How I Build Super Teams On Football Manager

I have made a lot of tutorials about Football Manager, everything from opening the game for the first time to getting over that champions league hump, but there’s the final FM frontier. When you’re at the top, or just competing at the top, how do you take the final step to build the types of teams that can win every Premier League for a decade. The teams that become a talent factory for the world’s best players. This video is how I do it. YEEHAW LADS LETS RIDE

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[aidenf.]

Adopting a big team mentality is always a weird change. Honestly, I don't think it's that tough to get over spending £150m on a star player. The real mental block is learning to spend £50m+ on a squad player or a back-up just because they fill out your team, especially when that 40 goal a season superstar striker you have only cost you £15m three or four seasons ago. It took me a while to learn that a world class player willing to sit on the bench is worth their weight in gold.

[thomasjay]

My system is pretty straightforward. For every single position I have

1st team - TOP player
2nd choice - TOP / strong player
3rd choice - wonderkid

When I take over a new club my focus is on making sure my entire 11 has top players and I only sign players max age 25, loaning for depth where needed for 2nd and 3rd choices. When I’m happy with my 11 I’ll bring in quality in my 2nd choice slot and then bring in wonderkids once I’m all set there.

By the time my 1st choice hits his 30s and I’m looking at cashing in on them my wonderkid is usually ready to take over or even my second choice may be good enough.

I sell players as they leave their prime:

GK - 34

Defenders - 31

Mid - 31

ST - 30

Which ensures I’m getting a good payout for my stars and keeping things fresh

[TheYshi]

On my main save this year, I learned a lot to have that "everyone is sellable for the right price" mentality. I found two Argentinian superstars early in their career and I thought they'd be here forever, especially because I was playing in Spain and one of them was Italian 2nd nationality. Two years later both were gone to the prem for over 200€M. Each. It was hard for me to actually do it because I thought they were going to win me everything this year but after looking at potential replacements I saw that I could replace both for less that what one of them would bring me, and actually built a team full of players of that caliber in almost all my positions, winning everything 2 years in a row.

[Archie]

Love that you show Camavinga as a utility player.Dude's probably only 19/20 and the sky could still be the ceiling for him in centre mid.

[phelanmuller]

Glad you made this video. I feel like a lot of people (myself included sometimes) get caught in the wonderkid churn and need to transition from having a team with future value to one that is good right now.

[ZoeDS]

I started a Crystal Palace save in February and it’s the first long term save I’ve done in FM24. I’m now half way through my 3rd season and we’ve won the FA Cup, Carabao cup and snuck into the UCL consistently. My first signing was Marcos Leonardo for just under £30m which we could just about afford after selling some players. I’ve managed to keep Eze and Olise although they might both be sold soon but mainly because we are only ‘okay’ financially and I honestly think we can grow better as a squad without them . Because of our low reputation I’ve been able to sign a lot of high potential young players for reasonable prices, like Roony Bardji, Solet, Omaridion.We’ve also been using the loan market, to get quality first team players from huge clubs that are transfer listed most notably Carlos Soler from PSG and Wijndal from Ajax. We just started going into the FT market, with Kyle Walker peters signed and Doue and Pablo Torre on the list for next season. The best signing we’ve made so far has been an unhappy Pafundi for less than £20m. He is unreal. I kinda recognised the name from some rebuilds I’ve watched but I never knew how good he was and I don’t pay attention to wonderkids so I had no idea.
I’m looking forward to continuing at Palace. We are currently first in the league and looking for that title .
Love this vid as it’s so inspiring to think about what we can achieve. They sky is the limits

[connorjones]

Finally this might be the video I'm waiting for my Brighton save 5 years in I'm stuck between mid table and just missing european football

[propahchels]

Wake up babe new Zealand video just dropped

[afasia]

I totally agree that it's important to know when to "switch" from ammassing wonderkids to make a profit to just buying superstars to improve your starting lineup. I managed to win UCL with AS Roma many times and the first few seasons are all about selling the extra players and getting cheap wonderkids, free transfers or bargains. Then when you get to the level of the big clubs you just need to get the new superstars that pop up in lesser teams ASAP even if they cost a lot of money... And not be scared of selling your starters when an amazing offer comes. I remember selling El-Shaarawy for like 100M to PSG after a good season, he was valued like 20 the next one.

[robvermeer]

What I do in FM for many versions now. Use my own calculation sheet in Excel that calculates a score based on the roles of your tactics and the values of those attributes. Looks like something Squirrel_plays created, but then the score is based on my tactics and my way of playing (stronger players goods headers etc). I know this score will raise when players develop, but it will go up with max 2 at the age of 20 max 3 at the age of 18 and 4 at the age of 16. So for example, in Bundesliga, I will only take an 16yr old player with a score of at least 10 at 18ys 12 etc but when I'm playing in, for example, Mexico I will take an 16yr old with a score of at least 7 etc. So I totally avoid the CA and PA potential scores and use scouting reports for revealing the attributes and knowing if he gets injured fast, loves big games, and loses his cool fast. And trust me this works perfect!!! Raised many wonderkids into worldclass players and sell them for big money to get more and more wonderkids. No matter what FM version your playing. Use the highlighted attributes per role give them a score how important that attribute is in your tactics, and find some more attributes that all players should have and create your own CA to determine who is gonna be your guy. A lot more fun than using Genie scout trust me.

[mickypain]

My favorite trick for signing players a bit out of my reputation range:
Find a player with 1-2 years left on their contract and attempt to loan them.
Praise, support, cuddle the player while he’s on loan with you.

With a bit of luck, I can become a favored person, and the second he reaches 6 months left, try to sign him for free.

Got plenty of players over the years that would otherwise have never signed for me.

[congolesewizard]

Zealand is never beating the Man Utd hater allegations😂

[mikesearcy]

Leaning in to "You hate Man U" is my favorite part of this video

[Grabarz]

since 2013 i play same old FM14 with same old my own database. I degraded Millwall to lowest league added players like buffon, pirlo, torres, adriano (striker), kaka, ronaldinho, gerrard, terry, vidic, Xabi, and so on - set their potential to 200, changed their age to 16, and anchored their contract to 2099 :)
this game still gives me so much joy to bully teams like PSG, Barcelona, Man City or so on - and yes im aware that im cheating but as long as im doing this in my game, and it does not hurt anyone else i guess is fine :)

[grigoriikulikov]

You can pretty much almost always bring down the playing time by choosing the option of "I must say you are not of that quality" or something like that (top line first right one to the center). Didnt work only once when I used it on my best CD, but then I brought better CD and it worked again. So its working 9 out of 10 times I would say

[thargoff]

Love seeing all our Twitch and Zealand Live favourites in a main channel video. :)

[joshutb]

I was literally looking for a video like this yesterday

[dylanwyatt]

you should make a video about the dark arts of football manger. save scumming, transfer exploits etc

[chinyembamwale]

Yall should sign youngsters (19 and below) with potential for the first team due to homegrown rules especially in England the homegrown rules in the champions league are frustrating if u don’t pay attention to how many hgc and hgn players u have

[_Wi_Se_]

The problem I find with his scouting is that if you select multiple positions the scouts will ONLY “Find players who can play all selected positions”, which means that if you need a Rb and only have like 3 days left on the window your scouts will only have found players who can play both lb and rb and then that could be a problem as those players might be more expensive or not as good as someone who only plays on one side.