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If you're choosing for your senior squad probably reasonable for primary skill then ordinary-avg for technique. Endurance shouldn't be lower than poor if possible.
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Yea, I'd particularly go for the older guys, build up a team of old experienced late 20yo players - they're much better value. Most of these sorts of players you can get a few thousand. These will give you the short term benefit.
Realistically 20-21yo reasonables aren't going to have much future, so I'd probably stay away from them. If you can find reasonable 18yos, average 17yos and the like - then they're much much better and when they play in your senior games their experience will have a far better pay off later down the line. This is the bit where your skill and judgement will really count. Be prepared to spend more of your cash here and wait for bargains. Youths often go very cheap in the middle and later stages of the season. With youths you also need to value secondaries, relevant atrocious skills are a real pain. Seeing youth seamers who have ordinary power and fielding, poor experience - that's worth quite a bit.
Oh and one other thing, if you get players good enough they'll get into the national side tours (there's youth and senior teams) which is a very good thing. I would advise pulling a less popular nationality and increasing your chances. Even rubbish academies will get an occasional 'star' pull.
These are the sorts of youths I'd look to buy in your situation:
16yos
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17yos
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Most of them will go for too much, but the odd one won't.