FM 24 wonderkids: Best young players to sign in Football Manager 2024
From Ansu Fati to Youssoufa Moukoko, here are the best young players to pick for your starting line-up.
Want to get the most out of your managerial career in Football Manager 2024? You'll need to sign some of the best FM 24 wonderkids.
Signing wonderkids is an ideal tactic if you're playing the long game and planning on sticking around as manager for a while. You can also sell them for some much-needed profit should they not develop as intended.
This will be just as true in the upcoming and anticipated FM 25.
Some of the best young players in FM 24 will command a high price, as they may well go on to become some of the best FM 24 players outright, so make sure you have a healthy starting budget before thinking of bringing them in.
Saving money by opting for the best free agents and cheap players early on should help with the overheads and allow you to spend more on the best young players in the game's massive database of talent.
Read on for our picks of the best FM 24 wonderkids you should look to sign.
FM 24 Cheap Wonderkids: Best cheap players to sign under £5m
We can't all immediately afford to sign the already world-class young players, so here's a collection of top wonderkids available in FM 24 for pretty cheap:
- Max Moerstedt (17) – Hoffenheim and Germany | ST | £2m value
- Sverre Halseth Nypan (16) – Rosenborg and Norway | CM | £2.6m value
- André Gomes (18) – Benfica and Portugal | GK | £683k value
- Estêvão (16) – Palmeiras and Brazil | AM | £1m value
- Rodrigo Mora (16) – Porto and Portugal | AM | £3m value
- Bartosz Zelazowski (18) – OGC Nice and Poland | GK | £472K value
- Trilli (20) – Barcelona and Spain | RB | £316K value
- Bradel Kiwa (17) – Strasbourg and France | CB | £892K value
- David Martínez (17) – Monagas SC and Venezuela | AMR/AML/AM | £338K value
- Gonçalo Moreira (17) – Benfica and Portugal | AML/AMR | £1m value
- Jhon Acurio (16) – Barcelona SC and Ecuador | ST | £789K value
- Flavien-Enzo Boyomo (21) – Real Valladolid and Cameroon | CB/RB | £3m value
FM 24 Wonderkids: Best young goalkeepers
- Bart Verbruggen (20) – Brighton and Netherlands | £45m value
- Dennis Seimen (17) – VFB Stuttgart and Germany | £10m value
- Guillaume Restes (18) – Toulouse and France | £25m value
- James Beadle (18) – Brighton and England | £9m value
- Rome-Jayden Owusu-Oduro (19) – AZ and Netherlands | £5m value
- Diego Callai (18) – Sporting and Brazil | £7m value
- Anatoliy Trubin (21) – SL Benfica and Ukraine | £45m value
- Filip Jörgensen (21) – Villarreal and Denmark | £66m value
FM 24 Wonderkids: Best young centre-backs
- Antonio Silva (19) – Benfica and Portugal | £50m value
- Ashley Phillips (18) – Tottenham and England | £14m value
- Illia Zabarnyi (20) – Bournemouth and Ukraine | £73m value
- Mamadou Sarr (17) – Olympique Lyonnais and France | £5m value
- Mattia Viti (21) – Nice and Italy | £9m value
- Giorgio Scalvini (19) – Atalanta and Italy | £74m value
- Levi Colwill (20) – Chelsea and England | £114m value
- Castello Lukeba (20) – RB Leipzig and France | £89m value
FM 24 Wonderkids: Best young full-backs
- Alejandro Balde (19) – Barcelona and Spain | £63m value
- Lewis Hall (18) – Newcastle and England | £28m value
- Malo Gusto (20) – Chelsea and France | £45m value
- Nuno Mendes (21) – PSG and Portugal | £132m value
- Yan Couto (21) – Girona and Brazil | £28m value
- Milos Kerkez (20) – Bournemouth and Hungary | £37m value
- Rico Lewis (18) – Man City and England | £64m value
- Destiny Udogie (20) – Tottenham Hotspur and Italy | £86m value
FM 24 Wonderkids: Best young centre-midfielders
- Bilal El Khannouss (19) – Genk and Morocco | £25m value
- Fabian Rieder (21) – Stade Rennais and Switzerland | £15m value
- Harvey Elliott (20) – Liverpool and England | £98m value
- Jude Bellingham (20) – Real Madrid and England | £133m value
- Pedri (20) – Barcelona and Spain | £89m value
- Gavi (19) – Barcelona and Spain | £83m value
- Warren Zaïre-Emery (18) – PSG and France | £71m value
- Alex Scott (19) – Bournemouth and England | £57m value
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FM 24 Wonderkids: Best young wingers
- Lamine Yamal (15) – Barcelona and Spain | £19m value
- Ângelo (18) – Chelsea and Brazil | £37m value
- Ansu Fati (20) – Barcelona and Spain | £47m value
- Exequiel Zeballos (21) – Boca Juniors and Argentina | £6m value
- Nico Williams (20) – Athletic Bilbao and Spain | £43m value
- Sergey Pinyaev (18) – Lokomotiv Moscow and Russia | £5m value
- Shea Lacey (16) – Manchester United and England | £13m value
- Mikey Moore (15) – Tottenham Hotspur and England | £32m value
FM 24 Wonderkids: Best young strikers
- Endrick (16) – Palmeiras and Brazil | £19m value
- Evan Ferguson (18) Brighton and Republic of Ireland | £79m value
- Rasmus Højlund (20) – Manchester United and Denmark | £95m value
- Tiago Tomas (21) – Wolfsburg and Portugal | £8m value
- Youssoufa Moukoko (18) – Borussia Dortmund and Cameroon | £74m value
- Vitor Roque (18) – Athletico Paranaense and Brazil | £26m value
- Shaqueel van Persie (16) – Feyenoord and Netherlands | £20m value
- Marcos Leonardo (20) – Benfica and Brazil | £19m value
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