I like how instead of making a short and condensed video full of thoughtful material, Zealand cannibalized his own content in order to drag it into a 15 min video. He FM'd us... the crazy bastard FM'd us.
Nick did this with the assumption it was a long term save; you had the advantage of knowing you didn't need to plan for anything beyond the first season... among other advantages
one thing i noticed with myself is that by years, I have completely became hopeless. Compared to when I started, FM was something easier and I can win loads of games. This is maybe due to loads of overthinking and influences I've gotten from FM creators on "how the roles/instructions/tactics" work. Where in the past, I just created tactics based on how real life teams played. I hope I can comeback being on top of my game soon.
I think Z’s chances of winning this challenge fell dramatically the moment he wasn’t able to sell any of his players to Saudi Arabia. If I remember correctly Nick got quite lucky with getting Varane off the books to Saudi.
What he got for Varane he spent it for Antonio Silva basically. Game is not as deep as people like to think. It's just dice with some skill on the side. At one point in the UCL he played against City with a 3-4-3, Shaw-Pepe-Silva as WCB, BPD, WCB and proceeded to throw Casemiro-Mainoo-Mount-Fernandes as DM-DLP-BWM-AP with Rashford-Martial-Garnacho upfront. That shit got him the W against City. There is no football pitch in this world where that would work. FM is just Dungeons & Dragons with a lot of Excel sheets, stats and strategy help, but nothing beats a nat20.
@@Carsa-is6vb Well, Nick didnt really have as many injuries and losing bruno is a deathnail to a united side in it's first season. Like half the creative play goes through him. Kvar also didn't perform for Zealand at all which was wild
@@VellaniF1FA-y1t That's also what I meant, you can theorycraft as much as you want, but at the end of the day the most important thing is highrolling with the dices.
@Carsa-is6vb nah random shit and results can happen I'll and ingame. City can lose to unusual tactics like the 4222 in the fa cup final so it's actually not as impossible as you make it out to be
I'm trying this but on real world mode. Kinda regret it. I'm in January, 5th place, xg table says I'm getting screwed, Onana is the second worst GK in the league (weirdly ederson is the worst). I hate Martial, he has a grand total of 0 goals from 10 games and Hojland didn't score until his 11th game. Fernandes sucks at pens, but has finally scored one after missing his first 4. Casemiro please stop getting red cards. On the bright side, Rashford and Maguire are currently the heros holding everything somewhat together. Tempted to give Maguire a new contract😂.
one thing i noticed with myself is that by years, I have completely became hopeless. Compared to when I started, FM was something easier and I can win loads of games. This is maybe due to loads of overthinking and influences I've gotten from FM creators on "how the roles/instructions/tactics" work. Where in the past, I just created tactics based on how real life teams played. I hope I can comeback being on top of my game soon.
Bringing in decent but not great players on loan was your downfall. Enciso, Kubo and Barcola are bizarre signings, and no better than what's there. Awoniyi was just an insanely bad signing.
We've either learned that FM is way more random than we might like to think it is Or that having vast, legacy knowledge on the game is actually a hindrance
i got kvicha on my save as a loan in first season as well. i think the game is kinda leaning on making him available at the game start, so it was not just your pure luck z :D
My unbeaten Man United season 1 team used... wide midfielders. And an enganche. All the best roles that no one uses. It's very effective, just hard to find the guys to fit WM perfectly. We did draw a lot. I was simulating and by Christmas, we had drawn 7 and weren't even top of the league. So I had to jump in and it turned out we had a big injury crisis. But I still believe in the 4-4-2-ish.
@@Zevrael when graphics look as bad as they do no it doesn't 2D is still better ,even unity won't be good enough , I really hoped for Unreal Engine 5.2 with Ray Tracing so it could push my RTX 4090 and using reshade but w/e i suppose the laptop mac rejects have to be allowed to play the game at the expense of everyone with functional computer.
Bro how tf did you do perform so badly as Man United manager? I had an unbeaten season while winning the FA Cup and losing the Champions League semi-final to Real Madrid. But tbf I also lost the League Cup final to Citeh. With United you just need to run a double pivot (BWM and DLP) with wing backs on attack or support. If wingbacks are on attack set your wingers or IF’s to support and visa versa. Just run Højlund as a Complete Forward or Advanced forward. Bruno attacking midfield. Two BPD’s and Onana as support SK. You run an overlap control possession tactic with intense pressing because United have athletes. I have played 5 separate saves with United and always run the first two seasons like this and I always win the league and win the league and champions league in the second season. I win cups here and there sometimes. I have pulled off a treble either in my first or second season at least 60% of the time. United are super easy. I have recently started a new save with the new updates and transfers from the start. I have not lost a match yet.
Had Z got any other keeper, he would’ve actually had a chance at winning something. Why is Onana that useless? I know he’s not that good in real life but he’s jumping over the ball in these games.
Zealand just Pep it, he overthink and overdoing it, loaning players from Brighton and Sociedad ? that's good if you played newly promoted team, but Man Utd ? you could've loaned players from Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich, come on Z, finished 4th and trophyless with Man Utd is poor result even for someone who just started to play FM.
With most teams you can just plug in a 4231 Gegenpress and massively over-achieve with no signings, though this does seem to be a bit harder than it was on previous FMs but not by much. I got Palace into 4th on FM22 first season IIRC.
I won Champions League with Atalanta in 2 seasons with a Champions League season where the odds of us winning the whole thing was 500-1. Ultimately ended up winning on penalties after a 0-0 game at the end of extra time against Liverpool with a 4231 tactic. Barley finishing top 8 on GD definitely played a factor in making it possible and winning 2 out of the 3 ties where our home legs were played first by 2 goals or more because we were definitely not better than our oppositions base of quality of players as a whole so home legs was key. Won against Real Madrid 3-0 in the semis in the first leg at home and surprisingly just having a draw in the second. Also ended up winning Serie A by 1 point. After that legendary 2024/25 season (did change some things up with the 4231 tactic because I know that wasn't happening again in each of the following seasons) won the Champions League Finals 3 seasons in a row all against Real Madrid. Team was obviously better during those seasons but we were still not favorites to win the whole thing for all those seasons. Oh well. Don't listen to media predictions people.
just want to say i won the prem and fa cup with southampton in first season with updated squads and league so you and nick are ass and need to get good
american fella... you should've put a note in the title that this video is clearly centred towards fifa players. honestly buster, this is cringe. down to the transitions, music, your unwavering positive demeanour. common man... we want fm, not this pandering crap
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i need a guide on FM from a real professional like Nick RTFM not Z, i hope he makes them soon 🙏
Same bro hope it drops soon
@@ZealandonYT 😂
@@ZealandonYTlol
TBF this is a more realistic Man United Managing Experience.
I like how instead of making a short and condensed video full of thoughtful material, Zealand cannibalized his own content in order to drag it into a 15 min video.
He FM'd us... the crazy bastard FM'd us.
Nick did this with the assumption it was a long term save; you had the advantage of knowing you didn't need to plan for anything beyond the first season... among other advantages
the fact that a new player just just smash the space bar and does better than someone with over 10k hours just goes to show.
@IAmThatBit-- what an absolute load of crap 😂 of course its not
@@IAmThatBit--Is the Earth flat too?
just won europa league with brentford in my second season, never played it before
Goes to show how shallow the game is, and one can only make it complicated for themselves.
one thing i noticed with myself is that by years, I have completely became hopeless. Compared to when I started, FM was something easier and I can win loads of games.
This is maybe due to loads of overthinking and influences I've gotten from FM creators on "how the roles/instructions/tactics" work. Where in the past, I just created tactics based on how real life teams played. I hope I can comeback being on top of my game soon.
I think Z’s chances of winning this challenge fell dramatically the moment he wasn’t able to sell any of his players to Saudi Arabia. If I remember correctly Nick got quite lucky with getting Varane off the books to Saudi.
What he got for Varane he spent it for Antonio Silva basically. Game is not as deep as people like to think. It's just dice with some skill on the side.
At one point in the UCL he played against City with a 3-4-3, Shaw-Pepe-Silva as WCB, BPD, WCB and proceeded to throw Casemiro-Mainoo-Mount-Fernandes as DM-DLP-BWM-AP with Rashford-Martial-Garnacho upfront. That shit got him the W against City.
There is no football pitch in this world where that would work.
FM is just Dungeons & Dragons with a lot of Excel sheets, stats and strategy help, but nothing beats a nat20.
he also won some clutch games last minute.
@@Carsa-is6vb Well, Nick didnt really have as many injuries and losing bruno is a deathnail to a united side in it's first season. Like half the creative play goes through him. Kvar also didn't perform for Zealand at all which was wild
@@VellaniF1FA-y1t That's also what I meant, you can theorycraft as much as you want, but at the end of the day the most important thing is highrolling with the dices.
@Carsa-is6vb nah random shit and results can happen I'll and ingame. City can lose to unusual tactics like the 4222 in the fa cup final so it's actually not as impossible as you make it out to be
I was the manager of Girona. I did very well. Next season I got a job offer from Manchester United. My first priority was to select decline button ✅😂😂
i aint getting anymore advice from this guy
You got all those good loans and Nick played with Kambwala in defence and got into the CL final and won the league 😂
Losing the league cup to city’s b team must of been heavy to the heart!
I'm trying this but on real world mode. Kinda regret it. I'm in January, 5th place, xg table says I'm getting screwed, Onana is the second worst GK in the league (weirdly ederson is the worst). I hate Martial, he has a grand total of 0 goals from 10 games and Hojland didn't score until his 11th game. Fernandes sucks at pens, but has finally scored one after missing his first 4. Casemiro please stop getting red cards.
On the bright side, Rashford and Maguire are currently the heros holding everything somewhat together. Tempted to give Maguire a new contract😂.
one thing i noticed with myself is that by years, I have completely became hopeless. Compared to when I started, FM was something easier and I can win loads of games.
This is maybe due to loads of overthinking and influences I've gotten from FM creators on "how the roles/instructions/tactics" work. Where in the past, I just created tactics based on how real life teams played. I hope I can comeback being on top of my game soon.
Further proof that RTF and Zealand should switch careers lol
Bringing in decent but not great players on loan was your downfall. Enciso, Kubo and Barcola are bizarre signings, and no better than what's there. Awoniyi was just an insanely bad signing.
i really enjoyed watching this with all the ups and downs 😂
We've either learned that FM is way more random than we might like to think it is
Or that having vast, legacy knowledge on the game is actually a hindrance
Z gotta preorder FC25 and start practicing rat tactics
I suggest to you to continue second season to win everything
zealand is playing perfectly as expected for man u.
i got kvicha on my save as a loan in first season as well. i think the game is kinda leaning on making him available at the game start, so it was not just your pure luck z :D
My unbeaten Man United season 1 team used... wide midfielders. And an enganche. All the best roles that no one uses. It's very effective, just hard to find the guys to fit WM perfectly. We did draw a lot. I was simulating and by Christmas, we had drawn 7 and weren't even top of the league. So I had to jump in and it turned out we had a big injury crisis. But I still believe in the 4-4-2-ish.
As a Standard Liège fan,love that you're wearing our old jerseys
still in desperate need to see the xG table of the league cuz it must be crazy
Z had A LOT of matches when he was robbed of a win
Bro just played out the real life Manchester United experience
Finally Zealand collabing with Pickolas
Hey Zealand great vids you make I enjoy them all 😊
FM is a highly luck dependent game and this video is very good proof of that.
A moment of silence for Z's neighbors 😂. They need it 😂
"Do or do not, there is no try"
Properly FM'd 😂😂
All pain no gain - United
So, its not just me but very common that your guy half of the time misses the penalty but they almost always score
Am I the only one that’s experienced an extremely unstoppable Tottenham in fm after a few years?
Why does he sound like Rick from Rick and morty😂😂😂😂😂😂
At least you tried Z🙏🏽
Z’s obsession with loans was his downfall
This video is the proof that football manager is mosty luck
You cant fault FM for its accuracy.
Glad to see Onana is working exactly like he does in real life. Absolute comedy player (useless).
Bro put Everton 4th 😂
this would be awesome on a retro mod
Maybe a Man United save is harder than these climbing the English ladder saves
Good content mate 👍
But why dont you play FM on classic 2D?
Playing in 3D gives you a better perspective into what's happening in the game simulation. Also, it just looks better and increases immersion.
@@Zevrael when graphics look as bad as they do no it doesn't
2D is still better ,even unity won't be good enough , I really hoped for Unreal Engine 5.2 with Ray Tracing so it could push my RTX 4090 and using reshade but w/e i suppose the laptop mac rejects have to be allowed to play the game at the expense of everyone with functional computer.
@@kirintoudou3366 Not even EAFC has that. And its match simulation has a puddle's worth of depth compared to FM.
i did not realize that there was a loan list at all how do you get notifications from it?
Why doesn't Zealand use the Logo Pack that includes the logo for Man Utd here? Is it for legal reasons on his channel? Just wondering really!
Think it is he's done a video on them before
FM was sued by Man United a few years back so, I'd guess so
@@dimow8 Yes FM was sued by Man U, so Z does it as a joke towards them to make them look lame as possible.
My match engine and animations are so different to Zs.
How so?
@@HarcMad just the way they shoot, the goals scored I don’t know how to explain it lol the way the keepers dive. Strange
Same dude
Is your match engine quality set to the highest?
@@chikennuget3634yeah they are it’s not the quality. Just mean the animation of players
Nick's honestly just naturally really good at video games.
@NickRTFM is HIM 🐐
Never knew I'd ever support man utd in any way, shape or form....
did you watch him then try play as Heidenheim? lol
What is that Garnacho face lol
can we please get a network save with nickrtfm and zealand
The best fm youtuber 100%
the best FM youtuber is Bustthenet
losing to a ten men arsenal 😂😂
Bro how tf did you do perform so badly as Man United manager? I had an unbeaten season while winning the FA Cup and losing the Champions League semi-final to Real Madrid. But tbf I also lost the League Cup final to Citeh.
With United you just need to run a double pivot (BWM and DLP) with wing backs on attack or support. If wingbacks are on attack set your wingers or IF’s to support and visa versa. Just run Højlund as a Complete Forward or Advanced forward. Bruno attacking midfield. Two BPD’s and Onana as support SK. You run an overlap control possession tactic with intense pressing because United have athletes.
I have played 5 separate saves with United and always run the first two seasons like this and I always win the league and win the league and champions league in the second season. I win cups here and there sometimes. I have pulled off a treble either in my first or second season at least 60% of the time.
United are super easy. I have recently started a new save with the new updates and transfers from the start. I have not lost a match yet.
Had Z got any other keeper, he would’ve actually had a chance at winning something. Why is Onana that useless? I know he’s not that good in real life but he’s jumping over the ball in these games.
I don't understand why we are in the Champions League?!? 😂😂😂
Even in FM united is perma-shit, that start to the season was awful
Your first mistake was picking to play as Manchester
Change the title from fifa RUclipsr who played fm to the rat king who played fm
this a reupload?
Loanssssssssssss
how are manutd this bad in the game bro🤣
Zealand just Pep it, he overthink and overdoing it, loaning players from Brighton and Sociedad ? that's good if you played newly promoted team, but Man Utd ? you could've loaned players from Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich, come on Z, finished 4th and trophyless with Man Utd is poor result even for someone who just started to play FM.
Well u have no Chance loaning Madrid players or others lol
Have you actually played FM before?
Real life united signed championship player on loan😅
Weghorst or something idk
@@maurice1149thats a lie, got brahim diaz first season on loan with an obligation to buy at 25m end of season...
@@maurice1149 if you don't know how, doesn't mean it can be done, it means you are not as good as you thought you were
Too many changes at the start cost you... tactics didn't suit all those changes
Forehead Fraud!
Ah, so *_this_* is the cope video for losing the Man United challenge!
With most teams you can just plug in a 4231 Gegenpress and massively over-achieve with no signings, though this does seem to be a bit harder than it was on previous FMs but not by much. I got Palace into 4th on FM22 first season IIRC.
I won Champions League with Atalanta in 2 seasons with a Champions League season where the odds of us winning the whole thing was 500-1. Ultimately ended up winning on penalties after a 0-0 game at the end of extra time against Liverpool with a 4231 tactic. Barley finishing top 8 on GD definitely played a factor in making it possible and winning 2 out of the 3 ties where our home legs were played first by 2 goals or more because we were definitely not better than our oppositions base of quality of players as a whole so home legs was key. Won against Real Madrid 3-0 in the semis in the first leg at home and surprisingly just having a draw in the second. Also ended up winning Serie A by 1 point. After that legendary 2024/25 season (did change some things up with the 4231 tactic because I know that wasn't happening again in each of the following seasons) won the Champions League Finals 3 seasons in a row all against Real Madrid. Team was obviously better during those seasons but we were still not favorites to win the whole thing for all those seasons. Oh well. Don't listen to media predictions people.
4-2-3-1 require some fine tuning while 4-2-4 is the current meta with azure setpieces .
4-3-3 is straight up bad on the current ME in FM24.
Is this negative reinforcement? Lol I’ll watch it again though!
Mf started Martial and did better than you😂
you cant be top pick
just want to say i won the prem and fa cup with southampton in first season with updated squads and league so you and nick are ass and need to get good
Respect for trying to piggy back off the bigger and better RUclipsr lil bro
First?
Same content same titles over and over
Your click and comment makes it worthwhile.
@@Zevrael napoleon syndrome be kicking hard
@@oussamazidouhia2518 Let's feed the algorithm with more engagement on this video.
american fella... you should've put a note in the title that this video is clearly centred towards fifa players. honestly buster, this is cringe. down to the transitions, music, your unwavering positive demeanour. common man... we want fm, not this pandering crap
zealand and nickrtfm battling against each other to claim the worst hairline of all time title🫡i know who my goats are