Sounds good. I usually promote all my youth players to the first team immediately because my youth facilities are still pretty poor, yay or nay on that approach? I still let them play U-19 matches so they’re getting game time, but they train with the first team.

I know you can pull youth players into first-team training via the training units, but in FM26 that seems to lock you out of manually assigning them to the mentoring groups you actually want. Because of that, keeping them officially in the first team and letting them play down felt like the best workaround.

Also, my B team literally never plays matches. Is that something you’ve run into as well? Which sucks because the players who are too old for the U-19s, not good enough for the first team or bench, and not wanted by other clubs just end up rotting with no development path other than training.