vasco... look at the facts. respectable is a starting skill. when you draft a player. yes he had 1 skill up maybe 2, so dont tell us that he had training. secondly who is the experienced U21 coach and knows the current skillset for the current england U21 players, the future england U21 players and more importantly U21 for other countries?
i more and more start to believe you have way too little overview to know what is needed for the U21 team. The bottom line is you should have instructed your friend to wait 4-5 more weeks until the draft was done and than instructed him to buy a fresh 18 year old player. This player will never be good enough to play vs the bigger U21 nor the middle ranked countries like moldova or taiwan!!!
The player you are showing us should at the end off 18 and when well trained and if he started like this have had 3 or 4 skills at proficient level already. but it is ok. in case you win the election, do with the U21 what you like. in general the english community could care less about the england and i no longer care about the U21.
In Fact, I do know the current skillsets for an England U21 team. And I know that the pool of good players at the age of 20 is too small. We need to start now training more players. They may not be the best, but they can be solid good subs in a few seasons.
Besides, one of the things I want to do as a U21 coach is to follow the best players from the drafts and follow every player with minimum allstar potential from the TL. This way, we will have a lot of players worth selecting and, in a few seasons, we will have a lot of users ready to train a great player