Insane Saves That Will Get You Playing FM Again

Football Manager is an addiction, let me help you re-find it. I’ve cultivated a list of beauties and hopefully one of them clicks for you..

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[nkola]

This is like a dealer making you buy more drugs and give up on rehab.

[androidbluat]

Most overlooked feature is create a club. It's so fucking fun to design a team from scratch and watch them grow.

[prevara]

The administration takeover save is a great way to build that world beating team of players with 18 pace and nothing else

[aussieaussie]

Musterman is how I play FM and it can be an absolute nightmare with terrible scouts in lower leagues. A lot of bad players have joined my team but it makes it so much more rewarding getting a player that can dominate

[adewolecoleadetayo]

Zealand forgot probably the most important one, the Head coach save, where you are the coach of the team and nothing else, your director of football handles transfers, contract negotiations and all that.

[crazyaids]

I survived until around 4:15 when he started talking about taking players back to their original clubs. That Dortmund save would be awesome

[yura]

A great save idea is in Scotland. So Dumbarton a team that is currently is the 4th division of Scotland won the first 2 Scottish League titles all the way in the 90s. 1890s
So here is your job, regain Dumbarton's Scottish throne from Celtic and Rangers.
The win condition depends on when you stop having fun, so it might be your first win of a Scottish Premiership, might be when you establish dominance over Scotland so win like 5 leagues in a row, or do a treble.
The loose condition is simple, if any team besides Rangers and Celtic wins the premiership before you do, you are done. Go do a different save.

P.S. - For me I just had a save with Elgin City so I don't feel like going back to Scotland.

[ArthurCDoyle]

For years I've been chasing the most beautiful person I've ever seen from my dreams. Today I found him. Zealand it is an honour. The Adonis of my dreams. The Johnny Bravo of my heart.

[brendanchoo]

7:56 Seca and Pawlak got a nice tan in the summer break I see

[ntroni]

Fun save ideas for everyone is try managing outside of top 5 leagues. There are 5 continents full of national leagues, cups, various iterations of champions league. U might even fall in love with a random country like i did in my Vanuatu save. And uwill never have the opportunity to buy the same players as in europe if you are in another continent your repuation is so low and its a real challenge

[TheGfxJG]

Something I've been doing this year is basically, creating real-life players (either retired, or by removing them with the pre-game editor), and playing out their hypothetical manegerial career. Currently I'm playing as Ezequiel Lavezzi, started at Estudiantes (his RL first club), and then simply played from there - I had hoped to visit his clubs in order, that sadly didn't happen, but the end goal is simple - In his case, win the CL with Napoli. And of course, his coaching staff is players he played with IRL - My assistants are Cavani and Hamsik!

I started a similar one with Yaya Toure, but it didn't have a clear end goal in the same way as Lavezzi did. It's reignited a lot of fun into FM for me!

[brycefloyd]

I recently found out about this game and been watching a lot of your videos and have been waiting for this game to go on sale, hopefully. Keep pumping out the great videos.

[azzak]

Another cool save is finding a custom league database and taking over your local semi-pro team IRL

I did it in Australia taking Macarthur Rams (team I played for growing up before I realised I would never make it pro) to the A-League from about 4/5 divisions down. Were even some guys I played with growing up in the save across the divisions which made it really special

[rizfarchan_]

"Maybe you're just a giant Dortmund fan and I'm describing your fantasy"

I feel called out, Zealand.

[die]

Christmas is how I normally play and I’ve had some great saves out of it. I also like the scenario you can download which removes all contracts so you have to rebuild your whole squad but every other team does the same.

[blirt]

Great video and I see you are trying to show how people can get creative and play what I call non-Vanilla FM.
I only play FM in a joint save with one of my friends. We always start off with a Vanilla save on every new FM but after that we play around with custom universes as it makes it very fun. Our most recent save is in Japan where there has been a fictional takeover of all the clubs, increasing reputation and budgets hugely. We have done a few seasons and now plan to leave our clubs and take over other clubs in Japan to try and topple our previous powerhouses.

[Capry]

So one save I did recently that made me have a bit of fun was putting a limit on the max I could spend on a transfer.

I set a max limit of 5 million (AUD, so it was peanuts) and did a create a club feature in Belgium. It meant my favourite part of the game, finding wonder kids, was absolutely a necessity. And it meant that a big sale was a plethora of new signing I could bring in.

The save did get stale cause I hit the peak of player I could get and could only get to the champions league knockouts, but for a good 7-8 season save, I'd recommend it.

[bigfudgeUK]

I have a save idea, it's a weird one and I don't imagine there will be many people who would find this fun but it starts with picking whatever team you like and using whatever playstyle you like with them. Then, each season create a new manager and assign them to whatever team you like, use the IGE to max out the managers stats and give them team they manage loads of money, set the staff responsiblities to give almost everything to staff save for match day stuff then relinquish control of them as you progress through your next season you can watch as they rebuild the team. It's good if, like me, you struggle to decide which team to manage yourself and/or you'd love to see certain teams succeed in a save beyond your own. I've got the English leagues db and even though I manage in the German leagues I'm currently watching Great Wakering Rovers and Wakering Sports FC battle for the Essex Senior League trophy, they're 2 tiny teams from the village I was raised in and it is genuinely quite a lot of fun watch them move up the ladder. I've also seen MK Dons and Southend United play European football on this save which is just wild.

You could also just use the pre-game editor to start all of these teams off in the topflight if you wish but its more about the journey for me!

[MikeThomassen]

I've done two things to really love playing FM again. Director of Football, and signing 30+ years old players. Those two saves has saved my FM-playing mood :)
DoF - Sign an Assistant to be the "first team coach", including tactics and everything, and I'm the DoF outside the field.
30+ - I can only sign players that has turned 30 years old. This forces me to rethink my approach and tactic every 2-3 seasons, and it's really fun :)

[badjaress]

I have an idea for a save.
It is similar to the director of football, but the opposite.
You are only the manager, you just go to the games, and do the training.
All of the other stuff, like buy and sell players, it's a task for the Director of Football. With that, you will be forced to play and work with the players that your director of football gets to the team. I think that it is a nice challenge.