Whenever you're scouting for a player in Football Manager 2022 there's a good chance you don't want the finished article and would prefer a player who can still improve. The problem is some players look good but have already peaked and cannot develop any further because their CA matches their PA meaning they've used up all their CA points. Unlike our other lists, this isn't a list of players you must buy in FM22, but a list of players you should think twice about buying. To help narrow the list only players 27 and under have been included. You assume most players over this age will have peaked already.

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These players are some of the best players in FM22 but they have all maxed out their CA and will not develop any further in Football Manager 2022.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
João Cancelo 27 D/WB RL, M R £180k £103m £233m 30-06-2027
Aritz Elustondo 27 D RC £35k £51m £102m 30-06-2024
Douglas Santos (Douglas dos Santos Justino de Melo) 27 D/WB L, DM £31k £12m £24m 30-06-2026
Omer Atzili 27 AM RLC, F C £9k £3m £3m 31-05-2024
Paulo Díaz 26 D RC £14k £3m £3m 31-12-2024
Frank Acheampong 27 D/WB L, AM L, ST £49k £4m £393k 31-12-2024
Rafael Santos Borré 25 ST £24k £8m £8m 30-06-2025
Paul Onuachu 27 ST £21k £15m £17m 30-06-2024
Alassane Ndao 24 AM RC £26k £3m £295k 30-06-2024
Cyle Larin 26 AM RL, ST £24k £6m £6m 31-05-2022
Ludovic Ajorque 27 ST £14k £4m £5m 30-06-2024
Mirko Ivanić 27 AM LC £5k £638k £593k 30-06-2025
Khaled Narey 26 D/WB/AM R £5k £738k £687k 30-06-2023
Veton Berisha 27 AM L, ST £2k £528k £47k 31-12-2024
Saša Zdjelar 26 DM £1k £831k £769k 30-06-2024
Nicolás Reniero 26 AM RLC, F C £15k £3m £3m 30-06-2023
Alejandro Duarte 27 GK £2k £230k £209k 31-12-2023
Casper Nielsen 27 AM C £3k £3m £218k 30-06-2022
Daouda Bamba 26 AM RL, ST £9k £2m £167k 31-05-2023
Giorgos Masouras 27 AM RL £9k £3m £3m 30-06-2024
Agustín Bouzat 27 AM RL £8k £2m £2m 30-06-2022
Sebastian Schonlau 27 D C, DM £7k £490k £443k 30-06-2024
Gabi Kanichowsky 23 AM RLC £6k £1m £1m 31-05-2024
Alexis Castro 26 AM LC £6k £2m £156k 31-12-2023
Lucas Villalba 26 D LC £5k £1m £101k 31-12-2024
Dolev Haziza 26 AM RLC £8k £514k £459k 31-05-2024
Assan Ceesay 27 AM RL, ST £6k £1m £107k 30-06-2022
Shahab Zahedi 25 AM RL, ST £2k £720k £459k 31-12-2024
Numa Lavanchy 27 D/WB/M R £6k £890k £76k 30-06-2022
Branco van den Boomen 25 AM C £8k £564k £591k 30-06-2023
Denis Kolinger 27 D C £3k £1m £116k 31-12-2023
Raziel García 27 AM RLC £5k £88k £78k 31-12-2023
Tigran Barseghyan 27 AM RC £1k £200k £177k 31-12-2024
José Ignacio Álvarez 26 D L, AM LC, ST £140 £58k £5k 31-12-2022
Rob Schoofs 27 DM, AM C £7k £2m £2m 30-06-2024
Teenage Hadebe 25 D C £16k £3m £213k 31-12-2022
Kenny Saief 27 D/WB L, AM RLC £15k £2m £1m 30-06-2023
Giorgi Kvilitaia 27 ST £5k £941k £593k 31-05-2024
Artem Timofeev 27 DM £13k £2m £163k 10-06-2024
Igor Vujačić 26 D C £1k £415k £364k 30-06-2023
Lucas Rodríguez 27 D/WB L £3k £676k £593k 31-12-2022
Josip Mišić 27 DM £7k £1m £1m 30-06-2024
Dino Perić 27 D C £6k £871k £765k 15-06-2024
Sergio Quiroga 27 AM RLC £3k £2m £185k 30-06-2025
Leonel González 27 D LC £4k £2m £158k 31-12-2025
Julián Navas 27 D/WB R £2k £2m £156k 31-12-2022
Jordan Lefort 27 D LC £7k £374k £327k 30-06-2023
Streli Mamba 27 ST £13k £836k £70k 31-12-2022
Pablo Adorno 25 D LC £2k £352k £307k 31-12-2023
Mickaël Tırpan 27 D/WB R, DM £2k £1m £90k 30-06-2024
Roman Kerschbaum 27 DM, AM C £3k £899k £74k 30-06-2022
Ijiel Protti 26 AM/F C £5k £2m £144k 31-12-2022
Matty Pearson 27 D RC £5k £1m £97k 30-06-2024
Fernando Alarcón 27 D C £4k £1m £85k 31-12-2022
Agustín Allione 26 AM RC £5k £2m £138k 31-12-2022
Keegan Rosenberry 27 D RC £4k £1m £102k 31-12-2024
Ray Sandoval 26 AM RLC, F C £2k £236k £19k 31-12-2022
Maximiliano Comba 27 AM RL £2k £2m £143k 31-12-2023
Mariano Miño 27 AM LC £4k £577k £47k 31-12-2023
Srđan Babić 25 D C £3k £188k £162k 30-06-2023
Martin Koscelník 26 D/WB/AM R £1k £425k £35k 30-06-2023
Luka Stojanović 27 M LC £12k £2m £136k
Cebrail Karayel 26 D R £2k £502k £41k 31-05-2022
Andy Polo 26 AM RL £7k £98k £84k 31-12-2022
Julián Bartolo 25 AM RLC £2k £536k £44k
Ryan Edwards 27 D C £2k £937k £77k 31-05-2023
Walter Chávez 27 GK £2k £138k £11k 31-12-2022
Marcelo Estigarribia 26 ST £970 £370k £30k 31-12-2022
İlkay Durmuş 27 WB/AM L £2k £102k £8k 30-06-2023
Lucas Colitto 27 AM RL £2k £175k £14k 31-12-2022
Markus Kuster 27 GK £4k £193k £16k 30-06-2022
Maximiliano Moreira 27 D/WB/M L £1k £535k £43k 30-06-2023
Julián Bonetto 27 AM RL £3k £795k £65k 31-12-2023
Sun Menachem 27 D/WB L £3k £262k £222k 31-05-2024
Claudio Pombo 27 AM R £3k £2m £130k 31-12-2023
Emiliano Endrizzi 27 D/WB/AM L £2k £708k £57k 31-12-2022
Matías Abisab 27 AM RLC £330 £39k £3k 31-12-2022
Leandro Sosa 27 AM C £780 £75k £32k 31-12-2023
Nicolás Sansotre 27 D RC £3k £672k £54k 31-12-2022
Giuseppe Prestia 27 D C £4k £476k £38k 30-06-2023
Jan Van Den Bergh 26 D C £4k £443k £36k 30-06-2024
Pavol Šafranko 26 ST £2k £423k £34k 30-06-2023
Caín Fara 27 D RC, DM £1k £123k £10k 31-12-2022
Brian Blando 26 AM R, ST £3k £761k £61k 31-12-2022
Martin Kreuzriegler 27 D LC £2k £45k £4k 30-06-2023
Alfredo Stephens 26 AM RL, ST £730 £142k £11k 31-12-2022
Miodrag Gemović 26 AM RL, ST £12k £651k £52k 30-06-2022
Dejan Vokić 25 AM RC £4k £282k £235k 30-06-2022
Stefan Čolović 27 AM RL, ST £860 £283k £23k 31-12-2022
João Figueiredo (João Vitor Brandão Figueiredo) 25 ST £15k £1m £96k 30-06-2023
Filip Kaša 27 D C £2k £188k £156k 30-06-2023
Brian White 25 ST £1k £506k £40k 31-12-2025
Sebastián Rincón 27 AM RL, ST £2k £235k £19k 31-12-2022
Mario Palomino 27 DM £1k £133k £11k 31-12-2022
William Machado 27 D RL, DM £720 £252k £20k 31-12-2022
Gabriel Morales 27 AM C £2k £389k £31k 31-12-2022
Kristján Flóki Finnbogason 26 ST £1k £88k £7k 31-10-2023
Brian Olivera 27 GK £3k £350k £28k 31-12-2022
Ugo Bonnet 27 AM/F C £3k £120k £10k 30-06-2024
Gonzalo Cañete 26 AM RC £3k £486k £39k 31-12-2022

These Young Players are some of the best young players in FM22 but they have all maxed out their CA and will not develop any further in Football Manager 2022.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Gabi Kanichowsky 23 AM RLC £6k £1m £1m 31-05-2024
Hermenegildo (Hermenegildo Valente) 23 ST £330 £139k £10k 30-05-2022
Slavoljub Đokić 23 DM £190 £69k £5k 30-06-2022
Özcan Aydın 23 AM C £310 £6k £450 31-05-2023
Russell McLean 23 ST £200 £10k £670 31-05-2022
Shachar Amsalem 22 GK £220 £83k £68k 31-05-2022
Luis Lara 22 ST £0 £0
Enrick Reuperné 21 AM LC, F C £50 £28k £2k
Martín Lencina 22 AM C £0 £0 £0
Vlatko Martinović 23 ST £60 £4k £290 30-06-2022
Abdelhamid Challakhi 23 AM C £190 £10k £680
Marlon Zambrano 18 ST £0 £0
Adnan Zuga 23 DM, AM RLC £0 £0
Nicolás Césaro 21 GK £0 £0 £0
Salifu Senghore 20 GK £0 £0
Kim Tae-Hun (Tae-Hun Kim) 22 AM R £0 £0
Stiven Añón 22 D R, ST £0 £0
Dustin Rengifo 20 DM £140 £8k £10k 31-12-2022
Ionuţ Ene 21 D RC, DM £80 £3k £210 30-06-2022
Sean McManus 22 AM R, ST £0 £0 £0
Grance Olamba Shimba 23 AM RL £40 £2k £100
Thomas Leclef 23 AM R £150 £2k £820 30-06-2022
Nikola Ilić 23 D C £0 £0 £0
Hüseyin Topbaş 23 DM £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Ismael Fadel 17 D C, DM £250 £18k £37k
Andrei Belaşcu 20 M C £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Omar Abdullah 22 M C £0 £0
Ron Boaz 23 GK £0 £0
Maor Zehavi 23 D C, DM £130 £0 £0
Stian Trulsen 23 ST £0 £0 £0
Isaac Fabregas 20 ST £0 £0 £0
Usaamah Hakim 23 DM £0 £0 £0
Rafael (Rafael Batista da Silva) 19 D C, DM £0 £0
Tom Howard 20 D RC £0 £0 £0
Luís Paixão 21 D C £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Kivie Kapai 22 ST £20 £8k £480
Mykola Rohulin 19 ST £100 £2k £80 30-06-2022
Ovidiu Gligor 21 M C £0 £0
Jan Nikodem 23 AM L £0 £0 £0
Tobias Utoft 21 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Martín Rodríguez (Martin Rodriguez García) 22 D RLC £0 £0
Farsedu Logan 23 AM C £100 £0 £0
Fedor Adashkevich 16 AM C £10 £4k £8k 30-12-2022
Martin Dam 22 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Robin Pummer 18 M RC £30 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Erald Hepaj 23 M RC £110 £2k £140 30-06-2022
Pedro Fonseca 22 M C £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Daniel Gonçalves 22 D R £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Scott Robson 22 ST £270 £0 £0 31-05-2022
Drulovic (Adriano Hélder) 22 AM RL £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Francisco Santos 19 DM £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Jami Sjögren 20 GK £0 £0 £0
Avinesh Prasad 23 D RC £0 £0 £0
Brian Semedo 19 AM L £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Mats Steinsland 23 AM/F C £0 £0 £0 31-12-2020
Håkon Bådsvik 23 GK £0 £0 £0 31-12-2020
Daniel Nylund 23 ST £0 £0 15-11-2020
Charlie Dickens 23 D C £0 £0 £0
Aziz Niang 23 ST £80 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Andrea Sacchelli 23 D C £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Federico Retini 23 ST £80 £1k £550 30-06-2022
Giovanni Riente 23 AM R £0 £0
Marian Păduraru 20 M C £0 £0
Shane Dixson 22 AM C £0 £0 £0
Diogo Ribeiro 19 M C £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Paulo Sousa 21 AM R, ST £70 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Leon Payas 23 D C £60 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Volodymyr Melnychuk 17 AM L £100 £0 £0 30-06-2025
Murat Yıldırım 21 GK £0 £0
Jamali (Francisco Jamali) 16 AM RL £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
João Terra 19 GK £0 £0 £0
José Carrilho 22 ST £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Josiah Serrão 17 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Abdillah Najib 21 M C £0 £0 £0
Fabian Emil Meum Klevan 23 D RL £0 £0 £0
Arona Matau 20 AM C £0 £0 £0
Joe Tanoai 23 D C £0 £0 £0
Pål Ringen 22 GK £0 £0 £0
Kane Smith 23 D C £0 £0 £0
Djamaldine Rachade 17 M C £0 £0 £0
Ali Chaarani 19 D/WB L £0 £0 £0
Faroukou Bene 21 AM L £0 £0 £0
El-Fallah Mmadi 22 DM £0 £0 £0
Mahamoud Moustoifa 18 WB/AM R £0 £0 £0
Robin Escorne 19 D/WB R £0 £0
Lorenzo Fastelli 23 DM £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Tiago Duarte 20 D L £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Steve Vainalepa 18 GK £0 £0 £0
Peniamina Aleni 20 GK £0 £0
Alessandro Zugnoni 23 GK £0 £0
Travis Ah Fook 19 GK £0 £0
Fili Faoagali 17 ST £0 £0 £0
Artur Hoda 23 ST £0 £0 £0 30-06-2022
Fredrik Tørum 22 D L £0 £0
Kim Man-Su (Man-Su Kim) 22 ST £0 £0 £0
Bai Hongfei (Hongfei Bai) 19 D/WB L £0 £0 £0
Lawrence Batangan 18 ST £0 £0 £0

These players can all be signed as a free transfer FM22 but they have all maxed out their CA and will not develop any further in Football Manager 2022.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Giordano Mendoza 27 DM £0 £0
Stipo Marković 27 D/M L £0 £0
Nicolás Varela 27 M R £0 £0
Elías Martínez 27 D RC £0 £0
Alan Robertson 27 D C £0 £0
Timurbek Zakirov 25 GK £0 £0
Enzo Beloso 27 D/WB R £0 £0
Nelson Martínez Llanos 25 AM/F C £0 £0
Chris Hubbard 26 GK £0 £0
Emerson Correa 26 GK £0 £0
Artem Gurenko 27 D/WB R, AM RL £0 £0
Franco Rodas 25 AM/F C £0 £0
Francis Ortiz 26 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Juan Manuel Navarro 27 WB/M L £0 £0
Diego Montalvo 25 GK £0 £0
Cédric Mingiedi 26 D C, DM £0 £0
Tom Shelah 25 D R £0 £0
Alex Ayoví 26 ST £0 £0
Lucas Pierresteguy 27 GK £0 £0
Alvaro Olaya 27 D C £0 £0
Caio Breno (Caio Breno Santana Sousa) 27 DM £0 £0
Luis Lara 22 ST £0 £0
Niklas Bakksjø 27 DM, AM RLC £0 £0
Gastón Rodas 26 ST £0 £0
Andrés Sena 26 AM R, ST £0 £0
Jose Manuel Pavón 27 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Samuel Coronel 27 M R £0 £0
Jesús Acevedo 26 ST £0 £0
Joel Silva 26 D L £0 £0
Nicolás Oliva 27 AM RC £0 £0
Nazareno Marinelli 26 D C £0 £0
Maxim Rybakov 27 AM RL £0 £0
Yanush Ladutko 27 M C £0 £0
Angel Castillo 27 M C £0 £0
Evgeniy Abramovich 25 GK £0 £0
Ísak Simonsen 27 D/M L £0 £0
Sigurður Hrannar Björnsson 27 GK £0 £0
Guðmundur Friðriksson 27 D/M R £0 £0
Hreinn Ingi Örnólfsson 27 D RC, M C £0 £0
Andrey Vshivtsev 27 ST £0 £0
Levan Barabadze 25 AM C £0 £0
Marlon Zambrano 18 ST £0 £0
Adnan Zuga 23 DM, AM RLC £0 £0
Bendik Lysvåg 26 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Gabriel Gómez 24 M L £0 £0
Evgeniy Lebedev 26 ST £0 £0 31-12-2021
David Alonzo 27 ST £0 £0
Alexey Lozko 27 D C £0 £0
Sergey Golovchik 27 AM L, ST £0 £0
Semen Smunev 25 D C, DM £0 £0
Salifu Senghore 20 GK £0 £0
Jökull Steinn Ólafsson 27 AM C £0 £0
Birgir Magnús Birgisson 27 D RLC £0 £0
Emre Akdağ 26 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Rıdvan Gökçe 27 D/AM R £0 £0
Enver Filiz 25 D LC £0 £0
Ogün Alkan 27 GK £0 £0
Muhammed Günay 24 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Roman Vorobey 27 DM £0 £0
Michael Webb 27 D L £0 £0
Sergey Kuryshev 27 M RC £0 £0 31-12-2020
Molpe (Rodrigo Molpeceres) 25 DM, M C £0
Roberto Ávila 25 D C £0 £0
Roberto (Roberto Junio Garlini Weber) 27 ST £0 £0
Sylvester Heuberger 27 D C £0 £0
Kim Tae-Hun (Tae-Hun Kim) 22 AM R £0 £0
Taniel McKenzie 27 D RC, DM £0 £0
Stiven Añón 22 D R, ST £0 £0
Basilio Jordán 26 ST £0 £0
Artem Komarov 27 ST £0 £0 31-12-2020
Kirill Vaytekhovich 27 D/WB R, AM RC £0 £0
Andrey Naporko 26 GK £0 £0
Alexey Velikevich 26 GK £0 £0
Trésor Pene 27 DM £0 £0
Ragnar Pétursson 27 AM C £0 £0
Gal Barazani 27 GK £0 £0
Dmitry Litvinov 26 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Ali Koçak 27 AM C £0 £0
Fahri Küçükkurt 27 D C £0 £0
Tamar Edwards 27 DM £0 £0
Jordan Lambi 25 ST £0 £0
Omar Abdullah 22 M C £0 £0
Thomas Helledi 26 M/AM R, ST £0
Ágúst Freyr Hallsson 27 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Ron Boaz 23 GK £0 £0
Laurenţiu Căpăţînă 26 D C, M C £0 £0
Mikel Maiz 27 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Toni Torres 26 ST £9k £530
Martí Just 26 AM R, ST £0 £0
Rubén Burón 27 ST £0 £0
Eldar Atabiev 26 AM R £0 £0
Pedro (João Pedro Bezerra do Nascimento) 27 GK £0 £0
Stefan Haider 27 M RC £0 £0 01-07-2021
Donald Kastrati 26 ST £0 £0 01-07-2021
Wanderson Pinto Silva 26 ST £0 £0
Pavel Golubovich 27 M C £0 £0
Abdel Rahman Hassaan 27 D R, M RC £0 £0
Branimir Macina 25 D C, DM £0 £0
Alexandr V. Komlev 27 ST £0 £0 £0
Aksentije Milisic 27 M C £0 £0
Hinrik Atli Smárason 25 AM L £0 £0
Rui Rodrigues 26 AM C £0 £0
Ruizinho (Rui Silva) 27 DM £0 £0
Rafael (Rafael Batista da Silva) 19 D C, DM £0 £0
Nicolás Morán 26 M RC £0 £0
Bruno Lugano 27 AM C £0 £0
Vladislav Pogodin 26 D RC £0 £0
Sebastian Frank 27 D/WB/M R £0
Tobias Utoft 21 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Conor Hudnott 24 GK £0 £0
Andri Þór Þórunnarson 26 GK £0 £0
Halldór Hrannar Halldórsson 27 D R £0 £0
Vilhjálmur Ingi Ingólfsson 26 D RC £0 £0
Ivan Shubkin 27 GK £0 £0
Martín Rodríguez (Martin Rodriguez García) 22 D RLC £0 £0
Artur Zhabinskiy 26 D L £0 £0
Artem Gerasimov 26 ST £0 £0
Pavel Pavlovich 26 AM R £0 £0
Ovidiu Gligor 21 M C £0 £0
Marco Vaccà 25 ST £0 £0
Isa Tasurkaew 26 ST £0 £0 30-06-2020
Ivan Danilkovich 26 D RC £0 £0
Ivan Smolyanik 26 M RC £0 £0
Tómas Aron Tómasson 27 D RC £0 £0
Sigurður Andri Jóhannsson 26 D R £0 £0
Sergey Kindeev 27 GK £0 £0
Andrey Demjan 26 AM L £0 £0
Jacoqes Pakoa 26 D C £0 £0
Niclas Lindemann 24 GK £0
Visti Sloth 26 AM RLC, ST £0
Mikkel Mortensen 26 ST £0
Jonas Bang Andersen 27 D C £0
Jakob Granlund 27 ST £0
Rasmus Skov Andreasen 27 GK £0 £0
Daniel Nylund 23 ST £0 £0 15-11-2020
Hallgrímur Andri Jóhannsson 27 D C £0 £0
Sindri Geirsson 26 GK £0 £0
Reynir Óskarsson 27 D L £0 £0
Jerry Liluce 27 AM/F C £0 £0
Cameron Heffernan 24 D/WB R £0 £0
Evgeniy Chekel 26 M C £0 £0
Mattia Anastasi 24 D C £0 £0
Giovanni Riente 23 AM R £0 £0
Marian Păduraru 20 M C £0 £0
Þorvaldur Rúnarsson 27 GK £0 £0
Haitam Taha 27 AM C £0 £0
Murat Yıldırım 21 GK £0 £0
Jone Tagime 24 ST £0 £0
Salacieli Dakunaiduca 27 D L £0 £0
Salvatore Panarello 26 £0
Vladislav Dyrov 25 D RC £0 £0
Tuukka Laitinen 24 D R £0 £0
Robin Escorne 19 D/WB R £0 £0
Alessandro Zugnoni 23 GK £0 £0
Mattia Boccaccio 25 DM £0 £0
Omer Zec 25 AM/F C £0 £0
Peniamina Aleni 20 GK £0 £0
Rugved Yeole 27 AM L £0 £0
Christian Dafi 27 D C £0 £0
Travis Ah Fook 19 GK £0 £0
Lauina Vaitagutu 25 ST £0 £0
Wahed Ahmed 27 ST £0 £0
Vincenzo Leo 24 M L £0 £0
Hugo Cordeiro 26 GK £0
Siosifa Fonua 26 DM £0 £0
Brian Manumanu 27 D C £0 £0
Fredrik Tørum 22 D L £0 £0

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