Steal Wonderkids for Nothing
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- I get asked if Football Manager should have difficulty levels a lot and I always say it should not. My reason? You make your own difficulty level on FM. The open nature of Football Manager means you get to decide who you play with, who you sign, and what you do. With that in mind, this video is about something that can make FM a lot more fun and help you live out your wonderkid hoarding fantasies in a way that feels like it could be realistic if a board focused on this approach.
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Can also add every youth intake player to a shortlist. Then add a new column for media description and can literally scroll down and find every media wonderkid.
wonderkid description is related to reputation
and high current abilty
@@laurynasbudinas8552 yes but it does still work a lot of the time I’ve used it for ages can find some really cheap ones
'Promising' is what you are looking for, you can also sort out players with really bad like mentals, really low determination etc. or really bad natural fitness. But youth intake players I think will show promising etc. I've done this before but not to steal them on youth contracts, just to find players so you go through all the youth intakes like this of clubs with good facilities, add them all to a shortlist and then scout the ones with either 'promising' media description or just ones with good starting attributes/good personalities etc.
They don’t have wonderkid description for a while do they not?
20 Good Minutes sounds good, I guess I'll have to check it out.
So funny how much you pretend you’re not bothered about city
@@samthomas2757 Everyone does that
@@croco3671 Liverpool fan not from Liverpool aswell imagine the surprise
Just don't resign.
@@samthomas2757 No one considers City a big team, so it is like... 'Oh well' they are very successful domestically sure, but not big. Born in 2008
Austria: 3 March - 31 March
Belgium: 19 March - 16 April
Bulgaria: 7 March - 16 April
Croatia: 9 March - 6 April
Czech Republic: 19 March - 16 April
Denmark: 19 March - 16 April
England: 14 March - 11 April
Finland: 3 April
France: 9 March - 6 April
Germany: 9 March - 6 April
Greece: 9 March
Holland: 26 March - 23 April
Hungary: 9 March
Iceland: 14 August - 16 August
Ireland: 22 September
Italy: 19 March - 16 April
N. Ireland: 14 March
Norway: 5 February - 5 March
Poland: 17 March -14 April
Portugal: 19 March - 16 April
Romania: 19 March - 20 March
Russia: 23 February - 23 March
Serbia: 5 March - 2 April
Slovakia: 18 March - 15 April
Spain: 29 March - 26 April
Scotland: 14 March - 18 April
Sweden: 14 September - 12 October
Switzerland: 9 March - 6 April
Ukraine: 16 March
Wales: 14 March - 21 March
Argentina: 18 October - 15 November
Brazil: 22 September - 20 October
Chile: 30 September - 28 October
Colombia: 16 January - 13 February
Paraguay: 21 September
Peru: 21 September - 19 October
Uruguay: 17 January - 14 February
Canada: 21 September
Mexico: 27 February - 27 March
U.S.A: 19 October
South Africa: 3 April - 1 May
Australia: 4 October - 5 October
China: 14 September
I believe these are close to the dates of Youth Intakes
Please say you know by heart 😄
@@TiagoSousa026 I wish 😆
Atleast on my Finland saves youth intakes comes sebtember 1- october 2, every year sofar.
Those arent bang on but close, ireland for example is 22nd to the end of the month
Love you
A small trick: If you pay the compensation, there is generally a sell on clause. So, instead of clicking "approach to sign", make a transfer offer (remove and exclude the sell on clause from the negotiation). Also the fee's even slightly cheaper this way. For example, they accept 550K if the compensation is 600K+100K+%15 sell on.
Thx for that, the saved thousands could make a big difference for some small teams :) Have you any experience with the method presented in the video? E.g. are your wonderkids doing good or can u sell them for a good price? Genel olarak başka tavsiyelerin de varsa paylaşirsan memnun olurum reis :)
@@veyselkeles2715 The method is no different than just buying any youngster, it's just that it's usually cheaper this way.
Reis aklıma bir şey gelmedi şu an, gördüğüm kadarıyla Zealand'ın videolarındaki tavsiyeler iyi genelde.
Ever since I got into the "non-league to legends" rule I "cannot" really do this. But what I can do is send my scouts to all the U-19 international competitions. Usually brings up a few free/affordable gems too.
What’s that
That’s really smart
Exactly! Play the game however you want. Don’t care what others say, play the way that makes you happy and enjoy the game.
Thank you Z
It should go without saying that his doesn't really work if you're managing in England due to overly restrictive WP rules.
I also would say it doesn't really work if you're managing in Italy for Non-EU players due to Non-EU transfer rules in Italy
Good!
Its still functional when poaching from countries that dont require a WP, but yea it's not nearly as busted as it is in other saves where you can sign players from anywhere
BREXIT means BREXIT
It can. You can sign and play youth players from anywhere. If you sign them when they're 18, they'll be homegrown by the time they're 21, and get English nationality by the time they're 23, meaning you can avoid all contract and WP issues by signing players at 18, giving them a contract that's either 5 years long or has an optional 5 years, or simply renewing their contract for 3 years when they're 20.
That little plea to subscribe was too smooth
This is quite possibly the most imformative and useful FM video I have ever watched. You, Sir, have a new Subscriber :)
Ah, Vicente. Cheap good scout! Even got him on my Gateshead save :)
I am on FM 21 playing as Brighton - and I have done something similar, albeit without unhiding the hidden attributes. I didn't know about the Intake and trying to poach kids cheap - but I have accumulated 6 Wonderkids (1 suddenly dropped to 3 star potential so I sold him for a tidy profit) on my roster and we are lighting the Premier League on fire!
I categorically deny stealing kids for your wonderkid factory 😂
I categorically reject your denial
@@mr.muffin-man9420 Brb sending an employee to ruin my pr in a reply
Iam from Brazil, and i just love this kinda of video that u talk about us hahaha
Thatsa kinda chessy, but hey, i didn´t even knew you could do that with the world icon. Knowledge is power
I wasn’t aware of this! Thanks very much 👍🏻
The thumbnail is gold
Smoothest subscribe reference I've ever seen well done Z
Actually, you can get only one team report per day, no matter how many scouts you have..
yup it has changed since FM21
is it opposition report or our own team report ?
because I can get two opposition report in a day, because I assigned two scout to watch opposition team match.
@@user-et3iy8xu5h every team report not those two you mentioned
I've been doing this for years and it's how I find all my best wonderkids, honestly the easiest way to build a dynasty. If you ask for a scouting report on all of the new youth intake players every day as soon as the day starts, your scouts will often have a prelim report ready by the next morning, and then you can just repeat that every day.
is this the case if you request like 5 reports from teams, can only seem to have one scout do all reports ? and seems to take 4-5 days for me
Been doing this for years. I make a SL called YI(year) and add all of them. I usually check every couple of days when a good nation is having an in intake. Then you can sort by players that are on a youth contract. It is tedious but I find it fun.
Love your disclaimer.
That's how I ended up with 150 loans per season. My loan manager should get a raise. He won't.
Do you loan out for full wages and 1:4 of the transfer value as a loan fee?
"All the way down to the subscribe button" hahahahaha
Wow. I did not know about this. As long as you’re in a European league with fairly lenient registration rules then this could be immense
In the league i play i can only sign players over 18 so i list every wonderkid and pray for two years they dont get snapped up by city😂
Is there a way to turn off the "wanted by this or that club" feature on the player search? When scrolling through looking for players and noticing a random 17 year old is wanted by PSG or City maybe that player is worth being scouted instantly.
Do that all the time in my NK Maribor and my Santos save, this is definitely more realistic than 500 players on trial like the way many play
what's with all the old movie spots on this video?
This is exactly what Barcelona and Ajax do to bring players in. That's why their youth setup is only exceptional from U16 and older. This is super realistic
Athletic Club and Real Sociedad are still exemplars down below that level with affiliates scattered throughout their region of Basque Country, but even the most effective of canteras/youth setups are poaching. In the case of these Basque ones, they're hanging around Pamplona.
1 tip for people playing lower reputation leagues and trying to get yout intakes i.e. from Chelsea - offer player playing time. Like squad in 23, regular start in 24... because if you won"t, he will reject you. Tbh it"s understandable, in real world would you rather start your carrer in Premier League club, or move from you family to somewhere in Belarus.
The point is, they will accept and even if you wont start them, you can just reduce playing time and if you have excellent morale in cabin, they will just drop concerns after captn talks to them.
That “Suscribe” button sure is sneaky.
I'll pretend you didn't talk about this on stream before and it was completely inspired by me asking you if it was worth it in discord the other day LMAO
I've done this a lot, and this is how I've found some really good players for really cheap. Sometimes the players get to the club and are just absolutely awful because there's such a short window to get these guys cheaply often
It is an interesting strategy. I do sometimes put a lot of effort into looking at youth intakes around the world, but that's usually when I'm running a top division team that has a big scouting budget. Right now I'm doing non-league to legend and I'm in tier 3 in Belgium, so this isn't really an option on the scale shown in this video. BUT I can do something similar with youth intakes in Belgium. I obviously will know the youth intake date, so I can just immediately look at the intakes around the Belgian leagues and see if I can find someone I can steal.
The bit at the end where Benji said that city spent a £1bn quid to win the league so did Liverpool before they even got close....
ctrl A + add to shortlist, you have now sorting options and filtering for those players.
Did this and knicked one from Liverpool in fm21 who became the best player I'd ever seen. Highly recommend
I mean, is this new information? This has been the way to do it for some time
Im actually playing FM 21 and i have to say something about wonderkids. Independiente of Medelin is a powerhouse of wonderkids
as soon as i heard the compensation amount my broke england tier 9 ass had to sit down
Fm is such a different game on Pc compared to iPad 😍😍😍
I’ve done this many many times but get done with the sell on clauses. I only really do it if my own intake sucks (which was basically every season). It does work but if the whole purchase offer works below the compensation then that’s the way to go
I use FMscout to steal them, starting from March, every 3-4 days there will be a wave of wonderkids coming out and if the owning club hasn't signed a contract yet, I will take the opportunity to steal their players with better contracts, of course the players must also agree to do it, most of the wonderkids from big clubs like Dortmund, Bayern, MU, Barca, Real, ... are very difficult to steal.
For even more efficient sniping, press ctrl + w to get to the transfers list
Great tip thanks
If the wonder kid has a release clause makes sure you add a large amount of selling team wage contribution because they have to accept it either way
That’s so sneaky bro, I love it
Wait... does this actually work? I thought that when you add any clauses or stuff other than just the cash in the release clause then it no longer forces them to automatically accept?
@@derekgalbraith1508 Tried and tested. When you think about it if the fee is the same or more as the release clause, the selling team must accept. There is no contract clause saying there is no this or that.
@@joemiller9811 I tried it last night and the offer was refused. I took the selling team wage contribution out and then they accepted it.
Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?
(Other than wasting my life playing Football Manager, obvs)
@@derekgalbraith1508 They may have removed it in FM22 when the hack was made a bit more public. Only ever tried it in FM21
Zealand, you are a weird but lovely dude. Your videos are so compelling. Erudite and humorous, a lethal combination. PS can you do that limbo dance again? Had me in stitches (to you over the pond that means I laughed a lot, as in having a giraffe (cockney slang for having a laugh). Keep the videos coming, let me know if there is anything I can do to promote the channel. (Bear in mind I am not on Twatter, Facebitch or Tik Twat)
When i do it try to make an offer to one of the youth intake players from another club, it already seems like they have a contract with the other club - and this is even when i try to offer them a contract on the day of the youth intake.
It's called youth sniping and real clubs also do it. It's a grey line which have resulted in big clubs being punished for it multiple times. I usually do it for some clubs in Portugal when I play smaller clubs. If you're fast you can usually get a scout report before the clubs secure the players with contracts. I even managed to steal a guy that won the Ballon D'or 4-5years later this way while playing a save in Sweden 😛 (Liverpool came and stole him from me the same summer as his superyear of course... 😪 )
THAT video title xD
This trick is also great you're managing a national team with an awful league, you can easily get the regen to switch to your country (if it's their second nationality) from the nationality of the bigger nations they are
Does this work on FM23? I'm trying to sign players, but they say that they are not interested, either bc they prefer to continue their development at X club, or that they won't be able to complete the move in the near future... (i'm playing in the brazillian league btw)
Can confirm it doesn't work.
There is nothing better in FM than raiding Brazil for 16 y/o kids
in real life too
@@ihateorphans ayoooo
Crazy that I wasn't subscribed
This isn't always quite as easy as it sounds, because often youth prospects coming through at top clubs would prefer to remain at those clubs, and will often take the contracts they are offered from those clubs. You can get around this by offering a contract that they find "very acceptable" which means they sign it immediately without waiting but it can be hard to throw that much money at a 15-16 year old. Potential is so hit and miss too that you just never know sometimes. I've done stuff like this for years in FM and I don't really don't think it makes the game too easy, especially with attribute masking on
My problem is that they don't even want a contract offer to begin with, like i can't even start negotiations, how do you do it?
Normal People when they get sent to Brazil: 😭💀
FM players: 😁😁
similarly i learned that teams in the US outside of the MLS (including their academy teams) produce a bunch of very good young players you can just sign on a free until they sign for an MLS team. a lot of them will be from smaller football nations too, i found some decent somalian and vietnamese talents through this!
Pro Tip: Here are some incredible US youth setups:
US Developmental Academy
IMG Academy
Baltimore Armour
Arsenal Youth
San Diego Surf
NC Fusion
De Anze Force
etc
etc
etc
There are like 20-25 low level US clubs that tend to produce players with 110-140 PA. Obviously that's not going to cut in the Premier League or the Big 5, but if you're doing a "Build a Nation save" those guys are invaluable.
Ive done this on older FM but i don't do it again since recently i only managing club with limited finance
Pay attention to contract starting dated. The guy you were offering a contract to in teh exmaple would only join in 2027 (you're in 2024) due to rules about young players moving abroad. The salary is also too low for a work permit. So they join in 3 years time without a work permit. I stopped doing this as I found that too much of a gamble, not to mntion tedious, but it can be still worth it focusing on local players.
6:32 ROCHA FC yehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the best team of the world
I scrolled down to the bottom but there is no subscribe button.
What a thumbnail
How does this affect on the scouts asuming that i have 20 scouts all asigned to a different region? Or this is faster if you ask to do it to a scout that does not have a current assignmet?
Would be helpful for me, I want to get some younger players in my Ingolstadt team
@Daniel Evensen my board has been great until now, I got a lucky run in the dfb pokal and won it in my first season from 3.Liga. I am now in my second season in the Bundesliga fighting for european places (2024/25). I won only the dfb pokal and the 3.liga in this save
Personally i feel more accomplishment nurturing average joe to it max potential (the black star turn gold), as with wonderkid case it is easier as long they don't injured bad and play alright
Any idea, how to get them to your club instant? When I do it, they arrive 3+ years in the future. Do they get u19 gametime and so on at their current club?
question. Has anyone has ay issues with the NewGAN manager? Doesn't seem to work anymore. Is it something to do with the skin update?
I've found the new Colombia given the valuation of contracted players, it's neighboring Venezuela.
demanding more 20 good minutes episode here
also, scouting u-19 international competition (for me i just check every u-19 national team that attend that competition) is also works.
Playing a lower league. I offer trial to all youth intake in the country for two weeks. Most club only sign them for one year professionally
Still trying to figure this out. So how exactly do I know who is a wonderkid? I dont see any attributes (typically I can see a range of people, then I have to scout them) and the media description doesnt say wonderkid for any of these players. Also when I went to sign one of them, the contract didnt start for another 3 years!! Im confused
Can someone send the link for the dexerto screen ? Can't find it
Did this get patched? Playing on FM22 and only my players are free agents, everyone else is on contracts the moment they show up.
Get them on a trial the same date as they appear and you won’t have to scout the player(s). Works only if the club allows you to sent them on a trail of cours. Doesn’t work always.
I have Vicente as a scout in my save too
To say people don't care about City, they spend a lot of time telling us they don't care about City
Yeah not caring would usually warrant not being worth a mention. Benjy just sounds kind off butthurt, and it's truly exciting that City lives in his head rent free
and tbf if Liverpool won the league i'd be just as butthurt about it, I just wouldn't pretend I wasnt
I can't find Lorenzo lucca, any help?
Is it just me who thinks something looks wrong in the video? Theres white spots coming and going in the video (looks like a mouse or something?) At first I thought it was just my screen but it looks the same on my phone. Might be an error in the edit?
Hello Lord Zealand
Does anyone know how to filter player who were trained at your club? Thanks
is there a way to do something similar to this on console or is it only a feature on pc?
Tbh I do this when I start stagnating at a club, but once I start I can’t stop haha
How can you do this on the Xbox version or can you not?
How do I get past the "work permit" issue. Everyone I look at signing won't get a work permit.
loan em out untill they get one
Listening to that podcast clip I agree with Ben as a Liverpool fan I'd rather see arsenal or Manchester United win a trophy over city they've just brought the league and if it wasn't for Liverpool man City would win the league like bayern and psg and it would pointless watching that league
problem with this method is that often besides paying a bit you also automatically give out like 5, 10, 15% of a future sale
and when you´re talking about young kids who a few years later might be sold... that adds up to a lot of lost millions
usually if a player´s fee is idk lets say ~600k you can sign him for like 1M easy, with most of that coming in future years and/or after X games/goals/caps (which he´ll never reach 9/10)
so i just prefer to pay a bit more now (which i dont really pay as most of those payments dont even materialize) and not lose up to dozens of millions in future sales cause of the %%%
good vid tho, it can work, but yeah, systemically going over to eeevery country is just overkill for me. but who cares, its just a game xD
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Great video. One thing that affects the international tournaments in FM is fitness, by the semi-finals or final, players are tired and some even if they play well don't make the pitch. For example Grealish in this sim and Messi getting subbed at 60th minute.
The story of wonderkids in Japan & Korea can be buy with less than 5M...
In FM 20, Japanese and Korean youth players used to gen in as free agents. By the time I took my team from League One to the Prem, half my team was Asian.
6:59 It doesnt tell me who the top prospect is. I only see the captain, vice captain and key player.
Exactly, this depends on the skin that's being used
@@joritverkerk3947 how do you change that?
does this work on fm 20
You can offer them a trail to save all the fannying about with reports.
Wheeling and dealing
Can this be done on mobile or full game only?
How do you do this on mobile
Liverpool fan with that accent obviously a glory hunting fan boy pls tell him this zea!
Does anyone know if this works for FM 23?
Does this work in fm21?
I should try one of these easy mode saves but I just don't get the challenge. How do you ever not dominate? It's like smashing a 5 year old at snap...
Domniating is the whole point of my saves I get an okay club and make them dominate the world for atleast 10 years, I just like developing the young talent and having good young players mean you will always dominate.
@@DreadnoughtAlphaOne that's fine, but if you never have to scout and can just player search every wonderkid, dominating as almost any team is kinda easy.
So, not for nothing. And for a rather substantial amount depending on what level you're managing at? Thanks..
You can usually negotiate below the compensation on a youth contract usually, without editing the game or getting lucky on end of contracts it’s the cheapest way to get the best young players in the world
It’s quite literally a 200 PA person for at the absolute max 700k up front
People really do like complaining for the sake of complaining. Most of the players you compensate you could still for 5-10x the compensation fee AND sell on clauses
Youth Galaticos
Im fairly sure these players come with future % sell on attached to them
You can negotiate that out by going to the dropdown where the sell on would be, and set it to "exclude from negotiations" during your initial offer
@@TheDieseI He means when you approach without negotiating contract, which is correct. I always just negotiate a transfer.