Philipinas adopt good training programs. A bit unbalanced on skills increasing more salary than performances (I remember my Scalambrieri almost killing a doubling-salary opponent! too much DR and HN and less meaningful primaries)
Uh-huh, so do you mean that they train the expensive skills or do you mean they are all monoskilled? Either way the Pinays are doing well lol. Don't have much hope on winning them.
Note: I'm really lucky that no one has killed Kamarulzaman despite him having too much HN and DR and too little other primaries.. Lets hope Scalambrieri won't eat him up for breakfast.
in my standards (not only mine, in fact) they focus PG too much on DR/HN. Their PG's have high PS and OD (great), but definitely miss JS/JR. As defending against a solid attacker you get tired, your performances will decrease faster if opposed to somebody as that Scalambrieri, not so high in DR/HN, so taking some bad shot, but putting a lot of pressure on you. That match went over with Scalambrieri scoring a lot in second half. I know their skills because they were put on sales just few weeks later.
In Lithuania as well they used to spend too much time on DR/HN (but they definitely did better recently...).
At the end, DR/HN are great (Scalambrieri has 14/15), but in U21 you have to balance skills because you are capped by age, so the number of trainings you can give to your player. So DR/HN should be trained at 21, when they boost JS and attacking performances but on solid basis. If you do the opposite, you have an expensive player not as much effective.
This kind of training is almost the same for all big countries, as far as I checked players on sale.