If you've got full coaches i'd go ahead and do the training centre as soon as possible. The shop might be better after you promote to Div 4 as the return isn't as good in Div 5.

The youth academy Is expensive and doesn't guarantee better player talent just better starting skills and more choice of players as well as revealing some of the physical attributes.

Some people hate the youth academy but I like mine. However I would advise the training centre and all upgrades to that before adding the academy.

Ok thanks, but is there any point having a training facility if 90% of my players will be in the fitness centre as not maxed out......?

pfletch wrote: Ok thanks, but is there any point having a training facility if 90% of my players will be in the fitness centre as not maxed out......?

SOme players (QB and K) don't need fitness training and others will cap and then need it. Do you have coaches?

pfletch wrote: Ok thanks, but is there any point having a training facility if 90% of my players will be in the fitness centre as not maxed out......?

I recently bought a 20yr old, 4 talent for $10,000 .
He was capped (already) at 20 strength, 15 speed and he came with 18 stamina.
If I had a training facility, he'd be pretty sh*t hot in everything very quickly. You'd only need to buy a few players like that and train em up in the training centre for your team to improve at little cost (from a transfer fee perspective).

btw, your squad is small and cheap (wages) - congrats, I think that's the way to go in Div V , don't take this the wrong way, but your players aged 28 or over, I'd be looking to move them on while they still have some value. I use that greasemonkey script that highlights a player's age ... great for reminding me if I've got an OAP on the squad

If you have the training hall and fitness coaches then you will be levelling up one of SP and ST every three games or so for each player assuming you are using a focus approach to training. You'll be lucky if you don't start to see players capping and then you have to decide what to do next, cut if physicals don't match what you want or train skills if you do.

Training skills without facilities is slow as i'm sure you know and it takes a couple of weeks to build the training hall so If you have the cash I'd be tempted to go ahead and do it. I don't think the other facilities are as good an investment for you at this point but it is your call. If you'd rather build up more cash first that's certainly not a bad answer either.