Who are Football Manager 2017's 84 best wonderkids and why are they brilliant?

By Joe Brewin
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We've pulled together the best under-21-year-olds in this year's game... and catered for every budget in the process. Who will you be signing?

FourFourTwo's 84 Best Football Manager 2017 wonderkids

It's surely the most exciting part of your Football Manager save: uncovering a gem, building them up and then unleashing them to the world.

So, after the popularity of our 2016 guide, we're on hand to help again. We've picked out 84 of the game's brightest under-21-year-olds with the best potential to bring you long-term glory – but even better, sorted them by price to make sure you know what you can afford. After all, what good is it knowing Marco Asensio will become a beast when you've only got Burnley's budget?

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Joe Brewin
Joe Brewin

Joe was the Deputy Editor at FourFourTwo until 2022, having risen through the FFT academy and been on the brand since 2013 in various capacities. 


By weekend and frustrating midweek night he is a Leicester City fan, and in 2020 co-wrote the autobiography of former Foxes winger Matt Piper – subsequently listed for both the Telegraph and William Hill Sports Book of the Year awards.