Raphael Varane DC 17 RC Lens £1.3 mil

  • Tony Huston DC/DR 17 Le Mans £1.4 mil

  • Tomas Kalas DC/DR/DM/MC 17 Sigma Olomouc £400k

  • Lorenzo Crisetig DM/MC 17 Inter £1.4 mil

  • Fraser Fyvie MC 17 Aberdeen £1 mil

  • Ouasim Bouy MC 17 Ajax £425k

  • Josh McEachran MC 17 Chelsea £1.6 mil

  • Ravel Morrison AMC/MRC/AMR 17 Man Utd £975k

  • Raphael Holzhauser M/AMC 17 Stuttgart £800k

  • Zakaria Labyad MC/AMC 17 PSV £1.2 mil

  • Thorgan Hazard AMC/MLC/AML 17 RC Lens £1.4 mil

  • Jano AMC/MLC/AML 17 Spartak Moscow £2.9 mil

  • Stephan El Shaarawy AMR/MRC/AMC 17 Padova £2.3 mil

  • Mehdi Abeid AMC/ST 17 RC Lens £1.1 mil

  • Martin Galvan AMC/ST 17 Cruz Azul £925k

  • Simone Verdi AML/MRLC/AMRC 17 AC Milan £2.4 mil

  • Romelu Lukaku ST 17 Anderlecht £1.3 mil

  • Connor Wickham ST 17 Ipswich £1.7 mil

  • Son Heung-Min ST/AMRC 17 HSV £3.2 mil

  • Luc Castaignos ST/AMRLC 17 Feyenoord £950k

  • Sani Emmanuel ST/AMR 17 My People £0

  • Iker Muniain ST/AMLC 17 Bilbao £3.5 mil

  • Nikao ST/AMC 17 Atletico Mineiro £825k

  • Jese ST/AMC 17 Real Madrid C £1.2 mil

  • Stanley Okoro ST/AMR 17 Almeria £2.1 mil

  • Tiago Alves ST/AMC 17 Santos £1.2 mil

  • Borja Baston ST 17 Atletico Madrid B £2 mil

  • Wellington Silva ST 17 Fluminense £1.5 mil

  • Philipp Prosenik ST 17 Chelsea £220k

  • Arsenio Valpoort ST 17 Heerenveen £775k

Best Young Players in FM 2011 – 18 Year Olds

  • FM 2011 Rodriguez

    Luis Guilherme GK 18 Botafogo £750k

  • Zacharie Boucher GK 18 Havre AC £975k

  • Dodo DL/WBL 18 Corinthians £1.5 mil

  • Atila Turan DL/WBL 18 GF 38 £1.4 mil

  • Danny Wilson DC/DL 18 Liverpool £2 mil

  • Dennis Appiah DR/DC/WBR 18 Monaco £1.1 mil

  • Leonel Galeano DC 18 Independiente £1.5 mil

  • Darnel Situ DC 18 RC Lens £650k

  • Kyriakos Papadopoulos DC 18 Schalke £2 mil

  • Marc Muniesa DC 18 Barcelona £2.5 mil

  • Phil Jones DC/DM/MC 18 Blackburn £3.9 mil

  • Nampalys Mendy DM/MC 18 Monaco £1.2 mil

  • Sergio Oliveira DM/MC 18 Porto £700k

  • Jonjo Shelvey MC/AMC 18 Liverpool £1.7 mil

  • Alexandre Coeff MC 18 RC Lens £450k

  • David Alaba MC/ML 18 Bayern Munich £3.9 mil

  • Kevin MC/MR/AMC 18 Zaragoza £1.6 mil

  • Torric MC/DM 18 Hearts of Oak £75k

  • Xherdan Shaqiri ML/MR/AMRL 18 Basel £2.3 mil

  • Jack Wilshere AMC/MRLC/AMRL 18 Arsenal £5 mil

  • Zezinho AML/MLC/AMC 18 Santos £2.2 mil

  • Berkin Arslan AML/MRLC/AMRC 18 Galatasaray £975k

  • Christian Eriksen AMC/MC 18 Ajax £3 mil

  • Mario Gotze AMC/MRLC/AMRL 18 Dortmund £3.6 mil

  • Coutinho AMC/MC/ST 18 Inter £4.1 mil

  • Dudu AMC/AMR/ST 18 Coritiba £2 mil

  • Keko AMR/MR 18 Atletico Madrid £2.8 mil

  • Adem Ljajic AMR/MRLC/AMLC 18 Fiorentina £3.2 mil

  • Oscar AMC/MRC/AMR 18 Internacional £2.1 mil

  • James Rodriguez AML/MLC/AMC 18 Porto £575k

  • Pablo Sarabia AML/ML 18 Real Madrid £1 mil

  • Wendel AMC/MC/ST 18 Atletico Mineiro £1.7 mil

  • Davide Petrucci AMC/ST 18 Man Utd £975k

  • Federico Macheda ST 18 Man Utd £4.9 mil

  • Neymar ST/AMLC 18 Santos £4.1 mil

  • Vaclav Kadlec ST 18 Sparta Prague £1 mil

  • Ishak Belfodil ST 18 Lyon £3 mil

  • Mahatma Otoo ST 18 Tunis £1.1 mil

  • Nelson Oliveira ST 18 Ferreira £1 mil

  • Nassim Ben Khalifa ST 18 Wolfsburg £3 mil

  • Sergio Araujo ST 18 Boca £800k

  • Taufic Guarch ST 18 Estudiantes Tecos £825k

  • Terence Makengo ST 18 Monaco £875k

  • Chris Gadi ST 18 OM £1.1 mil

Best Young Players in FM 2011 – 19 Year Olds

  • Dedryck Boyata DC 19 Man City £3.7 mil
  • Ezequiel Munoz DC 19 Palermo £2.6 mil
  • Davide Santon DR/DL/WBRL 19 Inter £5.5 mil
  • Jorge Pulido DC 19 Atletico Madrid £525k
  • Fabio DL/DR/WBRL 19 Man Utd £4.2 mil
  • Roderick Miranda DC 19 Benfica £825k
  • Mateo Musacchio DC 19 Villarreal £4.5 mil
  • Rafael DR/WBR 19 Man Utd £4.9 mil
  • Tom Cairney MC 19 Hull £1.4 mil
  • Aaron Ramsey MC 19 Arsenal £5.25 mil
  • Necip Uysal MC 19 Besiktas £2.4 mil
  • Franco Zuculin MC/DM/MR 19 Hoffenheim £3.3 mil
  • Eden Hazard AMC/MLC/AMLC 19 Lille £6 mil
  • Sergio Canales AMC/MC 19 Real Madrid £5.75 mil
  • Antoine Griezmann AML/MLC/AMC 19 Real Sociedad £4.4 mil
  • Clement Grenier AMC/MC 19 Lyon £2.1 mil
  • Gael Kakuta AMC/MRLC/AMRL 19 Chelsea £1.6 mil
  • Alan Patrick AMC/MC 19 Santos £2 mil
  • Thiago AMC/MC 19 Barcelona £3 mil
  • Lewis Holtby AML/MRLC/AMRC 19 Mainz £4.5 mil
  • Georginio Wijnaldum AMC/MRLC/AMRL 19 Feyenoord £3 mil
  • Andre Schurrle AML/AMR/ST 19 Mainz £3.4 mil
  • Levan Kenia AMC/MC 19 Schalke £3.8 mil
  • German Pacheco AML/AMC/ST 19 Atletico Madrid £2.6 mil
  • Bebe AMRL/MRLC/AMC 19 Man Utd £7.5 mil
  • Daniel Pacheco ST/AMC 19 Liverpool £3.3 mil
  • Cedric Bakambu ST 19 FC Sochaux-Montbe £1.4 mil
  • Sofiane Hanni ST/AMC 19 FC Nantes £875k
  • Alex Nimely ST 19 Man City £2.2 mil
  • Lacina Traore ST 19 CFR Cluj £1.5 mil
  • Abel Hernandez ST 19 Palermo £6.25 mil
  • Raul Nava ST 19 Toluca £900k

Best Young Players in FM 2011 – 20 Year Olds

  • FM 2011 Yildirim

    Luis Bareiro DR 20 Atlanta £14k

  • Jordan Spence DC/DR 20 West Ham £1.2 mil

  • Sebastian Toro DC/SW/DR 20 Colo Colo £1.4 mil

  • Dalton DC 20 Internacional £2 mil

  • Pichu Atienza DC/DM/MC 20 Atletico Madrid B £1.6 mil

  • Vladimir Weiss MR/MLC/AMRC 20 Man City £3.8 mil

  • Younes Belhanda AML/ML 20 Montpellier £3.7 mil

  • Edgar Ivan Pacheco AMC/MC 20 Atlas £875k

  • Yacine Brahimi AMC/MC 20 Stade Rennais FC £925k

  • Alan Dzagoev AMC/MC 20 CSKA Moscow £6 mil

  • Daniel Sturridge ST/AML 20 Chelsea £4.4 mil

  • Alberto Paloschi ST 20 Parma £4.9 mil

  • Pato ST/AMR 20 Milan £11.75 mil

  • Sercan Yildirim ST 20 Bursaspor £3.7 mil

Best Young Players in FM 2011 – 21 Year Olds

  • Adrien MC/DM 21 Maccabi Haifa £1.4 mil
  • Matias Ezequiel Schelotto MR/WB/AMR 21 Cesena £2.8 mil
  • Adam Hlousek AML/ST 21 Slavia Prague £900k
  • Shinji Kagawa AMC/MRLC/AMRL 21 Dortmund £4.5 mil
  • Lee Chung-Yong AMR/MR 21 Bolton £4.7 mil
  • Guilherme ST/AMC 21 Dynamo Kiev £4 mil

Best Young Players in FM 2011 – 22 Year Olds

  • Fabio Coentrao D/AML/ML 22 Benfica £3.7 mil
  • Steven Defour MC/DM 22 Standard £1.8 mil
  • Tomas Horava MC/AMC 22 Sigma Olomouc £180k
  • Pedro AMR/MRL/AML 22 Barcelona £9 mil
  • Ermin Zec ST 22 Genclerbirligi £2.9 mil

Word of Warning

While some of these youngsters are good enough to slot straight into your top flight team and do a job others will need some careful handling if they are ever to fulfil their potential. Many of the best FM 2011 young players listed here have the potential to be great but that’s no guarantee and their actual performance will vary from game to game. Part of that is random and part is down to how they are trained up and how much experience they get. Bringing talent through is a tightrope and you need to give them enough play to develop but not so much that they burn out or lose confidence.

Remember you can loan players out to get experience at a lower level so you don’t need to pitch them straight in at the deep end. You’ll find some bargain and out of contract players in our other player guide and you can also find handy hints and tips about negotiating contracts, tactics and formations in our Football Manager 2011 Guides.

If you’ve got any other suggestions for good young players in FM 2011 then post a comment.

This post is part of the series: FM 2011 Player Guide

This is a guide to help you find the best young prospects and wonderkids in Football Manager 2011. We also cover bargain players, transfer listed players and out of contract players so you’ll find the best free FM 2011 players here as well.

  1. Guide to the Best Bargain and Out of Contract Players in Football Manager 2011
  2. Guide to the Best Young Players in Football Manager 2011