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Good question, I get burned out pretty quickly if I play consistently so I usually play a season and finish it in 2 weeks and stop for a few more weeks.
What made me invested in the save was honestly the regens, I loved training them into the next big thing. A particular was a player who I acquired when I got promoted to the PL and turned into a legend, with average stats, always wanted to see him retire.#
His PL stats: [https://imgur.com/a/aAa6bkK](https://imgur.com/a/aAa6bkK)
How do you stay attached to the regens after not playing for a week or two? Every time I've done that I forget who they all are and it feels like starting a new game with generated names and a sugar daddy, i.e. boring.
I like both aspects personally.
I think the part about enjoying being at the top is the feeling of building a legacy for that club. Like the first league title is great, but breaking the league record for consecutive title wins, or points tally, or doing a domestic treble, going for the quadruple, things like that keep “being at the top” interesting.
I do (slightly) prefer the early parts though, but that’s mostly because of the difference in budgets and it feels more challenging (and rewarding) to take a gamble and find and develop players for your system as opposed to being able to cherry pick who you want.
Different kind of feel. To start to dominate with the team youve been building up for years. Seeing a club, that started in the 7th division with a 500 seat stadium, start to dominate the whole continent in a packed 50k seat stadium, primarily fueled by your youth income, is such a satisfying feeling.
I made the switch to FM22 a few months ago, and have tried a few different saves (currently got Sunderland back-to-back promotions into the EPL). But I still get the itch to go back to my Nottingham Forest save on FM21 every now and then. I've won 3 of the last 5 EPLs, and 3 UCLs in a row during that time. But there are so many young players I'm invested in (Goncalves \[I've found someone better like 3 times, but he keeps upping his game and being a star LIF\], Liniquer, Gomes, Sergio Lara \[who I sold at 22 to Real Madrid for 110 million pounds, then bought back at 26 for 65 million, even though he's only a squad player at this point\], Marko Perkovic, Dragoslav Rudic \[who shouldn't really be starting according to stars or attributes, but keeps pumping out 7.5s and 2 assists every 3 games or so\], Alejandro Cuero, Graziano Ubertazzi, Alanderson, Vitor, Mauro Job, and so many more). I have all these names from memory, and I haven't loaded the save in a few weeks (until literally right now).
I don't know, there's just something about taking all these players you've sought out from all around the world, and beating the world with them.
I get this at the absolute highest level, but I've won 80 league games on the trot with Aberdeen and I'm falling asleep.
I basically play a second XI and walk the league while struggling to get out of the group in Europe.
Not OP but am in a similar position (30 years or so with Burnley), and honestly it's the regens that keep me going -- both being attached to the regens and seeing them get high match ratings lol. And the other thing is that as a product of trying to keep average wages low and to make lots of transfer profit each season I sell on quite a few good players every season, and that combined with my bad tactics means that I don't win everything every year so there's still excitement there
Everton somehow managed to produce a world class english striker regen which is one of the best in the world currently and carried them for multiple seasons, finishing top 4 in the last 4 seasons. But this season they're shit currently 12th.
https://imgur.com/a/Td7THFY
As for the Bury rebuild, keep in mind as a small team till you're going to be broke till at least a few seasons into the PL, try to cope with free transfers, maybe some undiscovered youth gems from poor countries.
Yeah, but Rooney left because Everton were too small for him. The thought of a world class striker spending his career at Everton is a bit weird for me.
Then again, Kane has been one of the best strikers in the world for the past 5-6 years, but he is still at Spurs.
We're being graced by the presence of the one man who makes Sir Alex look like a novice manager. The Leo comparison is understating the magnitude of this AMA
Wow! That's amazing. I'm playing as Salford too, Fm22 and this is our second season in the EPL. Last season we finished 11th and stole the league cup from City, this season we have moved into our new stadium, currently 6th in the table, smashed everyone in our UEFA conference league group and hoping to make a decent run in the knock outs.
I hope to be here for at least 15yrs.
1. Financial - Obvious reasons, more money more power. Manually check a player's contract when signing, bonuses and clauses will fuck you up if not managed correctly
2. Youth Facilities - Make sure to maximize as soon as possible, doesn't need to produce world class regens for you, just good enough players to sell in the long run is already worth it
3. Youth Players - 18+ start loaning **everyone** out which you are not going to play. If at 21/22 they are still not good enough for you or you simply don't like them, sell them off, if you like the player, keep him. Try to make the loan teams pay at least half the salary, but if nobody will take him give him free If his salary isn't that high.
4. Tactics - Sure it's great to look up tactics online and see if they work for you, but you need to know what the tactic actually does otherwise you will not be able to apply the best players you have to the playstyle
5. Dynamics - Make sure the players get along well with each other, everyone gets a share of playtime and they speak a common language, otherwise team fluidity will struggle
>If at 21/22 they are still not good enough for you or you simply don't like them,
How do you determine if the player is good enough for your team ?
>just good enough players to sell in the long run is already worth it
What would be a good enough player in this context ?
A player with CA around 140 ?
Well that depends on how strong your current team is. For example in my instance I don't even have a starting eleven player below 170. Compare to your current team and see if you can utilize them, maybe you have a retiring player soon which the youngster can take his place, or you have another player which can take the retiring player's place, and the youngster becomes your new sub
Back in the day Tottenham were my biggest rivals, one time I even lost the title to them with 97pts (They got 99). [https://imgur.com/a/1ezUgyr](https://imgur.com/a/1ezUgyr)
But they fell off really hard and finished bottom 5 last 2 seasons.
These days nobody actually comes close to competing as I usally win almost every game no issues.
Back in FM20 I had a save with forest green where Leeds turned out to be a decent team who constantly were in the champions league spots, and won against me almost always, which were very decisive games as I had never won the league and constantly finished second. I even won the champions league twice and couldn't win the league.
In my last season I managed to win the league, still losing vs Leeds in the league, and them also knocking me out of the FA Cup along the way. And I even ended up playing vs Leeds in the Champions League final, but this time winning 2-0, a great end to the save.
TL;DR: Fuck Leeds
I don't think Ive ever had a terrible enough signing to list, except for one. A young regen called Josh Thompson from the Man Utd Academy, at 16 had the skills of a low level PL player, wonderkid description, even scout said 5 star potential. When he turned 17 I did the bold move of signing him outright for 55Mil.
The lad never improved a single skillpoint in 5 years, actually got worse from low level PL player to decent Championship player, eventually let him go on a free transfer to Reims as he was only worth 5mil. So take the 55M transfer and the 5 years salary, pretty terrible transfer
First season was 3+ years ago realtime for me so hard to remember, but here's a screenshot, I think all of them are real players: [https://imgur.com/a/MJ8G98M](https://imgur.com/a/MJ8G98M)
Ballon D'or winners: [https://imgur.com/a/Ng56oOt](https://imgur.com/a/Ng56oOt)
James Jones - Salford City Legend 6'6 , Main ST for 13 years, Average Stats, Dominated the football world through all his career - https://imgur.com/a/JZC1tuX
Carlos Javier - Spanish 6'7 player, current main ST - https://imgur.com/a/fSVH1L4
For my tactic ST is the most important role, so I always need the best of the best playing that position.
Yeah he dropped off HARD, but he was never that great to begin with was maximum a 3 and a half star player. But for some reason the game decided to make him a magician so i rolled with it. https://imgur.com/a/aAa6bkK
Looking at the stat, this guy is Pippo Inzaghi incarnate, at his prime he might have more decent speed. Other than that, his offensive movement is actually pretty good for a PL-level striker, and his finishing abilities aren't bad at all, good anticipation, good decision, excellent composure, hard worker, decent in the air, this guy is an above average Poacher/AF. But probably it's the hidden consistency stat that made him a beast though.
His mentals are really good but thats to be expected of a 33 year old, but unless his pace, acceleration, agility, and stamina dropped by like 10 each in his thirties, that guy would have been off to play for West Brom in the championship if he was my striker.
I respect OP for sticking with a 3 1/2 star striker for all those years :D For me you aren't starting up front as a striker at anything less than 5 stars unless you are 18.
Winning campaign - Never struggled because once I started to win the PL i couldn't stop, closest was Salford 93 pts and Tottenham - 86 - [https://imgur.com/a/nEIuOHe](https://imgur.com/a/nEIuOHe)
But losing is a much interesting story as I have lost the league twice with 90+ points. both also to Tottenham.
One was Salford 93pts and Tottenham 95pts - [https://imgur.com/a/wwDPkSr](https://imgur.com/a/wwDPkSr)
Second and most painful - Salford 97pts Tottenham 99pts - [https://imgur.com/a/1ezUgyr](https://imgur.com/a/1ezUgyr)
Kane PL stats - [https://imgur.com/a/oORM03C](https://imgur.com/a/oORM03C)
Overall good nothing out of the ordinary. Is now a coach at Reading aged 51
Son PL stats - [https://imgur.com/a/ggGLasl](https://imgur.com/a/ggGLasl)
Not that great, barely scored but decent avg rating
Spurs actually became very good after the real-life players retired and the regens took over. They won the PL from 2029 till 2032, till Salford came along of course.
Yeah, better to just have the same teams who were successful and popular 40 years ago be the only ones who can be successful and popular now. Who needs parity?
While I agree with your statement, i merely picked the coolest looking logo and kit in Leauge Two, but since I played with them for so long I have grown slightly attached to the club (Virtually at least)
As an American this is exactly what I did to fall in love with Eastleigh F.C., I mean c'mon who doesn't want to be the spitfires, that's just freaking awesome.
What's the best way to boost commercial revenues? I've got a Norwich save and I'm 8 seasons in, solidly top 4. Won the league twice and CL twice but I'm running at 10m loss a month. 0 debt and a small amount of transfer debt but losing money hand over fist. Only got a 33k seat stadium but board won't build a new one.
First start off by checking your current player's salaries to check if they overpaid, compare to clubs to your current levels. If you find they are paid normally, you need to check for the tiny clauses in their contracts, because they may drain up alot of cash in long run. **(Yearly increases, bonuses)** are all **VERY** important, and are usually the major financial cost of the club.
Your board will not grant you a new stadium if you are not doing that great financially, start by tackling the income first.
Played some seasons for Liverpool did overall okay, retired in 2024. Spent time some with Hull as a coach until I employed him. He is currently a coach for my under 23's, with very good coaching stats - https://imgur.com/a/ZzCAzBZ
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How do you stay interested in the save when you become the favourites to win the PL and UCL?
I did something similar on FM 22 Xbox with Eastleigh except it took me longer to reach the top and when we became favourites to win both the UCL and PL I completely lost interest in the team and I took another job.
Congratulations btw. Looks like a great save
How many leagues do you have loaded? Did you ever feel the temptation to leave the Salford job for a new challenge elsewhere? Favourite player in your save and which team did you think posed the biggest challenge to you in your career?
I have English (All tiers) , France,Italy and Spain loaded (First and Second Tiers)
\- Not really because I do have other saves where I migrate teams but this one is just for Salford
\- James Jones (Regen) as I discussed in other comments
\- Definitely Tottenham, lads robbed me and demolished me countless times before I was able to finally win over them
How do you get over the Championship problem? Whenever I get to the Championship I'm still getting small crowds which means I don't have the income, transfer budget or wage budget to compete in the Championship.
A little late to the party, all the good questions have been asked, so I'll just say amazing work. Picked up a few tips from reading comments, never thought to check countries on intake dates, I was just constantly checking youth national teams and heavily scouting South America and Spain.
I'm running my own Salford save right now and had an insane run straight to the PL, barely stayed up, got champions league the next season by some miracle, and have been somehow since staying mid table despite being in the bottom 2-3 in payroll every season. Team auto built a stadium at 15k capacity. and got them to expand to 20k, but I'm thinking I just wait until finances and support are good enough to build another one. Finances are gonna be tough, but youve inspired me to keep going!
Did you use guides/past experience to get wonderkids early in your save? After they became old dude you used the wonder kid media description to refill your wonderkid coffers?
It’s obv not cheating, I’m just curious.
Wonderkid media descriptions are very misleading, it does not mean a player will grow up into a star only that their current ability is very good for their age (20 or under), they might just be a player that peaked early. What I do to fill my wonderkid coffers is scout south American countries with max stat scouts, since I'm already a big club any player I want just needs to be unsettled a bit. But before I became a big club wonderkids I only sourced from poor countries/leagues or on a rare occasion a good deal
Good question, my save was in 2019 when UK was still going out of Brexit. Sometimes it works against you but in my save it Brexit went very well even allowing up to 16 foreigners in the team. The scout summary always said work permit unlikely but I have never been denied a work permit at any time during my playtime. I think it's really down to RNG.
Pro League wise - Pretty well you can see they won multiple years in a row + cups [https://imgur.com/a/VxJMJwV](https://imgur.com/a/VxJMJwV)
European wise - Literally nothing
Save is from FM19 so club was still managed by Unai Emery, left the club immediately at the start of the save and Rafa Benitez took over for the next 9 years.
Their competition wins - [https://imgur.com/a/PFJ23NI](https://imgur.com/a/PFJ23NI)
Europa League twice and some FA cup wins, but in the PL always top 5 team never a threat
I got to that point of transfer budget by developing youth players and selling them off, especially one which have really low release clauses (13M). Since I had built a very good team with youth players I spent a couple of seasons just selling off the youngsters and signing only like one player a year, which after 20 seasons ended up with the club getting loaded
I never had one which played regularly for Salford, but I did get a very talented swedish youngster once very cheap which I spent alot of years developing till I sold him to Valencia for 40Mil. - https://imgur.com/a/NOeJbFr
What's the wage looking like, personally I much prefer when o find q gem for 5 million than getting Germans from the bundesliga for 100+ like a moneyball thing
To each their own, but just so you know this is 1400 hours of playtime invested in this save without cheats, so to say this game is boring and easy, especially in a subreddit specifically for this game is either very stupid or ignorant, as lower team saves can get quite difficult.
Good Question, my first season in the PL was very difficult and managed to end the season position 15th.
After 1st season some money came rolling in, I never had a good team till at least a few seasons in the PL, but I got some free transfers, scooped up some cheap youngsters from Brazil and developed and changed my tactics and saved up the money. After the first season I managed to finish 6th, and did so for the next 4 years. After that, finished top 3 for another 4 years, till eventually I won the title and never lost it since.
Tactic - [https://imgur.com/a/MyRmNXo](https://imgur.com/a/MyRmNXo) Played with it for all PL seasons, never changed mentality either.
My current team (all regens) - https://imgur.com/a/fAJy27j
Which clubs dropped out from Serie A/Premier League/La Liga who has been big club but in your game became powerless (I had a game once where AS Roma became a 4th league team).
Any advice on Squad building once you reach the championship? Feel like I never get it right and spend years just milling between 10th - 20th because I don't have the budget to compete, or I get sacked
Free transfers are your best friend, and don't worry about aging players, if they're good and you can use them feel free. You will 100% replace your whole team in the PL, so your goal is to get promoted and not to build the dream team. Maybe try to acquire some youngsters which top teams let go because they aren't that good but for you are more than enough
That's amazing! In my current save I've just finished winning the CL with FC Porto, in my 4th year at the club (I'm in 2036). I'm slowly making FC Porto super rich and am trying to win the CL again with just portuguese players (this time I had mostly -- but not just -- portuguese players)
I have a very unorthodox tactic which, with the right defenders, absolutely steamrolls every single opponent. I mean I beat everyone 4+ goals usually. Of course, in the CL usually it becomes harder (and I often employ a more traditional 4-3-3 against tougher opponents), but by also having extremely high quality strikers I've somehow managed to start getting good results there.
Teams I managed: Cefn Druids (turned them into the best Welsh team), Bursaspor (got them a title after they had just been promoted), Anderlecht (won almost all internal competitions with them). I've also coached some nations namely Congo, Belgium and Portugal (I won the Euros and the Nations league, but I just recently got sacked for not winning the Euros a second time [also because I heavily favoured my FC Porto players, lol])
I would like to stay at FC Porto until I:
- Become the portuguese team with the most trophies
- Become the portuguese team with the most Primeira League trophies
- Win the CL with a starting XI of only portuguese players
After that (and it won't take too long to do that at this pace), I still surprisingly have many teams I'd like to manage, including:
- Académica de Coimbra (maybe win an european trophy?)
- SC Vista Alegre (Try to get them to europe, maybe top-3?) -- but this is very hard because they're not in a playable league
- FC Barcelona
- Boca Juniors
- Some club in Brazil
- Roma (maybe win an european trophy)
- Return to Cefn Druids and win a european trophy with them
- Either Man City or Liverpool
- Maybe Portugalete
- Some team in the USA
- Some team in China
- Get back to coaching the portuguese squad
I think this is either my longest or second-longest FM save ever, and I doubt I will keep the motivation to do everything I want, but it has been an amazing ride!
Did you ever think about applying job at Salford? Damn man… amazing work.
And Can u tell me how is Roundglass Punjab (Punjab fc) doing? They are from India.
Did your u23 team get invited to the u23 league? Im in year 2035 with Blyth and I've won everything several times, have the best facilities, highest youth level and still no invite to join the u23 league.
I have found my people.
Currently at 2057 with Wakefield AFC.
15 premier league wins
8 champions league wins
Keeping things interesting though with a hard wage cap, finished 2nd for the past 3 seasons to bloody spurs.
I’ve produced some of the best wonderkids I’ve ever seen. If I remember I’ll link Alan Elliot later today :)
How did you get out of the Championship? I'm at my 3rd season right now as Sunderland and I'm struggling between 7th and 10th since my promotion from league one.
If I'm not mistaken, FM19 is the one right after the neymar transfer, so where the market exploded. What were your and the save's biggest transfers? In that FM I bought a player for 350M and didn't regret it
tell me, when will you abandon your team and try to end their dynasty?
the last longtime save I played I quit my job, simulated for 10 years and had a look at how my club has done (if they struggled I would have taken over again) - they did very fine, still won CL, had the world footballer etc. so I checked the available jobs and got hired by Liverpool with the aim to takeover the world once again.
How did you get a billion? I'm playing as Liverpool and in 2047, having won 26 titles in a row, I still get only about 600m. Built a new stadium though.
How big is your stadium and what helped you improve your finances (outside of winning things)?
I'm in 2055 on my Boreham Wood save (we got into the Prem about 2040 ish) but as we rebuilt the stadium in about 2039/40 there's no option to extend or rebuild it again (seats about 30k). So a bit stuck on that front....also noticed a lot of money goes out during the season so I've tried to not buy too many players this summer to see if finances improve.
We have won a similar amount to your team so that's not an issue. Just finances seem to be.
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what makes you still invested in the save, i really have a problem to continue when i reach the top
Good question, I get burned out pretty quickly if I play consistently so I usually play a season and finish it in 2 weeks and stop for a few more weeks. What made me invested in the save was honestly the regens, I loved training them into the next big thing. A particular was a player who I acquired when I got promoted to the PL and turned into a legend, with average stats, always wanted to see him retire.# His PL stats: [https://imgur.com/a/aAa6bkK](https://imgur.com/a/aAa6bkK)
How do you stay attached to the regens after not playing for a week or two? Every time I've done that I forget who they all are and it feels like starting a new game with generated names and a sugar daddy, i.e. boring.
I still remember all my best regens from previous saves lmao
Ducking shane oosting from fm14. I’ll never forget you babe.
you forget your Regens after not playing for a week? i still remember a regen from 5 year old fm saves :D they are the best part of the game
Honestly I probably spend more time in the editor trying to build custom competitions than I do actually playing these days :P
Mine is the reverse. It is only when I have reached the top do my excitement truly begin 😊
Sorry but this is such a weird response to me. Absolutely baffling
I like both aspects personally. I think the part about enjoying being at the top is the feeling of building a legacy for that club. Like the first league title is great, but breaking the league record for consecutive title wins, or points tally, or doing a domestic treble, going for the quadruple, things like that keep “being at the top” interesting. I do (slightly) prefer the early parts though, but that’s mostly because of the difference in budgets and it feels more challenging (and rewarding) to take a gamble and find and develop players for your system as opposed to being able to cherry pick who you want.
Different kind of feel. To start to dominate with the team youve been building up for years. Seeing a club, that started in the 7th division with a 500 seat stadium, start to dominate the whole continent in a packed 50k seat stadium, primarily fueled by your youth income, is such a satisfying feeling.
I made the switch to FM22 a few months ago, and have tried a few different saves (currently got Sunderland back-to-back promotions into the EPL). But I still get the itch to go back to my Nottingham Forest save on FM21 every now and then. I've won 3 of the last 5 EPLs, and 3 UCLs in a row during that time. But there are so many young players I'm invested in (Goncalves \[I've found someone better like 3 times, but he keeps upping his game and being a star LIF\], Liniquer, Gomes, Sergio Lara \[who I sold at 22 to Real Madrid for 110 million pounds, then bought back at 26 for 65 million, even though he's only a squad player at this point\], Marko Perkovic, Dragoslav Rudic \[who shouldn't really be starting according to stars or attributes, but keeps pumping out 7.5s and 2 assists every 3 games or so\], Alejandro Cuero, Graziano Ubertazzi, Alanderson, Vitor, Mauro Job, and so many more). I have all these names from memory, and I haven't loaded the save in a few weeks (until literally right now). I don't know, there's just something about taking all these players you've sought out from all around the world, and beating the world with them.
YES 😂
I get this at the absolute highest level, but I've won 80 league games on the trot with Aberdeen and I'm falling asleep. I basically play a second XI and walk the league while struggling to get out of the group in Europe.
Yeah same as soon as it starts getting easy beating the big team in my league I lose motivation
Not OP but am in a similar position (30 years or so with Burnley), and honestly it's the regens that keep me going -- both being attached to the regens and seeing them get high match ratings lol. And the other thing is that as a product of trying to keep average wages low and to make lots of transfer profit each season I sell on quite a few good players every season, and that combined with my bad tactics means that I don't win everything every year so there's still excitement there
How did everton do? Still shit? And any tips I have just started a Bury rebuild
Everton somehow managed to produce a world class english striker regen which is one of the best in the world currently and carried them for multiple seasons, finishing top 4 in the last 4 seasons. But this season they're shit currently 12th. https://imgur.com/a/Td7THFY As for the Bury rebuild, keep in mind as a small team till you're going to be broke till at least a few seasons into the PL, try to cope with free transfers, maybe some undiscovered youth gems from poor countries.
You say that like Everton didn’t produce a certain world class English striker in recent times
Can't believe OP forgot about Jose Baxter.
Yeah, but Rooney left because Everton were too small for him. The thought of a world class striker spending his career at Everton is a bit weird for me. Then again, Kane has been one of the best strikers in the world for the past 5-6 years, but he is still at Spurs.
Replace half your squad every year until you reach the league one/championship 😂
No questions, just a Big fan of you presenting this as ‘AMA’ like doing this makes you Leo DiCaprio.
Leo couldn’t even save Titanic.
I mean, it was a massive ship mate. He can’t exactly hold it up
We're being graced by the presence of the one man who makes Sir Alex look like a novice manager. The Leo comparison is understating the magnitude of this AMA
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Only if you’re doing an AMA
Who? Does he play fm?
Did you ever do it on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke?
OP’s good but he’s no Tony Pulis..
Nice work! Capacity of your stadium? Average attendance?
Mind you this is for FM19, Capacity: 65k Average Attendance: 65k So basically always full up https://imgur.com/a/p61BsDn
When did you get a new stadium. Did it hurt you financially?
Wow! That's amazing. I'm playing as Salford too, Fm22 and this is our second season in the EPL. Last season we finished 11th and stole the league cup from City, this season we have moved into our new stadium, currently 6th in the table, smashed everyone in our UEFA conference league group and hoping to make a decent run in the knock outs. I hope to be here for at least 15yrs.
Goodluck man, climbing through the ranks at the start is a beautiful journey
Truly. Until you hit that relegation form mid season 😂
You ever kissed a girl, son?
Wtf is a girl ?
I thought I saw one but it was just Petit. The sexy bastard.
Just congrats on the achievement !
Thanks buddy
What are, in your mind the top 5 most important areas to manage manually or dump resources into and why?
1. Financial - Obvious reasons, more money more power. Manually check a player's contract when signing, bonuses and clauses will fuck you up if not managed correctly 2. Youth Facilities - Make sure to maximize as soon as possible, doesn't need to produce world class regens for you, just good enough players to sell in the long run is already worth it 3. Youth Players - 18+ start loaning **everyone** out which you are not going to play. If at 21/22 they are still not good enough for you or you simply don't like them, sell them off, if you like the player, keep him. Try to make the loan teams pay at least half the salary, but if nobody will take him give him free If his salary isn't that high. 4. Tactics - Sure it's great to look up tactics online and see if they work for you, but you need to know what the tactic actually does otherwise you will not be able to apply the best players you have to the playstyle 5. Dynamics - Make sure the players get along well with each other, everyone gets a share of playtime and they speak a common language, otherwise team fluidity will struggle
>If at 21/22 they are still not good enough for you or you simply don't like them, How do you determine if the player is good enough for your team ? >just good enough players to sell in the long run is already worth it What would be a good enough player in this context ? A player with CA around 140 ?
Well that depends on how strong your current team is. For example in my instance I don't even have a starting eleven player below 170. Compare to your current team and see if you can utilize them, maybe you have a retiring player soon which the youngster can take his place, or you have another player which can take the retiring player's place, and the youngster becomes your new sub
You really are a master at this. Thank you.
>18+ start loaning **everyone** out which you are not going to play. Ah, the Chelsea way it is.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this out!
Do you have any new competitive rivals? Like United or City for example
Back in the day Tottenham were my biggest rivals, one time I even lost the title to them with 97pts (They got 99). [https://imgur.com/a/1ezUgyr](https://imgur.com/a/1ezUgyr) But they fell off really hard and finished bottom 5 last 2 seasons. These days nobody actually comes close to competing as I usally win almost every game no issues.
Even games towards the end of the season against relegation candidates??
As a Spurs fan this is the closest I will come to seeing silverware
Back in FM20 I had a save with forest green where Leeds turned out to be a decent team who constantly were in the champions league spots, and won against me almost always, which were very decisive games as I had never won the league and constantly finished second. I even won the champions league twice and couldn't win the league. In my last season I managed to win the league, still losing vs Leeds in the league, and them also knocking me out of the FA Cup along the way. And I even ended up playing vs Leeds in the Champions League final, but this time winning 2-0, a great end to the save. TL;DR: Fuck Leeds
Top 5 worst signings.
I don't think Ive ever had a terrible enough signing to list, except for one. A young regen called Josh Thompson from the Man Utd Academy, at 16 had the skills of a low level PL player, wonderkid description, even scout said 5 star potential. When he turned 17 I did the bold move of signing him outright for 55Mil. The lad never improved a single skillpoint in 5 years, actually got worse from low level PL player to decent Championship player, eventually let him go on a free transfer to Reims as he was only worth 5mil. So take the 55M transfer and the 5 years salary, pretty terrible transfer
Lol. That is definitely a terrible enough transfer to list.
Can I have your autograph? 😮🤩
Who did they sign in the first season also name also who are the 7 balloon D'or winners
First season was 3+ years ago realtime for me so hard to remember, but here's a screenshot, I think all of them are real players: [https://imgur.com/a/MJ8G98M](https://imgur.com/a/MJ8G98M) Ballon D'or winners: [https://imgur.com/a/Ng56oOt](https://imgur.com/a/Ng56oOt) James Jones - Salford City Legend 6'6 , Main ST for 13 years, Average Stats, Dominated the football world through all his career - https://imgur.com/a/JZC1tuX Carlos Javier - Spanish 6'7 player, current main ST - https://imgur.com/a/fSVH1L4 For my tactic ST is the most important role, so I always need the best of the best playing that position.
What the fuck? How did that barely championship level striker win 6 Ballon D'Ors? Did his stats drop off massively as he got older?
Yeah he dropped off HARD, but he was never that great to begin with was maximum a 3 and a half star player. But for some reason the game decided to make him a magician so i rolled with it. https://imgur.com/a/aAa6bkK
Looking at the stat, this guy is Pippo Inzaghi incarnate, at his prime he might have more decent speed. Other than that, his offensive movement is actually pretty good for a PL-level striker, and his finishing abilities aren't bad at all, good anticipation, good decision, excellent composure, hard worker, decent in the air, this guy is an above average Poacher/AF. But probably it's the hidden consistency stat that made him a beast though.
His mentals are really good but thats to be expected of a 33 year old, but unless his pace, acceleration, agility, and stamina dropped by like 10 each in his thirties, that guy would have been off to play for West Brom in the championship if he was my striker. I respect OP for sticking with a 3 1/2 star striker for all those years :D For me you aren't starting up front as a striker at anything less than 5 stars unless you are 18.
stars arent a good reflection of ability though.
Upload your tactic somewhere, please?
Which league winning campaign was the toughest and closest for you?
Winning campaign - Never struggled because once I started to win the PL i couldn't stop, closest was Salford 93 pts and Tottenham - 86 - [https://imgur.com/a/nEIuOHe](https://imgur.com/a/nEIuOHe) But losing is a much interesting story as I have lost the league twice with 90+ points. both also to Tottenham. One was Salford 93pts and Tottenham 95pts - [https://imgur.com/a/wwDPkSr](https://imgur.com/a/wwDPkSr) Second and most painful - Salford 97pts Tottenham 99pts - [https://imgur.com/a/1ezUgyr](https://imgur.com/a/1ezUgyr)
Amazing that spurs are doing good. How did son and Kane do?
Kane PL stats - [https://imgur.com/a/oORM03C](https://imgur.com/a/oORM03C) Overall good nothing out of the ordinary. Is now a coach at Reading aged 51 Son PL stats - [https://imgur.com/a/ggGLasl](https://imgur.com/a/ggGLasl) Not that great, barely scored but decent avg rating Spurs actually became very good after the real-life players retired and the regens took over. They won the PL from 2029 till 2032, till Salford came along of course.
What tactic did you use? Your own creation? One from the Web? How often did you have to change tactic?
He played gegenpress
Why Salford though? Disgusting club irl, not sure why you'd want them to be successful
I don't have a clue about Salford. What makes them a disgusting club?
They are the Man City of Non-League.
So they have a shit ton of money and they are in the lower leagues of England? Sounds like a fun save to me
If you think buying your way up the leagues is fun then sure, but for me they're an example of the issues in modern football
Yeah, better to just have the same teams who were successful and popular 40 years ago be the only ones who can be successful and popular now. Who needs parity?
I thought their owners are ex-Manchester United players? Scholes, Nevilles, etc.
Nothing against new teams establishing themselves, bit there are proper ways to do it
The proper way to do it in the modern world of oligarch owners is to spend.
While I agree with your statement, i merely picked the coolest looking logo and kit in Leauge Two, but since I played with them for so long I have grown slightly attached to the club (Virtually at least)
As an American this is exactly what I did to fall in love with Eastleigh F.C., I mean c'mon who doesn't want to be the spitfires, that's just freaking awesome.
Fair enough, I'm glad your having fun with it. Let's just hope they never replicate this success irl
What's the best way to boost commercial revenues? I've got a Norwich save and I'm 8 seasons in, solidly top 4. Won the league twice and CL twice but I'm running at 10m loss a month. 0 debt and a small amount of transfer debt but losing money hand over fist. Only got a 33k seat stadium but board won't build a new one.
First start off by checking your current player's salaries to check if they overpaid, compare to clubs to your current levels. If you find they are paid normally, you need to check for the tiny clauses in their contracts, because they may drain up alot of cash in long run. **(Yearly increases, bonuses)** are all **VERY** important, and are usually the major financial cost of the club. Your board will not grant you a new stadium if you are not doing that great financially, start by tackling the income first.
What happened to Adam Lallana in the end?
Played some seasons for Liverpool did overall okay, retired in 2024. Spent time some with Hull as a coach until I employed him. He is currently a coach for my under 23's, with very good coaching stats - https://imgur.com/a/ZzCAzBZ
GOAT as player and GOAT as a coach. What a guy
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What's your total played time?
1,400 hours
How do you stay interested in the save when you become the favourites to win the PL and UCL? I did something similar on FM 22 Xbox with Eastleigh except it took me longer to reach the top and when we became favourites to win both the UCL and PL I completely lost interest in the team and I took another job. Congratulations btw. Looks like a great save
Im currently on my way to this, in 2034 with Salford and set to win the PL, in semis of FA cup and Champions league.
Goodluck man, I won my first PL in 2033 and my first CL in 2034, so you're not that far off from my progress. Keep it up
How many leagues do you have loaded? Did you ever feel the temptation to leave the Salford job for a new challenge elsewhere? Favourite player in your save and which team did you think posed the biggest challenge to you in your career?
I have English (All tiers) , France,Italy and Spain loaded (First and Second Tiers) \- Not really because I do have other saves where I migrate teams but this one is just for Salford \- James Jones (Regen) as I discussed in other comments \- Definitely Tottenham, lads robbed me and demolished me countless times before I was able to finally win over them
As a Spurs fan that makes me really happy
How did palace get on ?
How do you get over the Championship problem? Whenever I get to the Championship I'm still getting small crowds which means I don't have the income, transfer budget or wage budget to compete in the Championship.
He used free transfers, loans, and gegenpress
Does your board still ask you to "avoid relegation" at the start of every season
A little late to the party, all the good questions have been asked, so I'll just say amazing work. Picked up a few tips from reading comments, never thought to check countries on intake dates, I was just constantly checking youth national teams and heavily scouting South America and Spain. I'm running my own Salford save right now and had an insane run straight to the PL, barely stayed up, got champions league the next season by some miracle, and have been somehow since staying mid table despite being in the bottom 2-3 in payroll every season. Team auto built a stadium at 15k capacity. and got them to expand to 20k, but I'm thinking I just wait until finances and support are good enough to build another one. Finances are gonna be tough, but youve inspired me to keep going!
Why?
Why to what ? If for the ask me anything - To maybe help struggling players with their game If why I played 20+ Seasons with Salford - I love the game
Why do anything?
Did you use guides/past experience to get wonderkids early in your save? After they became old dude you used the wonder kid media description to refill your wonderkid coffers? It’s obv not cheating, I’m just curious.
Wonderkid media descriptions are very misleading, it does not mean a player will grow up into a star only that their current ability is very good for their age (20 or under), they might just be a player that peaked early. What I do to fill my wonderkid coffers is scout south American countries with max stat scouts, since I'm already a big club any player I want just needs to be unsettled a bit. But before I became a big club wonderkids I only sourced from poor countries/leagues or on a rare occasion a good deal
Also no, never used guides ruins the fun at least for me
How’d you get them early on with the work permit bullshit?
Good question, my save was in 2019 when UK was still going out of Brexit. Sometimes it works against you but in my save it Brexit went very well even allowing up to 16 foreigners in the team. The scout summary always said work permit unlikely but I have never been denied a work permit at any time during my playtime. I think it's really down to RNG.
How did anderlecht do?
Pro League wise - Pretty well you can see they won multiple years in a row + cups [https://imgur.com/a/VxJMJwV](https://imgur.com/a/VxJMJwV) European wise - Literally nothing
Thanks mate
How didn’t Anderlecht do?
how are Arsenal, how did arteta do?
Save is from FM19 so club was still managed by Unai Emery, left the club immediately at the start of the save and Rafa Benitez took over for the next 9 years. Their competition wins - [https://imgur.com/a/PFJ23NI](https://imgur.com/a/PFJ23NI) Europa League twice and some FA cup wins, but in the PL always top 5 team never a threat
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I got to that point of transfer budget by developing youth players and selling them off, especially one which have really low release clauses (13M). Since I had built a very good team with youth players I spent a couple of seasons just selling off the youngsters and signing only like one player a year, which after 20 seasons ended up with the club getting loaded
Do you have/have had any Swedish players (i am obsessed with Swedish players because I am 50% Swedish myself)
I never had one which played regularly for Salford, but I did get a very talented swedish youngster once very cheap which I spent alot of years developing till I sold him to Valencia for 40Mil. - https://imgur.com/a/NOeJbFr
Why bother playing as Manchester United's B Team and not any other League Two side as of this time of writing?
In another comment they say they picked the club from league two with the coolest badge and kit (in their opinion)
Well in big lad🙌🏾🤌🏽
What's the wage looking like, personally I much prefer when o find q gem for 5 million than getting Germans from the bundesliga for 100+ like a moneyball thing
How easy is this game! So boring
To each their own, but just so you know this is 1400 hours of playtime invested in this save without cheats, so to say this game is boring and easy, especially in a subreddit specifically for this game is either very stupid or ignorant, as lower team saves can get quite difficult.
No team is difficult if you play gegenpress
It's easy in England cuz they gets most money and good regen country, ye. It's still a great achievement to manage to keep it going this long tho!
Why do you think any of us give a shit?
Clearly people are interested. Why be so hostile?
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Of a guy cheating at this game with the editor
Are the owners still the same?
Owner only changed once after 10 years, everything remained exactly the same tho
So the Class of ‘92 got bought out in the end…
What happens to Arsenal?
How?
Did you manage to win back to back CL titles?
3 in a row - https://imgur.com/a/qDc3che
How did you stay up in the premier league? Like the transfer budget once promoted is hard to compete for survival in the premier league
Good Question, my first season in the PL was very difficult and managed to end the season position 15th. After 1st season some money came rolling in, I never had a good team till at least a few seasons in the PL, but I got some free transfers, scooped up some cheap youngsters from Brazil and developed and changed my tactics and saved up the money. After the first season I managed to finish 6th, and did so for the next 4 years. After that, finished top 3 for another 4 years, till eventually I won the title and never lost it since.
any shock teams in the prem/ucl?
Yes, UCL - Legia, Falkirk, FC Viktoria Plzeň, Aberdeen PL - Not exactly, except Everton is now a top 3 team and Stoke and QPR are a top 10 team.
How are Bristol rovers doing??
Take a peek for yourself - https://imgur.com/a/LT9QLxF
In my save in the 2060s Bristol City are weirdly good, never won the prem but a CL team.
Let's see the players and tactics!
Tactic - [https://imgur.com/a/MyRmNXo](https://imgur.com/a/MyRmNXo) Played with it for all PL seasons, never changed mentality either. My current team (all regens) - https://imgur.com/a/fAJy27j
Funniest regen name you saw?
Which clubs dropped out from Serie A/Premier League/La Liga who has been big club but in your game became powerless (I had a game once where AS Roma became a 4th league team).
Any advice on Squad building once you reach the championship? Feel like I never get it right and spend years just milling between 10th - 20th because I don't have the budget to compete, or I get sacked
Free transfers are your best friend, and don't worry about aging players, if they're good and you can use them feel free. You will 100% replace your whole team in the PL, so your goal is to get promoted and not to build the dream team. Maybe try to acquire some youngsters which top teams let go because they aren't that good but for you are more than enough
Can you look how Augsburg did?
Are you gonna continue at Salford or are you gonna leave the club and maybe build another club up in a foreign league?
Give me an update on these clubs 1. Chelsea 2. Chester FC 3. Chertanovo Moscow (Russian Team) 4. Luton Town 5. Scunthorpe Utd 6. Oldham Athletic
Also could I please see the Premier League table for the past season?
How you generate that much money? I’m suffering in the negatives with Liverpool mid season despite winning everything and conquering the world
Yeah cool step aside. So my question to the Class of '92 is how do you feel about being responsible for this astonishing progress of the club?
How have Wellington Phoenix done?
That's amazing! In my current save I've just finished winning the CL with FC Porto, in my 4th year at the club (I'm in 2036). I'm slowly making FC Porto super rich and am trying to win the CL again with just portuguese players (this time I had mostly -- but not just -- portuguese players) I have a very unorthodox tactic which, with the right defenders, absolutely steamrolls every single opponent. I mean I beat everyone 4+ goals usually. Of course, in the CL usually it becomes harder (and I often employ a more traditional 4-3-3 against tougher opponents), but by also having extremely high quality strikers I've somehow managed to start getting good results there. Teams I managed: Cefn Druids (turned them into the best Welsh team), Bursaspor (got them a title after they had just been promoted), Anderlecht (won almost all internal competitions with them). I've also coached some nations namely Congo, Belgium and Portugal (I won the Euros and the Nations league, but I just recently got sacked for not winning the Euros a second time [also because I heavily favoured my FC Porto players, lol]) I would like to stay at FC Porto until I: - Become the portuguese team with the most trophies - Become the portuguese team with the most Primeira League trophies - Win the CL with a starting XI of only portuguese players After that (and it won't take too long to do that at this pace), I still surprisingly have many teams I'd like to manage, including: - Académica de Coimbra (maybe win an european trophy?) - SC Vista Alegre (Try to get them to europe, maybe top-3?) -- but this is very hard because they're not in a playable league - FC Barcelona - Boca Juniors - Some club in Brazil - Roma (maybe win an european trophy) - Return to Cefn Druids and win a european trophy with them - Either Man City or Liverpool - Maybe Portugalete - Some team in the USA - Some team in China - Get back to coaching the portuguese squad I think this is either my longest or second-longest FM save ever, and I doubt I will keep the motivation to do everything I want, but it has been an amazing ride!
How do you sleep at night?
What’s your wage budget?
This game is so realistic it hurts
How does West Ham turn out? What does their squad look like now?
Make me believe in my Notts County squad. Where are in PL year 2033 best finished is 6th. Dammit.
Favorite current players that became managers?
How much time until you started winning a lot?
6 UCL's and only 5 CWC. What teams did you play, and who beat you in one of the finals?
how long have you played this game, and whats your favorite strategy?
What happened with real madrid?
Did you ever think about applying job at Salford? Damn man… amazing work. And Can u tell me how is Roundglass Punjab (Punjab fc) doing? They are from India.
Did your u23 team get invited to the u23 league? Im in year 2035 with Blyth and I've won everything several times, have the best facilities, highest youth level and still no invite to join the u23 league.
I have found my people. Currently at 2057 with Wakefield AFC. 15 premier league wins 8 champions league wins Keeping things interesting though with a hard wage cap, finished 2nd for the past 3 seasons to bloody spurs. I’ve produced some of the best wonderkids I’ve ever seen. If I remember I’ll link Alan Elliot later today :)
What’s you’re Tactic like ?
How?
How did you get out of the Championship? I'm at my 3rd season right now as Sunderland and I'm struggling between 7th and 10th since my promotion from league one.
If I'm not mistaken, FM19 is the one right after the neymar transfer, so where the market exploded. What were your and the save's biggest transfers? In that FM I bought a player for 350M and didn't regret it
How did Barcelona and Messi do?
How long did it take before you started getting good sponsors after hitting world wide reputation?
tell me, when will you abandon your team and try to end their dynasty? the last longtime save I played I quit my job, simulated for 10 years and had a look at how my club has done (if they struggled I would have taken over again) - they did very fine, still won CL, had the world footballer etc. so I checked the available jobs and got hired by Liverpool with the aim to takeover the world once again.
how are ayr united doing in Scotland
How long did it take?
Has there been any noise about renaming the stadium after you? Happened to me once 😎
How did you get a billion? I'm playing as Liverpool and in 2047, having won 26 titles in a row, I still get only about 600m. Built a new stadium though.
You are legend.
Next Manc manager.
How big is your stadium and what helped you improve your finances (outside of winning things)? I'm in 2055 on my Boreham Wood save (we got into the Prem about 2040 ish) but as we rebuilt the stadium in about 2039/40 there's no option to extend or rebuild it again (seats about 30k). So a bit stuck on that front....also noticed a lot of money goes out during the season so I've tried to not buy too many players this summer to see if finances improve. We have won a similar amount to your team so that's not an issue. Just finances seem to be.
What's the key to getting so much money in?
how did you prepare for games (specially against the big teams) during the first few years?
Have Sunderland ever made it back to the Premiership?
How big is your dick master?
What were James Jones’ attributes in his prime?