One of the funniest moments I had with FM was actually fairly recent, back in FM 21, I started a save with Werder Bremen (loved their team as a child in the 2000s), according to some pre-season rankings, we were expected to get relegated that year, yet somehow I managed to get them to fourth place and Champions League football for the next season, mainly due to the defense (apparently we conceded the fewest goals in Bundesliga history and Pavlenka also broke the record for the most games with clean sheets), thanks to this achievement, I was able to convince James Rodriguez to join us from Real Madrid, but it took him at least five or six tries to pass the medical test, and once he arrived, he got injured in his debut, missed the first half of the season and the club fired me for my terrible start at the league and missing the Champions League knockout stages hahah, I fucking love this game to death
My best regen was this guy called David Alford. He came through my youth academy and mas next gen winner for 5 seasons. At 17, he had already won the Golden Boot for champions league and premier league. He scored over 1000 goals in his whole career
Jeff Stott was the best regen I ever had, he came through the youth academy at Carlisle United at a time when we were at the bottom of the National League (I'd left Bayern after ten years to save Carlisle because we had somehow dropped down to the Vanarama National League North). He saved us from relegation from the National League (I got us promoted from the Vanarama National League North), he scored 42 goals that season. He ended up winning everything you can possibly win after we got promoted into the Premier League and won the Premier League within four seasons in the Premier League (and we also won the Champions League). By the end of his career he was a club legend with 738 league goals in 1000+ games and had 3 ballon d'Ors. What an absolute legend he was.
On my current save I signed 2 regens and had a guy come through the academy, the 2 I bought for a combined £3m. Within 3-4 years I could easily get 100-150m EACH of the three players, plus a guy I signed from Barca’s youth academy for £3m who has 5 star potential and 70 career goals at 18 YEARS OLD for Barca B. I’m already 12 years deep but I’d happily go another 15 just to see the best 4 players of all time develop together, especially as they all can play in a 4231 together at the same time.
Semih Kılıçsoy, permanent substitute at Beşiktas. Got him in the first team after my strikers got injured, stayed as first choice for 2 more seasons, went to arsenal and won balon dor. Big respect to him
There’s a pure element of excitement with FM no other game has and probably will ever generate. Like reading a book w a cliffhanger that’s all FM is, a massive cliffhanger after every season no matter how successful you are
I grew up on Career Mode since like fifa 09, played it extensively every year. Had delved into FM before but didn't really like it, but when FM22 was free on epic games last year I tried it and realised how much it DOMINATES career mode in terms of features and overall quality. The one time I played CM this year, I hated it and haven't touched it since October which is a first for me, whereas I've been addicted to my Leyton Orient save since like August. It's such a fun game!
@@Vizeh honestly the best free game I’ve ever received, such a great idea from themselves. I decided against getting fm23 and probably will stick with 22 for the time being, but when 24 drops I’ll definitely pick that up early when it comes out!
For me it was my AlbinoLeffe (Serie C) save on FM20. I won the Serie A a few times including one unbeaten, won the Champions League and had several amazing regens including a world class striker who came through the academy in Serie B, Gianni Balducci, what a player he was.
Haha, funny. You are doing a save of AlbinoLeffe on FM20 and I am doing a save of Pro Vercelli on FM20. Same goal, same league, different teams. Good luck to the rest of your career btw. May you win every trophy that you play for.
I'm using them now on fm 23! they have good facilities(even undervalued compared to reality i live 20 minutes from their stadium and their academy is huge) but sadly serie C does not give you any money and players are value less then nuts. Serie C is financial hell. At least Giorgione at the start is fantastic.
My proudest moment in fm is when I bought a Brazilian wonder kid for £69 million. In his first 17 games he scored 2 goals and was looking like a flop. I debated cutting my loses and finding a new striker but in the second half of the season he kicked on scoring 15 goals in 13 matches saving me from relegation and he became the striker I knew he’d be. I then sold him a couple seasons later for over £150 mil
I discovered FM during the pandemic in 2020 and my life hasn't been the same since. Miles better than career mode and master league, and just too damn addictive. I've wasted entire days on that game😂.
@@Vizeh Basically got fed up with my AZ save😂. Discovered a lot of young talents like The Koopmeiner brothers, Myron Boadu, Calvin Stengs. Been hooked ever since. Oh, and thanks for replying Vizeh!
@@brinydemon0321literally my same experience, my first FM was 20 and my last save in that game was AZ, loved those players (although Boadu ended up leaving after throwing a fit because "he wanted a bigger club")
When I was a kid playing FM09, I took control over Real Madrid and bought the aging Norwegian striker ''Steffen Iversen'' from Rosenborg just because I liked him. I had no grasp of which players were good and which were not, since I couldn't really gage the difference between the Norwegian league and La Liga. Regardless, he ended up scoring an overhead kick in the first game I played, so for me he's always gonna be a legend.
I haven't played FM in a while, but I will never forget this moment in FM 12: Was managing the spanish team in the 2014 world cup and used a regen 18-year-old named Javier Perez as backup to David Villa. Was 2-1 up at the 88th minute in the semi-finals against Italy when we conceded a corner. Italy sent its GK forward to try and get the equaliser. My defenders got the ball out to substitute Javier Perez, who beat a defender at the halfway line and then shot at the open goal from just past the halfway line... And it went in. It was magical... I saved a copy of the replay video somewhere but I think I lost it when my old computer died. I've since moved on to other things and I don't see myself playing FM anymore (I've lost most of my interest in Football as well). But this memory will always bring back nostalgia.
I had a Man UTD save a couple of years back and had just spent big money to build my team, then i had an injury crisis. Since i was broke i brought in the cheapest option in for a forward which was some random guy called Chery. He became the premier top goal scorer that season 🐐
I'm currently playing as Sunderland in FM 15, and am about to say goodbye to my captain Shaun Kotcharian, A goalie that I signed from the Belgian league for 1.4 million 12 seasons ago. Guy should reach 500 appearances for the club by the time the season is over, and he has 104 caps for his national team as well. I would have loved for him to retire here, but at the age of 34 he wants to go finish his career back in Armenia in front of his people. It's a shame, because he is having the best season of his life. We're 27 games into the league and have only conceded 10 goals. Oh well. Will try to win the man his 4th Champions league on his way out.
Speaking of different players big up Nmecha who scored 64 goals in two seasons for me with hertha . Just a great example of a true football sim . After those two seasons he never recovered but boy am I glad players can be in form.
I'm playing football manager while listening to this. started a save this year with Ferro in the second division of Argentina I'm getting close to winning the Copa de Libertadores
Goncalo Manuel, what a regen he was in my FM22 save. Portuguese winger/central midfielder. I signed him for Stirling Albion in the Scottish Championship from Glentoran in season 3. Kept him for 2 seasons then sold him to Celtic for £1m. Loaned him back for the next 3 years before he moved to Chelsea for £60m (I saw none of that money because he was a Celtic player). I then bought him back off Chelsea 2 years after he joined for £35m. I never wanted to let him go and it was a fairytale ending when he lifted the Champions League in his return season. Thats why I love FM. My local team creating legends!
I took VfB Lubeck from the German 3rd divison to a Champions League final and beat PSG there. Krzysztof Kujawa, the striker I bought from Bayern Munich at 18 years old got the winning goal. Absolute legend
Mate, I wasn't even a football fan when my job decided to move me from the US to Australia, but I knew I needed a sports team and I also knew I couldn't give a crap about rugby or AFL so I picked football. Also had played and enjoyed some sports sims (career mode Madden, NFL Head Coach, some indie titles) so I picked up FM11 and got to know my local Brisbane Roar. Haven't stopped playing FM since, and grew my love for football along the way.
Filippo Salis. Italian right winger who was 18 years old and was a reject at Inter. Brought him to my Sunderland championship side in January . Played him as a striker because all my strikers were injured. In 20 games he scored 18 goals and had 17 assists. Got an offer from 50 million when we got promoted... I rejected and got him a new contract... Then he scored 43 goals in 36 premier league games and had 14 assists in all competition. When I moved to barca he was my first signing as a replacement for Messi. Gave him the number 10 jersey and in 600 games for barca he has 684 goals and 426 assists
I’m 19 years old and this game has me hooked. I started playing for the first time during lockdown so fm20 I have played 139 hours in the last 2 weeks for fm23 I love it so much
I'm playing my first ever FM save while watching this. I'm doing a Manchester United save and in my first season Wout Weghorst is my top scorer with 28 goals, and we won the EL and the FA cup Yes i signed him on a permanent for 20 million pounds. I'm in love with this game.
Polaco was the best regen i ever had, he came trough in my first season for Guarany de Sobral in Brazil's 3rd division, took us all the way to 1rst and then to the "Libertadores" final, best centerback i ever had, forever our Captain.
My best Regen was a lad called Alex Klomp - he had a whole arc, got to the conference league final and lost on pens to West ham, with Alex missing the decisive pen. Next season he does his ACL. The following season we get to UEL final and he grabs the decisive assist. Heroic
My best Regen was a player named Ryan King in the Liverpool Academy He scored like 1,000 goals 600 prem goals and 4 Ballon dors and he retired at 30 as the 🐐🐐🐐
My best regen is in current fm. Hobie Weiner - still only 19 but in his first two seasons he has dominated Ireland. Top assister both seasons, scored winning goal in this seasons cup final, got a hat trick against Red Star in UCL qualifying and his stats have grown outrageously, he idolises me and just singed a four year deal. Still has five star potential despite his growth, could very well take us all the way to winning the UCL if we have the right people around him. Edit: signed him from amateur Dutch team hollandia on a free, business of the century.
Watching YT while playing is probably a universal experience lol. And one thing even more OCD than playing the same team every year: playing the same edition of FM for years, constantly starting new saves with the same team, because you got burnt out with the previous one. And just starting with the same players again, but trying new transfers, new newgens, etc. I must have started dozens of saves with Ajax in FM07, and in fact it's not very long ago that I managed the feat of winning the CL with them (and the Treble, for that matter) in the very first season of the save, 06/07. Only recently did I spot FM24 on discount, and having not played any new FMs for over a decade, it's great to see how many new features have been added since then. When you make that kind of leap, you're less critical of the development of the game too (well OK, I could do without features like reading the same "tweets" over and over, and complimenting a player's training performance every week, but fair play to SI for putting that in lol). The emergent narratives that develop throughout a save are probably what makes FM so addictive. Everyone has some story about some miraculous CL run, or just the whole journeyman's progress, or lower-league management for that matter.
Late to the party but the best Re-gen story I had was whilst at Spurs. Had a young LB in the youth team named Hayden Bannister, that I gave his debut too. Over 3 years he became a star player, club captain and even a regular for the England team. Voted into the team of the season during the season we under preformed All whilst being on 5'2. When I left (sacked) and joined VFL Bochum in Germany he was the first player I signed. Instant starter. I was listed as his only favourite staff member. Then he broke my heart by kicking up a fuss because Atletico Madrid came in for him and he wanted CL football. He left and of the six games they played before finishing 3rd he played something like 2. We won the Europa League.
I've been in the FM cycle for 4 years now (only started in FM20), but I always have an affinity for management games, so that was a life-changing experience for me lol. Pretty sure I have 500+ hours on every single FM despite being in uni. I still check up on teams I have a strong affinity for (Montpellier, Nordsjaelland, AGF from Denmark and a team from Malaysia & South Korea). It was my method of escapism for a few years of my life, so will always be grateful to them.
Last year, I did a save with Helmsford and got them to Premier League won the champions league and FA Cup and once got the quadruple and one of my players - Harry Willis from Wales won the world cup and smashed France 5-1 in the final. Wow
First season for Palace, signed Djribril Sidibe, Batshuayi on loan and Will Hughes. Got 4th on the last day, scoring a last minute winner and Arsenal conceding a last minute equaliser to Fulham, I will always love Mitrovic on that save for it. Also managed to win Carabao Cup first season against City in the final, scored 15th min and then just put every man behind the ball, there was plenty of screaming, but with a Joel Ward punt downfield the whistle blew, cue limbs in my room
I watched the entire video and I am a triathlon coach who has often considered coaching in other sports too (inc football) so this game looks really interesting to me with how you can focus on player development - and it could also support me if I ever do my FA badges haha! Thanks for the great video! I am now a fan of your work😊
Fm18 was the most fun I’ve ever had on a game. Took Coventry who were in league 2 at the time to 3 back to back promotions, went on to win 7 premier leagues and 4 champions leagues. Pinamonti my striker won the ballon d’or 3 times and when he retired I was devestated. FM is unbelievable other games do not give u this feeling
Currently gone retro with fm08 , started at Donegal Celtic , 1st year in. It's a journeyman. Best save for me well ... difficult to say because I've had a great save each fm
Last year was belenenses, the real one not the fraudulent one , if u know you know ,the rest as follows Fm22 belenenses Fm21 journeyman ended with Nottingham forest Fm20 vaduz Fm19 dynamo dresden Fm18 San Marino fc Fm17 Guernsey Fm16 nordgæland Fm15 Welling United Fm14 Dundee united Fm13 Rangers Fm12 Melbourne victory Fm11 Liverpool Fm10 willem ii Fm09 Charlton Fm08 valencia Fm07 Bournemouth Fm06 millwall Fm05 Liverpool I've had plenty of other saves in those fm's as well and before you ask , no I don't have a social life and ngl prefer it that way
I had a newgen on FM21 for Standard Liege called Ludovic Bouchez. He is one of the best midfielders I’ve had on the game. But the moment that truly made him an FM Hall of Fame player of mine was in season 5 in the champions league at the Nou Camp. 1-0 down and up steps this little 20 year old and slams one home from the edge of the box. Game ends 1-1 and Bouchez writes his name in standard liege folklore. I’ve got so many stories from that standard liege save. I might just have to re-download FM21 to have a look back. It was the most fun I’ve had playing a football game.
In fm23 I Started a new save with Real Sociedad. Nurtured Umar Sadiq who I thought stats wise was the best striker on the team (irl he's their second or 3rd choice striker) 1 season later and a UCL qualification in the bag, my boy Sadiq bagged 49 goals that season. 36 league goals in 36 games. Won golden boot, most goals in Europe and won African Footballer of the year. I now have a deep emotional connection to a random Nigerian striker playing in Spain thousands of kms away. FM is goated.
Of course you call me out as I'm starting a new run in FM while watching. Love this content. Best run was Zagłębie Lubin to a CL quarter finals run but so many memories and player connections. Excellent content again!
My best regen was Gérard Armand, a Frenchman. I signed him from Etoile Aussonnaise (Amateur French club) for free when I was manager of then Serie C club Virtus Verona. Loaned him out to Volos for our promotion season, then he had a combined 50 goal involvements over 2 seasons as we got promoted to Serie A. In his first season in Serie A (he was 20, by the way), he scored 15 goals and had 16 assists as we finished seventh. After that year we sold him to Real Madrid for £75 million. He went on to win the Ballon d'Or four times, the Champions League twice, the Nations League twice, the Euros (+ Golden Boot & Player of the Tournament) once and the World Cup once. In his final season before retirement, my Ingolstadt team faced off against his Real Madrid side in a Champions League Quarterfinal which Madrid won 3-2 on aggregate and in which Gérard provided an assist. They would go on to lose the final 1-0 to Atlético Madrid. In his prime, the game valued him at £145 million.
I never played FM until right at the start of the pandemic, I used to see people play it at uni but never got the hype till I played it completely fell in love with the game and can never play FIFA career mode again, it’s amazing that I can take a small team create my own formation and discover hidden gems and take said team to glory. The best player I ever found was Alione Ndour was a unwanted striker not playing for his team came to me averaged 50 goals a season for 10 years and won countless African player of the year awards as I took Estrela Amadora in Portugal from the second league to multiple league titles and champions league titles
Bringing my village in the fourth tier of Portuguese football to the second divison and wining the Portuguese cup with them back in fm2016. The 3-1 victory is still in my head to this day
Current FM Mobile save… journeyman save, start from unemployed, grinded my way to coach Nice to dethrone PSG of the French title in 2028, thanks to my starboy striker Marcel van Lieshout. After doing the unthinkable of winning the French league, Milan offered me, so I had to bite. Took van Lieshout with me and after 2 consecutive invincible title wins, roughly 180 league goals across 5 seasons later, van Lieshout and myself are AC Milan legends, in the Italian football hall of fame… I love FM so much
Marcus Gadoye - An incredible defender I signed for £2000 as League 2 Stockport County in FM08, I say defender but for the next 6 years he was my top goalscorer with at least 20 goals every single season mainly due to his heading ability from corners, coupled with his composure, a pretty high finishing ability and most strangely his 18 free kick taking. He ended up staying with me and the club for the 15 seasons, had a tesitmonial, won FA Cups, League Cups, Champions Leagues and Premier Leagues...retired as a played, became my assistant manager and then when I finally left the club he took over as the manager and was never sacked. Absolutely beautiful stuff, he was weirdly from Turks and Caicos Islands as well, won well over 100 caps with them and I'm pretty sure won like 3 of them games. As for 'real life' events one day I went to watch Stockport County (my team) in real life absolutely convinced we were playing Grimsby Town, absolutely CONVINCED, right up to getting in the stadium and noticing the Torquay United badge, why did I have the wrong team? Because Grimsby were my next game on FM.
Oliver Burrows - non league to prem save with Blyth, in my first youth intake, 15 years of age, got me back to back promotions by the time he was 18, clubs top goalscorer by the time he was 22. Still have dreams about him
I was manager of Atalanta over in Serie A on FM20. I had worked my way there over the last 10 seasons via Cambridge and Sheff Wednesday. Took over with the club in 10th and within 3 years we were title challengers, losing on the final day in a title-decider against Juventus. But we kept going, playing the most expansive and fluid 4-2-4 formation with overlapping wing backs. Two more 2nd places would follow, and then, finally, we got it done on the third attempt. Was almost setting flares off in my room. Have followed the team on social media ever since... magical.
Jim Stewart - I created a custom team in the national south and lost my striker to knee injury 10 or so games into the season. Got him on loan from FC Dallas minor league team. He ended up leading the league in goals and staying with the team. As we moved up I kept thinking he was tapped out and I’d end up having to replace him, but he just kept improving with the team. He was the only man left standing when I got to the premier. He was my second guy in a 2 striker set, but still, he went from emergency filler for a semi-pro club to starting forward on a premier champ. It was awesome. I got attached and I was legitimately sad when he retired lol.
I used to play Fifa. However, I’m a Nintendo player so you most likely know how they’ve been doing us over here , year after year, LEGACY! 😤 lol. I picked up FM about two years ago. Never looked back at Fifa ever again. It really is an addicting game. There’s been times where it’s passed midnight and all of a sudden I’m reminded that I forgot to send my scouts out, or that my injured player is still under HEAVY training 😅 And then the sun is up and I realize that I busted an all nighter , AGAIN!
Found a copy of Championship Manager '07 for the Xbox 360 in a Charity Shop. Best £2 spent in my life. Best achievement was winning the Premier League with my local team Basingstoke Town. Been addicted to the series ever since.
In FM 2020 during lockdown I took my hometown club, Galway United, back to the Irish Premier Division from the First Division in my first season and survived in my second season
I remember finding Worldwide Soccer Manager 07 (which is what Football Manager was called in the US for a couple years) for $5 at a bargain store near my house. That’s the game that got me into football and is to blame for me supporting Arsenal, AS Roma and Borussia Dortmund. Played it almost none stop for 6 years till I went to college and accidentally broke the disk in the move. I held off buying a new edition fearing they’d ruin my childhood love of the game. Well, this week I picked up FM23 on the Steam sale and it’s consumed my life once again 😂
In general, incredible video Viz, thank you for making it! As for me, it's a recent story but my seasons managing AC Reggiana from Serie C gloom after a chaotic time in their real life status that saw them relegated/bankrupt/etc (would make for a great video down the line, hint hint) and taking them all the way to UCL glory...it also is a special memory for me as I've been able to take that save and start building my TH-cam channel on it as well!
@@Vizeh It was a blast to showcase it and I admittedly have to thank Lorenzo Lucca for basically going God mode from my pick-up of him during my Serie B stint to said UCL glory 😂
I have to choose between two regens because they came up together through the youth ranks together with Bromley. I took Bromley from NLN to win every continental cup we could and dominated Europe. Tyrick Cumberbatch and Ronny Solskaer. Tyrick scored 500 and assisted 230 in the 800 games he played before he retired. Ronny was a dual threat winger. He scored 160 and assisted 160 in his 600 games. FM21 will always have a special place in my heart because of those two
In my recent save with Colchester United, the team that plays in Sky Bet League Two, i had a match, where my team won 11-1. HUGE WIN. A player named "John Akinde" scored 9 goals in that match! Since that match, I started following Colchester United more in real life and tried to dig in. I know all the players now! Followed every single one of them on Instagram. I kinda started supporting Colchester United in real life too! Colchester is currently fighting for relegation in the League Two. I am hoping they don't get relegated. I dont know, i feel connection with a lower division club just by playing with them in FM. Also, some days ago i found out, that player John Akinde, in real life, he has 101 EFL goals!
I've played NBA games throughout my childhood and youth whether it was live pre2010 or 2k after. I recently started playing football manager here and there after starting to watch European leagues. I can only dream of a basketball game with as detailed of a match simulation as fm, let alone all the actual management aspects. Then there's the global leagues, national teams, affiliate teams, dynamics. Just absolutely mind-blown coming from 2k.
Acheived a 136 point season with notts county on this fm and then acheived 4 straight promotions finished 4th in the premier league in the first season and then won the sextuple 30 years in a row
I remember on Champ Manager 97, there was a player called Ibrahima Bakayoko, absolute monster in the game, especially when paired up to with none other than Emile Heskey...Bakayoko and Heskey would get you 70 goals a season in a good season... But irl, Everton signed Bakayoko on account of his CM 97 stats, but he absolutely choked when he got to Goodison
I started playing FM this year. The thing that I love the most is that you can actually change the course of history. If you play well and handle finances well, you can turn your club and league into the best in the world
My most fun saves - FM07, if some remember, heading/jumping/strength was overpowered. I had regen from Peru, playing as Real Madrid and every year i scored 30+ goals. I think it was FM18, when winning with Estonian national team World Cup on first try and winning with FC Flora multiple titles.
The best part about FM to me is taking the absolute basement-tier clubs, semi-pro in the deep, deep reaches of their pyramid, and getting them on a huge promotion streak.
My greatest FM experience was the semifinal of the champions league against Chelsea. In the 1st leg we lost 1-2 after 90 minute goal. In the 2nd leg the story was different, the most important striker in my career Luis Javier Suarez scored 2 goals which sent us to the Champions League final. Then we lost 4-0 against Barcelona
You guess it, I'm playing my second season of my second straight Glory Hunter. I find this type of save suiting me most because of his dynamic. It can change REALLY. FREAKING. FAST. Right beside the "challenges" of rebulid from the earlier season. Especially in my beloved Brazil. Taking Cruzeiro, selling the whole relegated team and getting back to Libertadores in five seasons. Taking my beloved Fortaleza to my insanity (I really jealous of those who play in you clube of heart and don't descend to insanity. I respect you heart. It can derail really fast)...
My best regen had one season he was top of almost every stat in the league, top goalscorer 64 or 62, top assists 21, most shots on goal, most key passes, and obviously best avg rating of the league 8.40. In FM21. He was just godly. That was his 4th CL winning season our first winning all comps with the club.
I remember having an arsenal save where chuba akpom basically became god like. He was so good I ended up taking the England job just for him and winning the World cup. Good times.
I know this isnt that big of an achivment but i'd like to share it. I started a save with my club Partizan Belgrade and played it for 5 years and won 2 Europa Leagues, but the second one was an incredible story after playing in CL in a group with Barcelona and Man U i ended up 3rd after tying 4 of my games with them(hearthbreaking) but after winning next 2 stages i in the quarters i had to beat Napoli, the first game ended 1:1 and so did the second with Emre Can geting a red 10mins before the end, i started going all out attack in overtime in which Napoli had 2 players injured and i had 1 with no subs left. The match ended 1:1 with 8v10 players left on the pitch, after witch penalties went to 8:7 ending with Alex Meret missing his last one for me to move on. And in the semis i played Leverkusen after losing the first game at home 3:0, i went on to beat them 4:1 away with 3 goals coming in last 20mins all starting with a random cross witch was heading nowhere that Lafont didnt manage to catch and ball bounced from him to the net, i guess they got FMed. And in the Finals, the fairytale ending Dejan Joveljic who I signed from our biggest rivals as soon as i took over, and who i was thinking on selling scores the only goal to win the cup, i stoped playing after that as my pc was taking incredibly long to load, but i guess it was a perfect ending.
11:53 great point about fm and someone that I always go to as an example for this one, Lewis ferguson in one of my saves he was playing europa league football for Brentford, in another he was playing in the scottish league 2
My biggest achievement in FM was winning the UCL final with Deportivo La Coruna, after getting back to back to back promotions. We didn't qualify for the UCL that year through the league so we had to win the competition. My starting keeper was on loan from the team we beat in the final and was also the team that topped our group.
CM03/04 for me, still got the disk, still play it from time to time. Being able to play with the likes of Beckham, Ronaldinho and R9 Ronaldo is so unique and nostalgic (although good luck signing any of them). Any other champ man players remember the likes of Evandro Roncatto, Diego or Freddy Adu?
Yes! That's the one I'm playing now! Rungratsamee, Gamst Pedersen, Griffin, Anatoli Todorov, David Bell..... that's the mother lode! Edit:- And remember the crop of cheap(ish) centre backs you got in the game - Buxton, Hill, Hall, Riggott, Davies, Morgan.....
My best regen was Dario Božovič, a Serbian-German dual nat(represented Germany internationally) that I bought for 80 million from Bayern. He was a 6'6 center back with 20 jumping reach and 15 heading. He was a great defender in his own right, but could score as consistently as my strikers just hanging out at the far post on corner kicks. I miss him.
Yes i am playing the Birmingham save right now. Played FM in 2009 for while, PES was my game at that time so i stopped. Dabbled a lil in 2014 and came back in 2020. My greatest save is probably Sochaux from last year. The war i had against PSG a literal God Squad (to the point they bought Saka for 110 just for him to be the LB) in L1 and UCL (beat them in the final twice in a row) were legendary. Favourite real life player since my return? Maxime Lopez from Sassuolo. This magician carried me through minimum 3 saves and the name "French Pirlo" is not an overexaggeration. Favourite Regen? Edson. Portuguese wonderkid, the Eusebio of 2020s.
My best save was taking 1860 München from Bundesliga 3 and ended up with them winning the league 5 times in a row and basically finally became the big boys in Munich ahead of bayern
My greatest fm save was from fm20, i did a journeyman starting at accrington i won them the fa cup in the championship after 4 years with them, then went to bournemouth and took them to back to back to back top 4’s after they finished 17th when i took them over. Then after some crazy manager moves, and juventus getting relegated from serie a, zidane went juve, klopp went to real madrid, so liverpool picked me up from bournemouth, where we came 1 game away from an unbeaten season only to lose 1-0 to chelsea on the final match day, we also lost the carabao cup to chelsea, and the fa cup, and the champions league final all to chelsea, i rage quit the save at that point and never came back to it, i still miss it to this day.
did a bordeaux save in fm 23, 90% win rate 7 league titles 5 champions leagues and built french la masia at bordeaux, made over 3-4 billion in transfers out. Most satisfactory save ever
Best I have ever done was getting the DR Congo to the final of the World Cup in 2022 (FM19) Losing on penalties to Portugal. Honestly was so sad for weeks.
playing bottom, losing 1-0, their scorer has their first of the season, and it's April... too relatable man. also, shoutout to David zikic, my greatest ever wonderkid, a Serbian central midfield beast. bought him at FC Utrecht in Holland on FM22 and won 6 leagues in 6 years, but the furthest I got in the CL was the semis. now I follow their games 😭😭
Back in like fm15 I was able to get club Tigres (from Mexico) to win the copa libertadores, concacaf chmapions league, recopa sudamericana, and the club World Cup and the feeling was incredible it’s hard to describe the feeling😂
In FM20 I took my Cambridge United side to the Premier league, won EU conference, Europa league and was in the champions league when my save got corrupted 😢 13 to 14 years in game was devastated, but saved me the agony of relegation. As we were playing well in Europe but losing almost every Premier league game lol. Have still never won the Prem, Champions league, FA or League cup. The game is crazy hard as always play as lower league clubs, normally my beloved Cambridge United
You lose 1-0 In April and it's the opponents first goal of the year in lol. This is an underrated line🤣. I had to pause the video to laugh and come comment. This has made me happy, 😁
Hey man, YES I am right now in the same situation. For past week playing FM24 from morning till early morning(on sick leave). Yesterday played till 3 am woke up 7 am. Visit to mcd, visit to doctor and get back to FM. Been playing FM from the legend CM 01-02. Started somewhere around 2002, 2003.
Had a LB regen named Sidy Mukhtar in my Fleetwood save. Came up in league 1 and scored 20 goals in our first championship season with 17 long shots and 19 free kicks or whatever the stats are. Forced a move to Porto but what a player
The storylines are just so perfect in FM, so much variety that basically no 2 saves are exactly the same. In my save now Wolves got relegated and had a 63 million obligation for an on loan striker who scored 1 prem goal in 32 games, he went on to bag 36 in 40 in the champ then won 4 prem golden boots in a row.
I'm probably a bit older than the average viewer of this channel. I first played LMA manager 2001 on playstation, when my mates convinced me to get a pc. I discovered cm3 (02-03) and have played the game yearly, sometimes upgrading my hardware purely so I can load more leagues. Probably my best save was winning the Champions league 3x in a row on fm20 Aberdeen with regen CB Willie Little captaining the team for the 3rd champions league win
I have this guy in my Dover save, Dwight Elliot, came through the youth academy and helped carry us out of non league (45 and 48 goal seasons back to back) and now we sit first in the championship and he has 29 goals halfway through the season
I had a Derby County save where i had 2 insane youth players around the same age. Matt Smith a left back with the best physicals i've ever seen on a player with 15 marking and tackeling. And Darnell Lampard an insane cam who won 1 ballon dor.
Didnt have much to do one day, put on fm while eating lunch, hade a youtube video on the side. A couple hours later youtube had been paused since after the first 30 minute video and it was 3 in the morning
Currently managing my hometown AFC Hornchurch, taken them from the league below the conference south and now in the championship, just had a baller 2-2 draw with your Burnley!!
Multiplayer saves are so much fun, feels so competitive and those games against your friends are so exciting! Me and 2 friends had a Serie A save that between 1st and 3rd was 3gd. That was my favourite even though I didn't win.
Like this comment if you are playing Football Manager while watching this🚨
how have you gotten me spot on
I was in a UCL semi final
Literally opened it as this video got uploaded XD
Started playing last month , I haven't stopped, I can't stop , I need help
Yup.
One of the funniest moments I had with FM was actually fairly recent, back in FM 21, I started a save with Werder Bremen (loved their team as a child in the 2000s), according to some pre-season rankings, we were expected to get relegated that year, yet somehow I managed to get them to fourth place and Champions League football for the next season, mainly due to the defense (apparently we conceded the fewest goals in Bundesliga history and Pavlenka also broke the record for the most games with clean sheets), thanks to this achievement, I was able to convince James Rodriguez to join us from Real Madrid, but it took him at least five or six tries to pass the medical test, and once he arrived, he got injured in his debut, missed the first half of the season and the club fired me for my terrible start at the league and missing the Champions League knockout stages hahah, I fucking love this game to death
My best regen was this guy called David Alford. He came through my youth academy and mas next gen winner for 5 seasons. At 17, he had already won the Golden Boot for champions league and premier league. He scored over 1000 goals in his whole career
1000 GOALS?! Jesus Christ
1000 goals!!!! Jesus. What club were you managing.
A team called Leamington. Spent over 30 seasons with them and took them to 10 UCL wins with my first after just 12 seasons
@@chotspot2023 Leamington!!!! I know about Leamington thanks to Lollujo, hahaha.
Same actually. That's what gave me the idea to do a Leamington career.
Jeff Stott was the best regen I ever had, he came through the youth academy at Carlisle United at a time when we were at the bottom of the National League (I'd left Bayern after ten years to save Carlisle because we had somehow dropped down to the Vanarama National League North). He saved us from relegation from the National League (I got us promoted from the Vanarama National League North), he scored 42 goals that season.
He ended up winning everything you can possibly win after we got promoted into the Premier League and won the Premier League within four seasons in the Premier League (and we also won the Champions League). By the end of his career he was a club legend with 738 league goals in 1000+ games and had 3 ballon d'Ors.
What an absolute legend he was.
Big up to Jeff Scott!
Nicky Milby - my best regen ever. Still remember the name to this day and that’s what makes football manager amazing.
It’s always strikers you remember most ain’t it!
@@Vizeh it is hahaha. The man just bagged goals and assists for fun. Broke into my Everton first team at 17 and never left
On my current save I signed 2 regens and had a guy come through the academy, the 2 I bought for a combined £3m. Within 3-4 years I could easily get 100-150m EACH of the three players, plus a guy I signed from Barca’s youth academy for £3m who has 5 star potential and 70 career goals at 18 YEARS OLD for Barca B. I’m already 12 years deep but I’d happily go another 15 just to see the best 4 players of all time develop together, especially as they all can play in a 4231 together at the same time.
Semih Kılıçsoy, permanent substitute at Beşiktas. Got him in the first team after my strikers got injured, stayed as first choice for 2 more seasons, went to arsenal and won balon dor. Big respect to him
What a boy!
There’s a pure element of excitement with FM no other game has and probably will ever generate. Like reading a book w a cliffhanger that’s all FM is, a massive cliffhanger after every season no matter how successful you are
I grew up on Career Mode since like fifa 09, played it extensively every year. Had delved into FM before but didn't really like it, but when FM22 was free on epic games last year I tried it and realised how much it DOMINATES career mode in terms of features and overall quality. The one time I played CM this year, I hated it and haven't touched it since October which is a first for me, whereas I've been addicted to my Leyton Orient save since like August. It's such a fun game!
I know a LOT of people that gave FM a chance when it became free, massive help
@@Vizeh honestly the best free game I’ve ever received, such a great idea from themselves. I decided against getting fm23 and probably will stick with 22 for the time being, but when 24 drops I’ll definitely pick that up early when it comes out!
For me it was my AlbinoLeffe (Serie C) save on FM20. I won the Serie A a few times including one unbeaten, won the Champions League and had several amazing regens including a world class striker who came through the academy in Serie B, Gianni Balducci, what a player he was.
That’s a crazy team name I can’t lie
Haha, funny. You are doing a save of AlbinoLeffe on FM20 and I am doing a save of Pro Vercelli on FM20. Same goal, same league, different teams. Good luck to the rest of your career btw. May you win every trophy that you play for.
@@marshyplaysgames I finished it a while ago now, tbh the main reason I chose them was because they had good facilities for that level.
I'm using them now on fm 23! they have good facilities(even undervalued compared to reality i live 20 minutes from their stadium and their academy is huge) but sadly serie C does not give you any money and players are value less then nuts. Serie C is financial hell.
At least Giorgione at the start is fantastic.
My proudest moment in fm is when I bought a Brazilian wonder kid for £69 million. In his first 17 games he scored 2 goals and was looking like a flop. I debated cutting my loses and finding a new striker but in the second half of the season he kicked on scoring 15 goals in 13 matches saving me from relegation and he became the striker I knew he’d be. I then sold him a couple seasons later for over £150 mil
I discovered FM during the pandemic in 2020 and my life hasn't been the same since. Miles better than career mode and master league, and just too damn addictive. I've wasted entire days on that game😂.
Oh god the pandemic I can only imagine the time spent in it😂
@@Vizeh Basically got fed up with my AZ save😂. Discovered a lot of young talents like The Koopmeiner brothers, Myron Boadu, Calvin Stengs. Been hooked ever since. Oh, and thanks for replying Vizeh!
The game has me wondering if I’m autistic the way I’m invested into it
@@brinydemon0321literally my same experience, my first FM was 20 and my last save in that game was AZ, loved those players (although Boadu ended up leaving after throwing a fit because "he wanted a bigger club")
I discovered fm from fifacareers reddit 😂😂 and after that ive wondered why did i find this week before fm23 release and not years earlier
When I was a kid playing FM09, I took control over Real Madrid and bought the aging Norwegian striker ''Steffen Iversen'' from Rosenborg just because I liked him. I had no grasp of which players were good and which were not, since I couldn't really gage the difference between the Norwegian league and La Liga. Regardless, he ended up scoring an overhead kick in the first game I played, so for me he's always gonna be a legend.
I haven't played FM in a while, but I will never forget this moment in FM 12: Was managing the spanish team in the 2014 world cup and used a regen 18-year-old named Javier Perez as backup to David Villa. Was 2-1 up at the 88th minute in the semi-finals against Italy when we conceded a corner. Italy sent its GK forward to try and get the equaliser. My defenders got the ball out to substitute Javier Perez, who beat a defender at the halfway line and then shot at the open goal from just past the halfway line... And it went in. It was magical... I saved a copy of the replay video somewhere but I think I lost it when my old computer died.
I've since moved on to other things and I don't see myself playing FM anymore (I've lost most of my interest in Football as well). But this memory will always bring back nostalgia.
I had a Man UTD save a couple of years back and had just spent big money to build my team, then i had an injury crisis. Since i was broke i brought in the cheapest option in for a forward which was some random guy called Chery. He became the premier top goal scorer that season 🐐
I'm currently playing as Sunderland in FM 15, and am about to say goodbye to my captain Shaun Kotcharian, A goalie that I signed from the Belgian league for 1.4 million 12 seasons ago. Guy should reach 500 appearances for the club by the time the season is over, and he has 104 caps for his national team as well. I would have loved for him to retire here, but at the age of 34 he wants to go finish his career back in Armenia in front of his people. It's a shame, because he is having the best season of his life. We're 27 games into the league and have only conceded 10 goals. Oh well. Will try to win the man his 4th Champions league on his way out.
Big up your GK. He's leading a mean defense for your team.
Speaking of different players big up Nmecha who scored 64 goals in two seasons for me with hertha . Just a great example of a true football sim . After those two seasons he never recovered but boy am I glad players can be in form.
He’s an underrated player I find!
Those nmecha brothers are special!
I'm playing football manager while listening to this. started a save this year with Ferro in the second division of Argentina I'm getting close to winning the Copa de Libertadores
That’s nuts man, can never bring myself to do a South American save
Goncalo Manuel, what a regen he was in my FM22 save. Portuguese winger/central midfielder. I signed him for Stirling Albion in the Scottish Championship from Glentoran in season 3. Kept him for 2 seasons then sold him to Celtic for £1m. Loaned him back for the next 3 years before he moved to Chelsea for £60m (I saw none of that money because he was a Celtic player). I then bought him back off Chelsea 2 years after he joined for £35m. I never wanted to let him go and it was a fairytale ending when he lifted the Champions League in his return season.
Thats why I love FM. My local team creating legends!
A PROUD Football Manager addict here, since Championship Manager 2001 ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
damn son
I took VfB Lubeck from the German 3rd divison to a Champions League final and beat PSG there. Krzysztof Kujawa, the striker I bought from Bayern Munich at 18 years old got the winning goal. Absolute legend
Mate, I wasn't even a football fan when my job decided to move me from the US to Australia, but I knew I needed a sports team and I also knew I couldn't give a crap about rugby or AFL so I picked football. Also had played and enjoyed some sports sims (career mode Madden, NFL Head Coach, some indie titles) so I picked up FM11 and got to know my local Brisbane Roar. Haven't stopped playing FM since, and grew my love for football along the way.
That’s incredible man! Mad story
Filippo Salis. Italian right winger who was 18 years old and was a reject at Inter. Brought him to my Sunderland championship side in January . Played him as a striker because all my strikers were injured. In 20 games he scored 18 goals and had 17 assists. Got an offer from 50 million when we got promoted... I rejected and got him a new contract... Then he scored 43 goals in 36 premier league games and had 14 assists in all competition. When I moved to barca he was my first signing as a replacement for Messi. Gave him the number 10 jersey and in 600 games for barca he has 684 goals and 426 assists
I’m 19 years old and this game has me hooked.
I started playing for the first time during lockdown so fm20
I have played 139 hours in the last 2 weeks for fm23 I love it so much
I'm playing my first ever FM save while watching this. I'm doing a Manchester United save and in my first season Wout Weghorst is my top scorer with 28 goals, and we won the EL and the FA cup Yes i signed him on a permanent for 20 million pounds.
I'm in love with this game.
It’s good to start off with big clubs and then work your way down! Weghorst top scorer is mad!
@@Vizeh Wout Weghorst>Messi
Polaco was the best regen i ever had, he came trough in my first season for Guarany de Sobral in Brazil's 3rd division, took us all the way to 1rst and then to the "Libertadores" final, best centerback i ever had, forever our Captain.
My best Regen was a lad called Alex Klomp - he had a whole arc, got to the conference league final and lost on pens to West ham, with Alex missing the decisive pen. Next season he does his ACL. The following season we get to UEL final and he grabs the decisive assist. Heroic
My best Regen was a player named Ryan King in the Liverpool Academy
He scored like 1,000 goals 600 prem goals and 4 Ballon dors and he retired at 30 as the 🐐🐐🐐
Chanpionship and LMA manager back in the day was the way to go. I remember always going for Christian Wilhelmsson in those days.
LMA 07 had that aura to it
My best regen is in current fm. Hobie Weiner - still only 19 but in his first two seasons he has dominated Ireland. Top assister both seasons, scored winning goal in this seasons cup final, got a hat trick against Red Star in UCL qualifying and his stats have grown outrageously, he idolises me and just singed a four year deal. Still has five star potential despite his growth, could very well take us all the way to winning the UCL if we have the right people around him.
Edit: signed him from amateur Dutch team hollandia on a free, business of the century.
Watching YT while playing is probably a universal experience lol. And one thing even more OCD than playing the same team every year: playing the same edition of FM for years, constantly starting new saves with the same team, because you got burnt out with the previous one. And just starting with the same players again, but trying new transfers, new newgens, etc. I must have started dozens of saves with Ajax in FM07, and in fact it's not very long ago that I managed the feat of winning the CL with them (and the Treble, for that matter) in the very first season of the save, 06/07.
Only recently did I spot FM24 on discount, and having not played any new FMs for over a decade, it's great to see how many new features have been added since then. When you make that kind of leap, you're less critical of the development of the game too (well OK, I could do without features like reading the same "tweets" over and over, and complimenting a player's training performance every week, but fair play to SI for putting that in lol).
The emergent narratives that develop throughout a save are probably what makes FM so addictive. Everyone has some story about some miraculous CL run, or just the whole journeyman's progress, or lower-league management for that matter.
Late to the party but the best Re-gen story I had was whilst at Spurs. Had a young LB in the youth team named Hayden Bannister, that I gave his debut too. Over 3 years he became a star player, club captain and even a regular for the England team. Voted into the team of the season during the season we under preformed All whilst being on 5'2. When I left (sacked) and joined VFL Bochum in Germany he was the first player I signed. Instant starter. I was listed as his only favourite staff member. Then he broke my heart by kicking up a fuss because Atletico Madrid came in for him and he wanted CL football. He left and of the six games they played before finishing 3rd he played something like 2. We won the Europa League.
12:00 Adam Hlozek is was insane on Fifa 21 with potential and if you played him, he could get to a 90 rating
He used him in my FM20 save too! Good player!
I've been in the FM cycle for 4 years now (only started in FM20), but I always have an affinity for management games, so that was a life-changing experience for me lol. Pretty sure I have 500+ hours on every single FM despite being in uni. I still check up on teams I have a strong affinity for (Montpellier, Nordsjaelland, AGF from Denmark and a team from Malaysia & South Korea). It was my method of escapism for a few years of my life, so will always be grateful to them.
Last year, I did a save with Helmsford and got them to Premier League won the champions league and FA Cup and once got the quadruple and one of my players - Harry Willis from Wales won the world cup and smashed France 5-1 in the final. Wow
the OG's will remember championship manager ❤... great video
btw remember getting verratti as a wonderkid when he played in serie B.. damn i feel old lol
First season for Palace, signed Djribril Sidibe, Batshuayi on loan and Will Hughes. Got 4th on the last day, scoring a last minute winner and Arsenal conceding a last minute equaliser to Fulham, I will always love Mitrovic on that save for it. Also managed to win Carabao Cup first season against City in the final, scored 15th min and then just put every man behind the ball, there was plenty of screaming, but with a Joel Ward punt downfield the whistle blew, cue limbs in my room
I watched the entire video and I am a triathlon coach who has often considered coaching in other sports too (inc football) so this game looks really interesting to me with how you can focus on player development - and it could also support me if I ever do my FA badges haha! Thanks for the great video! I am now a fan of your work😊
Fm18 was the most fun I’ve ever had on a game. Took Coventry who were in league 2 at the time to 3 back to back promotions, went on to win 7 premier leagues and 4 champions leagues. Pinamonti my striker won the ballon d’or 3 times and when he retired I was devestated. FM is unbelievable other games do not give u this feeling
Currently gone retro with fm08 , started at Donegal Celtic , 1st year in.
It's a journeyman.
Best save for me well ... difficult to say because I've had a great save each fm
Last year was belenenses, the real one not the fraudulent one , if u know you know ,the rest as follows
Fm22 belenenses
Fm21 journeyman ended with Nottingham forest
Fm20 vaduz
Fm19 dynamo dresden
Fm18 San Marino fc
Fm17 Guernsey
Fm16 nordgæland
Fm15 Welling United
Fm14 Dundee united
Fm13 Rangers
Fm12 Melbourne victory
Fm11 Liverpool
Fm10 willem ii
Fm09 Charlton
Fm08 valencia
Fm07 Bournemouth
Fm06 millwall
Fm05 Liverpool
I've had plenty of other saves in those fm's as well and before you ask , no I don't have a social life and ngl prefer it that way
I had a newgen on FM21 for Standard Liege called Ludovic Bouchez. He is one of the best midfielders I’ve had on the game. But the moment that truly made him an FM Hall of Fame player of mine was in season 5 in the champions league at the Nou Camp. 1-0 down and up steps this little 20 year old and slams one home from the edge of the box. Game ends 1-1 and Bouchez writes his name in standard liege folklore. I’ve got so many stories from that standard liege save. I might just have to re-download FM21 to have a look back. It was the most fun I’ve had playing a football game.
In fm23 I Started a new save with Real Sociedad. Nurtured Umar Sadiq who I thought stats wise was the best striker on the team (irl he's their second or 3rd choice striker) 1 season later and a UCL qualification in the bag, my boy Sadiq bagged 49 goals that season. 36 league goals in 36 games. Won golden boot, most goals in Europe and won African Footballer of the year. I now have a deep emotional connection to a random Nigerian striker playing in Spain thousands of kms away.
FM is goated.
Of course you call me out as I'm starting a new run in FM while watching. Love this content. Best run was Zagłębie Lubin to a CL quarter finals run but so many memories and player connections. Excellent content again!
My best regen was Gérard Armand, a Frenchman. I signed him from Etoile Aussonnaise (Amateur French club) for free when I was manager of then Serie C club Virtus Verona. Loaned him out to Volos for our promotion season, then he had a combined 50 goal involvements over 2 seasons as we got promoted to Serie A. In his first season in Serie A (he was 20, by the way), he scored 15 goals and had 16 assists as we finished seventh. After that year we sold him to Real Madrid for £75 million. He went on to win the Ballon d'Or four times, the Champions League twice, the Nations League twice, the Euros (+ Golden Boot & Player of the Tournament) once and the World Cup once. In his final season before retirement, my Ingolstadt team faced off against his Real Madrid side in a Champions League Quarterfinal which Madrid won 3-2 on aggregate and in which Gérard provided an assist. They would go on to lose the final 1-0 to Atlético Madrid.
In his prime, the game valued him at £145 million.
I never played FM until right at the start of the pandemic, I used to see people play it at uni but never got the hype till I played it completely fell in love with the game and can never play FIFA career mode again, it’s amazing that I can take a small team create my own formation and discover hidden gems and take said team to glory. The best player I ever found was Alione Ndour was a unwanted striker not playing for his team came to me averaged 50 goals a season for 10 years and won countless African player of the year awards as I took Estrela Amadora in Portugal from the second league to multiple league titles and champions league titles
Bringing my village in the fourth tier of Portuguese football to the second divison and wining the Portuguese cup with them back in fm2016. The 3-1 victory is still in my head to this day
Current FM Mobile save… journeyman save, start from unemployed, grinded my way to coach Nice to dethrone PSG of the French title in 2028, thanks to my starboy striker Marcel van Lieshout. After doing the unthinkable of winning the French league, Milan offered me, so I had to bite. Took van Lieshout with me and after 2 consecutive invincible title wins, roughly 180 league goals across 5 seasons later, van Lieshout and myself are AC Milan legends, in the Italian football hall of fame… I love FM so much
Football manager has always been a love in my life, ages since I've been able to play , one day I will.
It's just funny how FM can be relaxing and so stressful at the same time ♥
Marcus Gadoye - An incredible defender I signed for £2000 as League 2 Stockport County in FM08, I say defender but for the next 6 years he was my top goalscorer with at least 20 goals every single season mainly due to his heading ability from corners, coupled with his composure, a pretty high finishing ability and most strangely his 18 free kick taking. He ended up staying with me and the club for the 15 seasons, had a tesitmonial, won FA Cups, League Cups, Champions Leagues and Premier Leagues...retired as a played, became my assistant manager and then when I finally left the club he took over as the manager and was never sacked. Absolutely beautiful stuff, he was weirdly from Turks and Caicos Islands as well, won well over 100 caps with them and I'm pretty sure won like 3 of them games.
As for 'real life' events one day I went to watch Stockport County (my team) in real life absolutely convinced we were playing Grimsby Town, absolutely CONVINCED, right up to getting in the stadium and noticing the Torquay United badge, why did I have the wrong team? Because Grimsby were my next game on FM.
I love his new videos, they are absolutely amazing
I love your comments, they are absolutely amazing!
Oliver Burrows - non league to prem save with Blyth, in my first youth intake, 15 years of age, got me back to back promotions by the time he was 18, clubs top goalscorer by the time he was 22. Still have dreams about him
I was manager of Atalanta over in Serie A on FM20. I had worked my way there over the last 10 seasons via Cambridge and Sheff Wednesday. Took over with the club in 10th and within 3 years we were title challengers, losing on the final day in a title-decider against Juventus. But we kept going, playing the most expansive and fluid 4-2-4 formation with overlapping wing backs. Two more 2nd places would follow, and then, finally, we got it done on the third attempt. Was almost setting flares off in my room. Have followed the team on social media ever since... magical.
Playing Fm while watching Fm has to be the best thing in life. Currently in my 8th season in Napoli and i am still lovin it
Jim Stewart - I created a custom team in the national south and lost my striker to knee injury 10 or so games into the season. Got him on loan from FC Dallas minor league team. He ended up leading the league in goals and staying with the team. As we moved up I kept thinking he was tapped out and I’d end up having to replace him, but he just kept improving with the team. He was the only man left standing when I got to the premier. He was my second guy in a 2 striker set, but still, he went from emergency filler for a semi-pro club to starting forward on a premier champ. It was awesome. I got attached and I was legitimately sad when he retired lol.
I used to play Fifa. However, I’m a Nintendo player so you most likely know how they’ve been doing us over here , year after year, LEGACY! 😤 lol. I picked up FM about two years ago. Never looked back at Fifa ever again. It really is an addicting game. There’s been times where it’s passed midnight and all of a sudden I’m reminded that I forgot to send my scouts out, or that my injured player is still under HEAVY training 😅 And then the sun is up and I realize that I busted an all nighter , AGAIN!
My days mouse breaker just brought back so many memories. Everyone in school in Sunderland used that sight back in 06/07, great times
Found a copy of Championship Manager '07 for the Xbox 360 in a Charity Shop. Best £2 spent in my life. Best achievement was winning the Premier League with my local team Basingstoke Town. Been addicted to the series ever since.
In FM 2020 during lockdown I took my hometown club, Galway United, back to the Irish Premier Division from the First Division in my first season and survived in my second season
Any European away days?
@@Vizeh None unfortunately. Stopped playing after the second season
I remember finding Worldwide Soccer Manager 07 (which is what Football Manager was called in the US for a couple years) for $5 at a bargain store near my house. That’s the game that got me into football and is to blame for me supporting Arsenal, AS Roma and Borussia Dortmund. Played it almost none stop for 6 years till I went to college and accidentally broke the disk in the move. I held off buying a new edition fearing they’d ruin my childhood love of the game. Well, this week I picked up FM23 on the Steam sale and it’s consumed my life once again 😂
In general, incredible video Viz, thank you for making it! As for me, it's a recent story but my seasons managing AC Reggiana from Serie C gloom after a chaotic time in their real life status that saw them relegated/bankrupt/etc (would make for a great video down the line, hint hint) and taking them all the way to UCL glory...it also is a special memory for me as I've been able to take that save and start building my TH-cam channel on it as well!
Incredible story man!
@@Vizeh It was a blast to showcase it and I admittedly have to thank Lorenzo Lucca for basically going God mode from my pick-up of him during my Serie B stint to said UCL glory 😂
I have to choose between two regens because they came up together through the youth ranks together with Bromley. I took Bromley from NLN to win every continental cup we could and dominated Europe. Tyrick Cumberbatch and Ronny Solskaer. Tyrick scored 500 and assisted 230 in the 800 games he played before he retired. Ronny was a dual threat winger. He scored 160 and assisted 160 in his 600 games. FM21 will always have a special place in my heart because of those two
In my recent save with Colchester United, the team that plays in Sky Bet League Two, i had a match, where my team won 11-1. HUGE WIN. A player named "John Akinde" scored 9 goals in that match! Since that match, I started following Colchester United more in real life and tried to dig in. I know all the players now! Followed every single one of them on Instagram. I kinda started supporting Colchester United in real life too! Colchester is currently fighting for relegation in the League Two. I am hoping they don't get relegated. I dont know, i feel connection with a lower division club just by playing with them in FM. Also, some days ago i found out, that player John Akinde, in real life, he has 101 EFL goals!
I've played NBA games throughout my childhood and youth whether it was live pre2010 or 2k after. I recently started playing football manager here and there after starting to watch European leagues. I can only dream of a basketball game with as detailed of a match simulation as fm, let alone all the actual management aspects. Then there's the global leagues, national teams, affiliate teams, dynamics. Just absolutely mind-blown coming from 2k.
Haven't even watched 10 seconds of the video and know its gonna be a banger
I hope it will be!
Acheived a 136 point season with notts county on this fm and then acheived 4 straight promotions finished 4th in the premier league in the first season and then won the sextuple 30 years in a row
I remember on Champ Manager 97, there was a player called Ibrahima Bakayoko, absolute monster in the game, especially when paired up to with none other than Emile Heskey...Bakayoko and Heskey would get you 70 goals a season in a good season...
But irl, Everton signed Bakayoko on account of his CM 97 stats, but he absolutely choked when he got to Goodison
I started playing FM this year. The thing that I love the most is that you can actually change the course of history. If you play well and handle finances well, you can turn your club and league into the best in the world
My most fun saves -
FM07, if some remember, heading/jumping/strength was overpowered. I had regen from Peru, playing as Real Madrid and every year i scored 30+ goals.
I think it was FM18, when winning with Estonian national team World Cup on first try and winning with FC Flora multiple titles.
The best part about FM to me is taking the absolute basement-tier clubs, semi-pro in the deep, deep reaches of their pyramid, and getting them on a huge promotion streak.
My greatest FM experience was the semifinal of the champions league against Chelsea. In the 1st leg we lost 1-2 after 90 minute goal. In the 2nd leg the story was different, the most important striker in my career Luis Javier Suarez scored 2 goals which sent us to the Champions League final. Then we lost 4-0 against Barcelona
You guess it, I'm playing my second season of my second straight Glory Hunter.
I find this type of save suiting me most because of his dynamic. It can change REALLY. FREAKING. FAST. Right beside the "challenges" of rebulid from the earlier season. Especially in my beloved Brazil. Taking Cruzeiro, selling the whole relegated team and getting back to Libertadores in five seasons. Taking my beloved Fortaleza to my insanity (I really jealous of those who play in you clube of heart and don't descend to insanity. I respect you heart. It can derail really fast)...
My best regen had one season he was top of almost every stat in the league, top goalscorer 64 or 62, top assists 21, most shots on goal, most key passes, and obviously best avg rating of the league 8.40. In FM21. He was just godly. That was his 4th CL winning season our first winning all comps with the club.
I remember having an arsenal save where chuba akpom basically became god like. He was so good I ended up taking the England job just for him and winning the World cup. Good times.
I know this isnt that big of an achivment but i'd like to share it. I started a save with my club Partizan Belgrade and played it for 5 years and won 2 Europa Leagues, but the second one was an incredible story after playing in CL in a group with Barcelona and Man U i ended up 3rd after tying 4 of my games with them(hearthbreaking) but after winning next 2 stages i in the quarters i had to beat Napoli, the first game ended 1:1 and so did the second with Emre Can geting a red 10mins before the end, i started going all out attack in overtime in which Napoli had 2 players injured and i had 1 with no subs left. The match ended 1:1 with 8v10 players left on the pitch, after witch penalties went to 8:7 ending with Alex Meret missing his last one for me to move on. And in the semis i played Leverkusen after losing the first game at home 3:0, i went on to beat them 4:1 away with 3 goals coming in last 20mins all starting with a random cross witch was heading nowhere that Lafont didnt manage to catch and ball bounced from him to the net, i guess they got FMed. And in the Finals, the fairytale ending Dejan Joveljic who I signed from our biggest rivals as soon as i took over, and who i was thinking on selling scores the only goal to win the cup, i stoped playing after that as my pc was taking incredibly long to load, but i guess it was a perfect ending.
11:53 great point about fm and someone that I always go to as an example for this one, Lewis ferguson in one of my saves he was playing europa league football for Brentford, in another he was playing in the scottish league 2
My biggest achievement in FM was winning the UCL final with Deportivo La Coruna, after getting back to back to back promotions. We didn't qualify for the UCL that year through the league so we had to win the competition. My starting keeper was on loan from the team we beat in the final and was also the team that topped our group.
CM03/04 for me, still got the disk, still play it from time to time. Being able to play with the likes of Beckham, Ronaldinho and R9 Ronaldo is so unique and nostalgic (although good luck signing any of them). Any other champ man players remember the likes of Evandro Roncatto, Diego or Freddy Adu?
Freddy Adu the legend!
Yes! That's the one I'm playing now! Rungratsamee, Gamst Pedersen, Griffin, Anatoli Todorov, David Bell..... that's the mother lode!
Edit:- And remember the crop of cheap(ish) centre backs you got in the game - Buxton, Hill, Hall, Riggott, Davies, Morgan.....
5:49 As a racing club fan that plays every year i see this as a win
Bless our youth teams
My best regen was Dario Božovič, a Serbian-German dual nat(represented Germany internationally) that I bought for 80 million from Bayern. He was a 6'6 center back with 20 jumping reach and 15 heading. He was a great defender in his own right, but could score as consistently as my strikers just hanging out at the far post on corner kicks.
I miss him.
A center back being your favorite player is incredible!
Yes i am playing the Birmingham save right now.
Played FM in 2009 for while, PES was my game at that time so i stopped. Dabbled a lil in 2014 and came back in 2020.
My greatest save is probably Sochaux from last year.
The war i had against PSG a literal God Squad (to the point they bought Saka for 110 just for him to be the LB) in L1 and UCL (beat them in the final twice in a row) were legendary.
Favourite real life player since my return? Maxime Lopez from Sassuolo. This magician carried me through minimum 3 saves and the name "French Pirlo" is not an overexaggeration.
Favourite Regen? Edson. Portuguese wonderkid, the Eusebio of 2020s.
My best save was taking 1860 München from Bundesliga 3 and ended up with them winning the league 5 times in a row and basically finally became the big boys in Munich ahead of bayern
Thats so cool. I'm not a liverpool fan but I love watching Firmino. Didn't know he got signed because of FM.
My greatest fm save was from fm20, i did a journeyman starting at accrington i won them the fa cup in the championship after 4 years with them, then went to bournemouth and took them to back to back to back top 4’s after they finished 17th when i took them over. Then after some crazy manager moves, and juventus getting relegated from serie a, zidane went juve, klopp went to real madrid, so liverpool picked me up from bournemouth, where we came 1 game away from an unbeaten season only to lose 1-0 to chelsea on the final match day, we also lost the carabao cup to chelsea, and the fa cup, and the champions league final all to chelsea, i rage quit the save at that point and never came back to it, i still miss it to this day.
did a bordeaux save in fm 23, 90% win rate 7 league titles 5 champions leagues and built french la masia at bordeaux, made over 3-4 billion in transfers out. Most satisfactory save ever
Best I have ever done was getting the DR Congo to the final of the World Cup in 2022 (FM19) Losing on penalties to Portugal. Honestly was so sad for weeks.
playing bottom, losing 1-0, their scorer has their first of the season, and it's April... too relatable man. also, shoutout to David zikic, my greatest ever wonderkid, a Serbian central midfield beast. bought him at FC Utrecht in Holland on FM22 and won 6 leagues in 6 years, but the furthest I got in the CL was the semis. now I follow their games 😭😭
Back in like fm15 I was able to get club Tigres (from Mexico) to win the copa libertadores, concacaf chmapions league, recopa sudamericana, and the club World Cup and the feeling was incredible it’s hard to describe the feeling😂
In FM20 I took my Cambridge United side to the Premier league, won EU conference, Europa league and was in the champions league when my save got corrupted 😢 13 to 14 years in game was devastated, but saved me the agony of relegation. As we were playing well in Europe but losing almost every Premier league game lol. Have still never won the Prem, Champions league, FA or League cup. The game is crazy hard as always play as lower league clubs, normally my beloved Cambridge United
You lose 1-0 In April and it's the opponents first goal of the year in lol. This is an underrated line🤣. I had to pause the video to laugh and come comment. This has made me happy, 😁
Total Club Manager 2003 on the PC with Sir Bobby Robson on the cover is goated. I sunk so many hours/days/months/years into that game so underrated
Hey man, YES I am right now in the same situation. For past week playing FM24 from morning till early morning(on sick leave). Yesterday played till 3 am woke up 7 am. Visit to mcd, visit to doctor and get back to FM. Been playing FM from the legend CM 01-02. Started somewhere around 2002, 2003.
Had a LB regen named Sidy Mukhtar in my Fleetwood save. Came up in league 1 and scored 20 goals in our first championship season with 17 long shots and 19 free kicks or whatever the stats are. Forced a move to Porto but what a player
The storylines are just so perfect in FM, so much variety that basically no 2 saves are exactly the same. In my save now Wolves got relegated and had a 63 million obligation for an on loan striker who scored 1 prem goal in 32 games, he went on to bag 36 in 40 in the champ then won 4 prem golden boots in a row.
I'm probably a bit older than the average viewer of this channel. I first played LMA manager 2001 on playstation, when my mates convinced me to get a pc. I discovered cm3 (02-03) and have played the game yearly, sometimes upgrading my hardware purely so I can load more leagues. Probably my best save was winning the Champions league 3x in a row on fm20 Aberdeen with regen CB Willie Little captaining the team for the 3rd champions league win
I have this guy in my Dover save, Dwight Elliot, came through the youth academy and helped carry us out of non league (45 and 48 goal seasons back to back) and now we sit first in the championship and he has 29 goals halfway through the season
I had a Derby County save where i had 2 insane youth players around the same age. Matt Smith a left back with the best physicals i've ever seen on a player with 15 marking and tackeling. And Darnell Lampard an insane cam who won 1 ballon dor.
Didnt have much to do one day, put on fm while eating lunch, hade a youtube video on the side. A couple hours later youtube had been paused since after the first 30 minute video and it was 3 in the morning
Currently managing my hometown AFC Hornchurch, taken them from the league below the conference south and now in the championship, just had a baller 2-2 draw with your Burnley!!
Watching this video whilst I lift my second Ligue 1 with Paris Fc on FM 21. Such a addictive game
Multiplayer saves are so much fun, feels so competitive and those games against your friends are so exciting! Me and 2 friends had a Serie A save that between 1st and 3rd was 3gd. That was my favourite even though I didn't win.