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I think also an important part which isnt mentioned, is that upgrading your staff is also something not to overlook. You need better trainers and scouts to identify the talents + help them develop
Hundo. Another important part he didn't mention is to keep the contracts of these free players short (1 year for most, 2 years if they're star players is probably ok). Having a lot of wage budget to work with when you get promoted is very important.
@@mw4828 Yeah this is something I struggled with loads. When you grow too much too fast, and these free players that were star players two years ago don't even make your first eleven anymore and start whining. Short contracts is smart
definitely. In fact, I don’t even renew my staff members contracts if I feel I can get better members, start of every season I will get better staff before better players.
Totally agree, with one little caveat. Even when you get to the stage that the free signings don't necessarily improve your team, it can still make sense to sign 2/3 of them every year as long as you're confident of being able to sell them (or your existing equally good players). This can really boost your transfer budget to go and compete for those wonderkids against the bigger clubs sniffing around them. For example, I just signed Riyad Mahrez at the end of his contract for Celtic. Think he was maybe 32 at that point. Not a lot of elite level seasons left in him at that point but it was easy enough to sign him, use him as a squad player for 6 months, and then sell him in the January window for something like a £12m profit. And of course remember to look out for good players at big teams who just don't get the game time they want. I got Joe Rodon from Tottenham for £800k, sold him a year later for £16m. I got Ferran Torres from PSG for £12m and sold him on for £26m not long afterwards. Just because they weren't happy about their playing time. It's always easy enough to move quality players like these on for a good profit after playing them for 6-12months.
It's pretty hard in leagues like Serbia, where only 4 foreigners can be in the match squad at any single league match. Even Europeans count as foreigners.
Awesome vid Z. Very relevant to my current save (Bath City). In season 7 and it's our first year in league one. Transfers paid to date: 32.5k on Kyle Hudlin at the start of year 3 who was just released after 3 seasons with the club where he scored 81 goals as the club got promoted up to league one. One thing I'd recommend for people is to pay attention to the youth intakes for the PL teams and try to sign the youth players that they choose not to sign.
Hell yeah 😅 was looking for a tall striker, didn't even realize how tall of a striker I found in Kyle 😆 did OK for me in the Narional League, but I got offered a better, younger striker, so I ended up doing that, with him as a backup... And as for the youth intake, my best player a central defender got let go from Chelsea, he agreed to come play down here, and might be the best defender in the league - I understand that he's not good enough for Chelsea, but honestly, as a 18 year old (? I think, havent opened that save in a a bit...), he can get better, and I feel like they got rid of him too soon, but I'm not complaining 😅
That last point is spectacular. I signed 4 of those youth rejects in ajanuaey after taking over Brackley Town in the bottom 5 or 6, we made the playoffs. Next season we got promotion in 1st. Be particularly aware that speed is a game changer down there. I got a player I knew from West Ham who's pretty fast, but in the lower leagues there's barely anyone that quick. He'd just roast every full back and either have a go himself or play in a striker.
I like to think myself as a youth developer in FM. But the truth is, 60-70% of the wonderkids will not reach their potential, and only a few will actually make a breakthrough in your first team, without sacrificing competitiveness. So yeah, signing free players is a great deal, and unwanted players in bigger clubs aswell. Cause they'll most likely make an immediate impact and, should a younger player come along for their position, you can easily sell them for a profit. And money is everything in FM. It can be reinvested in better facilities and personnel to help younger players reach their potential.
I'd think of it as 70% of wonderkids even if they reach their potential will develop in a way that I don't like which means you can still sell them for profit.
This is just the video I needed. Free transfers have gotten me to the Euro Cup group stages where I made a bunch of cash, made a cup final + a cup quarter final and finishing about 4th in the league. Not sure what sort of budget the board is about to offer for next season - and there's rumours of a pending takeover of the club I'm managing. At some stage I know I need to step up my signings so that my reserves can essentially win me the league while my first team competes in Europe.
Make sure to upgrade ur players each season even if ur players playing well and you finish first and back to back promotions your squad quality also is what helps you recruit better players.
something that helped me a lot when I went multiple consecutive seasons buying 10+ guys each season was to remember to train cohesion, "good" cohesion isn't good enough
Don't worry Zealand, im in a Caldas (portuguese third division) save, got to the conference league, smashed salzburg 4-0 and 6-0 in the group stage. Im heavily relying on free tranfers and my only "big" signing was spending 1.4M on a belgian wonderkid that in 2026, is scoring 36 goals in 37 matches and won the golden boy award (note: it's beeing VERY difficult to compete against the 3 big teams in Portugal so if you can, smash them for me as well 😅)
Yeah I did a demolition job on them with Cork City too. Something like 9-0 on aggregate with my record signing at the time being €300k and everyone else on frees. They don't do Europe very well.
I think the main issue most ppl face (including myself) is “PATIENCE”. I wanna win everything NOW!! But it’s ok to finish 5th, 4th , or 3rd etc for a few seasons as you’re building ur team and developing players for the future. Yeah it’ll take some time but isn’t that the fun part ? Lol. Kinda. At the moment I’m managing Sporting in Portugal 🇵🇹, yeah it’s a big team but my goal is to win champions league , and I’m good w just chillin for a few seasons while I’m developing these kids and setting up my team and tactics and playstyle that’ll get us to challenge really hard in the champions league! I’m only using my youth kids and if I sign anyone I’m only signing Portuguese players (trying to get Portugal to be dominant). But yeah, just be patient, it’s hard I know bc we wanna have success early but it’ll pay off once you take ur time and actually build ur team and develop those kids ! Also ZEALAND just shave the hair bro, or do the bale thing and get that small ponytail thing going on 🤣😂
@@evyrrun2841 it’s going good, I won the league my first season , only losing 4 matches but I got spanked by Liverpool and Ajax in the group stages of CL, smh 2nd season should be more promising hopefully lol
Actually just beat Salzburg with my Cracovia team to get into the champions league for the second time. I am just transferring to stage 3 and got my first wonder kid who even happens to be a Polish international.
when I build a team I normally buy players that I can afford / role i want to play then find the best attributes for that role , for example , AP - flair ,technique , vision , passing. etc I normally go basic with my formations but buy players best suited for that role
As a small team it's just a time game. Just sign young kids who are high potential and loan players for the first team. When the young players catch up to the first team you'll have a high value team and will have more money from promotion off loan deals.
QUESTION (and maybe idea for a video): How do you keep your players happy while playing in multiple competitions? I play in Romania with Farul Constanta and every year I qualify for European competitions (by winning the league). As I often play every three days I like to have 2 teams in order to have my players fresh for every match. Because the league is easier I use my best team in European competitions. The problem is that this way my best players complain about playing time, even though they play every week...in a better ranked competition . That's absurd! How do you avoid that?
@@asvpxjase Playing them every three days would result in the player not being fresh at the start of the game. As I see it, SI should address this issue because now a player is happier if he plays in the league with a weak team than in the CL final. That's not right!
@@sorinmihaisangeap732 no the best players want to play all of the time so of course they wouldn’t be happy if they’re not playing all the time. Some players you can rotate minutes but your best ones should be starting, if you’re worried about fitness/sharpness then bring them off after 50/60 minutes or play them 3 out of 4 games instead of every other.
change the game time they have on contract maybe some of them get upset but they shut up eventually, if you let them star players they will crying for ever XD
I just rest them like 3 days after a game. In my 1st season I had a lot of 31+ players in my team, especially free agents and I pretty much played the same first 11 almost every time. Ended up winning the playoff with 10/10 wins while also getting to Conference league QF. Every now and then 1 player skipped a game because he started to get jaded but that's it.
I had no idea how good my US Cretiel team that I got from the 3rd tier in France to Ligue 1 was compared to Zealand's Floridsdorfer team at the time until I saw a few dudes at 8:50 that are 4 star CA for Zealand while they're just 2/2.5 star CA for me. Been struggling on this build/save but that gave me hope that I am indeed progressing a little
My most recent experience: If you want to have an easy time, take Ajax. They are quite literally a football managers players wet dream. Heads above the league, Champions League every year, decent yet not ridiculous cash an reputation. Team is young, hungry, has great mentality, sparks majorly interest in clubs richer than you. Oh and you have a perfect youth system and the greatest pull of the country in a outrageous talented country. FM, beating the big guys - easy mode
What i love to do is sign a lot of wonderkids and send them to affiliate clubs. Make these clubs promote to your league and then sell all the wonderkids to other teams in the league. My spanish league now is so strong that the premier league winner would fight for relegation.
good advise is also to get a good director of youth, this will improve your youth intake, and maybe, just maybe give you a wonderkid. (sorry for the bad english)
The FM21 save I still play in Belarus I would say is at that point where we're trying to cross from stage 2 to stage 3, but I have no money since I haven't made a European group stage yet. We just won the league for the 1st time, but now the players that would improve my team want a lot more than I feel comfortable paying considering our current wage structure.
I've started a deportivo save. 20 games in and top unbeaten so far. I played the top of league 2 in the cup and 2 other league above teams throughout the year and destroyed them all in xg.
@@roberts1711 play trilli and mella, mella in particular is a regular now in season 2. Trilli I lost to minimum fee release clause of 600k. Shame but still a decent chunk of change.
Not the right forum, but... Can you please use your super powers to ask Miles for a 'Right click open in new tab' feature in the next game please. I.e. Say I'm staff searching and navigating between the staff search list, my coaches training assignments for seniors, u23 & U19's it would be so much easier if there was a tab system like in an internet browser, so you could right click and open in new tab and flip between them. They could auto disappear on continue. I'd use it.
I am in 2026 with Beşiktaş,winning league every year and doing quarter to semi final each year in CL. Just looking to find players to take me to the next stage but having a hard time finding almost any now :/ EPL is literally hoarding players and a decent player is minimum 60 million euros to sign. But no matter what, that CL cup is coming to İstanbul baby, virtually 😂
For me is Dynamo Kiev and Shaktar. Those teams are monsters. I ascended from the second division in Ukraine with the Metalist and now doing good in the league, got my ass handled at me in the UEFA league by the Sevilla and Everton (but Everton stole the win 2-1 in the minute 94 out of 94.
The Metallist somehow makes a good ammount of money each year though, they receive like 15M from sponsorship every year keeping them out of debt. Pretty amazing. I guess its becouse they are owned by the city hall
I mean it should take 2 to 3 years to start winning the league vs them. Within 5 years I had dynamo Kiev in financial issues and they had to fire sell half of their players because they were no longer getting champions league money. They eventually were relegated 7 or 8 years in
I rarely disagree with you Zea, but in my FM21 save I still manage to get good free signings. I got Zamora CF all the way up to Spain’s 2nd division, and I still find players that are 3-4 star PA. Oh, and about VPNs, they’re not some anti-hacker security, they do give you more privacy though
I partially disagree with this because you say "it's all about winning now so you get some money" but you also say "you don't spend a lot of money early on". What I did on my FCSB save was this: sign quite a few free agents starting in the 1st transfer window. Sell all of them for profit (decent wage + higher wage after 5 games, low signing on fee, high bonuses...they never get to claim those anyway). Only made offers for players that were wanted by others and that I would be OK to have on my team if I couldn't offload them in the 1st (same) window. Use that profit to get 1st team starters, free or transfers, but I plaid in installments and bonuses for transfers and use them to win the title and do well in Europe. Doing that means you get more prize money, you increase reputation, you get higher EU coefficient and you can sell those players 2nd season to get even better ones and even more free agents and do the same thing all over again. By doing that I'm just investing all my money in players; they're like assets for me and I cash in on them because they play well, because we're winning games and a lot of them are wanted by other clubs. The higher the transfer revenue is, the more profitable this method is; but even with a 40-50% revenue, you still make money because your balance keeps growing and when you legit buy players, you pay in installments so the transfer budget doesn't take a big hit. 10-25% revenue like in FAC is a bit yikes, I'd say you break even but even if you don't make money thru transfers if you actually buy players, but you get a better team that helps you win, get more prize money, reputation and EU coefficient.
Btw don’t make the mistake of delegating to the board, thought it would get me a good deal, instead blew my budget on a single player. Learned the hard way and now 4 wonderful free signings later we’re making progress
Y would u do that anyways. Buying players is what the game is all about. Whats the point in playing it if u arnt going to do that. Yes get help but leaving it to thhen is pointless.
Dynamo Dresden, 2024/25 6th place reached in Bundesliga and Euro II Cup qualification The club is rich, so I was expecting some good money to spend, since most of the team came from 3.Liga 70k. Yes, SEVENTYTHOUSAND EUROS as a transfert budget for a club who has to play the Euro II Cup. Couldn't acquire no one, no free players in january (no money for signing bonuses) nor loans (no budget for fees) We reached the 8th place but, I don't know how, we beated Ajax in the Euro II cup final. So Zealand is indeed right: sometimes, you can afford to buy no one and still be competitive
I am already in phase 2 in my Bristol City save, trying to find top youngsters to play for me as I have established in PL after 3 seasons, even played CL last season. Just wanted to ask you about scouting as I have found a really nice Scottish CB from Hibernian, not so expensive, but my scouts (19 players ability, 20 players potential) claim he is just at Championship League level. Eventhought his parametres are better than my 2nd best CB. Should I buy him anyway as he´s got most of his cruacial parametres for CB 15+? Even additive ones are not so small, mostly 13+ which should be still good for PL.
I would trust my eyes before scout claims that he is a Championship-level player. I recently stumbled upon Mezzala from Bordeaux and he is insanely good for 20yrs old, but my scouts deem him as a great player for most Championship sides despite having 4 1/5 star potential. Basically he is ready to step in as rotation and even squad player for my Man Utd side immediately with his 17 dribbling, 17 technique, 16 first touch and 16 passing/vision.
Hey mate - good luck with Bristol City. They've been a huge help to my Bath City save (Affiliated club) lending me some prospects who lit it up for us in the VNL/L2/now L1.
U still have to trust ur own judgement, ig my scouts dont rate a player but i like them goes without saying snap them up. Im an Arsenal fan so m8ght be why i liveout my dreams of being totally frivolous with Mr Kroenke's money.
Overthrew Salzburg In my 3rd season with Wacker Innsbruck now in my 6th season my players are getting poached and I can't find players good enough to replace. Get out of the groups in CL and win the league every yr. Literally plateaued
The problem for me with the free transfers is that I mostly play in the Israeli league and foreign limit is harsh, and how to put that, Israeli free agents are bad mostly
I’m not so sure… he really didn’t with ODFC either. I don’t think he actually realizes how good of loan player he can find. Literally could have 2 to 4 loan starting players yet he refuses to look for loans or get senior affiliate.
Every road to glory save I have done I am able to acquire good loan players some of which I eventually am able to buy and without them would take much longer to win leagues /promotions / europe etc
Any tips for the FIRST transfer window? I always end up selling 1 or 2 players and then not having any way to replace them because no one is scouted and i’m not aware of anyone out of contract thats good enough yet (currently sparta prague)
First window is a challenge no doubt. Sometimes selling a player if you don’t have a replacement is not a good plan. Suggest using player search for non contracted players and trialing as many as you can to start. Set up scouts immediately looking for end of contract and loans
i hate hoarding wonderkids cus its so boring i like to get free agents old guys and a sprinkle of wonderkids. but tbh i love buying players with high leadership
Imho there is another thing. Signing fully developed first team stars. There are always these key players in sides not in the international competitions that are above your own player's ability. Wonderkids often somehow fail to develop. Maybe the player is just not right for the position you play them. Or has some detrimental hidden attributes. And your 5* potential player develops some, but suddenly is only 3.5* potential, and not the world beater you wanted him to be, but a squad player. That happens to me more often than not. Especially with my goalies and my centre backs. So while I sign a lot of wonderkids, I am usually looking for 1 big signing a season. A player that is already world class, or close to it, aged 21-25, playing at a lesser club, wanting to make the next step in his career and able to make an instant impact. Costing somewhere between 40 and 80 million euro.
@@SimersFM Nah I was thinking like gut a team so no players at all and put in the prem how much money to make a team that could challenge short and long term
@@OddlySpecificGaming The issue would be payroll and reputation - you could build a team with free transfers that could probably avoid relegation provided you have enough payroll and reputation that they would join. I mean there shouldn't be reason to ever get relegated in the premier league provided you bring in some good loan players.
How the heck do you play champions league as number two in Austria. In my save all clubs must have choked so hard while I was building to get into Europe and the country dropped about 10 places and now even the Champion has to go through the quali to get to the cl lol
In Brazil, contracts usually end up in December, simply because it's the end of our season. We play the Brazilian league 2022, not the BL 2022/2023. We are right and you are wrong, rest of the world! Every single one of you! Lol
Hey i tried you and FM Llama suggestion on managing european club outside europe and i'm on ceuta on 7th season and finally we manage to get into La Liga Santander but due to stadium restriction on minimum 15000 seat, i'm on massive debt and even struggling to get wage and transfer budget due to stadium loan... and even 3 star player don't even want to play for Ceuta... help...😭
Could a "trail farm" work IRL? like is there a team out that only signs freebies and offers trails to a few dozen players every summer? I'd be very interested to find out
There was definitely a team a few years ago who had had money problems I think and ended up at the start of the new season with only 3 players or something and they had open trials with over a hundred players and signed some of them. I’ve read about load of clubs also having open trials at points too, although normally not the big boys obviously. I don’t think it’s the first team guys who have anything to do with these though.
Not exactly the same, but Clermont Foot has a transfer policy where they can only sign free agents. They are in Ligue 1 and they actually got promoted like this
Can someone please explain how to get faces/logos/real name fixes on my save? I’ve just got FM for the first time on my Mac and I’ve spent all day watching videos on how to do it and still can’t seem to get it right
I tend to disagree with Zealand here, there are some good deals to be made with players which have great stats, great potential, though they are not Wonderkids or for free, but are very cheap to get. Those deals I would not miss out at all, just for the sake of not paying any transfer fees.
It really depends on the club, the financial situation, and what level you're at. A lot of clubs in the lower leagues have near-zero transfer budgets and shaky financial situations. If you have a bit of a budget and find someone that fits the bill, obviously you should take the upgrade. But you also have to be careful because that small transfer budget is also used for signing bonuses and such, so sometimes in something like League Two with a 20k transfer budget, that can be better used as signing fees for 5-10 players on a free rather than one or two transfers. signing.
Depends on "backfire"...I paid out 50M in installments for what I thought was the world's best wonderkid and in 2 years he's blown out his ACL year 1 and had a broken ankle year 2 with no improvements and actual downside to his physicals. So looking at an awful loss on a player I normally would have just accepted I couldn't afford without the never never heh. Edited to add: Also bought a kid from VVV Venlo for 2M and just sold him to PSG for 95M so life could be worse on this save.
In my FC Bayern 2 career I didn't buy a single player and sold 3 players and yet we are at the top of the league in 3.Liga with no losses and no draws. And in my Bournemouth career I signed players in PL with no more than 10million pounds despite our transfer budget being about 47 million pounds after winning the Championship. And not only that I was able to retain my squad players. Soccernomics works wonders if you know what you are doing as a manager not just in the game in real life as well.
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Bro in my derby save got to the playoffs and won and in 1st season in premier league i for 2nd behind liverpool(83 points)in champions league now
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I think also an important part which isnt mentioned, is that upgrading your staff is also something not to overlook. You need better trainers and scouts to identify the talents + help them develop
Hundo. Another important part he didn't mention is to keep the contracts of these free players short (1 year for most, 2 years if they're star players is probably ok). Having a lot of wage budget to work with when you get promoted is very important.
@@mw4828 Yeah this is something I struggled with loads. When you grow too much too fast, and these free players that were star players two years ago don't even make your first eleven anymore and start whining. Short contracts is smart
definitely. In fact, I don’t even renew my staff members contracts if I feel I can get better members, start of every season I will get better staff before better players.
Totally agree, with one little caveat. Even when you get to the stage that the free signings don't necessarily improve your team, it can still make sense to sign 2/3 of them every year as long as you're confident of being able to sell them (or your existing equally good players). This can really boost your transfer budget to go and compete for those wonderkids against the bigger clubs sniffing around them.
For example, I just signed Riyad Mahrez at the end of his contract for Celtic. Think he was maybe 32 at that point. Not a lot of elite level seasons left in him at that point but it was easy enough to sign him, use him as a squad player for 6 months, and then sell him in the January window for something like a £12m profit.
And of course remember to look out for good players at big teams who just don't get the game time they want. I got Joe Rodon from Tottenham for £800k, sold him a year later for £16m. I got Ferran Torres from PSG for £12m and sold him on for £26m not long afterwards. Just because they weren't happy about their playing time. It's always easy enough to move quality players like these on for a good profit after playing them for 6-12months.
Hoard wonderkids there is no other way to build a team
It's pretty hard in leagues like Serbia, where only 4 foreigners can be in the match squad at any single league match. Even Europeans count as foreigners.
Average age 22 in CL final or bust!
Gotta have them all
Work Permits :(
That gets boring after a while. I kinda want to get success with mostly real players.
Awesome vid Z. Very relevant to my current save (Bath City). In season 7 and it's our first year in league one. Transfers paid to date: 32.5k on Kyle Hudlin at the start of year 3 who was just released after 3 seasons with the club where he scored 81 goals as the club got promoted up to league one. One thing I'd recommend for people is to pay attention to the youth intakes for the PL teams and try to sign the youth players that they choose not to sign.
Hell yeah 😅 was looking for a tall striker, didn't even realize how tall of a striker I found in Kyle 😆 did OK for me in the Narional League, but I got offered a better, younger striker, so I ended up doing that, with him as a backup...
And as for the youth intake, my best player a central defender got let go from Chelsea, he agreed to come play down here, and might be the best defender in the league - I understand that he's not good enough for Chelsea, but honestly, as a 18 year old (? I think, havent opened that save in a a bit...), he can get better, and I feel like they got rid of him too soon, but I'm not complaining 😅
That last point is spectacular. I signed 4 of those youth rejects in ajanuaey after taking over Brackley Town in the bottom 5 or 6, we made the playoffs. Next season we got promotion in 1st. Be particularly aware that speed is a game changer down there. I got a player I knew from West Ham who's pretty fast, but in the lower leagues there's barely anyone that quick. He'd just roast every full back and either have a go himself or play in a striker.
I like to think myself as a youth developer in FM. But the truth is, 60-70% of the wonderkids will not reach their potential, and only a few will actually make a breakthrough in your first team, without sacrificing competitiveness. So yeah, signing free players is a great deal, and unwanted players in bigger clubs aswell. Cause they'll most likely make an immediate impact and, should a younger player come along for their position, you can easily sell them for a profit.
And money is everything in FM. It can be reinvested in better facilities and personnel to help younger players reach their potential.
Truth! When you're growing quickly, most players that had 5 star potential two seasons ago are now just mediocre
I'd think of it as 70% of wonderkids even if they reach their potential will develop in a way that I don't like which means you can still sell them for profit.
Just like real life then, money is king
@@joritverkerk3947 another reason is because your team is getting better so compared to the wonderkids potential your teams ability catches up
@@Connorsea That's what I meant :)
This is just the video I needed. Free transfers have gotten me to the Euro Cup group stages where I made a bunch of cash, made a cup final + a cup quarter final and finishing about 4th in the league. Not sure what sort of budget the board is about to offer for next season - and there's rumours of a pending takeover of the club I'm managing.
At some stage I know I need to step up my signings so that my reserves can essentially win me the league while my first team competes in Europe.
Make sure to upgrade ur players each season even if ur players playing well and you finish first and back to back promotions your squad quality also is what helps you recruit better players.
something that helped me a lot when I went multiple consecutive seasons buying 10+ guys each season was to remember to train cohesion, "good" cohesion isn't good enough
Don't worry Zealand, im in a Caldas (portuguese third division) save, got to the conference league, smashed salzburg 4-0 and 6-0 in the group stage. Im heavily relying on free tranfers and my only "big" signing was spending 1.4M on a belgian wonderkid that in 2026, is scoring 36 goals in 37 matches and won the golden boy award (note: it's beeing VERY difficult to compete against the 3 big teams in Portugal so if you can, smash them for me as well 😅)
Yeah I did a demolition job on them with Cork City too. Something like 9-0 on aggregate with my record signing at the time being €300k and everyone else on frees. They don't do Europe very well.
I think the main issue most ppl face (including myself) is “PATIENCE”. I wanna win everything NOW!! But it’s ok to finish 5th, 4th , or 3rd etc for a few seasons as you’re building ur team and developing players for the future. Yeah it’ll take some time but isn’t that the fun part ? Lol. Kinda. At the moment I’m managing Sporting in Portugal 🇵🇹, yeah it’s a big team but my goal is to win champions league , and I’m good w just chillin for a few seasons while I’m developing these kids and setting up my team and tactics and playstyle that’ll get us to challenge really hard in the champions league! I’m only using my youth kids and if I sign anyone I’m only signing Portuguese players (trying to get Portugal to be dominant). But yeah, just be patient, it’s hard I know bc we wanna have success early but it’ll pay off once you take ur time and actually build ur team and develop those kids ! Also ZEALAND just shave the hair bro, or do the bale thing and get that small ponytail thing going on 🤣😂
i’ll forever be grateful to Sporting i got possibly the best wonderkid i’ve ever seen from them in my St. Pauli save
As a Sporting fan, how have you been doing, I'm doing a save as well with Sporting, been pushing QF of CL but not quite there yet.
@@evyrrun2841 it’s going good, I won the league my first season , only losing 4 matches but I got spanked by Liverpool and Ajax in the group stages of CL, smh 2nd season should be more promising hopefully lol
@@evyrrun2841 bro tell me
More about ur save ! I’m interested! Sporting is such a fun team to manage !
Actually just beat Salzburg with my Cracovia team to get into the champions league for the second time. I am just transferring to stage 3 and got my first wonder kid who even happens to be a Polish international.
Zealands hair has performed especially well in training lately and is showing an improvement in it's length.
The ending of this video hits differenly when you just lost the austrian cup final to salzburg 3:4 after leading 3:0 in the 60th minute
when I build a team I normally buy players that I can afford / role i want to play then find the best attributes for that role , for example , AP - flair ,technique , vision , passing. etc I normally go basic with my formations but buy players best suited for that role
As a small team it's just a time game. Just sign young kids who are high potential and loan players for the first team. When the young players catch up to the first team you'll have a high value team and will have more money from promotion off loan deals.
QUESTION (and maybe idea for a video): How do you keep your players happy while playing in multiple competitions? I play in Romania with Farul Constanta and every year I qualify for European competitions (by winning the league). As I often play every three days I like to have 2 teams in order to have my players fresh for every match. Because the league is easier I use my best team in European competitions. The problem is that this way my best players complain about playing time, even though they play every week...in a better ranked competition . That's absurd! How do you avoid that?
Play them? And stop offering minutes you cant give them when you sign these players???
@@asvpxjase Playing them every three days would result in the player not being fresh at the start of the game. As I see it, SI should address this issue because now a player is happier if he plays in the league with a weak team than in the CL final. That's not right!
@@sorinmihaisangeap732 no the best players want to play all of the time so of course they wouldn’t be happy if they’re not playing all the time. Some players you can rotate minutes but your best ones should be starting, if you’re worried about fitness/sharpness then bring them off after 50/60 minutes or play them 3 out of 4 games instead of every other.
change the game time they have on contract maybe some of them get upset but they shut up eventually, if you let them star players they will crying for ever XD
I just rest them like 3 days after a game. In my 1st season I had a lot of 31+ players in my team, especially free agents and I pretty much played the same first 11 almost every time. Ended up winning the playoff with 10/10 wins while also getting to Conference league QF. Every now and then 1 player skipped a game because he started to get jaded but that's it.
I love getting ads for New Zealand while watching these videos
I had no idea how good my US Cretiel team that I got from the 3rd tier in France to Ligue 1 was compared to Zealand's Floridsdorfer team at the time until I saw a few dudes at 8:50 that are 4 star CA for Zealand while they're just 2/2.5 star CA for me. Been struggling on this build/save but that gave me hope that I am indeed progressing a little
Ya but you were still in france thats a big diff
My most recent experience: If you want to have an easy time, take Ajax.
They are quite literally a football managers players wet dream. Heads above the league, Champions League every year, decent yet not ridiculous cash an reputation. Team is young, hungry, has great mentality, sparks majorly interest in clubs richer than you.
Oh and you have a perfect youth system and the greatest pull of the country in a outrageous talented country.
FM, beating the big guys - easy mode
What i love to do is sign a lot of wonderkids and send them to affiliate clubs. Make these clubs promote to your league and then sell all the wonderkids to other teams in the league. My spanish league now is so strong that the premier league winner would fight for relegation.
You said you have not signed any wonderkid, but you did sign Raphael Le'ai :)) Kidding, nice video!
good advise is also to get a good director of youth, this will improve your youth intake, and maybe, just maybe give you a wonderkid. (sorry for the bad english)
You should make an MLS video or possibly a whole series. I'm having a heck of a time trying to decide how to fill my DP slots.
Loaning in youngsters and then getting in good options to buy has helped me a ton.
The FM21 save I still play in Belarus I would say is at that point where we're trying to cross from stage 2 to stage 3, but I have no money since I haven't made a European group stage yet. We just won the league for the 1st time, but now the players that would improve my team want a lot more than I feel comfortable paying considering our current wage structure.
Hey, I know Luciano Canepa, I hired him in my Austin FC saves too
Love for the Floridsdorfer Shirt!
I bet this week we'll get a video where Z gets an "instant" haircut thanks to the magic of editing
Not only Insigne from my beloved Napoli, he also got Federico Bernardeschi from Juve, end of contract, free transfer.
In Brasil our seasons starts in january and finishes in december, like a season per year, that's why pre contracts works different
I'm still trying to figure out why contracts expire mid season and not during end of season/pre-season time. Any help?
@@TheDeathJesters1337 in Brasil contracts ends in december/31, which is the mid season in europe
6:29
honestly that's a perfect summary of what tf Brazilian League football is
I made you a 6'6 234 PF in my NBA2K career mode save. You haven't been drafted yet. I'll let you know where you end up. Hopefully not the G League 🤭
Love this, doing a deportivo save and am season 2 challenging for title in div 2. Slowly improving staff and squad as I go and thoroughly enjoying it.
its always nice to hear that someone is playing as my loved Deportivo!
I've started a deportivo save. 20 games in and top unbeaten so far. I played the top of league 2 in the cup and 2 other league above teams throughout the year and destroyed them all in xg.
@@roberts1711 play trilli and mella, mella in particular is a regular now in season 2. Trilli I lost to minimum fee release clause of 600k. Shame but still a decent chunk of change.
nice AD transition
_LOVE_ Vicente as your one of your scouts
Vicente, our Lord and Savior Scout. Blessing us lower league in-debt clubs with his high attributes.
Is the scouted ability, “At most,” or “At least?”
Can you do a video on showing us how to use the datahub?
Not the right forum, but...
Can you please use your super powers to ask Miles for a 'Right click open in new tab' feature in the next game please.
I.e. Say I'm staff searching and navigating between the staff search list, my coaches training assignments for seniors, u23 & U19's it would be so much easier if there was a tab system like in an internet browser, so you could right click and open in new tab and flip between them. They could auto disappear on continue.
I'd use it.
This would be so good
Try scouting obscure areas for cheap wonderkids. I signed a high potential 18 year old Syrian for £60k.
I am in 2026 with Beşiktaş,winning league every year and doing quarter to semi final each year in CL. Just looking to find players to take me to the next stage but having a hard time finding almost any now :/ EPL is literally hoarding players and a decent player is minimum 60 million euros to sign. But no matter what, that CL cup is coming to İstanbul baby, virtually 😂
For me is Dynamo Kiev and Shaktar. Those teams are monsters. I ascended from the second division in Ukraine with the Metalist and now doing good in the league, got my ass handled at me in the UEFA league by the Sevilla and Everton (but Everton stole the win 2-1 in the minute 94 out of 94.
The Metallist somehow makes a good ammount of money each year though, they receive like 15M from sponsorship every year keeping them out of debt. Pretty amazing. I guess its becouse they are owned by the city hall
I mean it should take 2 to 3 years to start winning the league vs them. Within 5 years I had dynamo Kiev in financial issues and they had to fire sell half of their players because they were no longer getting champions league money. They eventually were relegated 7 or 8 years in
Free agent twist is to buy a good player cheaply cause he has max q year left of his contract. Often less competition at that stage.
I rarely disagree with you Zea, but in my FM21 save I still manage to get good free signings. I got Zamora CF all the way up to Spain’s 2nd division, and I still find players that are 3-4 star PA.
Oh, and about VPNs, they’re not some anti-hacker security, they do give you more privacy though
I partially disagree with this because you say "it's all about winning now so you get some money" but you also say "you don't spend a lot of money early on". What I did on my FCSB save was this: sign quite a few free agents starting in the 1st transfer window. Sell all of them for profit (decent wage + higher wage after 5 games, low signing on fee, high bonuses...they never get to claim those anyway). Only made offers for players that were wanted by others and that I would be OK to have on my team if I couldn't offload them in the 1st (same) window. Use that profit to get 1st team starters, free or transfers, but I plaid in installments and bonuses for transfers and use them to win the title and do well in Europe. Doing that means you get more prize money, you increase reputation, you get higher EU coefficient and you can sell those players 2nd season to get even better ones and even more free agents and do the same thing all over again. By doing that I'm just investing all my money in players; they're like assets for me and I cash in on them because they play well, because we're winning games and a lot of them are wanted by other clubs. The higher the transfer revenue is, the more profitable this method is; but even with a 40-50% revenue, you still make money because your balance keeps growing and when you legit buy players, you pay in installments so the transfer budget doesn't take a big hit. 10-25% revenue like in FAC is a bit yikes, I'd say you break even but even if you don't make money thru transfers if you actually buy players, but you get a better team that helps you win, get more prize money, reputation and EU coefficient.
I see Vicente is still the scout to pick up early game.
Don't be sad Zealand, as a Turk, I think you are pretty cool. Also, we are on the 15th spot in the league right now, let us have this.
August is midseason for the Brazilian League
Go check where Gala is currently in the Turkish league IRL... guess we got horrible karma this season for beating Zealand.
Btw don’t make the mistake of delegating to the board, thought it would get me a good deal, instead blew my budget on a single player. Learned the hard way and now 4 wonderful free signings later we’re making progress
Y would u do that anyways. Buying players is what the game is all about. Whats the point in playing it if u arnt going to do that. Yes get help but leaving it to thhen is pointless.
Absolutely love the absolut berry vodkarita in the fridge 🤣
I don’t even like football, or play video games, but this is a fucking good channel.
Dynamo Dresden, 2024/25
6th place reached in Bundesliga and Euro II Cup qualification
The club is rich, so I was expecting some good money to spend, since most of the team came from 3.Liga
70k. Yes, SEVENTYTHOUSAND EUROS as a transfert budget for a club who has to play the Euro II Cup.
Couldn't acquire no one, no free players in january (no money for signing bonuses) nor loans (no budget for fees)
We reached the 8th place but, I don't know how, we beated Ajax in the Euro II cup final.
So Zealand is indeed right: sometimes, you can afford to buy no one and still be competitive
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and you asked the board for more transfer budget and more payroll?
I am already in phase 2 in my Bristol City save, trying to find top youngsters to play for me as I have established in PL after 3 seasons, even played CL last season. Just wanted to ask you about scouting as I have found a really nice Scottish CB from Hibernian, not so expensive, but my scouts (19 players ability, 20 players potential) claim he is just at Championship League level. Eventhought his parametres are better than my 2nd best CB. Should I buy him anyway as he´s got most of his cruacial parametres for CB 15+? Even additive ones are not so small, mostly 13+ which should be still good for PL.
I would trust my eyes before scout claims that he is a Championship-level player. I recently stumbled upon Mezzala from Bordeaux and he is insanely good for 20yrs old, but my scouts deem him as a great player for most Championship sides despite having 4 1/5 star potential. Basically he is ready to step in as rotation and even squad player for my Man Utd side immediately with his 17 dribbling, 17 technique, 16 first touch and 16 passing/vision.
@@vasilijefilipovic1761 Cheers, looks like same case as mine. Good luck with him 😉
@@andrejs.601 Thanks mate, good luck to you aswell!
Hey mate - good luck with Bristol City. They've been a huge help to my Bath City save (Affiliated club) lending me some prospects who lit it up for us in the VNL/L2/now L1.
U still have to trust ur own judgement, ig my scouts dont rate a player but i like them goes without saying snap them up. Im an Arsenal fan so m8ght be why i liveout my dreams of being totally frivolous with Mr Kroenke's money.
Overthrew Salzburg In my 3rd season with Wacker Innsbruck now in my 6th season my players are getting poached and I can't find players good enough to replace. Get out of the groups in CL and win the league every yr. Literally plateaued
The problem for me with the free transfers is that I mostly play in the Israeli league and foreign limit is harsh, and how to put that, Israeli free agents are bad mostly
and so is life
You gotta take the hard way and mostly rely on the youth intake. Foreign limits suck
And of course don't forget about loans! Loans! Which I think he is intentionally not doing with FAC.
I’m not so sure… he really didn’t with ODFC either. I don’t think he actually realizes how good of loan player he can find. Literally could have 2 to 4 loan starting players yet he refuses to look for loans or get senior affiliate.
Every road to glory save I have done I am able to acquire good loan players some of which I eventually am able to buy and without them would take much longer to win leagues /promotions / europe etc
Hey z, how long after a stream does the stream get uploaded to the ‘Zealand Live’ channel?
Generally 1 to 3 days
another fantastic job Zea!
So no role for (mother club) loan players? Up untill CL qualifications I'm going shopping at Chelsea and Dortmund every season.
currently playing in the French Ligue 1 sitting around mid table managing St Ettiene, would this be a viable method to help me improve?
Your videos are so helpful!!
So glad that free transfers are viable a long time, feel like my teams are never going to have money this FM.
😂
can you do s video there you show how to download in game editor witout paying (fmse)
TFC IN ZEALAND VIDEO WERE MASSIVE
I’m a part time team which makes this doubly difficult as nobody wants to sign and I can’t compete with the wages
Any tips for the FIRST transfer window? I always end up selling 1 or 2 players and then not having any way to replace them because no one is scouted and i’m not aware of anyone out of contract thats good enough yet (currently sparta prague)
First window is a challenge no doubt. Sometimes selling a player if you don’t have a replacement is not a good plan. Suggest using player search for non contracted players and trialing as many as you can to start. Set up scouts immediately looking for end of contract and loans
i hate hoarding wonderkids
cus its so boring i like to get free agents old guys and a sprinkle of wonderkids. but tbh i love buying players with high leadership
Zealand: free players.and wonderkids
My save: free wonderkids
Nice shirt!
thanks, i like your explanation
Hold up is Z right that scouted current ability is the min and not the max?!?!?
Imho there is another thing. Signing fully developed first team stars. There are always these key players in sides not in the international competitions that are above your own player's ability.
Wonderkids often somehow fail to develop. Maybe the player is just not right for the position you play them. Or has some detrimental hidden attributes. And your 5* potential player develops some, but suddenly is only 3.5* potential, and not the world beater you wanted him to be, but a squad player. That happens to me more often than not. Especially with my goalies and my centre backs.
So while I sign a lot of wonderkids, I am usually looking for 1 big signing a season. A player that is already world class, or close to it, aged 21-25, playing at a lesser club, wanting to make the next step in his career and able to make an instant impact. Costing somewhere between 40 and 80 million euro.
Can you make a video for PL really hard to find the best signing for cheap than youngstars.
How much money do you think it would take to build a Prem team from nothing? Like to get the mix of experience and youth in full from fresh
When you say start from nothing what do you mean? Like a league 2 team? 3-5 years to get into Prem, 5-7 years to win the league is a good goal.
@@SimersFM Nah I was thinking like gut a team so no players at all and put in the prem how much money to make a team that could challenge short and long term
@@OddlySpecificGaming The issue would be payroll and reputation - you could build a team with free transfers that could probably avoid relegation provided you have enough payroll and reputation that they would join. I mean there shouldn't be reason to ever get relegated in the premier league provided you bring in some good loan players.
How the heck do you play champions league as number two in Austria. In my save all clubs must have choked so hard while I was building to get into Europe and the country dropped about 10 places and now even the Champion has to go through the quali to get to the cl lol
He wasn’t in the group stage. He was in qualification
In Brazil, contracts usually end up in December, simply because it's the end of our season. We play the Brazilian league 2022, not the BL 2022/2023. We are right and you are wrong, rest of the world! Every single one of you! Lol
Turns out that, after 36-odd seasons running Toronto FC (FM13 version), I SHOULD be the guy running TFC!
That’s big hair Z
Hey i tried you and FM Llama suggestion on managing european club outside europe and i'm on ceuta on 7th season and finally we manage to get into La Liga Santander but due to stadium restriction on minimum 15000 seat, i'm on massive debt and even struggling to get wage and transfer budget due to stadium loan... and even 3 star player don't even want to play for Ceuta... help...😭
Could a "trail farm" work IRL? like is there a team out that only signs freebies and offers trails to a few dozen players every summer? I'd be very interested to find out
There was definitely a team a few years ago who had had money problems I think and ended up at the start of the new season with only 3 players or something and they had open trials with over a hundred players and signed some of them.
I’ve read about load of clubs also having open trials at points too, although normally not the big boys obviously. I don’t think it’s the first team guys who have anything to do with these though.
Not exactly the same, but Clermont Foot has a transfer policy where they can only sign free agents. They are in Ligue 1 and they actually got promoted like this
Step 1: get as many wonderkids as possible
Step 2: simulate 3 seasons
Step 3: collect the trophies
you are welcome😎
When loans were normal, i used to buy 50 kids every season and loan them for legit 30 mil a year, and everytime will get gde wolrd stars for Partizan,
But what about Loan loan loaaaannnss
Waiting for the day Zealand’s neck beard and chest hair connect, it’s coming soon judging from this video 😂
The day of reckoning is coming
zeland fridge lookin' like a fellow average trader joe's shopper.
4:16 owned hahaha
Can someone please explain how to get faces/logos/real name fixes on my save? I’ve just got FM for the first time on my Mac and I’ve spent all day watching videos on how to do it and still can’t seem to get it right
I just beat RB Salzburg 4-1 in the group stage of the Champions League in my Fiorentina save. You’re welcome.
What is your hair?
A MIXTURE OF STRAW AND WOOL ... WHAT IS YOURS?
hair or lack
thereof
I tend to disagree with Zealand here, there are some good deals to be made with players which have great stats, great potential, though they are not Wonderkids or for free, but are very cheap to get. Those deals I would not miss out at all, just for the sake of not paying any transfer fees.
It really depends on the club, the financial situation, and what level you're at. A lot of clubs in the lower leagues have near-zero transfer budgets and shaky financial situations. If you have a bit of a budget and find someone that fits the bill, obviously you should take the upgrade. But you also have to be careful because that small transfer budget is also used for signing bonuses and such, so sometimes in something like League Two with a 20k transfer budget, that can be better used as signing fees for 5-10 players on a free rather than one or two transfers. signing.
It terrifies me when your hair suddenly changes direction
As a historian from Turkey and as a Fenerbahçe fan, I'm glad to inform you Galatasaray battling against relegation right now.
Use Mullvad BatChest
You should start a save in Brazil and experience its madness 😂 and please take my fav team Gremio to glory 😂
Have you ever seen a ‘never never’ deal backfire? I feel like there isn’t enough consequence for these types of deals.
Depends on "backfire"...I paid out 50M in installments for what I thought was the world's best wonderkid and in 2 years he's blown out his ACL year 1 and had a broken ankle year 2 with no improvements and actual downside to his physicals. So looking at an awful loss on a player I normally would have just accepted I couldn't afford without the never never heh.
Edited to add: Also bought a kid from VVV Venlo for 2M and just sold him to PSG for 95M so life could be worse on this save.
"If you're growing, you're either signing free players or wonderkids". But what about loooooooaaaaaaaans?
And at least until you get into stage 3: I'm gonna need you to loan! Loan! LOAN! Oh loan...
In my FC Bayern 2 career I didn't buy a single player and sold 3 players and yet we are at the top of the league in 3.Liga with no losses and no draws. And in my Bournemouth career I signed players in PL with no more than 10million pounds despite our transfer budget being about 47 million pounds after winning the Championship. And not only that I was able to retain my squad players. Soccernomics works wonders if you know what you are doing as a manager not just in the game in real life as well.
Wages are also crucial. Never sign anyone who is overpaid, not free agents either.
My shortlist only ever has like 5 players on it