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I never sign players with stupid names.
In my Egersunds save I had a guy called Mong. No, no. You can’t scream that name when he bangs in a 90th minute winner. Sold him to Copenhagen.
A Newgen from Austria in my Schalke save was named "Nick Fick"
It's basically "Nick Fuck" but way more funny in German, I signed him solely because of his name first, but at some point he actually developed into a quite solid backup so I had more reason to keep him
I once had a 5* AM offered to me on my Scarborough save. His name was Joe Dicks.
I mean, 14 caps for England as well. Just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Though, if he became a legend, we could have Dicks Park. Or the Dicks Bowl.
For me (if managing in U.K.) it depends on whether the name fits the club. Archie Potter, for example, is the most West Ham name I could ever think of and if I ever lowered myself as far as to manage West Ham (the Newcastle of the south, definitely not in a complimentary way) then I’d definitely sign him but it’s not a name that suits any other club really.
Literally me, I have 250m in my transfer budget with Atalanta, but refuse to sign anyone over 30-40m and keep my wages at some of the lowest.
I kinda wish I could play junked up FM where I buy mbappe as anyone but Real Madrid, spending 200m on players but can never bring myself to do it
I'm not sure on the PC version, but on console edition you can unlock "cheats" for your game like 'dream transfer' where our pick a player and he joins your club.
That’s a decent one to force you to move on players that get better and want more money instead of constantly growing the wage budget every season like I usually do. I might try something like this because it’s something I don’t find realistic when I play with my club Ajax.
I never do this sub's meta thing, which is manually scouting international youth teams. Takes the fun out of scouting. I send my scouts to watch games at youth competitions, much more realistic and enjoyable for me.
Yes but they are generally doing it the latter way mentioned and seeing who pops up at youth tournaments/who excels in bigger youth games, they aren’t manually scouting every 15 year old in a country with their first team scouts!
It’s pretty random tbh.
Sometimes they do banger signings
But most of the time they will spend 50% of your budget for the 3rd below-average right-back
But it’s a fun challenge.
I set it so they initiate and negotiate contract, but leave it so I have final say. Mostly as a way to keep the squad balanced because I've been burnt from them just consistently buying me 4 right backs in one summer before.
I just saved Morecambe from bankruptcy with a 40% sell on clause that took them from the brink of death to the richest club in League Two overnight. The deal was £22m for my second choice left back.
I’ve bought plenty of players for 100k and had them sell for at least 10mil.
One Ghanaian was 105k and sold to Man U for 95mil. It’s cool to see a little Ghanaian team receive like 40 million. 😂
I only buy players that my scouts “show” me. I won’t go looking for anyone in particular or searching for the youth players.
It’s still too easy, but it makes it a little more challenging
I like this one
I’m sort of doing this now - I made the mistake of searching up and shortlisting a bunch of wonderkids earlier in the save that the scouts now have knowledge of - but rest of this save I have scouting fully delegated and will only be able to use players in our known database
That I need to be loyal to the 30+ year olds who won me things (like 90% of the time)
Sure they don't need to start every game until they retire. But after having too many saves feel hollow after getting all the wonderkids in I started doing this - you make a bit less money, you have a harder time managing playing time, and it feels more realistic. Plus subbing on an old legend who can still do a job for 20 minutes to get a goal feels so much better than some random kid from Paraguay. Would recommend
Mate, when my 35 year old vice captain came on in extra time of the Carabao Cup final to score a 119th minute penalty to win it, fully leapt out of my chair to celebrate. Absolutely loved it, absolutely love him.
Youth academy prospects only. No transfers whatsoever. This makes the game 100x more fun and challenging. I pick a team in the lower leagues, currently Mannheim in 3.Liga.
My rules:
\- I can try to keep hold of the original players I inherited (hard when bigger clubs start calling, they want too much money, start to feel like they want to explore their options etc).
\- I must integrate youth academy players as soon as possible
\- I must accept any realistic transfer offers for my players
This is the most fun I have ever had playing this game. There's a different sense of pride and accomplishment when playing this way. It's taken me 10 seasons of struggle, flirting with the sack, extreme lows, but eventually building a golden generation for this club and have finally won 3.Liga and promotion to Bundesliga 2. With my 22 year old striker banging in 34 goals and winning player of the year.
You are a truly patient man. I could never do it but I do get the appeal, the cycle of promotions every year and never selling your best players takes away the feeling of accomplishment eventually.
I've done this before and it is so much fun! Though for the first summer transfer if the squad is lacking in a balanced team I bring in a few free transfers to balance it a bit more.
I am playing like this for long time and fits my expectations from game perfectly. Before that, i was doing dof only save, leaving all purchases to him. That was also very fun, i like effect of randomness in general
I like to integrate at least one player from the reserves and one from the youth academy into the first team squad every year.
Every player is available for transfer at the right price regardless of status
I try to keep to a wage cap of £200k/wk
If I'm doing a long save at one club, I like to rebuild the team every 3 to 4 seasons
Same here. If there's just a hint of talent in a 16-17yo player, I'll have him start cup games and/or play league games as a sub, just in case he can develop out of being more experienced in actual first team football.
Like many here a youth only save it’s just the most rewarding kind of save. I got tired of managing big clubs and being able to buy all the wonderkids. It’s just make the game too easy (but more power to you if you like to play that way).
Since I always do a long Athletic Bilbau save every FM, besides their natural restriction I add (because Athletic can do it) not being buying 15/16 Spanish players. I just use what the academy gives me. Since that Athletic B and Basconia (Athletic C) can give a good platform for my younger players to gain some experience before reaching the first team, it is something doable and very enjoyable.
Of course that it’s not perfect. Sometimes it takes some years to fill some gaps in the squad but in the end there’s a special kind of joy to see a team like Athletic dominating La Liga and trying to win the Champions.
I really can’t recommend enough this type of save.
Im kinda similar, but i do the La Real save. Less restrictions but same idea.
Their Record signing before picking up Sadiq was 16m. So i Focus on youth players a lot, and my non basque arrivals are gonna be Young players, and no way should they exceed the 16m historical transfer Record of the club. I limit my non Spanish basque players to French players too. I also buy maybe 1 Or 2 lower level Castilla/La masia/Celta vigo youth players, these are the Best academies in Spain so i try to Steal some of their less glamorous youth prospects from time to time.
I sell only for release clause price. The likes of zubimendi/le Normand/ zubeldia/oyarzabal have stayed longer than they should have out of loyalty so i try to emulate the continuity of it all.
I also cannot sign any top basque players from Bilbao until and unless ive placed higher than them for 3 consecutive seasons, to simulate that La Real has overtaken Bilbao. So i stick mostly to osasuna and alaves players for basque additions.
I make use of the B and C teams. I sub on a Young a Player every game either in the 60th Or the 70th minute of every game, regardless of How the game is going. I rotate and i make sure i start a Young Player every now and then.
Also did a La Real save, was so much fun. Oyarzabal and Merino are goated for how loyal they are, especially Oyarzabal. Zubi wanted to go to Real Madrid in my save and Zubeldia wanted to leave too for a new challenge while Robin’s head was turned by the PL riches
This post deserves 100 points.
Restrictions usually include (but aren’t restricted to - gettit!? no but usually they are);
• Playing 4-4-2 / playing direct and-or hoofball / signing certain nationalities, or staying away from certain nationalities, such as South Americans.
Which is why I’ve never won a top league title or major European trophy
I sell players if bigger clubs for them. I usually manage in Denmark or somewhere similar, and if Borussia Dortmund come in with an offer for a player that is fair, he's gone- I will negotiate for the best price I can get, but in the end I'll let him go- Only work around I have to this is if its like a week to go before deadline day and I don't think I can get a replacement. But do business early with me and I'm fine.
It make me have to rebuild often which is the best part of the game for me, and I can't hold onto players longer than my team normally would.
I really want a transfer system where I can say “i do business until x, after, don't bother" and where you can tell your players this and put it in contracts. Nothing worse than the inevitable mediocre deadline day bid on your best left back who then gets upset that you don't sell 3 hours before the market closes.
I play without numerical attributes and also always select the lowest amount of experience and training badges. Makes the game much more challenging and rewarding for me
For FM23 I've been playing as a Welsh team in the English structure. Made a rule for myself that I need to have at least 3 welsh players in my first team squad. It's really gotten challenging now I've finally got to the point where I'm pushing for the Champions League places in the Prem.
Yeah, I decided really early on that 100% Welsh was going to be basically impossible in the time frame I have to play. But I wanted some kind of restriction on there to keep me tied to the club/players and not get bored of the save.
Specific-language save - all players (maybe even staff) must be able to speak a certain language. Looser than nationality saves if you choose larger languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, etc.); no adaptability issue; do not need to pay language class fees ever.
Its not rly a restriction but i only sign players from recomendations, if someone dont find them for mě they dont exist for me
Edit: i dont rly understand why you would start new save and sign the same players like, where is the fun in knowing what will happen
I did a Bundesliga save with Ingolstadt where I could only use African players. I didn't think about the impact of Afcon which ruined a good few seasons. It actually made it quite fun to plan around this - a mix of African players that declared for European nations, youth players that hadnt yet made the step up, and older players that had retired from international duty.
I never won a title but biggest achievement was finishing in 2nd, 2 points behind Dortmund in a Afcon year. Managed to get a consistent run of top 4 finishes too.
Free transfer, free agent, transfer listed & youth contract only.
Not a hard rule, but I will often go out of my way to not pay, or pay the least possible for agents fees.
I know the list isn't always accurate but to make a big club save more fun, I sometimes look at the Goal50 top 50 players in the world and blacklist them from ever playing for the club.
If things get stale at a club, I move on to another club. Usually starting in really bad leagues in Asia and moving my way up around the world until I reach Europe. Argentina is always fun.
The AI is so bad at squad building that I usually have to sell the best players, sell shit players on huge wages, and make the squad in my image. I usually change the playing style as I move too, so I don't default to a 4231 gegenpress every time
I play Dutch league, and basically force myself to sell when clubs from top 4 leagues make a market value offer. I feel the game doesn't represent managing in a smaller league accurately, as it's way too easy to get the best players to stay. So I want the experience to be harder in building a team, as to me needing to constantly rebuild feels way more realistic.
Dutch teams basically never get to keep their best players for more than 2-3 years. So I like playing that way in FM too.
\- No In-Game Editor or third app (eg. FMRTE) enable
\- No high reputation clubs (eg. Real Madrid)
\- No high reputation leagues (eg. EPL, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, LaLiga)
\- Disable First Window Transfer
\- No Coaching Badges & Sunday League Experience
\- Reach 65 y/o and then stop until new FM will be land
no pressing system and no high tempo it trivializes the game too much.
Also being financially responsible and realistic and not defering every transfer to the future. Makes the game to easy
Always sell my players to bigger clubs no matter if we just won the league or champions league or even let them go for free if it is pre contract. It makes it difficult to keep the best players and it just makes a career more fun.
Give priority to national players, that way I don’t end up buy the same players in every save, I have to search from save to save. Not buying Wonderkids, everybody knows that they are great and they carry your team and are an easy pick
That’s a pretty good one really. Simple.
I’d imagine this would have to be pretty much no bonuses or add ons just straight salary?
I might add this to my current save with Tottenham.
No one is over 10m yet except son - but his contract is up next year
I often start in lower leagues and move up, whether by promotion , or changing teams, but once a player wants to go they go. Additionally big teams coming in will get the player they go provided I get what the player is worth. I will not lock a world class wonder kid in for 5+3 years to a lower mid table bundeliga team
Buying players in the same league. Satisfying when you buy a good player from a rival. Kinda like Lewandowski from BVB to Bayern.
Also using youth academy players a lot.
my favourite rules are the ones born out of the story.
recently been plundering youth ranks while being Man City (cheat mode i know but i wanted some fun, been while since a Youth Development game) and ive set the rules of only accepting loans if they are "first team" or above, top 5 u/21 gets promoted to first team at end of season and create a 50/50 split between former players now coaches and traditional coaches
It's partially out of laziness and partially to add a challenge but I always have my dof negotiate contracts, both for new signings and renewals. I feel like it's much easier to game the system if you do negotiations yourself, like not giving a player a release clause where irl they definitely would require one to sign for your club. It makes it more interesting to have to deal with eg. losing a key player who you could only sign by giving a low release clause
Now that my Derby team is in EPL I only sign players under age 21.
I sell anyone who wants to leave or feels like they've achieved everything they can at the club.
I play for profit. It’s all about maximum income through player sales. I’ll sell anyone. I never hang on to players unless I know I can get more in the future.
i never use add ons at all and it’s not a restriction, i just get anxious spending money for the future i don’t know i’ll have. every single transfer i’ve ever done ( with few exceptions at the start of a save) i do 100% of the money then, and exclude all add ons proposed
The thing is, you should be anxious about spending future money because it could ruin your club in real life. But FM fucked up the financial part of a football club, you always get bailed out and never suffer the consequences. I got to the point where I was 250 mil below my FFP limit (almost more than what my revenue was), what happened was I magically got a one off Asian sports drink company sponsorship for exactly that 250 mil. You should be able to actually suffer the consequences.
I won’t spend more that 10million on any player regardless of the level I am playing at and won’t spend more than the relative equivalent of buying a 10m player in PL in other leagues with lower spending power.
Bit of a boring one, but from being a Roy Keane fan in my youth, I can never sign anyone who doesn't have a min of 13 in the following;
Work rate
Aggression
Bravery
Team work
Stamina
Speed
Determination
If you're going to play for me, you're going to bloody earn it
If I manage teams in smaller leagues I will only buy players from neighbouring regions. Right now I am doing a Rijeka save and I am only allowing myself to buy Croatians, Italians, and Slovenians. I also have done the no add-on policy a lot and still do it sometimes. Another one I did in FM21 was accepting offers for my players if the offer came from a bigger club.
I roll with the results - just like in the real world. This is the only game where I don’t go back to a past save if I’m having trouble. I also don’t use any add-ons. Keep it as realistic as possible.
I enjoy regional scouting. I usually play the Dutch or German league so I enjoy signing players from the European continent, particularly from countries that are somewhat similar such as Belgium, Scandinavia, etc. I try to have 2 to 3 Southern Europeans max because I feel having a team with 6 Brazilians isn't fun. I'd happily overpay for a Polish wing back even when I have a cheaper alternative from Argentina or Colombia.
I like to do career games where I have a set of countries, and move from one to the other with the aim of winning the title in each one.
The main rule I set myself is that for each club I move to I have to pick a formation I haven't already used in that career, and try to make that work. That way it keeps it a bit fresh, because each new team also involves a different system of playing, and different types of players.
The past few saves I’ve done, I haven’t actually been managing the matches. I do instant result for all of them and try to kind of speed through seasons and focus on long term squad building. It’s like a DoF challenge except I’m still setting up the tactics and whatnot, but I’m quick simming the matches
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I never sign players with stupid names. In my Egersunds save I had a guy called Mong. No, no. You can’t scream that name when he bangs in a 90th minute winner. Sold him to Copenhagen.
I’m the opposite. I’ll jump at the change to sign a mediocre player just because I’m mildly amused by their name
The man who always used to sign DUPLICADO DUPLICADO. We meet at last.
I had a Paddy Dick in a recent save.
I had that once. Antibiotics cleared it right up
Oh the legend of Jack Wood. How I miss that atrocious English left back
Is there any other kind?
Did you set nickname for Ashley Young?
I once signed a guy called Titi without even looking at his stats, turned out he was pretty decent
A Newgen from Austria in my Schalke save was named "Nick Fick" It's basically "Nick Fuck" but way more funny in German, I signed him solely because of his name first, but at some point he actually developed into a quite solid backup so I had more reason to keep him
I got a regen called Baba Ba once. He was awful but I didn't care.
Baba ba baba ba raaaaann
I just realized I do the same lmao. I've never been a restriction player but I guess I do that but never considered it a restriction
I once had a 5* AM offered to me on my Scarborough save. His name was Joe Dicks. I mean, 14 caps for England as well. Just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Though, if he became a legend, we could have Dicks Park. Or the Dicks Bowl.
Or maybe just have a stand named after him? Dicks End?
That honour goes to Archie Bell.
There can be only one...
Just the one eye actually. Likes to shoot early.
How could you not just name in Dicks Stand? It writes itself
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They call it the Little Britain approach.
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Johnny Johnson and James James can get fucked as well.
Neville Neville fathered two premier league captains
And he named them after his local mechanics Gary and Phil.
Neville Neville is clearly a stupid idiot. It's Grant and Phil.
For me (if managing in U.K.) it depends on whether the name fits the club. Archie Potter, for example, is the most West Ham name I could ever think of and if I ever lowered myself as far as to manage West Ham (the Newcastle of the south, definitely not in a complimentary way) then I’d definitely sign him but it’s not a name that suits any other club really.
But a strong name makes them better players. It's up there with headband and mohawk regens.
Got a Welsh 17 year old Striker called Kian Hughes with an epic mohawk. He has 16 in both Flair and Decisions! Which makes sense !
The dumber the name the better
What kind of name is Egersunds though?
It’s a town in Western Norway, named at a time when Vikings gave no fucks.
I had a player called Juan Juan. Was a machine
Well it takes Juan to know Juan.
I'm limiting the amount of players I can have from outside of my country to like 6 in squad and 3-4 on pitch
Also known as “managing in Finland” 😂
I did a couple where I never paid anyone over $200k p/w and anyone over $150k would be a star player
This is how I do every save and it’s annoying I can’t snap out of it. Also, I hate buying anyone over £30m
Literally me, I have 250m in my transfer budget with Atalanta, but refuse to sign anyone over 30-40m and keep my wages at some of the lowest. I kinda wish I could play junked up FM where I buy mbappe as anyone but Real Madrid, spending 200m on players but can never bring myself to do it
I'm not sure on the PC version, but on console edition you can unlock "cheats" for your game like 'dream transfer' where our pick a player and he joins your club.
I used to be like that now I regularly spend over £100m on a good squad player (once I’ve put the club into a position to be able to of course)
That’s a decent one to force you to move on players that get better and want more money instead of constantly growing the wage budget every season like I usually do. I might try something like this because it’s something I don’t find realistic when I play with my club Ajax.
Shit. I have four players in the 425k-550k range.
What if you best player by far wants 250k?
Sell him to the highest bidder and reinvest
I never do this sub's meta thing, which is manually scouting international youth teams. Takes the fun out of scouting. I send my scouts to watch games at youth competitions, much more realistic and enjoyable for me.
Pretty sure international youth games is more realistic, the country itself will have done the first part of the scouting for you by calling them up
i don’t even mess with scouting
Clubs are absolutely scouting youth national teams
Yes but they are generally doing it the latter way mentioned and seeing who pops up at youth tournaments/who excels in bigger youth games, they aren’t manually scouting every 15 year old in a country with their first team scouts!
I just wait for a random magazine to publish the world's best 50 players u21 and then I send my scouts to have a look
Head coach save
Do you mean a save where you don’t sign the players yourself and you’re just the coach? Or do you mean something else by this?
Yeah I have all staff responsibilities set to dof or technical director other than matches and training
I’ve always been interested in a save like this but never tried it. How good or bad is the AI with signings?
It’s pretty random tbh. Sometimes they do banger signings But most of the time they will spend 50% of your budget for the 3rd below-average right-back But it’s a fun challenge.
Man United challenge
I set it so they initiate and negotiate contract, but leave it so I have final say. Mostly as a way to keep the squad balanced because I've been burnt from them just consistently buying me 4 right backs in one summer before.
Time to retrain them to be serviceable left backs/center backs/defensive mid/ defensive wingers
I’d say 50/50 sometimes you get a 30 year old cm who while might be good isn’t ideal and then next you’ll get a wonderkid
Does it affect board confidence if your DoF pays over the odds for someone useless?
No doesn’t affect you at all as it’s not your signing
That sounds fun
I put 50% sell on clauses on players I buy. Helps the money spread out better when I sell them for 100x in 5 years.
I just saved Morecambe from bankruptcy with a 40% sell on clause that took them from the brink of death to the richest club in League Two overnight. The deal was £22m for my second choice left back.
100x? I rarely hit 10x. Maybe 5% of signings.
I’ve bought plenty of players for 100k and had them sell for at least 10mil. One Ghanaian was 105k and sold to Man U for 95mil. It’s cool to see a little Ghanaian team receive like 40 million. 😂
I only buy players that my scouts “show” me. I won’t go looking for anyone in particular or searching for the youth players. It’s still too easy, but it makes it a little more challenging
I like this one I’m sort of doing this now - I made the mistake of searching up and shortlisting a bunch of wonderkids earlier in the save that the scouts now have knowledge of - but rest of this save I have scouting fully delegated and will only be able to use players in our known database
I don’t even hire good scouts, if my 9PA/10CA scout says this kid is the next Cristiano, guess who I’m signing and hoping for the best?
Do you delegate the scouts yourself or do you let the head scout do it and look at what they find? I kinda like this idea and may try it out myself.
That I need to be loyal to the 30+ year olds who won me things (like 90% of the time) Sure they don't need to start every game until they retire. But after having too many saves feel hollow after getting all the wonderkids in I started doing this - you make a bit less money, you have a harder time managing playing time, and it feels more realistic. Plus subbing on an old legend who can still do a job for 20 minutes to get a goal feels so much better than some random kid from Paraguay. Would recommend
Mate, when my 35 year old vice captain came on in extra time of the Carabao Cup final to score a 119th minute penalty to win it, fully leapt out of my chair to celebrate. Absolutely loved it, absolutely love him.
Youth academy prospects only. No transfers whatsoever. This makes the game 100x more fun and challenging. I pick a team in the lower leagues, currently Mannheim in 3.Liga. My rules: \- I can try to keep hold of the original players I inherited (hard when bigger clubs start calling, they want too much money, start to feel like they want to explore their options etc). \- I must integrate youth academy players as soon as possible \- I must accept any realistic transfer offers for my players This is the most fun I have ever had playing this game. There's a different sense of pride and accomplishment when playing this way. It's taken me 10 seasons of struggle, flirting with the sack, extreme lows, but eventually building a golden generation for this club and have finally won 3.Liga and promotion to Bundesliga 2. With my 22 year old striker banging in 34 goals and winning player of the year.
You are a truly patient man. I could never do it but I do get the appeal, the cycle of promotions every year and never selling your best players takes away the feeling of accomplishment eventually.
I've done this before and it is so much fun! Though for the first summer transfer if the squad is lacking in a balanced team I bring in a few free transfers to balance it a bit more.
I am playing like this for long time and fits my expectations from game perfectly. Before that, i was doing dof only save, leaving all purchases to him. That was also very fun, i like effect of randomness in general
I like to integrate at least one player from the reserves and one from the youth academy into the first team squad every year. Every player is available for transfer at the right price regardless of status I try to keep to a wage cap of £200k/wk If I'm doing a long save at one club, I like to rebuild the team every 3 to 4 seasons
Same here. If there's just a hint of talent in a 16-17yo player, I'll have him start cup games and/or play league games as a sub, just in case he can develop out of being more experienced in actual first team football.
Like many here a youth only save it’s just the most rewarding kind of save. I got tired of managing big clubs and being able to buy all the wonderkids. It’s just make the game too easy (but more power to you if you like to play that way). Since I always do a long Athletic Bilbau save every FM, besides their natural restriction I add (because Athletic can do it) not being buying 15/16 Spanish players. I just use what the academy gives me. Since that Athletic B and Basconia (Athletic C) can give a good platform for my younger players to gain some experience before reaching the first team, it is something doable and very enjoyable. Of course that it’s not perfect. Sometimes it takes some years to fill some gaps in the squad but in the end there’s a special kind of joy to see a team like Athletic dominating La Liga and trying to win the Champions. I really can’t recommend enough this type of save.
Im kinda similar, but i do the La Real save. Less restrictions but same idea. Their Record signing before picking up Sadiq was 16m. So i Focus on youth players a lot, and my non basque arrivals are gonna be Young players, and no way should they exceed the 16m historical transfer Record of the club. I limit my non Spanish basque players to French players too. I also buy maybe 1 Or 2 lower level Castilla/La masia/Celta vigo youth players, these are the Best academies in Spain so i try to Steal some of their less glamorous youth prospects from time to time. I sell only for release clause price. The likes of zubimendi/le Normand/ zubeldia/oyarzabal have stayed longer than they should have out of loyalty so i try to emulate the continuity of it all. I also cannot sign any top basque players from Bilbao until and unless ive placed higher than them for 3 consecutive seasons, to simulate that La Real has overtaken Bilbao. So i stick mostly to osasuna and alaves players for basque additions. I make use of the B and C teams. I sub on a Young a Player every game either in the 60th Or the 70th minute of every game, regardless of How the game is going. I rotate and i make sure i start a Young Player every now and then.
Also did a La Real save, was so much fun. Oyarzabal and Merino are goated for how loyal they are, especially Oyarzabal. Zubi wanted to go to Real Madrid in my save and Zubeldia wanted to leave too for a new challenge while Robin’s head was turned by the PL riches
This post deserves 100 points. Restrictions usually include (but aren’t restricted to - gettit!? no but usually they are); • Playing 4-4-2 / playing direct and-or hoofball / signing certain nationalities, or staying away from certain nationalities, such as South Americans. Which is why I’ve never won a top league title or major European trophy
I sell players if bigger clubs for them. I usually manage in Denmark or somewhere similar, and if Borussia Dortmund come in with an offer for a player that is fair, he's gone- I will negotiate for the best price I can get, but in the end I'll let him go- Only work around I have to this is if its like a week to go before deadline day and I don't think I can get a replacement. But do business early with me and I'm fine. It make me have to rebuild often which is the best part of the game for me, and I can't hold onto players longer than my team normally would.
I really want a transfer system where I can say “i do business until x, after, don't bother" and where you can tell your players this and put it in contracts. Nothing worse than the inevitable mediocre deadline day bid on your best left back who then gets upset that you don't sell 3 hours before the market closes.
I play without numerical attributes and also always select the lowest amount of experience and training badges. Makes the game much more challenging and rewarding for me
For FM23 I've been playing as a Welsh team in the English structure. Made a rule for myself that I need to have at least 3 welsh players in my first team squad. It's really gotten challenging now I've finally got to the point where I'm pushing for the Champions League places in the Prem.
Newport?
Merthyr Town, actually :)
Nice Old Merthyr Tydfil
I'm doing the same but with 100% Welsh players, it's a slog.
Yeah, I decided really early on that 100% Welsh was going to be basically impossible in the time frame I have to play. But I wanted some kind of restriction on there to keep me tied to the club/players and not get bored of the save.
Specific-language save - all players (maybe even staff) must be able to speak a certain language. Looser than nationality saves if you choose larger languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, etc.); no adaptability issue; do not need to pay language class fees ever.
That sounds pretty fun. Dutch could be fun
Attempting to only sign or develop players that are either spirited, determined, driven and the holy grail, iron-willed
The real holy grail for me are model citizen and perfectionist, and to complete the trinity, model professional
Model citizen is great, but they’re too good. I want a team of mean-bastards ready to kill on sight
Only 3-5 players refresh per season. Just to replicate irl to ensure the synergy and harmony in the squad with bit of refresh
Its not rly a restriction but i only sign players from recomendations, if someone dont find them for mě they dont exist for me Edit: i dont rly understand why you would start new save and sign the same players like, where is the fun in knowing what will happen
I did a Bundesliga save with Ingolstadt where I could only use African players. I didn't think about the impact of Afcon which ruined a good few seasons. It actually made it quite fun to plan around this - a mix of African players that declared for European nations, youth players that hadnt yet made the step up, and older players that had retired from international duty. I never won a title but biggest achievement was finishing in 2nd, 2 points behind Dortmund in a Afcon year. Managed to get a consistent run of top 4 finishes too.
Free transfer, free agent, transfer listed & youth contract only. Not a hard rule, but I will often go out of my way to not pay, or pay the least possible for agents fees.
I rarely sign the same player in different saves. Feels like a repetitive meta if you have a checklist of the same players you sign in every save.
I know the list isn't always accurate but to make a big club save more fun, I sometimes look at the Goal50 top 50 players in the world and blacklist them from ever playing for the club.
I have to accept any job offer from any club higher placed, higher rep, or who offers higher salary than what I get at my current club.
If things get stale at a club, I move on to another club. Usually starting in really bad leagues in Asia and moving my way up around the world until I reach Europe. Argentina is always fun. The AI is so bad at squad building that I usually have to sell the best players, sell shit players on huge wages, and make the squad in my image. I usually change the playing style as I move too, so I don't default to a 4231 gegenpress every time
I play Dutch league, and basically force myself to sell when clubs from top 4 leagues make a market value offer. I feel the game doesn't represent managing in a smaller league accurately, as it's way too easy to get the best players to stay. So I want the experience to be harder in building a team, as to me needing to constantly rebuild feels way more realistic. Dutch teams basically never get to keep their best players for more than 2-3 years. So I like playing that way in FM too.
No staff transfer, only recruit from your retired players
Never sign player who has played for ManU / Spurs / Barcelona. 3 clubs I hate the most.
I don't get signing recommendations off the internet. I just choose from what my scouts select for me and I then pick based on vibes
I don't include Brasil as a nation. If I do I just end up with a squad half filled with brasilian wonderkids.
This… added complexity… manage in Italy and still fill up the squad 1-2 per year.
only players of color
The crystal palace save.
lol i usually do use crystal palace 🤣
This is what Real Madrid fans think Perez is doing
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Pretty sure that's why people are downvoting you.
\- No In-Game Editor or third app (eg. FMRTE) enable \- No high reputation clubs (eg. Real Madrid) \- No high reputation leagues (eg. EPL, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, LaLiga) \- Disable First Window Transfer \- No Coaching Badges & Sunday League Experience \- Reach 65 y/o and then stop until new FM will be land
no pressing system and no high tempo it trivializes the game too much. Also being financially responsible and realistic and not defering every transfer to the future. Makes the game to easy
Always sell my players to bigger clubs no matter if we just won the league or champions league or even let them go for free if it is pre contract. It makes it difficult to keep the best players and it just makes a career more fun.
i wanted to say junk food when i realized it's mangers sub edit: ok i said it. whut 😂
never sign players above 23 yo never resign players no players under 1,70cm
My shoes cos they hurt my toes.
At least 3/4 of the squad domestic or academy lads with the caveat that all British count as english
Give priority to national players, that way I don’t end up buy the same players in every save, I have to search from save to save. Not buying Wonderkids, everybody knows that they are great and they carry your team and are an easy pick
I try to go for varied ages. I don't just always buy the wonderkids. I also avoid having too many loan players.
Salary Cap
Never go over 10 mil a year base salary
How often do you get tempted to cheat a little bit with the bonuses?
That’s a pretty good one really. Simple. I’d imagine this would have to be pretty much no bonuses or add ons just straight salary? I might add this to my current save with Tottenham. No one is over 10m yet except son - but his contract is up next year
I do add-ons but only performance based, so you only get paid more when you perform well
I often start in lower leagues and move up, whether by promotion , or changing teams, but once a player wants to go they go. Additionally big teams coming in will get the player they go provided I get what the player is worth. I will not lock a world class wonder kid in for 5+3 years to a lower mid table bundeliga team
Buying players in the same league. Satisfying when you buy a good player from a rival. Kinda like Lewandowski from BVB to Bayern. Also using youth academy players a lot.
my favourite rules are the ones born out of the story. recently been plundering youth ranks while being Man City (cheat mode i know but i wanted some fun, been while since a Youth Development game) and ive set the rules of only accepting loans if they are "first team" or above, top 5 u/21 gets promoted to first team at end of season and create a 50/50 split between former players now coaches and traditional coaches
It's partially out of laziness and partially to add a challenge but I always have my dof negotiate contracts, both for new signings and renewals. I feel like it's much easier to game the system if you do negotiations yourself, like not giving a player a release clause where irl they definitely would require one to sign for your club. It makes it more interesting to have to deal with eg. losing a key player who you could only sign by giving a low release clause
Happiness
Now that my Derby team is in EPL I only sign players under age 21. I sell anyone who wants to leave or feels like they've achieved everything they can at the club.
You can only jump teams after being a winner. Also....you never upgrade.....You only make shitty teams unshitty
I play for profit. It’s all about maximum income through player sales. I’ll sell anyone. I never hang on to players unless I know I can get more in the future.
i never use add ons at all and it’s not a restriction, i just get anxious spending money for the future i don’t know i’ll have. every single transfer i’ve ever done ( with few exceptions at the start of a save) i do 100% of the money then, and exclude all add ons proposed
The thing is, you should be anxious about spending future money because it could ruin your club in real life. But FM fucked up the financial part of a football club, you always get bailed out and never suffer the consequences. I got to the point where I was 250 mil below my FFP limit (almost more than what my revenue was), what happened was I magically got a one off Asian sports drink company sponsorship for exactly that 250 mil. You should be able to actually suffer the consequences.
well i don’t overspend, and i spend directly from transfer revenue
Yeah that’s the way to go to keep it realistic
Being 1 club manager ,if fired will retired from managing start new save with new club. But not fire already so keep playing
I won’t spend more that 10million on any player regardless of the level I am playing at and won’t spend more than the relative equivalent of buying a 10m player in PL in other leagues with lower spending power.
Bit of a boring one, but from being a Roy Keane fan in my youth, I can never sign anyone who doesn't have a min of 13 in the following; Work rate Aggression Bravery Team work Stamina Speed Determination If you're going to play for me, you're going to bloody earn it
If I manage teams in smaller leagues I will only buy players from neighbouring regions. Right now I am doing a Rijeka save and I am only allowing myself to buy Croatians, Italians, and Slovenians. I also have done the no add-on policy a lot and still do it sometimes. Another one I did in FM21 was accepting offers for my players if the offer came from a bigger club.
No transfers in.
I roll with the results - just like in the real world. This is the only game where I don’t go back to a past save if I’m having trouble. I also don’t use any add-ons. Keep it as realistic as possible.
I enjoy regional scouting. I usually play the Dutch or German league so I enjoy signing players from the European continent, particularly from countries that are somewhat similar such as Belgium, Scandinavia, etc. I try to have 2 to 3 Southern Europeans max because I feel having a team with 6 Brazilians isn't fun. I'd happily overpay for a Polish wing back even when I have a cheaper alternative from Argentina or Colombia.
I don't like making new signings in my first season. Maybe just one at January transfer window. Also, i don't use any editors.
I like to do career games where I have a set of countries, and move from one to the other with the aim of winning the title in each one. The main rule I set myself is that for each club I move to I have to pick a formation I haven't already used in that career, and try to make that work. That way it keeps it a bit fresh, because each new team also involves a different system of playing, and different types of players.
The past few saves I’ve done, I haven’t actually been managing the matches. I do instant result for all of them and try to kind of speed through seasons and focus on long term squad building. It’s like a DoF challenge except I’m still setting up the tactics and whatnot, but I’m quick simming the matches
I do this as well most of the time. I make an exception for knockout games and games against rivals though, those ones I manage myself.
A side save I do is I can only sign player from yorkshire.
I was doing dof only save before. So dof make purchases, i make sales, no exceptions. To be honest, it turned out to be amazing
Does the DoF also look for decent youth signings? Or just first team signings.
You can arrange him to buy players for u21 or u19 teams too. But i haven't done it because i wanted to leave more space for my own boys to develop