Did anybody else click on this video half expecting 11 minutes of Zealand yelling WAAAAAAALLLEEEEESSSSS with a song and dance edit going on in the background?
Thanks, but I already have a Perfect System: 1) Play as Newcastle 2) Challenge for, but never win, titles just as the new FM comes out 3) Start over in the new FM
@@izaakwp7811 Bro!! I've got Gateshead on FM20 last year, champion of every lower league year after year. Survived PL, improved and I got to Champions League on 3rd year of PL.. Did not win. CL again, did not win and 3rd on PL. Stopped playing...
@@deckyBWFC91 Yeah it can get a bit tedious to start. It always depends on your managers experience, load some lower leagues or custom databases, and give your manager some badges to start off with. It is a much more satisfying way to play imo, but I get it's not for everyone.
@@alternatehistorysports see I always play northern and republic of Ireland, wanted a change of scene. I tried journey man on Fm16 and I never got out of Ukrainian lower division in 4 real life years, it was a great challenge, did about 12 in game seasons... But to spend 2 in game years looking for work only to be offered Iceland which I think are the lowest league in fm20 anyway, I might aswell have just picked the team there to begin with. I even had Lowest Danish, Bulgarian, Finland, Croatia, Belarus. They all laughed off my interest.... I'm actually going to give it one more go tonight. Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Russia, Switzerland... I've a poor enough laptop so try only get leagues with small 2 division that interested in and low enough to be able get a job.
@@deckyBWFC91 Make things a little quicker by giving your manager some experience, like he was a professional player, got some coaching badges after retirement etc. It's monotonous applying for jobs and getting rejected otherwise. Also give your manager the language and nationality or part nationality of the nations you load, it should help a bit otherwise you're just one of a million managers out there.
@@deckyBWFC91 I've done semi-pro and no badges. That might be a little less onerous finding a first job. My first job was still in the Chilean second division (fortunately a league I actually knew a bit how to be successful with), but it only took a few months.
7:00 I am portuguese but this Red Star Belgrade team that won the Champions Cup, was such a great team. I will go even further that it is one of the most overlooked team when people talking or remembering great teams.
Oh man, dont mention it pls. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was 11 y/o kid, thinking only of football for a whole day. After last penalty we scored, my father started screaming, jumping, punching the walls, i thought he is gonna destroy the house. Mom, sister and me were on the couch, could not stop laughing. Well, year 2018, now i am a father. My daughter asked my mom, why am i screaming, jumping naked around the house balcony. Oh, dear, it is nothing, we qualified to the World Cup final.
One of my fav saves was with these guys. Got to the Prem but then I bailed on them after they gave me like £10M to turn what was essentially a league one squad into a premiership team
David Wagner is the guy who started Schalkes winless run by training way too little in the first corona break and then sugarcoating all problems. He did well before the break and at Huddersfield tho
I love the slay a giant save, where you take a small team where a top team is located and build it up to defeat them. I just did this in Paris with Red Star FC, went all the way and won the CL and two Ligue I titles. My newest save is take a story that exists in real life and take it to it's conclusion. I'm doing that with Marine FC, who made the third round of the FA Cup and lost to Tottenham. My goal is to eventually defeat Tottenham in an FA Cup and take them to the PL.
My first save was called "Project East Germany", the plan was taking a team from Eastern Germany to the Bundesliga as soon as possible, it took 4 years, then, I lost the save :(
I love playing the grind as a journeyman, but not for the challenge, but for the roleplaying. I love coaching a team for 3-4 seasons and then move on :)
First save of FM21 started unemployed got a job with Red Star FC in the nationale French division who were 17th, just got them promoted in the play offs at the end of my first season. The grind will be real!
Nice one, I started with them! Bizet, Durand, Roye and Koukou are carrying me towards automatic promotion. And managed to loan this way too on the nose diminutive midfielder raised by La Masia called Xavi Simons
When I first watched Spanish Football I was a teenager and my two favourite teams to watch were Valencia and Deportivo Coruna, so I chose Deportivo rebuild and it has been my most enjoyable save I have ever done. #VamosDeportivo #Riazor
The most fun I've had in FM for YEARS was 'Nation Building' - I've joined Celtic and Dundalk, made it into Europe, built up the nation co-efficient to make more/better places in Europe available, and then inject money / loans / free players to other teams in your nation so that they are also able to make it into European powerhouses. Celtic was fairly easy - it took ~10 seasons before Scotland was one of the major European leagues. I'm still to this day playing my FM18 Dundalk save - I'm 9 years in and I've gotten to the stage where Shamrock Rovers / Limerick can win some European qualifiers but haven't made the jump yet.
I've been playing with OM all year, definitely a challenge competing with PSG and even OL (Monaco can be sneaky too), but it's a nice save to try. I even managed to win the league in year 1 by 1 point over PSG. In my third year I have Szoboszlai, Tonali, Gravenberch, and Tammy Abraham leading my squad. Definitely give OM a try if you're looking for a fun save.
Milan is great. It’s my main save as of now. Finished second in my first season and got knocked out of the europa league in the last 16’s. Second season I won the Serie A with 101 points and won the champions league! This resulted in me losing some of my best players - including Leao, Donnarumma and Hernandez - blessed be their treacherous souls. My third season is not going as well as a result, as I’m trying to rebuild and fill the holes those beautiful disloyal players left me with. It’s a blast
Doing a Hexagon Challenge here. Started unemployed and got a job in New Zealand's second tier. Went to Fiji as I couldn't get promoted with that database. Won the Oceanic Champions League and gone through a couple of clubs to get to Orlando Pirates in South Africa to win the African Champions League.
Always get sucked into the Swedish leagues. Over the years played AIK, Goteborg, Hammarby, Helsingborg, Oster, BK Hacken and currently Stockholm Internazionale. Started as a relative equal top division where at least half the clubs could contend for the title after 1 off-season, way back in FM 13 or 14. In more recent games like in FM 20, Malmo is basically the top club which is a step above everyone else. Then you have the pack behind where most clubs can contend, but will lack the financial backing and fans excluding a couple of clubs. So you have to try to overthrow Malmo, while trying to keep the title, plus foreign clubs will send in relatively big money offers for your players. Which most of the time you'll have to try and squeeze as much money out of them as possible to fuel your clubs future young generation/transfers. So you can be competitive in the European competitions down the line. Plus it's a summer league which adds to the dynamic of trying to have a successful European campaign.
My fav was Sweden in FM-2013, club Assi, youth intake only. I won Sweden league, defeated Chelsea on Stamford Bridge in CL and played in EL playoffs few times. Sweden national team was 70% from my academy. My billboard destoyed the save when they've sold two awesome defenders in one transfer window.
I’m doing “The Grind” with th UK and Ireland leagues loaded. Started unemployed with no playing experience and the 1st coaching badge only. 12 seasons in and I’ve just taken over Newcastle United, trying to get them back into the Premier League. I’ve had some interesting stops along the way, including a stint as Northern Ireland U21 manager.
It’s usually 1860 Munchen for me. Three Bundesliga titles and two German cups in the bag so far this year. Always a fun save, small ground and debts make it a challenge, though this years game has been a little easier than previous editions.
Starting a career in like 2035 or so became my way to go when I want to manage in an European league, actually. If you start in the presence, by the time you begin your 4th save, you just know so many good free agents and talents whose contracts are running out that it is kind of boring. Same for staff. Always scouting the same guys, always battling the same opponents,...that is not suuuper interesting on a long run. A game full with regens and new power dynamics within the leagues is a lot of fun!
I am managing Marino de Luanco at the moment. Loving it 5 years in and 13th in LaLiga. Spain is pretty tough. They changed the whole league system 2 years in which made it way harder.
Started in Iceland 2nd Division, just won the 1st division and made the qualifying round of the champions league to get smacked by Malmo 7-3 on aggregate. Took 6 years, and I'm still a semi-pro team.
I love fallen giants! One that's similar to Deportivo is Hamburger SV in 2.Bundesliga, enjoyed that last year. Doing FC Kaiserslautern in the 3rd tier now. Both Bundesliga winners and Hamburg also European cup winners
U forgot about: Go to the editor-create a club and all infrastructure and language-create personal for the club- put them in the most non league possible and set a challenge by playing only homegrown players. This, this what real grind is.
For me, its always the clubs I support in real life. AC Milan and Union Berlin all the way. Two totally different teams with different club cultures, players, challenges, objectives etc.
I started playing Football Manager 2018. My local team is a fallen giant into the 4th divion of Romania with 4 league titles and 6 domestic cups, also a uefa cup semi-final during the 80s, after they got excluded from all competitions and declared bankruptcy. Amateur side, no training, youth facilities, stadium, etc. I managed two promotions in three years and now I'm getting ready for my first season in the second tier.
I have two types of saves I love, the straight forward Basque or nothing save and the start from lower leagues with middling to alright facilities (Gateshead, Telford, Portugalete).
Panathinaikos who used to play in the ucl every season( once reached ucl final, twice semifinals) is a nice save if you want to rebuild. Although they have a pretty good team for the greek championship, the real challenge is to establish them to the Champions League(which means you have to win the greek championship, because only the champion of Greece can play in the champions league 2nd qualification round, 2nd 3d and 4th can only play on Conference league). Also, a major problem for the club in real life is their stadium, when i pick them i try to build a new stadium for the club but it's too tough because of the economical situation that they're facing. Back in fm19 i believe, if you wanted to coach them you had to start with a 6 point deduction and a ban from European competitions
"My God... I like mayonnaise?" Cracked up laughing.
3 года назад+2
"I don't know who this David Wagner guy is" As a Schalke Fan, I can assure you, that you will never hear of him again. We didn't win 18 games in a row under him.
Started a save with Hamburger SV in FM19 because of this video. Currently top of the Bundesliga 2 in January (although that's not surprising as they just got relegated in this game). Optimistic about the future as Ive just beaten Stuttgart in the German Cup and I have Wolfsburg as the next opponent. Bundesliga, here we come!
Currently working on my ‘Pentagon’ save. Started with no badges, no experience, unemployed. 4/5 champions leagues so far, Suwon FC (South Korea) Baroka (South Africa) Portland Timber’s (USA) Internacional (Brazil) Won the French league with Monaco in my first year in Europe then got offered the Real Madrid Job. The year is 2041...
I think i fall into the "The Grind" category. But also love the story aspects i can add in. Currently i am playing as Eschen/Mauren in Switzerland. The grind is to get to the Champions League and hopefully win it. Story aspect is to get a Liechtenstein team to play in the Champions league Its a lot of fun. In my 8th season, we just got relegated from the top tier (that was a rough season to sit through) back into the second tier. However I have made it to the group stage of the Euro Conference for the first time. Hoping to build on it from there
My favorite save ever is an Unemployed save I'm actually in right now. First job was Barnechea in Chile second tier. Little suburb of Santiago tucked against the Andes. No fan base to speak of lol. Got them promoted, was leading the league in my first year after promotion when I got hired by Rosario Central. Got them into Libertadores, then fell short due to an insane injury crisis but won the coach of the year, hired by River Plate. About 2 years each stop. River is so much fun bc they have great youth intake, are a top club domestically of course, but then winning continental competitions is still hard bc Brazil -- but possible. Planning on staying with River basically until I get a top half job with a Spanish or English club, maybe Europa or better in Germany or Italy...something like that.
I got up for a journeyman save. I started with Greenock Morton in the Scottish Championship and got them promoted to the SPL within a year and a half I was there. Then I moved to Wycombe where I won League One my first year there and bolted for Millwall where I am currently. Probably my favorite save in awhile.
An idea for a fallen giant save is Swedish side IFK Göteborg (Gothenburg). In the 80's and 90's they dominated the Swedish league and were a strong force in Europe as well. Semifinalists of the European cup in 1986, won their CL-group in 1994 beating Man Utd, Barcelona and Galatasaray and of course their two UEFA Cup-titles from 82 and 87. Nowadays they are that frustrating team in no mans land in Allsvenskan. The occasional gems are often sold for nothing to Holland or Belgium. If you start a save now you have a talented squad mixed with experienced homecomers, decent finances and the initial boost of Marek Hamsik who is under contract until the end of august 2021. Enjoy!
6:08 this was why I picked Werder Bremen for my recent save. Team fallen on hard times in Germany and could be relegated this season. 4 years in and finally in a position to challenge Bayern for the bundesliga
something i do is buy the editor and create myself as a player, and put myself into my hometown team's academy. i then simulate and allow my career to play out. once i retire, i look at my history and make a judgement from that. this year, i played over 250 games for hibernian, made a move to america then came back and retired at st johnstone. had an under 21 cap for england, so i was relatively well known. when i made my manager, i was offered a job with greenock morton in the scottish 2nd division.
I just did the no badge Sunday footballer unemployed start. Ended up at a second tier Belarussian side and have won 3 of my first 4 games. They had absolutely no staff and the board is happy for me to hire some. Because of this hopefully the only way is up.
I used to make up own team in Scotland and put them in the bottom division. Now I tend to go Liverpool which is the team I support but my current save is with stirling Albion and I’m 8 seasons in and really enjoying it. I was born in stirling so it was an easy choice to pick them
I did dynamo Dresden. I love German football, especially the atmosphere in the stadiums. I got hooked to Dresden because of their chant "Öst öst öst Duetchland" translates to East, East, east Germany. The fans are basically saying that they want the east Germany clubs to be feared by all other clubs. I ended up having an all German team and won the treble in 2045. Best save ive ever done
I am doing a save with Hemel Hempstead Town for the sole reason that it has been voted the worst and ugliest town in the UK and I find it funny turning it into a premier league champion or european powerhouse
My favourite repeat save is to start unemployed and always take every job offer throughout the save unless it is Manchester United. It tends to be continuous chaos, and it forces me to consider a wide range of tactical approaches due to the different squads.
Whatever you do, don't manage Romanias Second Tier. They require you to have two Romanian U19 players in your PLAYING lineup which makes rotating your squad very difficult
Few teams I have done in previous FM's are: Deportivo La Coruna, AC Milan, West Ham, Chelsea, Marseille, Sparta Rotterdam, RB Leipzig, Beerschot AC. Currently doing a Braga save and having a lot of fun trying to build up the ultimate prospect factory.
I support a broke club that current plays on the lower leagues of Brazil but during Pelé times was the second best team on the country but didn't win anything because Pelé existed. You can't get better than that when picking saves
One that I have always liked doing is going to a smaller country (Austria, Switzerland, Greece, etc) and picking a team that was relegated a year or two back.
In Spain or rather Asturias in a very non biased way I'd recommend two teams. One would be Real Sporting de Gijón, sitting in the second division it has three interesting players in midfield: Gragera (DM), Pedro Diaz (your classic DLP) and Manu (AM) and potentially decent youngsters with Guille Rosas, Morilla, Santamaría and Dacal. With a decent fanbase (bigger than a fair chunk of teams in the first division) for a "small" club, good installations and a historic stadium is a potentially sleeping giant a la Leicester. The second would be Lealtad, if you enjoy the grind is a semiprofessional team with a sick badge and black kit and that's enough for me.
I'm just here to recommend a building a nation save with Ireland. I'll be honest its a bit painful at the start but its satisfying when you become the best team in the league. I've so far gotten to place 16 in the coefficient rankings. 15th place has 2 ucl spots, 1 europa league place and 2 europa conference league. This is also the first fm save i have ever done and im currently in 2044 so i could have done better 😅😅
My last favorite saves. Bari. Loaded them with uruguyans, croats, serbs, slovaks, nice stadium. Wrexham. Many league games, possible many cups runs. Tried to contribute for their national welsh team. Cartagena. nice looking badges, uniforms, less restriction to buy south american regens, fight barcelona and real.
FM is an awesome game and am sure it's important to be completely into a topic to do your vids - but man!!! u are WAY TO GOOD as a content creator to stick to a niche topic only :-*
i started without a job got a job at fc utrecht saved them from relegation and now im ad nec nijmegen got them promoted and now im fighting against relegation
Hey zealand! I might be wrong but I think you did a save in Iceland 🇮🇸 If you did is that recorded? I’m doing managing Fjolnir in Fm21 and it is loads of fun and I’d like to watch some content of people managing in that country. Thanks man
I'm playing a park to prem save as Maidstone United, a National League South team. It's taken me 15 years but I'm up into the Prem and fighting against relegation. I'm really hoping for an ownership change cuz we are too poor to survive in the prem without a significant change in transfer budget. It's fun.
I have tried international management with India. The problem is I see no way to improve facilities in India so I stand no chance of improving the nation as a whole by myself. The only way I see it being possible is taking over the best team available and then slowly upgrade their facilities and hope they get me something. I would love to have like a special National Team training/youth facilities, would be a game changer for me
If you want a mid tier team in a top flight league, try Wolves. They have one of the best youth prospect strikers in the game and a banging squad that can go really far. It was my favorite save until it got corrupted.
My go to save since fm19 has been creating my own club on editor and taking it from the bottom of the English pyramid to UCL & PL glory. Other than that nothing keeps me hooked for long.
I have an interesting build a team save. If brommapojkarna in swedens third division is regarded as one of europes top youth academies compeeting with teams like real, Barcelona Zagreb etc. up to the age of 15-16. Yet somehow all these young players never seems to prosper in pro football. there are som decent young players on the team with great first touch and passing to build the team around
Did anybody else click on this video half expecting 11 minutes of Zealand yelling WAAAAAAALLLEEEEESSSSS with a song and dance edit going on in the background?
Kinda yeah
“Siri, play flying whales by Gojira”
As a Welshman who always starts the first save in Wales... I appreciate the ending Zealand! Much love!
Thanks, but I already have a Perfect System:
1) Play as Newcastle
2) Challenge for, but never win, titles just as the new FM comes out
3) Start over in the new FM
Similar kinda to mine.
1) play as Newcastle.
2) do well
3) pick a lower league team the next year.
Repeat.
Luckily, Newcastle is a lower league club every year.
Mine is similar play as newcastle - Challenge for but never win titles - Decide to take gateshead from vanarama north - start over in next fm
@@izaakwp7811 Bro!! I've got Gateshead on FM20 last year, champion of every lower league year after year. Survived PL, improved and I got to Champions League on 3rd year of PL.. Did not win. CL again, did not win and 3rd on PL. Stopped playing...
Now you will win titles
Zealand: "I'm not gonna buy you football manager for free, stop asking"
*Ad*
I see how you get down Zealand
loooooooooool someone noticed the joke
The best saves always come from starting unemployed, then trying to rescue a team from relegation halfway through a season.
I can't stand the initial finding of a team, took 2 in game years once, never again
@@deckyBWFC91 Yeah it can get a bit tedious to start. It always depends on your managers experience, load some lower leagues or custom databases, and give your manager some badges to start off with. It is a much more satisfying way to play imo, but I get it's not for everyone.
@@alternatehistorysports see I always play northern and republic of Ireland, wanted a change of scene. I tried journey man on Fm16 and I never got out of Ukrainian lower division in 4 real life years, it was a great challenge, did about 12 in game seasons... But to spend 2 in game years looking for work only to be offered Iceland which I think are the lowest league in fm20 anyway, I might aswell have just picked the team there to begin with. I even had Lowest Danish, Bulgarian, Finland, Croatia, Belarus. They all laughed off my interest.... I'm actually going to give it one more go tonight.
Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Russia, Switzerland... I've a poor enough laptop so try only get leagues with small 2 division that interested in and low enough to be able get a job.
@@deckyBWFC91 Make things a little quicker by giving your manager some experience, like he was a professional player, got some coaching badges after retirement etc. It's monotonous applying for jobs and getting rejected otherwise. Also give your manager the language and nationality or part nationality of the nations you load, it should help a bit otherwise you're just one of a million managers out there.
@@deckyBWFC91 I've done semi-pro and no badges. That might be a little less onerous finding a first job. My first job was still in the Chilean second division (fortunately a league I actually knew a bit how to be successful with), but it only took a few months.
7:00 I am portuguese but this Red Star Belgrade team that won the Champions Cup, was such a great team. I will go even further that it is one of the most overlooked team when people talking or remembering great teams.
Oh man, dont mention it pls. I still remember it like it was yesterday.
I was 11 y/o kid, thinking only of football for a whole day. After last penalty we scored, my father started screaming, jumping, punching the walls, i thought he is gonna destroy the house. Mom, sister and me were on the couch, could not stop laughing.
Well, year 2018, now i am a father. My daughter asked my mom, why am i screaming, jumping naked around the house balcony. Oh, dear, it is nothing, we qualified to the World Cup final.
Or Lisbon lions Celtic
i am from the UK, but akways pkay as Rio Ave.
its kinda my FM tradition
I WAS LITERALLY LOOKING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS LAST NIGHT ON YOUR CHANNEL.
I think we’re just telepathically connected or something Z
I've just recently started new save: Forrest green rovers. Goal is to become established PL club. And let me tell you, I'm having a blast.
One of my fav saves was with these guys. Got to the Prem but then I bailed on them after they gave me like £10M to turn what was essentially a league one squad into a premiership team
@@louielouieuk Currently struggling with the same issue. Climbed too fast thru leagues.
hey Ive just started the same kinda thing with barrow just finished my first season and I hate them but I love them.
@@louielouieuk just gotta keep on loaning. And sign expired players
I'm doing this with tranmere to get 3 Scouser clubs into the prem. Goal is to make them #1 in Europe.
David Wagner is the guy who started Schalkes winless run by training way too little in the first corona break and then sugarcoating all problems.
He did well before the break and at Huddersfield tho
I love the slay a giant save, where you take a small team where a top team is located and build it up to defeat them. I just did this in Paris with Red Star FC, went all the way and won the CL and two Ligue I titles.
My newest save is take a story that exists in real life and take it to it's conclusion. I'm doing that with Marine FC, who made the third round of the FA Cup and lost to Tottenham. My goal is to eventually defeat Tottenham in an FA Cup and take them to the PL.
i need to know how this worked out!
My first save was called "Project East Germany", the plan was taking a team from Eastern Germany to the Bundesliga as soon as possible, it took 4 years, then, I lost the save :(
Lost the save?
@@vibbs68s91 my computer broke, and I had everything in there, not in the net, you know what I mean
4 years? wow
@@MrSedrox Bundes 2 was kinda difficult for me 😅
Red Bull did the same thing IRL.
I love playing the grind as a journeyman, but not for the challenge, but for the roleplaying. I love coaching a team for 3-4 seasons and then move on :)
First save of FM21 started unemployed got a job with Red Star FC in the nationale French division who were 17th, just got them promoted in the play offs at the end of my first season. The grind will be real!
Nice one, I started with them!
Bizet, Durand, Roye and Koukou are carrying me towards automatic promotion. And managed to loan this way too on the nose diminutive midfielder raised by La Masia called Xavi Simons
@@SuperFuzzyDunlop Roye won player of the season. Ndilu on loan was my top scorer but got Merlin on loan from Nantes and he was awesome too!
When I first watched Spanish Football I was a teenager and my two favourite teams to watch were Valencia and Deportivo Coruna, so I chose Deportivo rebuild and it has been my most enjoyable save I have ever done. #VamosDeportivo #Riazor
The most fun I've had in FM for YEARS was 'Nation Building' - I've joined Celtic and Dundalk, made it into Europe, built up the nation co-efficient to make more/better places in Europe available, and then inject money / loans / free players to other teams in your nation so that they are also able to make it into European powerhouses.
Celtic was fairly easy - it took ~10 seasons before Scotland was one of the major European leagues.
I'm still to this day playing my FM18 Dundalk save - I'm 9 years in and I've gotten to the stage where Shamrock Rovers / Limerick can win some European qualifiers but haven't made the jump yet.
I've been playing with OM all year, definitely a challenge competing with PSG and even OL (Monaco can be sneaky too), but it's a nice save to try. I even managed to win the league in year 1 by 1 point over PSG. In my third year I have Szoboszlai, Tonali, Gravenberch, and Tammy Abraham leading my squad. Definitely give OM a try if you're looking for a fun save.
Milan is great. It’s my main save as of now. Finished second in my first season and got knocked out of the europa league in the last 16’s. Second season I won the Serie A with 101 points and won the champions league! This resulted in me losing some of my best players - including Leao, Donnarumma and Hernandez - blessed be their treacherous souls. My third season is not going as well as a result, as I’m trying to rebuild and fill the holes those beautiful disloyal players left me with.
It’s a blast
Doing a Hexagon Challenge here. Started unemployed and got a job in New Zealand's second tier. Went to Fiji as I couldn't get promoted with that database. Won the Oceanic Champions League and gone through a couple of clubs to get to Orlando Pirates in South Africa to win the African Champions League.
Always get sucked into the Swedish leagues. Over the years played AIK, Goteborg, Hammarby, Helsingborg, Oster, BK Hacken and currently Stockholm Internazionale. Started as a relative equal top division where at least half the clubs could contend for the title after 1 off-season, way back in FM 13 or 14. In more recent games like in FM 20, Malmo is basically the top club which is a step above everyone else. Then you have the pack behind where most clubs can contend, but will lack the financial backing and fans excluding a couple of clubs. So you have to try to overthrow Malmo, while trying to keep the title, plus foreign clubs will send in relatively big money offers for your players. Which most of the time you'll have to try and squeeze as much money out of them as possible to fuel your clubs future young generation/transfers. So you can be competitive in the European competitions down the line. Plus it's a summer league which adds to the dynamic of trying to have a successful European campaign.
My fav was Sweden in FM-2013, club Assi, youth intake only. I won Sweden league, defeated Chelsea on Stamford Bridge in CL and played in EL playoffs few times. Sweden national team was 70% from my academy.
My billboard destoyed the save when they've sold two awesome defenders in one transfer window.
English 6th tier, north/ south clubs. Open the biggest database and the top 20 nation database. No question.
Selling club was my fav gamesave. Holland, france and portugal was a good league to play this type of club culture
I’m doing “The Grind” with th UK and Ireland leagues loaded. Started unemployed with no playing experience and the 1st coaching badge only. 12 seasons in and I’ve just taken over Newcastle United, trying to get them back into the Premier League. I’ve had some interesting stops along the way, including a stint as Northern Ireland U21 manager.
It’s usually 1860 Munchen for me. Three Bundesliga titles and two German cups in the bag so far this year. Always a fun save, small ground and debts make it a challenge, though this years game has been a little easier than previous editions.
I can never start a save if I already managed that team on previous fms
Every save I’ve done this year I’ve simmed the first season before choosing my team and it makes the save so much more dynamic
Still working on my Boreham Wood save from FM16.. Having a great time! (Dont have much playtime nowdays)
Starting a career in like 2035 or so became my way to go when I want to manage in an European league, actually. If you start in the presence, by the time you begin your 4th save, you just know so many good free agents and talents whose contracts are running out that it is kind of boring. Same for staff. Always scouting the same guys, always battling the same opponents,...that is not suuuper interesting on a long run. A game full with regens and new power dynamics within the leagues is a lot of fun!
I am managing Marino de Luanco at the moment. Loving it 5 years in and 13th in LaLiga. Spain is pretty tough. They changed the whole league system 2 years in which made it way harder.
Started in Iceland 2nd Division, just won the 1st division and made the qualifying round of the champions league to get smacked by Malmo 7-3 on aggregate. Took 6 years, and I'm still a semi-pro team.
I love fallen giants! One that's similar to Deportivo is Hamburger SV in 2.Bundesliga, enjoyed that last year. Doing FC Kaiserslautern in the 3rd tier now. Both Bundesliga winners and Hamburg also European cup winners
U forgot about:
Go to the editor-create a club and all infrastructure and language-create personal for the club- put them in the most non league possible and set a challenge by playing only homegrown players.
This, this what real grind is.
I feel very weird but I'm a sucker for a big cities. My last few saves were Leyton Orient, Hertha, Qpr
It definitely sounds like you should try my current save Paris FC. Topple the giants and enjoy a bit of French football.
I m the opposite.🤣
For me, its always the clubs I support in real life. AC Milan and Union Berlin all the way. Two totally different teams with different club cultures, players, challenges, objectives etc.
Your Bate save inspired me to do a stlutsk save, I won 2 champions league by the end of it, i Heavily recommend a save in Belarus
Just started unemployed with no badges and the only job I could get was in Belarus with Lokomotiv Gomel.
@@stsaarikko yeah that's how I started, except employed, and honestly one of my faverout saves of all time
I started playing Football Manager 2018. My local team is a fallen giant into the 4th divion of Romania with 4 league titles and 6 domestic cups, also a uefa cup semi-final during the 80s, after they got excluded from all competitions and declared bankruptcy. Amateur side, no training, youth facilities, stadium, etc. I managed two promotions in three years and now I'm getting ready for my first season in the second tier.
Reese sneaking in a Toffees badge at the end 😅
Nice to see Mombot making an appearance in this episode
I play Football Manager for the story and fun. But when I do I started in the lower league save for challenge which is my favourite thrill.
I have two types of saves I love, the straight forward Basque or nothing save and the start from lower leagues with middling to alright facilities (Gateshead, Telford, Portugalete).
I was waiting for Wales. Not disappointed at all
Panathinaikos who used to play in the ucl every season( once reached ucl final, twice semifinals) is a nice save if you want to rebuild. Although they have a pretty good team for the greek championship, the real challenge is to establish them to the Champions League(which means you have to win the greek championship, because only the champion of Greece can play in the champions league 2nd qualification round, 2nd 3d and 4th can only play on Conference league). Also, a major problem for the club in real life is their stadium, when i pick them i try to build a new stadium for the club but it's too tough because of the economical situation that they're facing. Back in fm19 i believe, if you wanted to coach them you had to start with a 6 point deduction and a ban from European competitions
I did a save with Deportivo this year and it was so much fun!
Won the Champions League two times and the League three times until 2033
"My God... I like mayonnaise?" Cracked up laughing.
"I don't know who this David Wagner guy is"
As a Schalke Fan, I can assure you, that you will never hear of him again. We didn't win 18 games in a row under him.
Started a save with Hamburger SV in FM19 because of this video. Currently top of the Bundesliga 2 in January (although that's not surprising as they just got relegated in this game). Optimistic about the future as Ive just beaten Stuttgart in the German Cup and I have Wolfsburg as the next opponent. Bundesliga, here we come!
Doing a save with Wrexham, signing only welsh players. Its a nice change, since I am playing a known league, but with a twist. :)
Wrexham with Bilbao policies.
WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS! 👍🏼
Ah Wagon Wheel. There's a throwback to my University days
Currently working on my ‘Pentagon’ save. Started with no badges, no experience, unemployed.
4/5 champions leagues so far,
Suwon FC (South Korea)
Baroka (South Africa)
Portland Timber’s (USA)
Internacional (Brazil)
Won the French league with Monaco in my first year in Europe then got offered the Real Madrid Job.
The year is 2041...
How did you work the leagues??? Which ones did you added and removed eventually
I think i fall into the "The Grind" category. But also love the story aspects i can add in. Currently i am playing as Eschen/Mauren in Switzerland. The grind is to get to the Champions League and hopefully win it. Story aspect is to get a Liechtenstein team to play in the Champions league
Its a lot of fun. In my 8th season, we just got relegated from the top tier (that was a rough season to sit through) back into the second tier. However I have made it to the group stage of the Euro Conference for the first time. Hoping to build on it from there
Im so happy you mentioned deportivo its all i was thinking when the segment started
My favorite save ever is an Unemployed save I'm actually in right now.
First job was Barnechea in Chile second tier. Little suburb of Santiago tucked against the Andes. No fan base to speak of lol. Got them promoted, was leading the league in my first year after promotion when I got hired by Rosario Central. Got them into Libertadores, then fell short due to an insane injury crisis but won the coach of the year, hired by River Plate. About 2 years each stop.
River is so much fun bc they have great youth intake, are a top club domestically of course, but then winning continental competitions is still hard bc Brazil -- but possible.
Planning on staying with River basically until I get a top half job with a Spanish or English club, maybe Europa or better in Germany or Italy...something like that.
I got up for a journeyman save. I started with Greenock Morton in the Scottish Championship and got them promoted to the SPL within a year and a half I was there. Then I moved to Wycombe where I won League One my first year there and bolted for Millwall where I am currently. Probably my favorite save in awhile.
An idea for a fallen giant save is Swedish side IFK Göteborg (Gothenburg). In the 80's and 90's they dominated the Swedish league and were a strong force in Europe as well. Semifinalists of the European cup in 1986, won their CL-group in 1994 beating Man Utd, Barcelona and Galatasaray and of course their two UEFA Cup-titles from 82 and 87. Nowadays they are that frustrating team in no mans land in Allsvenskan. The occasional gems are often sold for nothing to Holland or Belgium. If you start a save now you have a talented squad mixed with experienced homecomers, decent finances and the initial boost of Marek Hamsik who is under contract until the end of august 2021. Enjoy!
6:08 this was why I picked Werder Bremen for my recent save. Team fallen on hard times in Germany and could be relegated this season. 4 years in and finally in a position to challenge Bayern for the bundesliga
something i do is buy the editor and create myself as a player, and put myself into my hometown team's academy. i then simulate and allow my career to play out. once i retire, i look at my history and make a judgement from that.
this year, i played over 250 games for hibernian, made a move to america then came back and retired at st johnstone. had an under 21 cap for england, so i was relatively well known. when i made my manager, i was offered a job with greenock morton in the scottish 2nd division.
I pick a nation, number generate for the division I play in, then the team. Always fun :)
I just did the no badge Sunday footballer unemployed start. Ended up at a second tier Belarussian side and have won 3 of my first 4 games. They had absolutely no staff and the board is happy for me to hire some. Because of this hopefully the only way is up.
I used to make up own team in Scotland and put them in the bottom division. Now I tend to go Liverpool which is the team I support but my current save is with stirling Albion and I’m 8 seasons in and really enjoying it. I was born in stirling so it was an easy choice to pick them
I did dynamo Dresden. I love German football, especially the atmosphere in the stadiums. I got hooked to Dresden because of their chant "Öst öst öst Duetchland" translates to East, East, east Germany. The fans are basically saying that they want the east Germany clubs to be feared by all other clubs. I ended up having an all German team and won the treble in 2045.
Best save ive ever done
It's "Ost" and "Deutschland", but yes their fans are pretty cool, but also pretty crazy
@@LauchTV2311 thanks for the correction.
The first minute is literally me to a tee 😂😂
All but freaking *all* European and American history revolves around Poland. Source: Am Historian. Also, Bolton Wanderers is always a great save.
Another team with an interesting history is the Italian side Palermo, worth looking into for sure.
I am doing a save with Hemel Hempstead Town for the sole reason that it has been voted the worst and ugliest town in the UK and I find it funny turning it into a premier league champion or european powerhouse
I was watching a Zealand video...
AND THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!!!!!!!
My favourite repeat save is to start unemployed and always take every job offer throughout the save unless it is Manchester United. It tends to be continuous chaos, and it forces me to consider a wide range of tactical approaches due to the different squads.
10:12 "people really don't give enough respect to the simulating forward"
Me, who only does simulations in FM: 👀
Whatever you do, don't manage Romanias Second Tier. They require you to have two Romanian U19 players in your PLAYING lineup which makes rotating your squad very difficult
fmg gang rise up
I went to third tier of Poland. I only picked the polish league to manage. It's amazing. Going for the league with my forth team! currently in 2053
Few teams I have done in previous FM's are: Deportivo La Coruna, AC Milan, West Ham, Chelsea, Marseille, Sparta Rotterdam, RB Leipzig, Beerschot AC.
Currently doing a Braga save and having a lot of fun trying to build up the ultimate prospect factory.
There's this new insta account called 'FM save ideas' or something which has a lot of good ideas
I usually just manage my favourite team (Sheff Wed) until I get the sack then go from there - it usually doesn't take long lol
I support a broke club that current plays on the lower leagues of Brazil but during Pelé times was the second best team on the country but didn't win anything because Pelé existed.
You can't get better than that when picking saves
Im kinda suprised you never hear about 1. FC Nürnberg when its about "rebuilding a fallen giant".
9 times german champion between 1920 and 1968.
Had to like for the winged hussars reference
One that I have always liked doing is going to a smaller country (Austria, Switzerland, Greece, etc) and picking a team that was relegated a year or two back.
you are a funny guy ,Zealand ! Keep it goin . cheers from Czech republic :)
In Spain or rather Asturias in a very non biased way I'd recommend two teams. One would be Real Sporting de Gijón, sitting in the second division it has three interesting players in midfield: Gragera (DM), Pedro Diaz (your classic DLP) and Manu (AM) and potentially decent youngsters with Guille Rosas, Morilla, Santamaría and Dacal. With a decent fanbase (bigger than a fair chunk of teams in the first division) for a "small" club, good installations and a historic stadium is a potentially sleeping giant a la Leicester. The second would be Lealtad, if you enjoy the grind is a semiprofessional team with a sick badge and black kit and that's enough for me.
Quality vid man mirrors my feelings off a good save like a bit of history myself too
I'm just here to recommend a building a nation save with Ireland. I'll be honest its a bit painful at the start but its satisfying when you become the best team in the league. I've so far gotten to place 16 in the coefficient rankings. 15th place has 2 ucl spots, 1 europa league place and 2 europa conference league. This is also the first fm save i have ever done and im currently in 2044 so i could have done better 😅😅
My last favorite saves.
Bari. Loaded them with uruguyans, croats, serbs, slovaks, nice stadium.
Wrexham. Many league games, possible many cups runs. Tried to contribute for their national welsh team.
Cartagena. nice looking badges, uniforms, less restriction to buy south american regens, fight barcelona and real.
Bilbao are the only team I stick with. I never get bored with them. They also have the best away kits in football.
FM is an awesome game and am sure it's important to be completely into a topic to do your vids - but man!!! u are WAY TO GOOD as a content creator to stick to a niche topic only :-*
Love a return to glory save, currently using Deportivo and have back to back promotions. Loans are the way forward 😄
i started without a job got a job at fc utrecht saved them from relegation
and now im ad nec nijmegen got them promoted and now im fighting against relegation
Yes falling giants is my favs... Hamburger SV... Sunderland... Schalke
Dude I freaking love these videos
3:48 if you like mayonnaise you’ll love sprayonnaise (if you know, you know)
Hey zealand! I might be wrong but I think you did a save in Iceland 🇮🇸 If you did is that recorded? I’m doing managing Fjolnir in Fm21 and it is loads of fun and I’d like to watch some content of people managing in that country. Thanks man
I won the ucl with fh. It was a bit boring at the end because of the complete difference between local and European calendar
Also a grind save that I like- you start in the fourth tier of a big five nation, and you are required to resign every two years and get a new job.
just choose St Pauli, always the most fun save every year
Hipster club
@@thijsmekel8913 based club*
Rising though the German leagues is probably the most fun and easiest in Europe
@@thijsmekel8913 absolutely fucking based club
@@ayyguevara8448 hell yeah
EYYYYYYY IM INDONESIAN. Nice shoutout man
I'm playing a park to prem save as Maidstone United, a National League South team. It's taken me 15 years but I'm up into the Prem and fighting against relegation. I'm really hoping for an ownership change cuz we are too poor to survive in the prem without a significant change in transfer budget. It's fun.
I have tried international management with India. The problem is I see no way to improve facilities in India so I stand no chance of improving the nation as a whole by myself. The only way I see it being possible is taking over the best team available and then slowly upgrade their facilities and hope they get me something. I would love to have like a special National Team training/youth facilities, would be a game changer for me
thoughts on the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth?
All about the Grind. My local in tier 8 is my start
If you want a mid tier team in a top flight league, try Wolves. They have one of the best youth prospect strikers in the game and a banging squad that can go really far. It was my favorite save until it got corrupted.
this is why I start unemployed LOL
My go to save since fm19 has been creating my own club on editor and taking it from the bottom of the English pyramid to UCL & PL glory.
Other than that nothing keeps me hooked for long.
I have an interesting build a team save. If brommapojkarna in swedens third division is regarded as one of europes top youth academies compeeting with teams like real, Barcelona Zagreb etc. up to the age of 15-16. Yet somehow all these young players never seems to prosper in pro football. there are som decent young players on the team with great first touch and passing to build the team around
Except for the charge of the winged hussars.. well I didn't expect this video to turn into a Sabaton meme.. but THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED.