wonderkids
Breaking down the shortlist
How they compare to the game’s current stars
Cheap alternatives
How to find the best
in Football Manager 2021
in Football Manager 2021
Wonderkids
Here are all of the players with a media description of “wonderkid” in the game, split by position and in descending order of value.
FIFA 20 EA Sports
3,395,000
Pro Evolution Soccer 2020 Konami
124,000
Twitch followers*
* To the nearest 1,000 followers
We will therefore be focusing on FIFA here.
FUT Champions Cup
64 (32 for each console) $200k ($50k for the winner) Five stages held from November and May. Top four players qualify for the next stage automatically. Group and knockout stages for each console followed by a two-legged final (one leg on each console). Stage 1: Stage 2: Stage 3: Stage 4:
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
Tekkz
NRaseck 7
Zezinho
FIFA eNations Cup
20 $100k ($40k for the winner) Two players per team - one PS4, one Xbox. Group stage ties are three-legged: a 1v1 match on each console followed by a 2v2. Knockout stage ties are two-legged: a 1v1 match on each console with 2v2 used as a tie-breaker.
Maestro
DaXe
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
France
and
FIFA eClub World Cup
24 $100k ($40k for the winner) Two players per team - one PS4, one Xbox. Group stage ties are three-legged: a 1v1 match on each console followed by a 2v2. Knockout stage ties are two-legged: a 1v1 match and a 2v2 match, with a second 1v1 used as a tie-breaker.
and
Joksan
Complexity Gaming
MaXe vip
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
eChampions League
64 $280k ($100k for the winner) Qualifiers, group stage and final contested as separate events. Group and knockout stages for each console followed by a two-legged final (one leg on each console).
Chris Holly
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
FIFA eWorld Cup
32 (16 for each console) $500k ($250k for the winner) Group and knockout stages for each console followed by a two-legged final (one leg on each console).
MoAuba
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
Values rounded to the nearest £100k Based on the Football Manager 2021 beta
Global Series play-offs
PS4:
nicolas99fc
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
128 (64 for each console) $500k ($75k for each console’s winner) For each console, a group stage is used to eliminate half of the players. The remaining 32 players on each console contest a single-match knockout stage to determine a winner.
Xbox:
Stokes
Ollelito
Goalkeepers
Leeds Juventus Chelsea Man City Norwich Marseille Bayern Roma
Illan Meslier Matthijs de Ligt Reece James Eric Garcia Max Aarons Boubacar Kamara Alphonso Davies Marash Kumbulla
£18.5m £35m £25.5m £19.8m £15m £7m £6m £5m
GK D (C) D/WB (R), M (C) D (C) D/WB (R) D (C), DM D/WB (L), M/AM (RL) D (C)
Defenders
Position
Value
Defensive midfielders
Milan Monaco Rennes Shakhtar
Sandro Tonali Florentino Luis Eduardo Camavinga Marcos Antonio
£10.5m £6.8m £6.5m £2.3m
DM, M (C) DM, M (C) DM, M (C) DM, M (C)
Attacking midfielders
Atletico Madrid Man City Juventus Boavista Barcelona Napoli Milan Valencia RB Salzburg
Joao Felix Phil Foden Dejan Kulusevski Angel Gomes Pedri Eljif Elmas Brahim Diaz Lee Kang-In Dominik Szoboszlai
£37.5m £34.5m £22.5m £8m £7.8m £7.5m £6.5m £6m £5.8m
AM (RLC), ST (C) M (C), AM (RC) M (R), AM (RC) AM (RLC) M (C), AM (RLC) M/AM (C) AM (RLC) M/AM (RLC) M (LC), AM (C)
Wingers
Dortmund Man City Arsenal Chelsea Barcelona Arsenal Burnley Real Madrid Ajax Barcelona Real Madrid Real Sociedad
Jadon Sancho Ferran Torres Bukayo Saka Callum Hudson-Odoi Ansu Fati Reiss Nelson Dwight McNeil Vinicius Junior Antony Francisco Trincao Rodrygo Ander Barrenetxea
£33m £30m £26m £26m £21.5m £19.5m £19.5m £17.8m £7m £6.5m £6m £4m
M/AM (RL) M (R), AM (RL) WB (L), AM (RL) AM (RLC) AM (RL), ST (C) M/AM (RL) M/AM (RL), ST (C) AM (L), ST (C) M (R), AM (RC), ST (C) AM (RL) AM (RL), ST (C) M/AM (RL)
Forwards
Dortmund Man Utd Lille AZ Real Sociedad
Erling Haaland Mason Greenwood Jonathan David Myron Boadu Alexander Isak
£57m £30m £8m £7.8m £5.5m
ST (C) AM (R), ST (C) AM (RLC), ST (C) AM (RL), ST (C) ST (C)
Whose footsteps are the top youngsters following in?
We have compared the attributes of the game's current stars with 500 top youngsters labelled as either “wonderkid” or “promising”.
The five closest similarities in each position have been scored as a percentage based on a weighted average of:
FUT Champions Cup
64 (32 for each console) $200k ($50k for the winner) Five stages held from Novemberand May. Top four players qualify for the next stage automatically. Group and knockout stages for each console followed by a two-legged final (one leg on each console). Stage 1: Stage 2: Stage 3: Stage 4:
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
Tekkz
NRaseck 7
Ollelito
Zezinho
FIFA eNations Cup
20 $100k ($40k for the winner) Two players per team - one PS4, one Xbox. Group stage ties are three-legged: a 1v1 match on each console followed by a 2v2. Knockout stage ties are two-legged: a 1v1 match on each console with 2v2 used as a tie-breaker.
Maestro
DaXe
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
France
and
FIFA eClub World Cup
24 $100k ($40k for the winner) Two players per team - one PS4, one Xbox. Group stage ties are three-legged: a 1v1 match on each console followed by a 2v2. Knockout stage ties are two-legged: a 1v1 match and a 2v2 match, with a second 1v1 used as a tie-breaker.
and
Joksan
Complexity Gaming
MaXe vip
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
eChampions League
64 $280k ($100k for the winner) Qualifiers, group stage and final contested as separate events. Group and knockout stages for each console followed by a two-legged final (one leg on each console).
Chris Holly
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
FIFA eWorld Cup
32 (16 for each console) $500k ($250k for the winner) Group and knockout stages for each console followed by a two-legged final (one leg on each console).
MoAuba
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
Data correct as of 25 April 2020.
Global Series play-offs
PS4:
nicolas99fc
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
128 (64 for each console) $500k ($75k for each console’s winner) For each console, a group stage is used to eliminate half of the players. The remaining 32 players on each console contest a single-match knockout stage to determine a winner.
Xbox:
Stokes
Ability - how similar their individual attributes are; Player type - how similar their spread of attributes is.
Illan Meslier Kacper Trelowski Anatoliy Trubin Matija Gocmanac Ivan Martinez
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Bernd Leno Alphonse Areola David De Gea Wojciech Szczesny Keylor Navas
Leeds Rakow Shakhtar Partizan Osasuna
Score
84.0% 75.3% 75.2% 75.0% 75.0%
Eric Garcia Boubacar Kamara Marash Kumbulla Rav van den Berg Vadim Karpov
Man City Marseille Roma Zwolle CSKA Moscow
Lucas Hernandez Clement Lenglet Thiago Silva Eder Militao Samuel Umtiti
Central defenders
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Score
87.9% 86.6% 84.3% 80.7% 80.2%
Goalkeepers
Max Aarons Alphonso Davies Davide Gentile Alejandro Balde Danilo
Norwich Bayern Fiorentina Barcelona CEC
Ferland Mendy Hector Bellerin Matt Doherty Joao Cancelo Sergi Roberto
Full backs
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Score
87.8% 86.1% 82.0% 80.8% 80.3%
Sandro Tonali Florentino Luis Eduardo Camavinga Marcos Antonio Oliver Sorensen
Mateo Kovacic Idrissa Gueye Georginio Wijnaldum Frenkie de Jong Thomas Partey
Defensive midfielders
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Score
88.1 88.1% 86.8% 84.5% 80.8%
Eljif Elmas Lee Kang-In Pedri Dominik Szoboszlai Brahim Diaz
Napoli Valencia Barcelona RB Salzburg Milan
Dele Alli Jack Grealish Mesut Ozil Kai Havertz Coutinho
Attacking midfielders
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Score
89.9% 88.6% 86.5% 85.1% 82.9%
Vinicius Junior Reiss Nelson Francisco Trincao Antony Ander Barrenetxea
Real Madrid Arsenal Barcelona Ajax Sociedad
Kingsley Coman Serge Gnabry Angel Di Maria Alexis Sanchez Richarlison
Wingers
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Score
89.5% 88.4% 86.5% 85.1% 82.9%
Milan Monaco Rennes Shakhtar Midtjylland
Alexander Isak Jonathan David Myron Boadu Erik Lopez Alessio Rosa
Sociedad Lille AZ Olimpia Atalanta
Anthony Martial P-E Aubameyang Marcus Rashford Gabriel Jesus Timo Werner
Strikers
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Score
88.1% 85.2% 82.5% 81.6% 79.1%
Players worth over £20m have been excluded Based on the Football Manager 2021 beta
Budget wonderkids in Football Manager 2021
FUT Champions Cup
64 (32 for each console) $200k ($50k for the winner) Five stages held from Novemberand May. Top four players qualify for the next stage automatically. Group and knockout stages for each console followed by a two-legged final (one leg on each console). Stage 1: Stage 2: Stage 3: Stage 4:
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
Tekkz
NRaseck 7
Ollelito
Zezinho
FIFA eNations Cup
20 $100k ($40k for the winner) Two players per team - one PS4, one Xbox. Group stage ties are three-legged: a 1v1 match on each console followed by a 2v2. Knockout stage ties are two-legged: a 1v1 match on each console with 2v2 used as a tie-breaker.
Maestro
DaXe
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
France
and
FIFA eClub World Cup
24 $100k ($40k for the winner) Two players per team - one PS4, one Xbox. Group stage ties are three-legged: a 1v1 match on each console followed by a 2v2. Knockout stage ties are two-legged: a 1v1 match and a 2v2 match, with a second 1v1 used as a tie-breaker.
and
Joksan
Complexity Gaming
MaXe vip
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
eChampions League
64 $280k ($100k for the winner) Qualifiers, group stage and final contested as separate events. Group and knockout stages for each console followed by a two-legged final (one leg on each console).
Chris Holly
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
FIFA eWorld Cup
32 (16 for each console) $500k ($250k for the winner) Group and knockout stages for each console followed by a two-legged final (one leg on each console).
MoAuba
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
Global Series play-offs
PS4:
nicolas99fc
Participants Prize pool Format Holder
128 (64 for each console) $500k ($75k for each console’s winner) For each console, a group stage is used to eliminate half of the players. The remaining 32 players on each console contest a single-match knockout stage to determine a winner.
Xbox:
Stokes
Which leagues should you be scouting?
Kacper Trelowski Anatoliy Trubin Ivan Martinez Matija Gocmanac Gaizka Ayesa
Rakow Shakhtar Osasuna Partizan Sociedad
Alphonse Areola David De Gea Keylor Navas Wojciech Szczesny M-A ter Stegen
Goalkeepers
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Score
75.3% 75.2% 75.0% 75.0% 71.7%
Santi Ramos Mingo Rav van den Berg Diego Almeida Vadim Karpov Mario Mitaj
Barcelona Zwolle Barcelona CSKA Moscow AEK
Presnel Kimpembe Eder Militao Toby Alderweireld Samuel Umtiti Lucas Hernandez
Central defenders
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Score
82.5% 80.7% 80.3% 80.2% 79.4%
Divisions outside the ‘big five’ European leagues with the most players who are:
• Aged under 21 • Valued at £100k or less
• At least 70% similar to a current star player according to our scoring system
Dutch Eredivisie Serbian SuperLeague Belgian Pro League A Colombian First Division Croatian First League Spanish Second Division B Danish Superliga Austrian First Division English Championship
38 19 12 10 8 7 6 4 4 4
Brazilian National First Division
Davide Gentile Alejandro Balde Danilo Arnau Sola Rodrigo Pinheiro
Fiorentina Barcelona CEC Barcelona Porto
Matt Doherty Joao Cancelo Sergi Roberto Sead Kolasinac Ricardo Pereira
Full backs
82.0% 80.8% 80.3% 80.1% 80.1%
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Score
Oliver Sorensen Jens Castrop Dimo Krastev Anes Krdzalic Abel Kanyamuna
Midtjylland Koln Fiorentina Dinamo Cagliari
Thomas Partey Idrissa Gueye Javi Martinez Mateo Kovacic N'Golo Kante
Defensive midfielders
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Score
80.8% 79.0% 78.5% 76.5% 74.8%
Samuel Yepie-Yepie Florent Da Silva Ed Carlos Aimar Oroz Martin Baturina
Nantes Lyon Sao Paulo Osasuna Dinamo
Jack Grealish Cesc Fabregas Dele Alli Luka Modric Aaron Ramsey
Attacking midfielders
80.0% 79.6% 79.0% 78.1% 78.0%
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Score
Milos Pantovic Filip Moller Delaveris Andreas Bredahl Angel Alarcon Mohamed-Ali Cho
Vozdovac Vitesse Nordsjaelland Barcelona Angers
Ivan Perisic Serge Gnabry Richarlison Ousmane Dembele Kingsley Coman
Wingers
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Score
81.5% 81.1% 80.8% 80.4% 79.0%
Alessio Rosa Marko Lazetic Runar Norheim Fran Culjak Ilija Babic
Atalanta Red Star Tromso Dinamo Graficar
Timo Werner Gabriel Jesus Memphis Depay Marcus Rashford Wissam Ben Yedder
Strikers
79.1% 79.0% 78.4% 77.3% 77.0%
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Score
Based on the Football Manager 2021 beta
