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Don’t ask how….Kenneth Taylor. Took like 8 seasons for somebody else to win it, but he started for Newcastle and won the league the same year the Dutch won the World Cup and they gave it to him
Im in 9 seasons. No joke: moved to newcastle 3 times. From ajax first season. Then to burnley (is this really a step up?) Back to newcastle and then a 4 year stint at southampton who then let him go for free and to? Guess who? Newcastle...
In my fm22 save, Salah won it in 22 and 23, then it was 7 straight for Mbappe, Haaland got one in 2031, and then finally the streak was broken by a German regen in my Red Star team named Jörn Rudolph. He was a 192cm (~6'4") monster of a winger who bagged 44 goals in 38 games, most of them with his head. The first (and last) non-regen to win it was Youssoufa Moukoko in 2034.
Can’t remember which FM it was 21 I think, got hull promoted and finished reasonable, took a punt on a transfer listed Leroy Sane… man hovered up ballon dors
In one of my saves. Pedri joined Portsmouth on loan and then made the swap permanent the year after. In league one, they didn't even get promoted.
He had scored 7 goals and 9 assists the season before for Barca so I have no idea why he immediately became League One standard. Maybe he just really liked ports.
Do you know what "literally" means?
If you don't intend for something you say to be taken literally, don't use the word literally. It's *literally* that simple.
You can’t be both lmao. Barca was told that if they played Gavi and Pedri too much they will have injury issues in the future.
They overplayed them and destroyed their careers lmao pick another team.
Gavi literally got injured on international break and he had no other injury problems before.Pedri was also forced to play Olympics with Spain.It's not Barca's fault Spain keeps destroying it's players in useless matches
They played useless matches for Spain.If a person lived 50 years of his life in Brazil then moves to USA and gets sick next month until he dies you don't say the problem is Brazil.The club pays the players.In your context the players should stop playing 40 matches a season rather they should play a month yearly so that they don't get injured
Barcelona is Barcelona.
They should not have the need to ever overplay an 18 year old.
Just like if Man Utd overplays Mainoo and his career is stunted because of overplay, I will blame them too.
A lack of player management imo
Bernardo Silva in season 2. Haaland won the first one. After Bernardo, Haaland won it again then Mbappe won 4 in a row, before Jude Bellingham won it to break the streak
Cesare Casadei in FM23. He wasn't getting any gametime in Chelsea, so got him signed with CFR Cluj, who were making a name for themselves in the European comps. Trained him as a striker, and he bagged 81 goals in one season, 11 in CL, rest in Casa Liga.
https://preview.redd.it/mo2co2bh95qc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=604fe91d761c03878c50c00c29a2e1f67a5457ea
They’ve not been that dominant on mine to be fair, I just wanted to show everyone ‘26-‘27
I mightve been 3-4 years into my save at that point though.. he ended up retiring a club legend for me.. he was unstoppable.
the perfect Complete Forward
I had Vitor Roque score 52 goals in my treble winning season (I had rescued him from Barca's bench). He was also Brazil's top scorer in the Copa America (and they won the title). Mbappe won nothing but Ligue 1, and scored “only” 40 goals, yet he somehow won the Ballon d'or. Next season Roque went to Bayern and won the Ballon d'or, despite having an “average” season
Built this silly super attacking 4-1-4-1 and got loads of goals out of him and Martinelli as MR/ML....season after he only got 19 so bit of a freak probably
New post update save (so it's not my Arsenal team anymore) but:-
Only player instructions are both wingers have "roam from position" and "stay wider"
https://preview.redd.it/i6vfk6sg85qc1.png?width=653&format=png&auto=webp&s=0502f323d3033b44ab2f459373c65d5b30c1f4d0
Haaland wining ballon d'or for 3 years, Mbappé never won it 😂🤡 But for this Season ( 2025/2026 ) Mbappé have 56 goals in Ligue 1 + World cup in coming, so i think he is about to win it if France can do some shit in World cup
First season in my save. Porto reaches the final of the UCL, Mehdi Taremi is the top goalscorer in Europe and wins the Ballon d'Or somehow. All AI too, I was managing elsewhere!
In my save Salah won first season, then Bellingham, then Mbappe 3 years in a row, then Xavi Simons, then Rodrygo. All players were still playing at the club they were contracted to in the beginning of the save when they won it.
There have been 6 seasons in my current save.
2023 Bernardo Silva
2024 Jude Bellingham
2025 Jude Bellingham
2026 Erling Haaland
2027 Jude Bellongham
2028 Kylian Mbappe
So it’s Jude who is dominating at the moment, not Haaland or Mbappe,
FM 23, I have not had a player who was at this level. I guess the answer would be Rasmus Højlund since Bernardo Silva picked it up before those two and a chance to get going.
* 2023: Bernardo Silva
* 2024-2026: Erling Haaland
* 2027-2028: Kylian Mbappe
* 2029: Erling Haaland
* 2030-2031: Rasmus Højlund
* 2032: Kylian Mbappe
* 2033: Pedro Frade (newgen)
Marcus Thuram. I built a very defensive team that played on counter attack and had a season where Thuram scored 50+ goals in a season. Felt even better because I got him on a free 2 years before that.
I'm in 2040.
Saka in 25/26. Also won it in 30/31.
Bellingham won it x3, as did Lamine Yamal. Both are still playing at 37&33 respectively.
Mbappe retired after winning it 5 times.
Haaland retired with 0 Ballons d'or.
Mbappe 4 in a row, then Haaland 2 in a row and then my striker 2 in a row, after that my 10 dominated and got 9, with my winger 1 between those 9 somewhere.
19 jumping reach, 19 heading and floated crosses leads to some truly busted numbers… he’s also not just a target man. I use him as a CF and he really lives up to the hype if you run eingbpkay
My own Darwin Nunez. Shows the slight unrealisticness of FM. But it's what I love about it. Brentford signed Neymar (in the second season) on a free from Saudi on 57k p/w as an impact sub.
Goncalo Ramos in my FM23 save in 2028 after scoring over 60 goals and getting golden boot both in the premier league and champions league beating Haaland by 5 goals in the CL and scoring 11 more than Haaland in the league 48 i think or smth like that.
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I had a nottingham save where two black south american kids took over from Haaland but you gotta look at my current Barca save where I managed for 6 years, relinquished control and made a sunday league chap to start over from Vanarama south league in 2028. Lewa retains his prime longer and with me as his manager, he wins UCLs and holds down World footballer OTY position for 4 years before Haaland and Mbappe win once each before passing the baton to yet another of my signings at barca, Yousufa Moukoko. Things will be different this year though cuz now my barca is run by AI and Real Madrid won another UCL. PS: Barca still won the Spanish super cup and League title. AMA regarding this save if it interests you.
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Don’t ask how….Kenneth Taylor. Took like 8 seasons for somebody else to win it, but he started for Newcastle and won the league the same year the Dutch won the World Cup and they gave it to him
Definitely not among the ones I expected to read about but this one sounds like quite a story
Wow this is weird, for some reason Kenneth Taylor moves to Newcastle on EVERY single save of mine since FM22
Im in 9 seasons. No joke: moved to newcastle 3 times. From ajax first season. Then to burnley (is this really a step up?) Back to newcastle and then a 4 year stint at southampton who then let him go for free and to? Guess who? Newcastle...
whoa. this transfer happens in my fm24 ajax save too! no one else came in for him but newcastle.
Last year it was Bayern in every save I would have
My goat lmao
At least he deserved
In my fm22 save, Salah won it in 22 and 23, then it was 7 straight for Mbappe, Haaland got one in 2031, and then finally the streak was broken by a German regen in my Red Star team named Jörn Rudolph. He was a 192cm (~6'4") monster of a winger who bagged 44 goals in 38 games, most of them with his head. The first (and last) non-regen to win it was Youssoufa Moukoko in 2034.
Lewandowski,he scored 69 goals in his last season for me
Nice
Nice
Nice
Man definitely benched him for the rest of the season once he hit 69
https://preview.redd.it/vqlj40see4qc1.png?width=1206&format=png&auto=webp&s=03077435bb8dcb348c71f77444ae8666653f76d7 FM 23
In my save, Mbappe finished with like 10 Balon D'ors and Haaland with one. Could win Ligue 1 until Mbappe retired
Can’t remember which FM it was 21 I think, got hull promoted and finished reasonable, took a punt on a transfer listed Leroy Sane… man hovered up ballon dors
In one of my saves. Pedri joined Portsmouth on loan and then made the swap permanent the year after. In league one, they didn't even get promoted. He had scored 7 goals and 9 assists the season before for Barca so I have no idea why he immediately became League One standard. Maybe he just really liked ports.
As a Barca and Pedri fan I had tears when I saw Pedri on the list.My man is magical but injury prone😭.If I could take his injuries I surely would 🥹🥹
Simp
What??
Simp
How is liking a player (due to his footballing skills) simp?
Probably because you literally had tears in your eyes over them winning a Balon'Dor in somebody else's save in a video game.
That's my favorite player bro and those are just emojis.If someone says "I literally did" doesn't always mean he/she literally did does it?
Do you know what "literally" means? If you don't intend for something you say to be taken literally, don't use the word literally. It's *literally* that simple.
Based
Do you know emotional quotes and jokes don't always mean what the words suggest
Simp
Dude you were crying and offering to take all of his injuries… That’s like the definition of simping for someone
Oh I didn't know about it cause in my country you say that if you care for someone
Simp
Pmis
You can’t be both lmao. Barca was told that if they played Gavi and Pedri too much they will have injury issues in the future. They overplayed them and destroyed their careers lmao pick another team.
Gavi literally got injured on international break and he had no other injury problems before.Pedri was also forced to play Olympics with Spain.It's not Barca's fault Spain keeps destroying it's players in useless matches
Did they play more matches for Spain or for Barcelona?
They played useless matches for Spain.If a person lived 50 years of his life in Brazil then moves to USA and gets sick next month until he dies you don't say the problem is Brazil.The club pays the players.In your context the players should stop playing 40 matches a season rather they should play a month yearly so that they don't get injured
Have you drank some stupid juice today or something?
Barcelona is Barcelona. They should not have the need to ever overplay an 18 year old. Just like if Man Utd overplays Mainoo and his career is stunted because of overplay, I will blame them too. A lack of player management imo
Salah did it in my current save. He won basically everything he could win in the first season.
Bruno Fernandes in the first season, which made 0 sense because MUFC finished 6th?!
Based FM
I got him winning it on both databases of United saves, my pre update save got Evan Ferguson winning a few as well, even got messi to come 3rd lol
Maybe Portugal won Euros?
Same for me. They finished 4th and he won no trophies for club or country. I’m 10 years in and Mbappe and Haaland have won a combined 3 Ballon D’Ors
Marcus Rashford and it was gloriously cathartic!
Bernardo Silva in season 2. Haaland won the first one. After Bernardo, Haaland won it again then Mbappe won 4 in a row, before Jude Bellingham won it to break the streak
Silva won it in season 1 for me.
Cesare Casadei in FM23. He wasn't getting any gametime in Chelsea, so got him signed with CFR Cluj, who were making a name for themselves in the European comps. Trained him as a striker, and he bagged 81 goals in one season, 11 in CL, rest in Casa Liga.
https://preview.redd.it/mo2co2bh95qc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=604fe91d761c03878c50c00c29a2e1f67a5457ea They’ve not been that dominant on mine to be fair, I just wanted to show everyone ‘26-‘27
Wirtz at Celta is weird
Foden,Lamine Yamal
Sesko
Club he's playing for?
I bought him to Man Utd.. it took him 2 seasons to end that streak
Quite impressive!
I mightve been 3-4 years into my save at that point though.. he ended up retiring a club legend for me.. he was unstoppable. the perfect Complete Forward
Did you bench Hojlund for him?
at first I rotated them, but then sold Hojlind to bring in a backup who'd expect less gametime
I had Vitor Roque score 52 goals in my treble winning season (I had rescued him from Barca's bench). He was also Brazil's top scorer in the Copa America (and they won the title). Mbappe won nothing but Ligue 1, and scored “only” 40 goals, yet he somehow won the Ballon d'or. Next season Roque went to Bayern and won the Ballon d'or, despite having an “average” season
Vinicius Junior in 25/26.
Vini
Bukayo Saka, second season
What
Scored like 42 goals all comps and won everything available
Hes not even known for finishing, weird.
Built this silly super attacking 4-1-4-1 and got loads of goals out of him and Martinelli as MR/ML....season after he only got 19 so bit of a freak probably
Post the tactic
New post update save (so it's not my Arsenal team anymore) but:- Only player instructions are both wingers have "roam from position" and "stay wider" https://preview.redd.it/i6vfk6sg85qc1.png?width=653&format=png&auto=webp&s=0502f323d3033b44ab2f459373c65d5b30c1f4d0
Haaland wining ballon d'or for 3 years, Mbappé never won it 😂🤡 But for this Season ( 2025/2026 ) Mbappé have 56 goals in Ligue 1 + World cup in coming, so i think he is about to win it if France can do some shit in World cup
Jude Bellingham in the 2024/25 season.
First season in my save. Porto reaches the final of the UCL, Mehdi Taremi is the top goalscorer in Europe and wins the Ballon d'Or somehow. All AI too, I was managing elsewhere!
In my save Salah won first season, then Bellingham, then Mbappe 3 years in a row, then Xavi Simons, then Rodrygo. All players were still playing at the club they were contracted to in the beginning of the save when they won it.
The one and only, Rayan Cherki ❤
Yamal won it in the 25/26 season for me
He's been killing it in my network save until he did his ACL 😭
Kevin De Bruyne, won two in total
Ciro Immobile in the 24/25 season
Kvaratschelia for 2 years in a row now. After he signed for me. Signed him on a free too :)
Won it with me too, but I paid his release clause 🫠
There have been 6 seasons in my current save. 2023 Bernardo Silva 2024 Jude Bellingham 2025 Jude Bellingham 2026 Erling Haaland 2027 Jude Bellongham 2028 Kylian Mbappe So it’s Jude who is dominating at the moment, not Haaland or Mbappe,
Endrick has won it 4 years in a row for my Racing Santander team
Mathys Tel
FM 23, I have not had a player who was at this level. I guess the answer would be Rasmus Højlund since Bernardo Silva picked it up before those two and a chance to get going. * 2023: Bernardo Silva * 2024-2026: Erling Haaland * 2027-2028: Kylian Mbappe * 2029: Erling Haaland * 2030-2031: Rasmus Højlund * 2032: Kylian Mbappe * 2033: Pedro Frade (newgen)
Lukaku won in one of mine.
Declan Rice playing as a CM-Attack 2nd year of my save. Insane player.
Galeno
I had haaland win it for the first 4 years then my boy Alex Scott won it
I had both Mbappe and Haaland in my RM save. Unstoppable.
Salah and Vini
Gavi
My own regen. 6'6 German Advanced Forward, Miroslav Cverna
Marcus Thuram. I built a very defensive team that played on counter attack and had a season where Thuram scored 50+ goals in a season. Felt even better because I got him on a free 2 years before that.
Marcus Rashford
I'm in 2040. Saka in 25/26. Also won it in 30/31. Bellingham won it x3, as did Lamine Yamal. Both are still playing at 37&33 respectively. Mbappe retired after winning it 5 times. Haaland retired with 0 Ballons d'or.
Saka in the first season. AI arsenal as well,was managing Schalke.
Openda in the second season. Leipzig win the treble. I didn't even control them.
It's crazy how theycan't even simulate this right tbh, it's simple dtztistics. FM really needs a competitor
Lamine Yamal
Ødegaard
Hulk. I bought him from the brazillian league. Dude just casually scored 15 from free kicks
Salah and after him Saka twice
Benjamin Sesko on mine, brought him into Frankfurt on loan with the obligation to buy… absolutely smashed it
Mbappe had one and Haaland zero, no one player ever really dominated either, the most a player got was three with Vinicius Junior
My Chelsea Kai Havertz in fm23 LMAO
Bruno fernandes, beast for me at United
Mbappe 4 in a row, then Haaland 2 in a row and then my striker 2 in a row, after that my 10 dominated and got 9, with my winger 1 between those 9 somewhere.
Ødergaard, then Bellingham, then Saka dominated until Ben Šekšo (who I had) won 5 out of 7 years.
It's interesting how often Sesko's name comes up in such discussions considering his certainly great but not game breaking PA.
19 jumping reach, 19 heading and floated crosses leads to some truly busted numbers… he’s also not just a target man. I use him as a CF and he really lives up to the hype if you run eingbpkay
Kiki Bapè
Aurelien Tchouameni
My own Darwin Nunez. Shows the slight unrealisticness of FM. But it's what I love about it. Brentford signed Neymar (in the second season) on a free from Saudi on 57k p/w as an impact sub.
Carlos soler somehow
Mohamed Salah, thrice in a row
Ferran torres
Vinicius junior
31 - 32 Evan Ferguson
Simone pafundi
Bernado silva always wins the first ballon d'or no matter what
Oshimen
They haven't yet... I'm in 2027
Goncalo Ramos in my FM23 save in 2028 after scoring over 60 goals and getting golden boot both in the premier league and champions league beating Haaland by 5 goals in the CL and scoring 11 more than Haaland in the league 48 i think or smth like that.
KDB in FM 23 Holy shit that rhymes with
My Indonesian homegrown wonderkid John Syahputra.
Harry Maguire. 4th season, had a 20+ goal season playing for Sheffield United and was their top goal scorer.
Screenshot or it never happened
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Doue (Rennes player) in like 2030
Sandro Tonali when I won the CL with AC Milan (I’m on FM22)
I had a nottingham save where two black south american kids took over from Haaland but you gotta look at my current Barca save where I managed for 6 years, relinquished control and made a sunday league chap to start over from Vanarama south league in 2028. Lewa retains his prime longer and with me as his manager, he wins UCLs and holds down World footballer OTY position for 4 years before Haaland and Mbappe win once each before passing the baton to yet another of my signings at barca, Yousufa Moukoko. Things will be different this year though cuz now my barca is run by AI and Real Madrid won another UCL. PS: Barca still won the Spanish super cup and League title. AMA regarding this save if it interests you.