I giggled at this bit. 24 year old non league CB, Star player of Bath... Earning more than the average wage in the EPL! Take a bow Jack Batten! Also how cool is a Defender who literally would let the Sun use the headline "Batten down the hatches!" when you pull off a stunning rear guard defeat of a giant in the cup!
Recently started watching your videos, I've been playing fm since they broke away from champ man and I've never seen an in depth video on this before would love to see more stuffs on how you approach different aspects of the game!! And thank you for a clear and precise run through
I actually bypassed the 30 player trials by sending the 30 players to the reserves. Then I got more, I had around 60+ trialists at a time, cause If I didn't like the look of them I cancelled the trial straight away.
Well I wish I knew this sooner!!! Just spent 2 irl days getting in over 300 trials that have all been useless and I do this for one position and get 3 4 star rated players. Insanely good and very helpful
Awesome video for finding the players but I've tried this method with a number of clubs and, every time, each of the players I've negotiated contracts with have joined other clubs. I've yet to be able to get a single player to join the team I'm managing. Any further advice?
Heres a great free tip for you lower league lovers, *Go to the league table screen *go to league above you at least 2 levels *on each of the team right click on it,and choose get team report and assign your preferred scout *this will get you a selected few players that the club are willing to let go to you for loan,plus a star rating as well *try to get a loan that has no wage paid if u can,as it have will the most ideal scenario for ur financial *another tip in the lower league is,wages are >>transfer budget,so always make sure u have + wage finances. Happy playing 😀
Useful stuff! I just jumped from a massive long career on FM17 to starting again on FM21, so this is really useful, especially down in the Isthmian League north with Coggeshall Town. I've probably bought too many players and have exhausted the wage budget, but not even loaned anybody yet as I'm still in the first couple of weeks and there's no one available to loan yet.
I did same from Fm16. Did a journey man save started in bottom Ukrainian league, managed the team for 7 seasons. Got promoted in season 6 relegated season 7 and fired. I looked at a real calendar to discover it was 2020, so got fm20, still going with that, probably won't change. I honestly didn't even see the time go on Fm16. Was first FM and didn't really know what I was doing.
Are you having to "mark" the first batch of trail players, so they "don't show up" in your second batch Kev? Or is there some other "feature" you use so you don't spend two or more periods on any one player?
Thanks Kev! Learned a few tricks here! I am terrible at negotiating salaries so any tips help! I have Tareq Shihab in my Hemel Hempstead Town save in FM20. He has been solid in league two and one... but he is short!
You can have up to 60 trialist, and probably more. The trick is to invite 30 trialists, then send all 30 to your reserve team. You can then invite 30 more trialists. I suppose if you have a U18 squad, you could send any 18 and under trialists there, and you then could invite in total, over 60 players. Currently doing this at Portstewart in the Northern Ireland 3rd division. You simply make sure you place the 30 best looking trialists on your senior roster.
I love when you do these videos :) But i do have to give a bit of constructive criticism. A video showing how to sign players should not have jumpcuts where you come back after you have signed a few more players. You should show the signing process and jumpcut somewhere else. I also have a tiny advice which i actually dont know have any effect or not. But when you get to the screen where players say that they want to be an important first teamer or which ever role he wants. Try to lower that one step to a regular starter. It can make them ask for a little less wages. But absolutely loved this video and i hope for more similar in the future from you :)
Great Video, got me back to playing FM for the 1st time since Champ man 4. What do you do for non-league training, all a bit confusing to me. Everyone has super ideas for training every day, when you can only train twice a week I'm not sure what to do. thanks again.
Thank you so much for this lower league Scottish clubs are a nightmare and I really want to start my career in the lower leagues to make it more authentic. Fantastic work teaching a newbie to the game
In previous years, you were allowed to play trial players in a set number of games in the Scottish football league (as happened in real life). I am not sure if you still can, but I was able to persuade players to come in trial with me who I couldn't offer wages to on previous FMs/ players who wanted too much to sign permanently but who would happily come and play on trial :p. It might be a 'hack', but it happened in real life so I reasoned it was ok!
@@seannyt-b thank you for this I’ll look into it, on FM20 touch my biggest issue was Ayr United, the whole squads contracts basically ended after that season and Being new to the game I couldn’t figure out the best way to rebuild that. Thanks to these videos and tips like that it will certainly help ☺️
I would say the biggest tips for FM on PC (not sure how much translates to Touch) would be to get your Director of Football to suggest free transfers and loan players who are interested (after the date where players are released in the country you are in), then trial as many players as you can to compare quality and visualise where they would fit into your squad. Another way I do it is to look through the released players tab of each team in the top leagues (as you could do in real life) as there is a decent player pool there. If you have had a decent season the year before and are due a rep boost, also important to wait until the season ticks over to get that boost.
Good video. If I get promoted, what date does the new division star rating kick in please?. In Vanarama National, maybe going into League 2 ; so I want to sign L2 quality at least players`.
Do you use the same strategy to sign players in tier 9 and below as you used here? I started in tier 11, won the league, won tier 10 in season 2, came second in tier 9 season 3 (only champions go up), and we're struggling in season 4. I can't seem to find any players better than what I've already got that are willing to sign for us. Any advice?
Hi Kev I know I have already asked you and I don’t want to pester you, but is there any chance you could show/or put a link in how you put logos, premier kits etc etc Thankyou for you great videos!
I needed this video. Now can you show how to do this from unemployed cause my first job always ends up take 2 months or more and all the good free transfers are gone
What is the plan after the first season if you get promoted? most people signed are on a 1 year deal. Do you find new players on second season or offer the old ones another 1 year deal?
I usually take out the other clauses as well and just pay £25-50 a week more on the salary so then I'm not paying for apprence and clean sheet etc bonuses.
Im looking to do a nation rebuild with Larne in Northern Ireland, do you think this kind of thing would work for that as well? If not what advice do you have for trying to build a good club set up to win the league whilst slowly upping the coefficient of the league and my youth facilities and setup?
playing in the northern Irish champion with Knockbreda, started with a wage budget just shy of 800 pound its my third season and its up to the high 800 pounds, still in the champion lol absolute nightmare trying to get decent players to get me out of the league, first time ever playing a FM game but I'm hooked and I love it, managed to get them to forth fighting for a playoff spot in my second season, but this season the we're back to struggling again, I'm just messing around with tactics trying to find something that'll give me an edge giving that the actual team Knockbreda is a underdog team and we still are but we get results we shoulded get, hopefully i can get promoted in the next 5 years...
Watched this, got all excited, went on FM21 touch and non of it applies 😔. Only version i can play as my 11 year only laptop sounds like it's going to blow up just loading normal FM21
Okay... so I am FC Dallas. We have an an Affiliated Team in FC Dallas Jrs. For Friendly Match it cost me 2.95K. Revenue should be 26.6K. That's 23K or so a Match, I'll take that. And this is getting my Jrs a lot of Game Experience. It seems like a no-brainer. Make 23K each, get a stupid amount of Matches with the Jrs... So what is the obvious negative I'm missing here? I've checked, and the better clubs leave about the same amount of Profit... so why is what I'm doing wrong (I assume it just can't be this easy).
FRM UA-camrs fall into two categories: those that can pronounce 'attribute' and those that can't. Lollujo is one of the former; which makes him quite a rare bird. ;-)
After the DOF suggested players, you can just select them all and then offer trial. You don't have to go trough each one individually. Saves a lot of time
Please for the love of god, use SHIFT-CLICK and Mark all and then trial. My mouse arm hurts from just looking at you right-clicking each player separately.
18:21 "£110 thousand a week" seems a hell of a lot for non league
More than his value!
Lol
I giggled at this bit. 24 year old non league CB, Star player of Bath... Earning more than the average wage in the EPL! Take a bow Jack Batten! Also how cool is a Defender who literally would let the Sun use the headline "Batten down the hatches!" when you pull off a stunning rear guard defeat of a giant in the cup!
Callum watts use to go to my secondary school
Needed this video! I just sign random players and hope they do well. Somehow works 😂
Best way to do it😂nothing quite like signing 4 new players just before the playoffs😂
@@jamesshone1677 well it worked! Unbeaten in 5. Won 3 games by 3 goals already
Literally, scout a player with at least 3/3.5 star ability under the age of 23 sign him straight up
It's alright Bath have Erling Haaland... Oh wait, wrong UA-camr. o.o
What UA-camr?
@@shezza125 DoctorBenjiy FM is doing a 15 year simulation where he locks Haaland to Bath and sees how far up the leagues they get
Recently started watching your videos, I've been playing fm since they broke away from champ man and I've never seen an in depth video on this before would love to see more stuffs on how you approach different aspects of the game!! And thank you for a clear and precise run through
I actually bypassed the 30 player trials by sending the 30 players to the reserves.
Then I got more, I had around 60+ trialists at a time, cause If I didn't like the look of them I cancelled the trial straight away.
Well I wish I knew this sooner!!! Just spent 2 irl days getting in over 300 trials that have all been useless and I do this for one position and get 3 4 star rated players. Insanely good and very helpful
Hi Kev. Do you set the scout assignments yourself or just let the Chief scout sort out who they look for?
Awesome video for finding the players but I've tried this method with a number of clubs and, every time, each of the players I've negotiated contracts with have joined other clubs. I've yet to be able to get a single player to join the team I'm managing. Any further advice?
Heres a great free tip for you lower league lovers,
*Go to the league table screen
*go to league above you at least 2 levels
*on each of the team right click on it,and choose get team report and assign your preferred scout
*this will get you a selected few players that the club are willing to let go to you for loan,plus a star rating as well
*try to get a loan that has no wage paid if u can,as it have will the most ideal scenario for ur financial
*another tip in the lower league is,wages are >>transfer budget,so always make sure u have + wage finances.
Happy playing 😀
How do you get the rubbish players to agree to leave?
Cheers for this. Was scrabbling around your early Holme episodes from FM19 to remind myself how you do it!
Brilliant advice, especially the DoF suggestions!
This is a great video. Haven’t done a lower league save in years and this is by far the most helpful. Cheers Kev
Useful stuff! I just jumped from a massive long career on FM17 to starting again on FM21, so this is really useful, especially down in the Isthmian League north with Coggeshall Town.
I've probably bought too many players and have exhausted the wage budget, but not even loaned anybody yet as I'm still in the first couple of weeks and there's no one available to loan yet.
I did same from Fm16. Did a journey man save started in bottom Ukrainian league, managed the team for 7 seasons. Got promoted in season 6 relegated season 7 and fired.
I looked at a real calendar to discover it was 2020, so got fm20, still going with that, probably won't change.
I honestly didn't even see the time go on Fm16. Was first FM and didn't really know what I was doing.
Omg Kev i was trying to find a way for that ! I was going through your recent videos to find a way for that today !
Are you having to "mark" the first batch of trail players, so they "don't show up" in your second batch Kev? Or is there some other "feature" you use so you don't spend two or more periods on any one player?
They tend not to show up over and over again, often because they’ll sign somewhere else
@@lollujo Got it. Thanks mate!!! Brilliant video. Thank you for ALL the effort!!!
I love this vid because I get an under the hood look of how Kev gets out of the VNL every year
Love the content btw, Thank you for entertaining us during Lockdown!!
Keep up these amazing videos and they just what I needed all these and others will also
I’ve been playing for like 4 months & didn’t know you could ask you dof for suggestions lol. Thanks. Take my like
Thanks Kev! Learned a few tricks here! I am terrible at negotiating salaries so any tips help! I have Tareq Shihab in my Hemel Hempstead Town save in FM20. He has been solid in league two and one... but he is short!
You can have up to 60 trialist, and probably more.
The trick is to invite 30 trialists, then send all 30 to your reserve team. You can then invite 30 more trialists. I suppose if you have a U18 squad, you could send any 18 and under trialists there, and you then could invite in total, over 60 players.
Currently doing this at Portstewart in the Northern Ireland 3rd division.
You simply make sure you place the 30 best looking trialists on your senior roster.
Need this a lot cz I'm tryna cheese a Dover save. Thanks Kev!!
Yet another brilliant video Kev! Great stuff.
Just the video I needed Kev
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES, thank you! Kev, you're amazing!
I love when you do these videos :) But i do have to give a bit of constructive criticism. A video showing how to sign players should not have jumpcuts where you come back after you have signed a few more players. You should show the signing process and jumpcut somewhere else. I also have a tiny advice which i actually dont know have any effect or not. But when you get to the screen where players say that they want to be an important first teamer or which ever role he wants. Try to lower that one step to a regular starter. It can make them ask for a little less wages. But absolutely loved this video and i hope for more similar in the future from you :)
Great video Kev!!! Can you do one for the Championship/Bundesliga 2/Ligue 2 etc level sides, please? Thanks
Great Video, got me back to playing FM for the 1st time since Champ man 4. What do you do for non-league training, all a bit confusing to me. Everyone has super ideas for training every day, when you can only train twice a week I'm not sure what to do. thanks again.
Kev's attempt to calm us down massively backfired and ended with the words "You either get promoted or sacked at the end of season 1"
Oxford City, they were fine with me just making the playoffs.
Thank you so much for this lower league Scottish clubs are a nightmare and I really want to start my career in the lower leagues to make it more authentic. Fantastic work teaching a newbie to the game
In previous years, you were allowed to play trial players in a set number of games in the Scottish football league (as happened in real life). I am not sure if you still can, but I was able to persuade players to come in trial with me who I couldn't offer wages to on previous FMs/ players who wanted too much to sign permanently but who would happily come and play on trial :p. It might be a 'hack', but it happened in real life so I reasoned it was ok!
@@seannyt-b thank you for this I’ll look into it, on FM20 touch my biggest issue was Ayr United, the whole squads contracts basically ended after that season and Being new to the game I couldn’t figure out the best way to rebuild that. Thanks to these videos and tips like that it will certainly help ☺️
I would say the biggest tips for FM on PC (not sure how much translates to Touch) would be to get your Director of Football to suggest free transfers and loan players who are interested (after the date where players are released in the country you are in), then trial as many players as you can to compare quality and visualise where they would fit into your squad. Another way I do it is to look through the released players tab of each team in the top leagues (as you could do in real life) as there is a decent player pool there. If you have had a decent season the year before and are due a rep boost, also important to wait until the season ticks over to get that boost.
I got automatic promotion in my second season of Vanarama North using these tips. Great tips.
New to FM and loving it! Really like the vids been really helpful, playing on Xbox but can't find national teams 🤔
Really helpful video! I've always struggled with llm recruitment, but you have a great process for it that I plan to steal. Ta muchly!!
Good video. If I get promoted, what date does the new division star rating kick in please?. In Vanarama National, maybe going into League 2 ; so I want to sign L2 quality at least players`.
Hey everyone, I'm curious to the see your best regens. Follow me and send me your top players 👉 IG : yourbestregens
Do you use the same strategy to sign players in tier 9 and below as you used here? I started in tier 11, won the league, won tier 10 in season 2, came second in tier 9 season 3 (only champions go up), and we're struggling in season 4. I can't seem to find any players better than what I've already got that are willing to sign for us. Any advice?
Hi Kev I know I have already asked you and I don’t want to pester you, but is there any chance you could show/or put a link in how you put logos, premier kits etc etc
Thankyou for you great videos!
I got them from a few different places, can’t remember exactly what from where - I got the links from the videos WorkTheSpace made about it
Loving these types of videos
How do you get the squad list viewer like you have it? With the player ratings, wages etc?
Need to watch this. Just come out on Xbox game pass and want to do a non league to legend myself
Happy to scout for you on FM22. £5 million or less 5 star potential from a natural gold badge scouts.
How do you sign so many players? Every time I offer contract & they accept, they just end up going somewhere else.
Same here , by any chance have you found a solution
Can someone help I’m currently at Glenavon in Northern Ireland and I’m £500 under my wage budget but the debt is going up what can I do
How about FFP?
Try your best in cup competitions
Would this be the same for the next season when you get promoted or is that a totally different ball game
I needed this video. Now can you show how to do this from unemployed cause my first job always ends up take 2 months or more and all the good free transfers are gone
Great video which will assist with my Grantham Town save.
What is the plan after the first season if you get promoted? most people signed are on a 1 year deal. Do you find new players on second season or offer the old ones another 1 year deal?
I usually take out the other clauses as well and just pay £25-50 a week more on the salary so then I'm not paying for apprence and clean sheet etc bonuses.
How do you get so many offers for non league players? I can offer up like 10 of mine to clubs will all get zero offers. :(
Yes !! I hoped you'd do something like this for a while, Thanks!
Im looking to do a nation rebuild with Larne in Northern Ireland, do you think this kind of thing would work for that as well?
If not what advice do you have for trying to build a good club set up to win the league whilst slowly upping the coefficient of the league and my youth facilities and setup?
Fantastic video Kev. Nice job!
8:35 can you not select all, right-click and offer them all trials in one go? Or do you actually have to do it individually?
That was a really good video. I am not ruthless enough , i see.
playing in the northern Irish champion with Knockbreda, started with a wage budget just shy of 800 pound its my third season and its up to the high 800 pounds, still in the champion lol absolute nightmare trying to get decent players to get me out of the league, first time ever playing a FM game but I'm hooked and I love it, managed to get them to forth fighting for a playoff spot in my second season, but this season the we're back to struggling again, I'm just messing around with tactics trying to find something that'll give me an edge giving that the actual team Knockbreda is a underdog team and we still are but we get results we shoulded get, hopefully i can get promoted in the next 5 years...
I playing with non leauge team but when playing in championship we dead .we dont have good players for higher division
Great content Kev 👆🏻🤛🏻
I'm in my 32/33 season with bath, we just qualified for EC after we finished 6th in the prem last season.
May Team report filter not consider "white stars"? What are those BTW?
Thanks Kev! 👌🏻
Watched this, got all excited, went on FM21 touch and non of it applies 😔. Only version i can play as my 11 year only laptop sounds like it's going to blow up just loading normal FM21
Will there be an FM22 version of this?
Possibly. Not managed in non-league yet this year
Excellent info. Thanks, Kev!
Trying to get some players on trial on the x box version but it doesn't bring up that option any help would be appreciated thanks
will this work for league 2?
You are amazing keep up!
As for trialists.. I’ve had more than 80 at one point. As long as you’re not signing more than 30 per day, you should be fine
Can you do the DOF suggestions on Xbox edition?
Reason players are hard to sell at non-league level is because they are semi-pro so in reality its hard for them to move because of work and family
Okay... so I am FC Dallas. We have an an Affiliated Team in FC Dallas Jrs.
For Friendly Match it cost me 2.95K. Revenue should be 26.6K. That's 23K or so a Match, I'll take that.
And this is getting my Jrs a lot of Game Experience. It seems like a no-brainer. Make 23K each, get a stupid amount of Matches with the Jrs...
So what is the obvious negative I'm missing here? I've checked, and the better clubs leave about the same amount of Profit... so why is what I'm doing wrong (I assume it just can't be this easy).
A great help, thank you.
Great Video! Thanks.
Can I be stupid and ask where you got the facepack from?
Great video .. Thank you
FRM UA-camrs fall into two categories: those that can pronounce 'attribute' and those that can't. Lollujo is one of the former; which makes him quite a rare bird. ;-)
After the DOF suggested players, you can just select them all and then offer trial. You don't have to go trough each one individually. Saves a lot of time
You can’t. You haven’t been able to for the last 2-3 FMs
Top material
Thanks Kev
Kev or anyone I don’t know how to give a player a trial can you guys help thanks
Edit never mind sorry lads
played FM for years never knew that trick
I loved your suit
love this
This man recruits like Mike Bassett 😁
Please for the love of god, use SHIFT-CLICK and Mark all and then trial. My mouse arm hurts from just looking at you right-clicking each player separately.
Have you tried? Considering it hasn’t worked since FM19, would surprise me if you have...
will this work in fm20
Everything apart from the recruitment meeting, yes
Lovely pink suit!! 😂
Aw me (James Taylor) isn’t good enough :(
A magician should never reveal his tricks....
Kev, what exactly is "realistic" about farming trialists at a higher rate than covid infecting care homes?
Just put in the none league file into your folder lol. And you can play any team you want as they become playable and not just find the players
Ctrl A -> right click -> offer trial
Saves you going through each individual player to offer a trial
It doesn't work
Actually it’s pronounced Barth
BAFF
that tie is... awful, i like it
Second
(please don't kill me)
14:40 LMAO
That's.... not how you say bath.......
Yes it is. It’s exactly how I say bath.
The length of the videos should be smaller mate. Cant watch all the way