Saving Saves Where Your Wonderkids Get Stolen

It’s one of the most terrifying things you can possibly have in Football Manager, Real Madrid, PSG or Manchestery city appearing by that ‘wnt’ sticker on your player. They have the pull, they have the money, they have the ability to steal your players anytime they want to. So, how do you deal with it when they inevitably do? That and other messed up saves on this rendition, of SAVE YOUR SAVES LET’S GO.

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[cltuxunink]

if a player wants a release clause when you talk to their agent about their contract there is an option to say to the agent that you think it would be best if no terms were locked and everything was negotiable. its works a lot for me and lets you remove and exclude a release clause that would otherwise be orange and they will usually respond with asking for a higher wage

[HCMCDrives]

Ah, Andy Harwood. Always pops up (one of the regen names hardcoded in the game as i think he works on the game). Seems to often be a great player, usually a LB...

[andrewcarter]

No one talking about the transition at 24:27 that was actually silky smooth

[samsteff]

Andy Harwood the sometimes Swedish/English LB that always appears? Usually turns out good.

[luscorpio]

Saw the second guy and immediately thought he needed a big dose of eastern european wonderkids. I've had so much success finding wonderkids from eastern Europe (the Balkans especially) with Strasbourg when I didn't have the financial power to go for those golden spoon wonderkids.

[ShinySwalot]

Omfg 9:20 that's my favourite club up top!
For some reason PEC Zwolle always does better in FM than in real life, probably because the attributes of the players are good but irl it just doesn't gel haha

Would love to know if they managed to stay there if the VVV save person reads this comment haha

[BaiDobchan]

You are losing guys to 70M clauses? Try managing in a smaller country and see how your top players get poached for peanuts. Takes a lot of negotiation for something to go over 10M.

[Draddar]

Excellent episode, one of the best in SYS. Touches on a lot of issues at a semiadvanced level that are often overlooked.

Also: "If you are not insecure financially you're not trying" Kind of true 😅 especially in some lower income leagues.

[reueldcosta]

The best way I have found to keep your best players at the club is to give them an appraisal every June. Renew their contract give them a 10-20% appraisal. They always end up signing and it deters other clubs to pay their release clause

[THRDPRSON]

19:44 Losing in the Carabao cup final 2-3 to Forest haha. Can't take the spursiness out of the game

[_Kwabena]

LOL the city save intro was hilarious I managed city the first time I ever played FM and it made me think I was good despite just starting the game 🤣

[johnmacdonald]

When a player has a release clause that is limited in yellow. You can put it up to the maximum and lock it, offer a contract and if he agrees, you can then up it to the maximum again and offer more wages. Repeat until the release fee is high enough that you wouldn’t mind loosing him or you reach your wage cap.

[casteri]

3:45 the editor writing and as "aaund" is a 10/10 decision

[Oakster_]

Love SYS so much, would be great to see new episodes drop more often (again)! :)

[Olipakerranoiva]

The surname Harwood is the coolest surname in the English language and it also makes me think of the Battle of river Plate since the three British cruisers in that battle were commanded by Comodor Henry Harwood and he was able to fore the German panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee flee to the port of Montevideo and later he managed to fool the captain of Admiral Graf Spee to believe that British battlecruiser HMS Renown and aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal had arrived to blockade Admiral Graf Spee in Montevideo which resulted capetin Langsdorff scuttling his ship

[i.blomen]

"ah time to watch the new Zealand video" *my team somehow catches a stray 1 minute into the video*

[reverendroar]

24:37 Zealand sounds more and more like Tom Jones every time!

[Colley]

The loan song always gets stuck in my head to the point that I regularly get the message. ‘You can only have 5 loans in your match day squad.’

[zombiefootballhighlights]

In my save I took over AC Milan in 2030 after managing Brazil and Inter Milan had won the league consistently from 2023-2029. AC Milan were not doing so well financially. What I did was scout wonder kids and signed them for small amount and kept them at their teams for the remainder of the season. After the 2029-2030 season I won the league and the following season I received offer for team giants like Theo Hanandez 34y/o(18m), Rafa Leao 31y/o (80m), Joao Pedro 29y/o (75m), Willian Pacho 29y/o (80m), and Ryan Gravenbech 28y/o (60m).
When my wonderkids return that season their values sky rocketed and I won the league and champions league with them while having over 300m as my transfer budget. While playing the game one should not fear to sell as long as you keep an eye out for the GOAL 50 best wonderkids and signed the ones from smaller teams.

[Jackfortyfour]

Not Zee bringing up my first trauma with that leerw jab 😭😭😭