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Managers are interested in getting that store plus. A starting C for a big NT in your homecountry gets up to 90-100k bonus.

So if training to the likes of the NT gets you the job that is what you will do. Also, you would be surprised how many managers aim to have a player in the national team.

So the job of the national team manager is to advise and guide how the players grow and implement a working team. The better a country is at this the better their NT is.

National hero
Had a player play on the National Team
National Hero | Level 1 3239 Teams Awarded.
Junior National Hero | Level 2 | 6231 Teams Awarded.
National Hero (NT and JNT) | Level 3 | 1204 Teams Awarded.
Home-Town Hero | Level 4 | 4876 Teams Awarded.
Home-Grown Hero | Level 5 | 3202 Teams Awarded.

42476 active managers from over 227 countries around the world, playing in BuzzerBeater's 98 countries

Conclusion: NT/U21 aren't unimportant. We can see that at least 15% of managers in BB have or had in past NT/U21 player.
(At least 6231/42476 because this number doesn't count managers, who have/had NT player and never had U21 player).
It's similar number to number of users, who are active on forum and wrote something interesting:

Someone Likes Me! | Level 1 | 8632 Teams Awarded.

And for sure it's more than number of managers, who wrote on forum that LI is too powerful and/or SB are too weak and/or 2-3 zone doesn't work.
So NT and U21 are more important for community than problems with LI/SB/3-2.

And to fulfill topic's requirements - question to BBs: Do You remember what happened when last time in past many managers cried on forum that outside offences are too powerful and therefore BBs decided to change it? Only effect is that currently we have big cry that inside offences are too powerfull.
So maybe sometimes it's better not to bow under pressure and not to make nervous moves and changes in engine.
;-)

You only give credit to your way of having fun.

Obviously Nt having to change style of play is a NON-Issue, actually as the Spain NT coach I would welcome the challenge and it will be a huge improvement from just repeating this cicle of multiskilled PF, inside focus SF and huge IS guards. We have done that already.

What I am arguing is that nationa team competition is neither above nor below the managers. Game engine changes affect managers and the national teams in exactly the same way. The good thing that International competition brings to the game is a different aproach. If you are not so keen on domestic competition or you are just tired of it, you can train just for the fun of it.

I know a lot of managers whos first objective is to train a player and NT brings you the oportunity to try to get that trainee to the top. Training is fun, but NT cometition brings an objective to training.

Managers do not inflate staff prices, they just have a different value for them than you do.

Managers dont sacrifice their team for the NT, behind a NT player there is a story of succes, Drama7 won the national competition with two of our best NT players and then added a third one for a repeat and a b3 championship, Flumpaci has created probably the best player in the game and has been a competivie manager, we even had a div V manager that drafted a player, trained him to the NT and the player carried him to win his cometition and he is in the playoffs this year, his team is looking only to improve.

This has to be one of the longest post I have ever seen.
I have to disagree. I think that U-21 and NT's are very important to the game. Not all NT players are on FARM teams. I don't know about you but even know I am not from Japan, I feel a sense of pride when Japan wins a U-21 or NT game.

Again I think you are wrong thinking that the NT game impacts very few people in the game. I receave a lot of messages of people that support and follow our National Team. The chat, even in working hours is packed in key games and allows managers to dream about having a NT player. In the end all are in top leagues and not in farm teams like you say.

Where i absolutely agree with you is that game engines should be made regardless of National team training programs. Right now NT competition has exactly the same issues as managers game in term of LI dominance. And not needing to play good minutes and the lack of training in the games makes blank lineup even a bigger issue, making the competition boring.