@@Henry23852 already done. Info the scouting and mostly that's it. In my current save I usually have 20 shots / game but don't consistently scores which makes me end up being OK but not pretending for the title which is what the board wants.
One aspect of FM I have found useful for winning cup finals are finding the winning personality traits and tailoring player stats directly to your tactic when team building. For example, I had teams before with incredible stats all round in every position, but lots of my key players were inconsistent in their assistant report analysis, some players also had a personality trait which were temperamental or low determination. Low and behold, I would loose finals all the time when on paper I had stronger players, when looking at attributes alone. As I have played more saves over the years, I now prioritise particular attributes over any others which are determination and work rate, these form the basis of a winning mentality. Then I look for particular attributes which suit my tactic (i.e. passing and composure if I am using a tiki taka style tactic). I also prioritise the personality trait, to the point where even if a player as amazing attributes but has a fickle personality I would not let that player anywhere near my carefully curated team, which is full of winners, with traits such as professional, resolute, ambitious, model citizen ect. I also look for the hidden stats through scouting reports, these include two major traits I also avoid, inconsistency and does not enjoy big matches. You want to see a scout report which either shows that a player loves big matches and is consistent or at least doesn't say the opposite. Curating teams with these attributes and traits creates a winning squad and I have only win the champions league with teams that have these aspects to their game. In addition, you will notice that this team building style sets a culture in the dressing room, so as you bring in future prospects, lots of these personality traits and determination levels rub off on the younger players and they too become winners as they start to establish themselves. I hope this helps anyone struggling to loose their champions league virginity.
To be honest its not right to blame barcelonas transfer buisness on Abis alone. I know Im biased because I really love the guy but its the truth. But yeah he obvi didnt have FM Genie like most of the FM "pros" out there,
@@polperezfernandez3115 yeah i know, i didnt say u r wrong. I meant that if a sporting director doesnt really make any decisions he should quit or make the management listen 2 him... if he doesnt do either of those its a bad sign
I'm managing PSV and my UCL groups are cursed. 3 years in a row my group would consist of previous year's winner + PSG or Man City. 4th team once was Salzburg. Downgraded to europa league last year I beat Porto and Man city eventually loosing to Arsenal who in the second leg scored free kick from 30 meters, corner deflection + longshot. 4-3 on aggregate. This year hoping to break the curse even tho there are Real Madrid and Man city in the group
jesus christ dude😂 I've had those saves. a mid tier europe team and always getting screwed by the ai. my current save is man utd reborn. except i won CL in the first year lol. i was even resting ppl for some of the knockouts expecting to lose anyway. it was the easiest effortless weird CL run I've ever had. group stage: as monaco besiktas glasgow rangers 2nd round: beat barcelona QF: beat ac milan SF: beat liverpool Final: beat psg 4 -2
2nd season i got barcelona, rb salzburg, ludogorets. seems i have the same luck as irl utd😂 2nd round i beat ajax and still waiting on the QF draw. i wish you luck buddy!
I'm doing the same. Had three seasons on Ligue 1. PSG won on season 1, I won in season 2 and Monaco won in season 3. I rarely beat these two teams to do it. Can never get the tactics right.
I recently signed a Czech Striker in Bulgaria who was tipped to be the best player in the world, signed him for 5.5m pounds (might have overspendt but i just needed a young striker at the time) and at 17 he is already almost the best striker in the premier league with 20 aperances and 18 goals
I bought a typical Brazillian 19 year old for my Turkish team that qualified for the European League. Paid 11m or so. He was the key player instantly. Won the Turkish league and got to even the semi finals in European League and lost to Arsenal. Next season, BAM Athletico Madrid bought him for 74m and my board accepted because ''too good of an offer''. Well, I wasn't too upset since I bought another younger player for cheaper that had better potential. Similar case when I found a young Syrian player that I bought in the lower leagues. Paid barely 100k for him. 2 years later, a Chinese team came and paid 30m for him.
Getting very deep into my Polish League Warta Poznan save. Lost in the final 4 seasons back and gone out in the last 16 every season since despite my team getting better year on year. Think my team cohesion is poor as everyone is constantly getting unsettled, will look at match review/team bonding to fix.
In my Bayern Save I started back during the FM19 Beta I'm currently in the early 2030s, Joshua Zirkzee (Bayerns biggest talent irl) is the best Player in the World and battles Mbappe (who I bought a couple years ago just for the lolz) every year for the Ballon d'Or. I won the CL the last four years in a row, three out of those four times were Triples.
I know this is a year later, but thanks for this Zealand. First year of my Inter save I made it to the SF where I lost 3-2 agg to PSG thanks to a goddamn Icardi penalty. Second year I got knocked out in the last 16 by Bayern, having wasting too many chances. All this considering I'm absolutely dominating Serie A. Anyway, I'm in the third year now, and I hope to bring the CL back to Giusseppe Meazza.
1 year late here too. Will paste this as a comment in this youtube later, but guess you would be interested in my AC Milan story. 😄 Long one, but bear with me please ... So, FM20 was free, installed. Last played version was FM06. Thought, piece of cake, but let's try out what's new. Started with Arsenal, 4-3-1-2, got 9th and was sacked before the season was up. What the ... ?! OK, let's use a bigger club. AC Milan then. Transfer budget was ... 3mil?! Wtf? Did the football world changed so much since? (Answer - "yes".) In debt even, but has a few good (i.e. 3*) players. Bear in mind that in FM20, i had no idea who this Zealand was (I just watched his videos weeks ago, 2022, in fact~!) ... ok, noticed that the Arsenal was always been countered to dearth, so ... recalling Sir Alex (DISCLAIMER - Blackburn fan here actually), i plug for a 4-4-1-1 so as crowd the midfield ... with mainly the 3*-s and a few 4*-s, got 2nd place. The Zebras (aka Juventus) had a 10+ points lead with Ronaldo and company though. Wow. 2nd season. Transfer budget was ... 4mil, i think? AC Milan. Wow. Got an old AMC named David Silva from Man C i think. Another 30+ SC free from Denmark. 2nd placed again, and finally a SC who scored 10+ goals (albeit with penalties). Ronaldo is destroying teams. ... next few seasons about the same (at work, so cannot check, sorry). Comfortable "best-of-the-rest" (2nd), but Zebras is untouchable. Around the 5th season, cannot even make it to the CL's knock-outs and went to Europa knock-outs instead. Confidence took a dent. Though Milan did win the Europa that season (first major trophy), but ... Yeah. Finally used a Cautious mentality, esp for away matches. The next season though, beat PSG away at the Group Stage (with a mainly 3*/4* team, mind you. Think the brilliant GK hasnt reached his full potential yet), and was, ok, an improvement~! ... Decided to use a Cautious Mentality for Away CL matches. Perhaps a few key Serie A matches too ... That season, was 2nd again, but ... Shocker - won the Champions League~! I repeat, I cannot win the Serie A for years, and then actually won the Champions League. With only 3*/4* players, and without a top scoring SC. Team cohesion is only half bar too, i recalled. Big Wow. Anyway, finally Ronaldo had to retire, and then finally Milan went on top. In fact, it was 20+ seasons later that i finally got a 5* regen SC, and finally got a SC who scored 20+ goals a season (because i am like Wenger who doesnt like spending. This 5* SC is "only" 87mil). Btw, this SC has only 13 Finishing for some weird reasons, ha. Then finally, what Zealand stated in this video happened, and Milan plays Attacking all season with the same old 4-4-1-1 (ok, maybe a few times when things got too close, i would go to Cautious in the second half Away). No second tactics ever - just let the AI overcompensate the "Half-season-syndrome" until the AI mess itself up. And while it is 2045 and i won the Serie A for 18 consecutive years, Milan only started winning the CL more regularly when the 5* SC joined, even when my players were now 3* - 5*s. Seriously, he singlehandledly carried the team at times. Wow wow. My takeaway is the same since CM97 - get the best staff (gradually if in LLM), scout and buy the best players, and play the way you want. As long as the team of 20+ players are really good (in FM20 terms - 4*/5*-ers), the (great) players (likely with high Decisions) would override your lousy tactics and a 6 Header Winger is gonna head a goal in from the far post anywayz. Do wanna add that in FM20, keeping the players happy is KEY.
Everyone in the comments:Talk about their Champions League knockout stage experiences Me, who has played there twice and only in the group stage:I AM IN THE EURO CUP II FINAL!!!
I dont want to brag but im going to anyway. Im with you on the euro cup 2. Before my current save on my new pc i had a journeyman save that started at wigan and went around Europe. Lasted 14 seasons before my new pc arrived. I won the euro cup 2 three times. Twice with montpellier and once with Boavista. Im like Sevilla.
Won it in my first Season with ajax. I honestly feel like it is easier to do with a team in a weaker league because you can really focus on the cl and always have great morale and form because you smash every Team in your league
Hey Zealand! Just wanted to say thanks for all the content. Managed to win the CL in my 11th season with Ostersunds FK in Sweden. Don’t think I’ll win it again for a bit since I don’t believe my team was ready to win it so early, but who knows. Your tips helped immensely, thanks! Also to anyone who is stuck at a particular point, keep trying! I was stuck at the last 16 for 4 seasons before I won it a couple days ago.
This video is really great video this has always been something I've struggled with in FM being the best team to ever play the game. I intend to wire the world and then dominate it
For me in my game I wouldn’t want to get to the point where I’m winning too much and I enjoy making mistakes with players as that happens in reality but I do want to improve scouting because that’s what top clubs do and in my save where we’re like a new PSG but started in the 8th tier in England with a self made team in Essex we are looking to compete on a big level (currently in the championship 2025/26 season promoted every year so far)
Great video, thanks Zealand! Been struggling to break into the top 4 with Crewe for a few seasons. Went full on attack mode with 7 players on attack duty, now we win every game 4-1 👍👍👍
Made 539 mill summer transfer, reinvested 200 mill into squad and 100mill into investment players. Still made another 100mill in winter, still got 244 mill to spend.
Did relegation challenge with udinese. 2 and half seasons later champions league winner. They have good/great defenders and goalie off the bat and an awesome aging cf. Just a tip for anyone scrolling
I did this once, lower league all the way to the top. But it got so boring for me. Now I try a different challenge, I start in some second league, with one of the poorer teams, and try to win the champions league as well, but I cannot sign more than one contract per club. First time I went Volendam, got promoted, to PSV, got to the CL final second season, then had to wait a couple months of unemployment for Ath. Madrid, got bored, quit. Now I'm thinking of trying again with a different second tier team, but haven't been able to decide yet. Was considering starting with a B-team, but those can't get promoted, so a second season with those could become very boring. The fact that you get 2-3 years Max at a top club makes it considerably more challenging, because you have to actually pay real money for players that could make a difference in those years. Your video on how to sell players should help me a lot though, it was really challenging to not be able to get a good price for my dead wood, I think your advice can make this challenge more feasible.
I started at FC Bayern II in the 3rd german leauge. I won the 3rd league 2 times and went on to train St. Pauli in the 2nd german League. I was 2nd in the 2nd League, went to the Bundesliga, and managed to be 10th then 7th, then 6th. I waited for a call from Bayern, they never called. I moved to Leipzig, they were 7th at that time (me being above them with St. Pauli). Won the league with Leipzig 7 times in a row now and the CL three times. I managed St. Pauli so good, that they kept being a Europe League contender throught all these years without me, with the main players being the ones that I once brought with me from Bayern II :) How I avoided the pulling power? Big ass contracts, so high that even PSG thought it's not worth it. My top players scratch, or are above, the 20 mio/year line.
Great video as always Zealand, also another tip that I stole from you is to find junior affiliates with very established or extensive youth recruitment so you can get world class regens. Also improving facilities as often as possible. Only thing I disagree with is the team talks. Everything you said is correct when applied to home games as the expectation has to be that you win every time at home but you need to soften the stance away from home. If the team has missed a few chances but you are drawing at half time, telling the team they are doing well has usually served me well
If you don’t have time to wire the world - just go to Boca or River and buy their hottest prospect- usually cost around 6-7M euros and they will easily be worth 20-30 when they come to your team. Banfield has been weirdly a good wonderkid factory in my save. Atletico National in Colombia - these players are cheap - around 1.5M euros you could have the next James or Zapata.
Printing money is a good idea IRL if you distribute it in a way that increases productivity. It offsets the inflationary effect :) US, UK, Japan, Australia, any country with a sovereign currency has been doing it ever since the gold standard died and it's a pretty effective way of stimulating the economy.
Awesome video as always!! One suggestion for FM21 ... How to start day 1 with any club! I think even if it is a bigger video it would be awesome to watch
My Milan didnt win the league as long as Ronaldo is with Zebras. Wrote earlier that i actually won the Champions League before winning the Serie A, when Ronaldo finally decided to retire. That's what, 7 seasons later? 😆" And, season 2045 now, but i did notice that the EPL is really a much harder league. Also, the Wolves and Watfords outbid Milan for seasons, like, wtf? Always dread facing an English team in the CL (which would happen eventually in the later rounds, ha. I would have an all 100% condition best-11 team because of heavy rotation, they have 90% condition, and still it's a roll of dice), and then when managing Italy (as an English co-manager of Milan, ahem), facing England is a FM nightmare. I dont save/load CM/FMs (because the fun is about the journey indeed, win or lose), but just as an experiment, i keep loading the 2040 Italy vs England game until I got the win. NEVER scored in open play, won only because of a penalty 1-0. Seriously. *shrugs
in my Manchester United save I won the champions league 2 times in a row really early on... Then I moved to Atletico Madrid and won it in my first season... I don't know how I did it cause I'm generally not very good at FM... But I've been avoiding playing on that save so I don't lose my winning streak lol
Its funny. I'm usually terrible at FM and struggle in domestic competitions but in my 2nd season at Ajax I managed to cause an upset and win the UCL after signing a bunch of high potential South American players. FM is weird man.
What do you usually do when two players form a bad relationship on the pitch? Is there any way to improve it? Does it actually affect the way your team performs?
If you offer trials to players immediately after their newgen day, they almost always accept, you can sign them and pay a nominal compensation fee. If you're a smaller club than their parent though you might need to offer them a truck load of cash
11 seasons spent with MU, even I'm now at the point where i need to revamp the squad for the 2nd time (spoilers: it made me finish at 7th where i won the treble last season. but no UCL, bottled the final, against Tottenham :'), ironic), still no UCL, either smashed by Barca, or bottled the 2nd leg, or bottled the final too, and now even at European Conferences League i won't finish at the top at the Group Stage, it made me depressed and unmotivated to play FM again :') and i have a problem with FFP now btw btw one tips for y'all, have a good relationships with ur players, it should says "Hold u in the highest regards as head coach", it'll be useful someday, like in my save, no UCL next season, half of my squad being unhappy, and i said you won't get these same atmosphere everywhere, you won't enjoy football etc and they like forgetting the fact there won't be UCL next season.
UPDATE: PHEW I'M ON A WIN STREAK AND AT THE TOP OF THE TABLE NOW COZ I'M HAVING THE BALLS NOW TO USE ATTACKING MENTALITY AND PUT ONE OF MY WB IN ATTACK 🔥
To be fair though, the country you’re in can depend on pull even if you win the champions league as a player you’d still want to leave that smaller club/nation to play in a bigger one. Look at Montpellier or Leicester when they won their leagues teams still took their players
In my current game I have won 9 CL's in 16 seasons, 13 prems, 7 FA cups and a league cup. Its really , really , really fucking simple. you buy 1 or 2 essential player you need to fill whatever squad holes you have.......and from then on you spend 90-95% of all you budget and future budgets on buying the best 16 yr olds every year, within 3-5 years you will win league titles and constantly make money through selling the ones that dont quite make it, works in EVERY CM/FM game I have ever played
A lot of this holds up in the older, simpler FM games too (at least in my experience). I don't have the entertainment budget to buy the new version every year, so I'm sometimes left playing the older version of a game like FM. I also play a few different games, so I don't progress through my saves as quickly as others would. I have a newer version of FM that works (my FM 16 broke and before getting a new system my old system couldn't handle FM 18), but I'm trying to take care of some unfinished business on my trusty copy of FM 13 before moving on to the newer version. I've taken Hayes & Yeading from the 6th tier in England to the Premier League and gotten to the point where I'm regularly earning Europa play. I brought in the best scout that was willing to come to my team when I was in 6th tier, which helped me hit more than I missed on my signings, which led to me going up through the leagues pretty quickly, and I now have a scouting department that I think would make a number of national team managers envious. I built a young squad with good potential. The consistency was sometimes a bit lacking, but I was under my wage budget so my finances were in better shape than a lot of teams as I promoted through the leagues. Now as I near the end of my 6th season in the Premier League I'm in the top 20 richest clubs in the world and I'm narrowing the gap to the top 4 and finally breaking into the Champions League. Pretty much my whole starting 11 (and a number of my regulars off the bench) are current 3.5 ability with 4.5-5 potential. My next match is actually the Europa Final against Schalke and I'm being touted as the favorites. One area where I do need to improve is not dropping as many points against teams I should be beating and being more aggressive from the opening whistle against those teams may help do the trick. Adding some additional depth and growing my reserve squad will also help. My new board seem to have more interest in discovering our own talent than the old board did, so hopefully I'll start getting better regens next season.
I'm curious how Zealand would play as a team like Barcelona or Real Madrid. A team that is playing at the top, but a year or two later is weighed down by players on a rapid decline. Players with years left on their contracts and wages that guarantee no one will buy them. Sure, both have a large stable of great youth players, but when those players start getting the playing time, they'll want the wages that go along with that, which is really hard to provide when you're shoveling €15m into a 3 pace, 34 year old Busquets, or €32m into a 9 acceleration, 32 year old Bale who spends half the season out from a training injury.
Can you make video about away games in general, away games vs top teams for example playing with 3-5th team of the league etc with tips how to set up tactic and other things etc
Hey everyone, Over the last few days my football manager can't load my save and when I run it, it only makes it as far as the screen with the manager standing there. Any suggestions would be much appreciated Also great video as always👍👍
Hi, Zealand I recently subscribed and I find your youtube channel inciteful and basically great I have a question. How do you simulate seasons into the future instantaneously?. Please, Please reply.BIGGEE. I started my career with Chesterfield and after back to back promotions I got and took the Rangers job.
Any chance of a video on how to survive and do well with poor (both finance and quality) teams. Tired of getting battered by teams like Anderlecht where one player is half my total weekly wages
I managed a similar team in Leicester and in the first few years its about scrapping into the champions league, while trying to close the commercial and match-day revenue gap with the big clubs.
Can I request that you add in the value of a player/transfer in GBP? I struggle with the currency conversion as I live in Australia, but originally from the UK haha
Жыве Беларусь! (as soon as you manage in Belarus football league, you should know what's happening right now in this country IRL. A dictator have been usurping the power in Belarus for 26 years, and now he fixed the election to win it once again, and then police and army men beat those who don't agree with these fixed results!)
Zealand, how long does season takes you? I feel like I'm doing everything too quickly. I can't even be promoted with Leeds after 2seasons when you are winning the champions league with Bate... I suck hard
1 year late here. Will paste this as a comment in this youtube later, but guess you would be interested ... So, FM20 was free, installed. Last played version was FM06. Thought, piece of cake, but let's try out what's new. Started with Arsenal, 4-3-1-2, got 9th and was sacked before the season was up. What the ... ?! OK, let's use a bigger club. AC Milan then. Transfer budget was ... 3mil?! Wtf? Did the football world changed so much since? (Answer - "yes".) In debt even, but has a few good (i.e. 3*) players. Bear in mind that in FM20, i had no idea who this Zealand was (I just watched his videos weeks ago, 2022, in fact~!) ... ok, noticed that the Arsenal was always been countered to dearth, so ... recalling Sir Alex (DISCLAIMER - Blackburn fan here actually), i plug for a 4-4-1-1 so as crowd the midfield ... with mainly the 3*-s and a few 4*-s, got 2nd place. The Zebras (aka Juventus) had a 10+ points lead with Ronaldo and company though. Wow. 2nd season. Transfer budget was ... 4mil, i think? AC Milan. Wow. Got an old AMC named David Silva from Man C i think. Another 30+ SC free from Denmark. 2nd placed again, and finally a SC who scored 10+ goals (albeit with penalties). Ronaldo is destroying teams. ... next few seasons about the same (at work, so cannot check, sorry). Comfortable "best-of-the-rest" (2nd), but Zebras is untouchable. Around the 5th season, cannot even make it to the CL's knock-outs and went to Europa knock-outs instead. Confidence took a dent. Though Milan did win the Europa that season (first major trophy), but ... Yeah. Finally used a Cautious mentality, esp for away matches. The next season though, beat PSG away at the Group Stage (with a mainly 3*/4* team, mind you. Think the brilliant GK hasnt reached his full potential yet), and was, ok, an improvement~! elbowcough ... Decided to use a Cautious Mentality for Away CL matches. Perhaps a few key Serie A matches too ... That season, was 2nd again, but ... Shocker - won the Champions League~! I repeat, I cannot win the Serie A for years, and then actually won the Champions League. With only 3*/4* players, and without a top scoring SC. Team cohesion is only half bar too, i recalled. Big Wow. Anyway, finally Ronaldo had to retire, and then finally Milan went on top. In fact, it was 20+ seasons later that i finally got a 5* regen SC, and finally got a SC who scored 20+ goals a season (because i am like Wenger who doesnt like spending. This 5* SC is "only" 87mil). Btw, this SC has only 13 Finishing for some weird reasons, ha. Then finally, what Zealand stated in this video happened, and Milan plays Attacking all season with the same old 4-4-1-1 (ok, maybe a few times when things got too close, i would go to Cautious in the second half Away). No second tactics ever - just let the AI overcompensate the "Half-season-syndrome" until the AI mess itself up. And while it is 2045 and i won the Serie A for 18 consecutive years, Milan only started winning the CL more regularly when the 5* SC joined, even when my players were now 3* - 5*s. Seriously, he singlehandledly carried the team at times. Wow wow. My takeaway is the same since CM97 - get the best staff (gradually if in LLM), scout and buy the best players, and play the way you want. As long as the team of 20+ players are really good (in FM20 terms - 4*/5*-ers), the (great) players (likely with high Decisions) would override your lousy tactics and a 6 Header Winger is gonna head a goal in from the far post anywayz. Do wanna add that in FM20, keeping the players happy is KEY.
Maybe a dumb question, but do Leauges gets better? Like on your Bate safe, does the other belarus Teams get better over time while the Leauge gets more prestige?
Instructions not clear, got relegated
Considering you're more than likely playing as Watford. Are we suprised?
My therapist: Bate Borisov player Zealand doesn't exist, he can't hurt you.
Bate Borisov Zealand: 4:08
I would be fired after 1,5 seasons if I play bate. I just suck at this game...
Matthieu Lambinet it’s ok m8 you’ll get there someday. 👍
@@Cloud-nn1po not sure since I play for around 20 years. Old versions were so much simpler xD
@@matthieulambinet9522 go to staff permissions and make your staff do most things and just handle the transfers yourself 👍
@@Henry23852 already done. Info the scouting and mostly that's it.
In my current save I usually have 20 shots / game but don't consistently scores which makes me end up being OK but not pretending for the title which is what the board wants.
Zealand : How to win the champions league
Manchester City : I'm listening
*Juventus furiously taking notes*
Yeah, I feel sorry for Pep, would love to see h lifting the trophy even tho I love Bayern
Chelsea/PSG : allready on their way to the ATM
Still knocked out in the quatar final
lol
One aspect of FM I have found useful for winning cup finals are finding the winning personality traits and tailoring player stats directly to your tactic when team building. For example, I had teams before with incredible stats all round in every position, but lots of my key players were inconsistent in their assistant report analysis, some players also had a personality trait which were temperamental or low determination. Low and behold, I would loose finals all the time when on paper I had stronger players, when looking at attributes alone. As I have played more saves over the years, I now prioritise particular attributes over any others which are determination and work rate, these form the basis of a winning mentality. Then I look for particular attributes which suit my tactic (i.e. passing and composure if I am using a tiki taka style tactic). I also prioritise the personality trait, to the point where even if a player as amazing attributes but has a fickle personality I would not let that player anywhere near my carefully curated team, which is full of winners, with traits such as professional, resolute, ambitious, model citizen ect. I also look for the hidden stats through scouting reports, these include two major traits I also avoid, inconsistency and does not enjoy big matches. You want to see a scout report which either shows that a player loves big matches and is consistent or at least doesn't say the opposite. Curating teams with these attributes and traits creates a winning squad and I have only win the champions league with teams that have these aspects to their game. In addition, you will notice that this team building style sets a culture in the dressing room, so as you bring in future prospects, lots of these personality traits and determination levels rub off on the younger players and they too become winners as they start to establish themselves. I hope this helps anyone struggling to loose their champions league virginity.
Zealand , when is the football manager UA-cam series coming out? Very excited for it!!”
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Maybe he is waiting for fm21 or at least a beta of it to start
Oh my word yes!!
Yeah im not supporting Twitch thats just never gonna happen but now i watch Dr Disrespect and would love to see Zealands saves here.
@@DRock7977 yeah so a 50 year old roleplayer gets banned from twitch and now you are mad? Wanna cry on my shoulder? JK xD
Guardiola clicked this video furiously
and still failed
@@Diamond-vy1lx overthinking merchant
Just sign Abidal as a sporting director and he'll do the job, like in real life
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh about that...
Nope
@@tombak8742 the game's not gonna recognize that but his 20 JCA & JPA
To be honest its not right to blame barcelonas transfer buisness on Abis alone. I know Im biased because I really love the guy but its the truth. But yeah he obvi didnt have FM Genie like most of the FM "pros" out there,
@@polperezfernandez3115 i guess u have a point... but a sporting director must have authoriry as well. Its a skill that he apparantly doesnt have
@@polperezfernandez3115 yeah i know, i didnt say u r wrong. I meant that if a sporting director doesnt really make any decisions he should quit or make the management listen 2 him... if he doesnt do either of those its a bad sign
Thanks for making the FMbase intro song quieter, really, thanks a lot
I'm managing PSV and my UCL groups are cursed. 3 years in a row my group would consist of previous year's winner + PSG or Man City. 4th team once was Salzburg. Downgraded to europa league last year I beat Porto and Man city eventually loosing to Arsenal who in the second leg scored free kick from 30 meters, corner deflection + longshot. 4-3 on aggregate. This year hoping to break the curse even tho there are Real Madrid and Man city in the group
jesus christ dude😂
I've had those saves. a mid tier europe team and always getting screwed by the ai.
my current save is man utd reborn. except i won CL in the first year lol. i was even resting ppl for some of the knockouts expecting to lose anyway. it was the easiest effortless weird CL run I've ever had.
group stage:
as monaco
besiktas
glasgow rangers
2nd round:
beat barcelona
QF:
beat ac milan
SF:
beat liverpool
Final:
beat psg 4 -2
2nd season i got barcelona, rb salzburg, ludogorets. seems i have the same luck as irl utd😂
2nd round i beat ajax and still waiting on the QF draw.
i wish you luck buddy!
I was just debating with a friend how to finally win the champions league with the great Parma Calcio, then Zealand uploaded his new video. ☺
This video was made for me, trying to dethrone PSG with Marseille. Merci
I'm doing the same. Had three seasons on Ligue 1. PSG won on season 1, I won in season 2 and Monaco won in season 3. I rarely beat these two teams to do it. Can never get the tactics right.
I am season 2 with Monaco
@@SamLoinsLyon same stuff 😪
with 94 points, came 2nd to Lyon
been knocked out of the ucl qf 5 times , man i rlly needed this
As who?
Rosco Dodger borussia dortmund
@@tamirjean-charles684 Wow that's really bad.
@@tamirjean-charles684 Just like real life Borussia Dortmund then.
@@tamirjean-charles684 sounds really realistic tbh, which is good
I recently signed a Czech Striker in Bulgaria who was tipped to be the best player in the world, signed him for 5.5m pounds (might have overspendt but i just needed a young striker at the time) and at 17 he is already almost the best striker in the premier league with 20 aperances and 18 goals
What's his name?
@@nigelbhebhe2805 its probably a regen
I bought a typical Brazillian 19 year old for my Turkish team that qualified for the European League. Paid 11m or so. He was the key player instantly. Won the Turkish league and got to even the semi finals in European League and lost to Arsenal. Next season, BAM Athletico Madrid bought him for 74m and my board accepted because ''too good of an offer''. Well, I wasn't too upset since I bought another younger player for cheaper that had better potential.
Similar case when I found a young Syrian player that I bought in the lower leagues. Paid barely 100k for him. 2 years later, a Chinese team came and paid 30m for him.
After last night I think Pep should give this a watch
THanks for remembering us, from Montevideo.
Getting very deep into my Polish League Warta Poznan save. Lost in the final 4 seasons back and gone out in the last 16 every season since despite my team getting better year on year. Think my team cohesion is poor as everyone is constantly getting unsettled, will look at match review/team bonding to fix.
I don't even play FM but I can't stop watching these videos so that I'm ready for when I do go back. Thanks Zealand!
I'm from Honduras. Been playing since CM4.
Your scouts had a good time in Honduras for sure! 😂
In my Bayern Save I started back during the FM19 Beta I'm currently in the early 2030s, Joshua Zirkzee (Bayerns biggest talent irl) is the best Player in the World and battles Mbappe (who I bought a couple years ago just for the lolz) every year for the Ballon d'Or. I won the CL the last four years in a row, three out of those four times were Triples.
Wow you are such a good player winning trebels with Bayern after 10+ seasons
@@diggermeddler1169 Meddl Leudde!
I know this is a year later, but thanks for this Zealand. First year of my Inter save I made it to the SF where I lost 3-2 agg to PSG thanks to a goddamn Icardi penalty. Second year I got knocked out in the last 16 by Bayern, having wasting too many chances. All this considering I'm absolutely dominating Serie A. Anyway, I'm in the third year now, and I hope to bring the CL back to Giusseppe Meazza.
1 year late here too. Will paste this as a comment in this youtube later, but guess you would be interested in my AC Milan story. 😄 Long one, but bear with me please ...
So, FM20 was free, installed. Last played version was FM06. Thought, piece of cake, but let's try out what's new. Started with Arsenal, 4-3-1-2, got 9th and was sacked before the season was up. What the ... ?!
OK, let's use a bigger club. AC Milan then. Transfer budget was ... 3mil?! Wtf? Did the football world changed so much since? (Answer - "yes".) In debt even, but has a few good (i.e. 3*) players. Bear in mind that in FM20, i had no idea who this Zealand was (I just watched his videos weeks ago, 2022, in fact~!) ... ok, noticed that the Arsenal was always been countered to dearth, so ... recalling Sir Alex (DISCLAIMER - Blackburn fan here actually), i plug for a 4-4-1-1 so as crowd the midfield ... with mainly the 3*-s and a few 4*-s, got 2nd place. The Zebras (aka Juventus) had a 10+ points lead with Ronaldo and company though. Wow.
2nd season. Transfer budget was ... 4mil, i think? AC Milan. Wow. Got an old AMC named David Silva from Man C i think. Another 30+ SC free from Denmark. 2nd placed again, and finally a SC who scored 10+ goals (albeit with penalties). Ronaldo is destroying teams.
... next few seasons about the same (at work, so cannot check, sorry). Comfortable "best-of-the-rest" (2nd), but Zebras is untouchable. Around the 5th season, cannot even make it to the CL's knock-outs and went to Europa knock-outs instead. Confidence took a dent. Though Milan did win the Europa that season (first major trophy), but ...
Yeah. Finally used a Cautious mentality, esp for away matches. The next season though, beat PSG away at the Group Stage (with a mainly 3*/4* team, mind you. Think the brilliant GK hasnt reached his full potential yet), and was, ok, an improvement~! ... Decided to use a Cautious Mentality for Away CL matches. Perhaps a few key Serie A matches too ... That season, was 2nd again, but ... Shocker - won the Champions League~! I repeat, I cannot win the Serie A for years, and then actually won the Champions League. With only 3*/4* players, and without a top scoring SC. Team cohesion is only half bar too, i recalled.
Big Wow. Anyway, finally Ronaldo had to retire, and then finally Milan went on top. In fact, it was 20+ seasons later that i finally got a 5* regen SC, and finally got a SC who scored 20+ goals a season (because i am like Wenger who doesnt like spending. This 5* SC is "only" 87mil). Btw, this SC has only 13 Finishing for some weird reasons, ha.
Then finally, what Zealand stated in this video happened, and Milan plays Attacking all season with the same old 4-4-1-1 (ok, maybe a few times when things got too close, i would go to Cautious in the second half Away). No second tactics ever - just let the AI overcompensate the "Half-season-syndrome" until the AI mess itself up. And while it is 2045 and i won the Serie A for 18 consecutive years, Milan only started winning the CL more regularly when the 5* SC joined, even when my players were now 3* - 5*s. Seriously, he singlehandledly carried the team at times. Wow wow.
My takeaway is the same since CM97 - get the best staff (gradually if in LLM), scout and buy the best players, and play the way you want. As long as the team of 20+ players are really good (in FM20 terms - 4*/5*-ers), the (great) players (likely with high Decisions) would override your lousy tactics and a 6 Header Winger is gonna head a goal in from the far post anywayz.
Do wanna add that in FM20, keeping the players happy is KEY.
'Zealand, the most decorated manager in the history of FM'
Video on opposition instructions please!
Everyone in the comments:Talk about their Champions League knockout stage experiences
Me, who has played there twice and only in the group stage:I AM IN THE EURO CUP II FINAL!!!
I dont want to brag but im going to anyway. Im with you on the euro cup 2. Before my current save on my new pc i had a journeyman save that started at wigan and went around Europe. Lasted 14 seasons before my new pc arrived. I won the euro cup 2 three times. Twice with montpellier and once with Boavista. Im like Sevilla.
SamFM52 nice
Won it in my first Season with ajax. I honestly feel like it is easier to do with a team in a weaker league because you can really focus on the cl and always have great morale and form because you smash every Team in your league
Hey Zealand!
Just wanted to say thanks for all the content.
Managed to win the CL in my 11th season with Ostersunds FK in Sweden. Don’t think I’ll win it again for a bit since I don’t believe my team was ready to win it so early, but who knows.
Your tips helped immensely, thanks!
Also to anyone who is stuck at a particular point, keep trying! I was stuck at the last 16 for 4 seasons before I won it a couple days ago.
You reaaaaaally should do something from the low tiers of Sweden!
Video idea for you, my guy....how to end a bad run of games.
I find praying helps, sometimes, or maybe it was just coincidence lol
This video is really great video this has always been something I've struggled with in FM being the best team to ever play the game. I intend to wire the world and then dominate it
For me in my game I wouldn’t want to get to the point where I’m winning too much and I enjoy making mistakes with players as that happens in reality but I do want to improve scouting because that’s what top clubs do and in my save where we’re like a new PSG but started in the 8th tier in England with a self made team in Essex we are looking to compete on a big level (currently in the championship 2025/26 season promoted every year so far)
I bet Reece is a football manager master by now
🤣🤣🤣
Great video, thanks Zealand! Been struggling to break into the top 4 with Crewe for a few seasons. Went full on attack mode with 7 players on attack duty, now we win every game 4-1 👍👍👍
I won champions league in my 1st ever fm21 season ,with man u ,finished 3rd in prem tho
The team build is the most crucial , without it all the other steps don’t matter
Made 539 mill summer transfer, reinvested 200 mill into squad and 100mill into investment players. Still made another 100mill in winter, still got 244 mill to spend.
I finally did it in my 5th season with PSV, thank you
Did relegation challenge with udinese. 2 and half seasons later champions league winner. They have good/great defenders and goalie off the bat and an awesome aging cf. Just a tip for anyone scrolling
I did this once, lower league all the way to the top. But it got so boring for me.
Now I try a different challenge, I start in some second league, with one of the poorer teams, and try to win the champions league as well, but I cannot sign more than one contract per club. First time I went Volendam, got promoted, to PSV, got to the CL final second season, then had to wait a couple months of unemployment for Ath. Madrid, got bored, quit.
Now I'm thinking of trying again with a different second tier team, but haven't been able to decide yet. Was considering starting with a B-team, but those can't get promoted, so a second season with those could become very boring.
The fact that you get 2-3 years Max at a top club makes it considerably more challenging, because you have to actually pay real money for players that could make a difference in those years. Your video on how to sell players should help me a lot though, it was really challenging to not be able to get a good price for my dead wood, I think your advice can make this challenge more feasible.
I started at FC Bayern II in the 3rd german leauge. I won the 3rd league 2 times and went on to train St. Pauli in the 2nd german League. I was 2nd in the 2nd League, went to the Bundesliga, and managed to be 10th then 7th, then 6th. I waited for a call from Bayern, they never called. I moved to Leipzig, they were 7th at that time (me being above them with St. Pauli). Won the league with Leipzig 7 times in a row now and the CL three times. I managed St. Pauli so good, that they kept being a Europe League contender throught all these years without me, with the main players being the ones that I once brought with me from Bayern II :)
How I avoided the pulling power? Big ass contracts, so high that even PSG thought it's not worth it. My top players scratch, or are above, the 20 mio/year line.
Great video as always Zealand, also another tip that I stole from you is to find junior affiliates with very established or extensive youth recruitment so you can get world class regens. Also improving facilities as often as possible. Only thing I disagree with is the team talks. Everything you said is correct when applied to home games as the expectation has to be that you win every time at home but you need to soften the stance away from home. If the team has missed a few chances but you are drawing at half time, telling the team they are doing well has usually served me well
Would you ever make stream highlights of your saves, I'd love to watch
It should be on a channel called zealand live or something like that
Twitch vods
"Zealand"
There‘s a reason Zlatan also starts with Z ;)
wait a fucking moment
Should have released this two weeks ago Sarri and Pep could have used the help.
If you don’t have time to wire the world - just go to Boca or River and buy their hottest prospect- usually cost around 6-7M euros and they will easily be worth 20-30 when they come to your team. Banfield has been weirdly a good wonderkid factory in my save. Atletico National in Colombia - these players are cheap - around 1.5M euros you could have the next James or Zapata.
That's basically how I built my Leeds team lol
Printing money is a good idea IRL if you distribute it in a way that increases productivity. It offsets the inflationary effect :) US, UK, Japan, Australia, any country with a sovereign currency has been doing it ever since the gold standard died and it's a pretty effective way of stimulating the economy.
Awesome video as always!!
One suggestion for FM21 ... How to start day 1 with any club! I think even if it is a bigger video it would be awesome to watch
I have won the champions league once, but never won PL. I have consistently placed top 4, but it's so hard to win the league.
My Milan didnt win the league as long as Ronaldo is with Zebras. Wrote earlier that i actually won the Champions League before winning the Serie A, when Ronaldo finally decided to retire. That's what, 7 seasons later? 😆"
And, season 2045 now, but i did notice that the EPL is really a much harder league. Also, the Wolves and Watfords outbid Milan for seasons, like, wtf? Always dread facing an English team in the CL (which would happen eventually in the later rounds, ha. I would have an all 100% condition best-11 team because of heavy rotation, they have 90% condition, and still it's a roll of dice), and then when managing Italy (as an English co-manager of Milan, ahem), facing England is a FM nightmare. I dont save/load CM/FMs (because the fun is about the journey indeed, win or lose), but just as an experiment, i keep loading the 2040 Italy vs England game until I got the win. NEVER scored in open play, won only because of a penalty 1-0. Seriously. *shrugs
Your hairline sits deeper than a Sam Allardyce back 4, time to let it go matey. Brave the shave.
this guy looks like he's about to tutor some high schoolers in an hour
Youre great Zealand keep up the awesome content i would love too see series here on UA-cam.
in my Manchester United save I won the champions league 2 times in a row really early on... Then I moved to Atletico Madrid and won it in my first season... I don't know how I did it cause I'm generally not very good at FM... But I've been avoiding playing on that save so I don't lose my winning streak lol
Its funny. I'm usually terrible at FM and struggle in domestic competitions but in my 2nd season at Ajax I managed to cause an upset and win the UCL after signing a bunch of high potential South American players. FM is weird man.
Day 2 of asking Zealand to do the “Playmakers Only Tactic”.
Ever thought about doing a save in Korea or Japan?
Just lost my first UCL final 3-0 starting from bottom tier english team :(
What do you usually do when two players form a bad relationship on the pitch? Is there any way to improve it? Does it actually affect the way your team performs?
I tried to follow your instructions but still cannot win the Champions League on my LAFC save. What could I be doing wrong?
Geography
Lol, I don't even have 1.300.000 with my team in Italy's Serie D/I. 😂
I'm praying to get some loans before the transferwindow ends. 😅
If you offer trials to players immediately after their newgen day, they almost always accept, you can sign them and pay a nominal compensation fee. If you're a smaller club than their parent though you might need to offer them a truck load of cash
Or use genie scout am I right
11 seasons spent with MU, even I'm now at the point where i need to revamp the squad for the 2nd time (spoilers: it made me finish at 7th where i won the treble last season. but no UCL, bottled the final, against Tottenham :'), ironic), still no UCL, either smashed by Barca, or bottled the 2nd leg, or bottled the final too, and now even at European Conferences League i won't finish at the top at the Group Stage, it made me depressed and unmotivated to play FM again :') and i have a problem with FFP now btw
btw one tips for y'all, have a good relationships with ur players, it should says "Hold u in the highest regards as head coach", it'll be useful someday, like in my save, no UCL next season, half of my squad being unhappy, and i said you won't get these same atmosphere everywhere, you won't enjoy football etc and they like forgetting the fact there won't be UCL next season.
UPDATE: PHEW I'M ON A WIN STREAK AND AT THE TOP OF THE TABLE NOW COZ I'M HAVING THE BALLS NOW TO USE ATTACKING MENTALITY AND PUT ONE OF MY WB IN ATTACK 🔥
Better explanation on how to scout than the how to scout video :)
To be fair though, the country you’re in can depend on pull even if you win the champions league as a player you’d still want to leave that smaller club/nation to play in a bigger one. Look at Montpellier or Leicester when they won their leagues teams still took their players
It takes years of winning the league to not have players stolen
how to not to be Barcelona in the last few years
In my current game I have won 9 CL's in 16 seasons, 13 prems, 7 FA cups and a league cup. Its really , really , really fucking simple. you buy 1 or 2 essential player you need to fill whatever squad holes you have.......and from then on you spend 90-95% of all you budget and future budgets on buying the best 16 yr olds every year, within 3-5 years you will win league titles and constantly make money through selling the ones that dont quite make it, works in EVERY CM/FM game I have ever played
Hi ,Zealand
enjoying your content all round bro
lots of love from kenya
requesting a tutorial on marking plz
A lot of this holds up in the older, simpler FM games too (at least in my experience). I don't have the entertainment budget to buy the new version every year, so I'm sometimes left playing the older version of a game like FM. I also play a few different games, so I don't progress through my saves as quickly as others would. I have a newer version of FM that works (my FM 16 broke and before getting a new system my old system couldn't handle FM 18), but I'm trying to take care of some unfinished business on my trusty copy of FM 13 before moving on to the newer version.
I've taken Hayes & Yeading from the 6th tier in England to the Premier League and gotten to the point where I'm regularly earning Europa play. I brought in the best scout that was willing to come to my team when I was in 6th tier, which helped me hit more than I missed on my signings, which led to me going up through the leagues pretty quickly, and I now have a scouting department that I think would make a number of national team managers envious. I built a young squad with good potential. The consistency was sometimes a bit lacking, but I was under my wage budget so my finances were in better shape than a lot of teams as I promoted through the leagues. Now as I near the end of my 6th season in the Premier League I'm in the top 20 richest clubs in the world and I'm narrowing the gap to the top 4 and finally breaking into the Champions League. Pretty much my whole starting 11 (and a number of my regulars off the bench) are current 3.5 ability with 4.5-5 potential. My next match is actually the Europa Final against Schalke and I'm being touted as the favorites. One area where I do need to improve is not dropping as many points against teams I should be beating and being more aggressive from the opening whistle against those teams may help do the trick. Adding some additional depth and growing my reserve squad will also help. My new board seem to have more interest in discovering our own talent than the old board did, so hopefully I'll start getting better regens next season.
Hello from Montevideo! Nice to be named in the video.
Wait who took Zealand and replaced him with someone who would decorate? Investigation needed. 🤣😂🤣 Mombot so proud, always!
The defend duty for wing-backs needs to go..
I'm curious how Zealand would play as a team like Barcelona or Real Madrid. A team that is playing at the top, but a year or two later is weighed down by players on a rapid decline. Players with years left on their contracts and wages that guarantee no one will buy them. Sure, both have a large stable of great youth players, but when those players start getting the playing time, they'll want the wages that go along with that, which is really hard to provide when you're shoveling €15m into a 3 pace, 34 year old Busquets, or €32m into a 9 acceleration, 32 year old Bale who spends half the season out from a training injury.
Real life managers watching this
United: Buy Sancho, move Greenwood to striker and gegenpress your way to a first season treble.
We don't talk about him.
Fm2020 is by far the hardest edition to win the CL as underdog (without using exploits)
When your climbing a league be David moyes when your there be Alex Ferguson
Can you make video about away games in general, away games vs top teams for example playing with 3-5th team of the league etc with tips how to set up tactic and other things etc
Hey everyone,
Over the last few days my football manager can't load my save and when I run it, it only makes it as far as the screen with the manager standing there. Any suggestions would be much appreciated
Also great video as always👍👍
Save file probably shat itself in the process of saving, tried prior versions of the save game?
@@tobyhull5755 good idea will try that
@@tobyhull5755 cheers mate just saved my 13 year save
Here is how you win, fast wingers, 5 ATB, low defensive line, counter. Alternatively just 4-2-3-1 Gegenpress.
Maybe Rhys can start aligning the audio properly now ;)
Hi, Zealand I recently subscribed and I find your youtube channel inciteful and basically great I have a question. How do you simulate seasons into the future instantaneously?. Please, Please reply.BIGGEE. I started my career with Chesterfield and after back to back promotions I got and took the Rangers job.
It's not instant I usually run it over night
Where is zealand from? New Zealand?
Really! I took Billaricay from VLS to 3 champions league winners and 7 times finalist
Instructions not clear- team got financially insolvent got sacked.
Thanks Reece
I won CL in first season with Red Star
Any chance of a video on how to survive and do well with poor (both finance and quality) teams. Tired of getting battered by teams like Anderlecht where one player is half my total weekly wages
Stuff zealand with d tri colour🇮🇪
Just manage my team in RL already! ;)
Anyone else miss the lockdown beard?
I managed a similar team in Leicester and in the first few years its about scrapping into the champions league, while trying to close the commercial and match-day revenue gap with the big clubs.
I wish Zealand reviews FM 2020 mobile would be an interesting video
Can I request that you add in the value of a player/transfer in GBP? I struggle with the currency conversion as I live in Australia, but originally from the UK haha
A grown man in a dorm room is an unsettling picture.
Resettle yourselves 😂 He’s 24 yrs old living in an apartment and working on getting a masters for sports broadcasting.
Жыве Беларусь! (as soon as you manage in Belarus football league, you should know what's happening right now in this country IRL. A dictator have been usurping the power in Belarus for 26 years, and now he fixed the election to win it once again, and then police and army men beat those who don't agree with these fixed results!)
Zealand, how long does season takes you? I feel like I'm doing everything too quickly. I can't even be promoted with Leeds after 2seasons when you are winning the champions league with Bate... I suck hard
Irish flag nice 😎 keep up the great content lovd from Ireland ✌
Arsenal on the relegation zone...sigh
1 year late here. Will paste this as a comment in this youtube later, but guess you would be interested ...
So, FM20 was free, installed. Last played version was FM06. Thought, piece of cake, but let's try out what's new. Started with Arsenal, 4-3-1-2, got 9th and was sacked before the season was up. What the ... ?!
OK, let's use a bigger club. AC Milan then. Transfer budget was ... 3mil?! Wtf? Did the football world changed so much since? (Answer - "yes".) In debt even, but has a few good (i.e. 3*) players. Bear in mind that in FM20, i had no idea who this Zealand was (I just watched his videos weeks ago, 2022, in fact~!) ... ok, noticed that the Arsenal was always been countered to dearth, so ... recalling Sir Alex (DISCLAIMER - Blackburn fan here actually), i plug for a 4-4-1-1 so as crowd the midfield ... with mainly the 3*-s and a few 4*-s, got 2nd place. The Zebras (aka Juventus) had a 10+ points lead with Ronaldo and company though. Wow.
2nd season. Transfer budget was ... 4mil, i think? AC Milan. Wow. Got an old AMC named David Silva from Man C i think. Another 30+ SC free from Denmark. 2nd placed again, and finally a SC who scored 10+ goals (albeit with penalties). Ronaldo is destroying teams.
... next few seasons about the same (at work, so cannot check, sorry). Comfortable "best-of-the-rest" (2nd), but Zebras is untouchable. Around the 5th season, cannot even make it to the CL's knock-outs and went to Europa knock-outs instead. Confidence took a dent. Though Milan did win the Europa that season (first major trophy), but ...
Yeah. Finally used a Cautious mentality, esp for away matches. The next season though, beat PSG away at the Group Stage (with a mainly 3*/4* team, mind you. Think the brilliant GK hasnt reached his full potential yet), and was, ok, an improvement~! elbowcough ... Decided to use a Cautious Mentality for Away CL matches. Perhaps a few key Serie A matches too ... That season, was 2nd again, but ... Shocker - won the Champions League~! I repeat, I cannot win the Serie A for years, and then actually won the Champions League. With only 3*/4* players, and without a top scoring SC. Team cohesion is only half bar too, i recalled.
Big Wow. Anyway, finally Ronaldo had to retire, and then finally Milan went on top. In fact, it was 20+ seasons later that i finally got a 5* regen SC, and finally got a SC who scored 20+ goals a season (because i am like Wenger who doesnt like spending. This 5* SC is "only" 87mil). Btw, this SC has only 13 Finishing for some weird reasons, ha.
Then finally, what Zealand stated in this video happened, and Milan plays Attacking all season with the same old 4-4-1-1 (ok, maybe a few times when things got too close, i would go to Cautious in the second half Away). No second tactics ever - just let the AI overcompensate the "Half-season-syndrome" until the AI mess itself up. And while it is 2045 and i won the Serie A for 18 consecutive years, Milan only started winning the CL more regularly when the 5* SC joined, even when my players were now 3* - 5*s. Seriously, he singlehandledly carried the team at times. Wow wow.
My takeaway is the same since CM97 - get the best staff (gradually if in LLM), scout and buy the best players, and play the way you want. As long as the team of 20+ players are really good (in FM20 terms - 4*/5*-ers), the (great) players (likely with high Decisions) would override your lousy tactics and a 6 Header Winger is gonna head a goal in from the far post anywayz.
Do wanna add that in FM20, keeping the players happy is KEY.
What's the intro song? Catchy as hell.
Maybe a dumb question, but do Leauges gets better? Like on your Bate safe, does the other belarus Teams get better over time while the Leauge gets more prestige?
Send this video to Pep