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Do you need to find some of the best young players in Football Manager 2008? Are you looking for some young players that'll be around for years to come and build your team up slowly in FM08? If so then this list of players with high potential in FM2008, should help you out.
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(players costing over £50m have been excluded as unrealistic transfer targets)
| Name | Position | Age | Cost (£) | Potential (pos) | EU Member | Nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pouplin, Simon | GK | 22 | 11,371,520 | 81.14% (GK) | Yes | France |
| Felipe | GK | 19 | 3,753,600 | 81.30% (GK) | No | Brazil |
| Lloris, Hugo | GK | 20 | 10,994,580 | 81.93% (GK) | Yes | France |
| Shust, Bogdan | GK | 21 | 10,757,760 | 83.04% (GK) | No | Ukraine |
| Ochoa, Francisco Guillermo | GK | 21 | 12,959,230 | 83.37% (GK) | No | Mexico |
| Ustari, Oscar | GK | 20 | 30,657,780 | 84.79% (GK) | No | Argentina |
| Schwechlen, Léo | SW, D LC | 18 | 644,680 | 81.72% (SW) | Yes | France |
| Pellerano, Hernán | SW, D C | 23 | 2,595,560 | 81.75% (SW) | No | Argentina |
| Diakhaté, Pape | SW, D C | 22 | 5,966,440 | 82.31% (SW) | Yes | Senegal / France |
| Vidal, Arturo | SW, D LC, DM, M LC | 20 | 6,340,720 | 86.78% (FB) | No | Chile |
| Gritti, Andrea | D R | 18 | 6,130 | 83.19% (FB) | Yes | Italy |
| Vanden Borre, Anthony | D RC, DM, M RC | 19 | 6,113,770 | 81.34% (WB) | Yes | Belgium / Republic of Congo |
| Hunt, Nicky | D RC | 23 | 4,949,690 | 81.66% (FB) | Yes | England |
| Lagnese, Luca | D RC | 19 | 10,080 | 81.73% (FB) | Yes | Italy |
| Andreolli, Marco | D RC | 20 | 4,737,180 | 81.90% (FB) | Yes | Italy |
| Corluka, Vedran | D RC | 21 | 35,098,300 | 81.94% (FB) | No | Croatia / Bosnia & Herz. |
| Dellafiore, Paolo Hernán | D RC | 22 | 4,285,190 | 81.95% (FB) | Yes | Italy / Argentina |
| Frey, Nicolas | D RC | 23 | 1,841,850 | 82.65% (FB) | Yes | France |
| Faty, Jacques | D RC | 23 | 3,777,210 | 82.72% (FB) | Yes | France / Senegal |
| Ugur, Uçar | D RC | 20 | 2,249,810 | 83.34% (FB) | No | Turkey |
| Bocaly, Garry | D RC, DM | 19 | 2,692,800 | 83.97% (FB) | Yes | France / Martinique |
| Alexis | D RC | 21 | 14,832,720 | 85.20% (FB) | Yes | Spain |
| Richards, Micah | D RC, DM | 18 | 31,459,830 | 85.54% (FB) | Yes | England |
| Cardin, Denny | D L | 18 | 6,860 | 81.11% (FB) | Yes | Italy |
| González, Carlos | D L | 18 | 139,140 | 81.34% (FB) | No | Colombia |
| Mignano, Ivan | D L | 17 | 28,650 | 82.40% (FB) | Yes | Italy |
| Da Costa, Manuel | D LC | 21 | 4,514,800 | 81.99% (FB) | Yes | Portugal / France / Morocco |
| Vermaelen, Thomas | D LC | 21 | 4,335,240 | 83.21% (FB) | Yes | Belgium |
| Criscito, Domenico | D LC | 20 | 15,210,120 | 89.16% (FB) | Yes | Italy |
| Coda, Andrea | D C | 22 | 1,899,980 | 81.08% (CB) | Yes | Italy |
| Zapata, Cristian | D C | 20 | 25,957,320 | 82.03% (CB) | No | Colombia |
| Miguel Veloso | D C, DM | 21 | 11,422,780 | 82.35% (DM) | Yes | Portugal |
| Digard, Didier | D C, DM | 20 | 2,643,790 | 83.16% (DM) | Yes | France |
| Serdar, Kurtulus | D/WB R, DM | 19 | 7,688,280 | 81.10% (WB) | No | Turkey |
| Ilsinho | D/WB R, DM, M RC | 21 | 10,459,710 | 81.51% (WB) | No | Brazil |
| Cassani, Mattia | D/WB RL, M R | 23 | 2,766,120 | 82.04% (WB) | Yes | Italy |
| Leyrielton | D/WB/M R | 18 | 3,479,390 | 82.33% (WB) | No | Brazil |
| De Silvestri, Lorenzo | D/WB R | 19 | 9,374,650 | 82.67% (FB) | Yes | Italy |
| Eduardo Ratinho | D/WB R | 19 | 2,807,140 | 83.34% (WB) | No | Brazil |
| Diogo, Carlos | D/WB/M R | 23 | 7,690,000 | 83.72% (WB) | Yes | Uruguay / Italy |
| Behrami, Valon | D/WB/M R | 22 | 23,827,590 | 84.10% (WB) | Yes | Switzerland / Serbia |
| Hutton, Alan | D/WB R | 22 | 3,202,540 | 84.46% (WB) | Yes | Scotland |
| Eboué, Emmanuel | D/WB R | 23 | 12,317,810 | 85.58% (WB) | Yes | Ivory Coast / Belgium |
| Faubert, Julien | D/WB/AM R | 23 | 9,360,340 | 85.84% (WB) | Yes | France |
| Lahm, Philipp | D/WB RL | 23 | 27,745,130 | 84.10% (WB) | Yes | Germany |
| Vargas, Juan Manuel | D/WB/M L | 23 | 4,533,190 | 81.51% (WB) | No | Peru |
| Molinaro, Cristian | D/WB/AM L | 23 | 7,028,800 | 81.61% (WB) | Yes | Italy |
| De Ceglie, Paolo | D/WB/M L | 20 | 2,586,080 | 81.78% (WB) | Yes | Italy |
| Smith, Steven | D/WB L | 21 | 3,021,110 | 81.93% (WB) | Yes | Scotland |
| Rullo, Erminio | D/WB/M L | 23 | 2,687,740 | 82.25% (WB) | Yes | Italy |
| Kolarov, Aleksandar | D/WB L | 21 | 5,536,360 | 82.30% (WB) | No | Serbia |
| Bale, Gareth | D/WB/M L | 17 | 15,371,950 | 82.38% (WB) | Yes | Wales |
| Emanuelson, Urby | D/WB/M L | 20 | 6,340,690 | 82.65% (WB) | Yes | Holland |
| Pulhac, Cristian | D/WB L | 22 | 450,950 | 83.20% (WB) | Yes | Romania |
| Marcelo | D/WB/M L | 19 | 5,517,240 | 83.22% (W) | No | Brazil |
| Guilherme | D/WB L | 19 | 5,260,800 | 84.23% (WB) | No | Brazil |
| Traoré, Armand | D/WB L | 17 | 7,536,120 | 84.97% (WB) | Yes | France / Senegal |
| Taiwo, Taye | D/WB L | 22 | 5,519,980 | 87.14% (WB) | No | Nigeria |
| Padoin, Simone | WB/AM RL | 23 | 614,880 | 81.12% (WB) | Yes | Italy |
| Roberto | DM | 19 | 2,544,140 | 81.20% (DM) | No | Brazil |
| Yussuf, Ayila | DM | 22 | 4,607,840 | 81.46% (DM) | No | Nigeria |
| Zapater, Alberto | DM | 21 | 6,896,550 | 81.68% (DM) | Yes | Spain |
| Cigarini, Luca | DM | 20 | 8,501,270 | 82.61% (M) | Yes | Italy |
| Cana, Lorik | DM | 23 | 5,546,130 | 82.65% (DM) | Yes | Albania / France |
| Barusso, Ahmed | DM | 22 | 776,580 | 82.81% (DM) | No | Ghana |
| Sissoko, Mohamed | DM | 22 | 11,405,300 | 83.82% (DM) | Yes | Mali / France |
| Toulalan, Jérémy | DM | 23 | 46,048,360 | 84.60% (M) | Yes | France |
| Mascherano, Javier | DM | 23 | 29,902,860 | 84.77% (DM) | Yes | Argentina / Italy |
| Mariottini, Andrea | M R | 16 | 5,520 | 81.57% (W) | Yes | Italy |
| Vailatti, Tommaso | M RLC | 21 | 1,270,040 | 82.26% (W) | Yes | Italy |
| De Palma, Daniel | M C | 17 | 0 | 83.12% (M) | Yes | Italy |
| Javi Martínez | M C | 18 | 30,372,730 | 83.97% (M) | Yes | Spain / Pays Basque |
| Farfán, Jefferson | AM RL, ST | 22 | 6,117,940 | 81.41% (W) | No | Peru |
| Saivet, Henri | AM RL, F C | 16 | 0 | 82.63% (FS) | Yes | France / Senegal |
| Gyan, Asamoah | AM R, ST | 21 | 9,803,520 | 86.46% (FS) | No | Ghana |
| Quaresma, Ricardo | AM RL | 23 | 21,084,790 | 82.70% (W) | Yes | Portugal |
| Ménez, Jérémy | AM RLC, F C | 20 | 9,676,590 | 81.35% (FS) | Yes | France |
| Rosina, Alessandro | AM RLC | 23 | 22,791,940 | 81.72% (W) | Yes | Italy |
| Valdivia, Jorge | AM RC | 23 | 6,941,980 | 81.11% (AM) | No | Chile / Venezuela |
| Javi Flores | AM RC | 21 | 160,280 | 81.15% (AM) | Yes | Spain |
| Higuaín, Gonzalo | AM RC, F C | 19 | 21,971,460 | 81.22% (FS) | Yes | Argentina / France |
| Belluschi, Fernando | AM RC | 23 | 4,749,820 | 81.34% (W) | Yes | Argentina / Italy |
| Gourcuff, Yoann | AM RC | 20 | 24,908,010 | 81.60% (AM) | Yes | France |
| Celsinho | AM RC, F C | 18 | 2,618,670 | 81.79% (AM) | No | Brazil |
| Monnet-Paquet, Kevin | AM L, F C | 18 | 1,781,070 | 81.47% (FS) | Yes | France |
| Vucinic, Mirko | AM L, F C | 23 | 1,979,500 | 81.79% (TS) | No | Montenegro |
| Zhirkov, Yury | AM L | 23 | 10,194,860 | 81.85% (W) | No | Russia |
| Aquino | AM L, ST | 16 | 0 | 83.98% (W) | Yes | Spain / Uruguay |
| Ben Arfa, Hatem | AM LC, F C | 20 | 13,481,630 | 81.32% (FS) | Yes | France / Tunisia |
| Di María, Angel | AM LC | 19 | 9,611,770 | 82.93% (W) | Yes | Argentina / Italy |
| Mata, Juan Manuel | AM LC | 19 | 18,666,660 | 83.06% (W) | Yes | Spain |
| Matías Fernández | AM LC | 21 | 13,883,110 | 85.25% (AM) | No | Chile |
| Montolivo, Riccardo | AM C | 22 | 26,769,320 | 81.07% (AM) | Yes | Italy |
| Vítor Júnior | AM C | 20 | 3,610,180 | 81.34% (AM) | No | Brazil |
| Nasri, Samir | AM C | 19 | 39,708,690 | 82.53% (AM) | Yes | France / Algeria |
| Jiménez, Luis | AM C | 22 | 2,467,840 | 84.81% (AM) | Yes | Chile / Spain |
| Rossi, Giuseppe | AM/F C | 20 | 29,324,680 | 81.24% (FS) | Yes | Italy / U.S.A. |
| Vela, Carlos | AM/F C | 18 | 18,141,050 | 81.31% (FS) | No | Mexico |
| Bueno, Alberto | AM/F C | 19 | 993,480 | 81.68% (FS) | Yes | Spain |
| Tévez, Carlos | AM/F C | 23 | 32,061,100 | 81.91% (FS) | No | Argentina |
| Le Tallec, Damien | AM/F C | 17 | 0 | 82.18% (TS) | Yes | France |
| Agüero, Sergio | AM/F C | 19 | 30,557,110 | 82.59% (FS) | No | Argentina |
| Pandev, Goran | AM/F C | 23 | 12,954,240 | 84.28% (FS) | No | FYR Macedonia |
| Joelson | F C | 23 | 1,847,760 | 81.11% (TS) | Yes | Brazil / Italy |
| Briand, Jimmy | F C | 21 | 11,684,900 | 81.54% (FS) | Yes | France / Martinique |
| Pato, Alexandre | F C | 17 | 46,267,240 | 81.91% (FS) | No | Brazil |
| Gignac, André-Pierre | ST | 22 | 5,192,010 | 81.33% (TS) | Yes | France |
| Floro Flores, Antonio | ST | 23 | 551,080 | 81.40% (FS) | Yes | Italy |
| Vantaggiato, Daniele | ST | 22 | 3,048,620 | 81.43% (FS) | Yes | Italy |
| Bendtner, Nicklas | ST | 19 | 34,036,670 | 81.89% (TS) | Yes | Denmark |
| Mchedlidze, Levan | ST | 17 | 1,266,380 | 82.69% (TS) | No | Georgia |
| Cacia, Daniele | ST | 23 | 3,422,720 | 82.71% (TS) | Yes | Italy |
| Adebayor, Emmanuel | ST | 23 | 14,419,560 | 83.03% (TS) | No | Togo / Nigeria |
| Thiago | ST | 19 | 4,274,000 | 83.54% (FS) | No | Brazil |
| Fred | ST | 23 | 45,114,420 | 85.95% (TS) | No | Brazil |
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