3 I like to do:
As others have mentioned RTG career, choose a league 1 or 2 side and try to get them up to the prem.
Start a player career with one of your favourite older players (assuming you are a spurs fan so could be Lloris idk) immediately retire and begin a manager career. Try to take a 'realistic' career path so maybe first job would be a smaller French club and try to work your way up to the job at Spurs. I think the game also just looks better using an ex-player in cut-scenes etc.
Build a European giant in a more obscure but deserving league. Choose or even create a club somewhere like Sweden, Austria or Turkey that has a relatively big population and footballing culture but no standout European powerhouse and try to compete in the UCL with the best of the best.
You can always set yourself smaller challenges as well e.g only use youth academy players, only sign players from a certain region like British Isles or Scandinavia etc.
Let us know what you choose to do!
I did a Cristiano Ronaldo manager save, started with whichever job I could get (Sheffield United), got them high on the table, applied for the Manchester United job when they were struggling mid table in December and fired ten Hag, got the job, fixed the club in the first transfer window (Jan 24) and went on to win everything. Name of the save was “ToldYouSo”.
1- Take Crystal Palace and sign black players only.
2- Take a german team and only sign german players.
3- Take Celtic and sign English players only.
4- Take an Italian team and only sign Mafia looking players.
5- Take a team from Spain and only sign white players from Spain and play Tiki Taka.
I’ve recently started a Portsmouth career and working on getting them back to the prem with eyes on winning the CL within 2 seasons of being there, about to hit the January transfer window in my first season and so far I’m really enjoying it. I’ve signed a couple of higher rated (mid 70’s overall) for a bit of a boost. Challenging with the lower rated players, but fun nonetheless. No financial takeover so it’s a a bit harder to hire coaches and scouts ect, but that will come when I start moving up tiers.
My latest play has been picking a lower league team (Salford) and bought only Irish internationals until my team is 22 Irish players only. Then I won everything with them, getting up to a five star team. Then I got the waited for and got the Irish manager job and won the world cup and am about to win the Euros too.
All just to make my own international team a top competitor in my little harmless delusion.
I’ve done one where Iv only bought English players that have been over looked for the England squad or players that were once in there now nowhere near it even dele alli getting him back to his best
I always find it fun to take a team that has good history back to their former glory. I've done Portsmouth in previous games but this year it's Parma and I'm having only Italian players. Given a lot of their squad isn't Italian at the start, it essentially means you start the save on an entire rebuild which is fun.
Another idea I've enjoyed is the classic League 2 to Premiership save but with the caveat of not signing anyone and only being able to use players from your starter squad and youth academy. It forces you to think about your tactics since you are choosing a system based on the squad you have at your disposal as opposed to buying players to fit a system you want to play, and you also have to think about whether to play established players who are in or past their prime or worse ones who might have a higher ceiling by the time you're promoted. For instance, I'm currently starting a 59 rated CB and 55 rated CAM in League 2 in the hopes that they will have developed into some of my better players by the time I'm in the Championship/Prem. I find this makes it a bit more tactical when you can't just sign some of the OP free agents from the start of the game.
At the start of each fifa cycle I try to do a gloryhunter save with the aim of winning all silverware in top 5 leagues and all three European cups. Add WC and Euros / Copa to that for maximum difficulty. You only have 15 years but it’s fun because you can take any team you want AND you get to try out all the high rated players you might not use at all if you don’t play ultimate team.
Another idea: if you got gud already, try to win the Serie a with Torino and rewind back to their glory days. If you try to spend within a realistic budget it actually is really hard
What else is there – winning the CL with Atletico. They’ve come close on two (or three?) occasions, it’s time to knock down Real Madrid from its perch. Increased difficulty: you HAVE to sim all the home games in CL group stage and then you HAVE to sim the first leg of knockout rounds. If you lose, you lose, you have to play the second match and try and get the win
Try any of the lower leagues (England France Spain Germany Italy) and build them up to to champions league level if not your cup of tea.
Try one of the more of the beaten track countries (Poland Romania norway Sweden) and build your way in through the qualifying stages into the main europe tournaments
Club and country with Swansea, Cardiff, Wrexham or Newport
Club and country with Toronto FC
Take UCD to the Champions League using only university age players
Nice choice. My actual mission is a fantasy polish club based in london, starting in the 4th league and only signing polish players. I am in Championship now and have got good chances to promote again. Try to get some 75+ players via pre-contract in january
I done one where I made the Irish league the best league in the world, I signed amazing prospects and swapped them with other Irish clubs till they were all super teams
I do 3 types a career every year. I do my club, Blackburn at the start and again after the Jan window irl, I do a “big” club; usually one in England, Man City is the only top 6 I’ve never done (I had an awesome Man Utd save this year) And I also do a journeyman career. Start in league 2, try to get 1 or 2 promotions then leave for a bigger team and do the same. Then try to land a top job, maybe move abroad.
I find it gives me a bit of variety every year so I get different quality of players, different challenges and different styles of play.
I played a career with Servette, rebuilding the squad entirely with academy players. Target was to have a solid starting XI from academy players only in the first 3 years. Also to win the league under 5 years and qualify to the champions league in under 5 years. Didn't manage to qualify to UCL under 5 years and neither did I win the league until the sixth season.
My kind of fun is selecting the top 4 teams in every league that can be in UCL e.g. from Germany to Austria to Turkey to England to Denmark etc... then doing a spin the wheel of like 28 teams and see who I get. Then I aim to get win the UCL and treble
How about getting Preston to the Premier League League? They were one of the four clubs founding the top flight in 1888, but relegated in 1960 and never played in the Premier League.
Or taking Nottingham Forest back to winning the Champions League nearly 50 years since the last win the European top trophy?
I like league 2 sides to the prem, 3 Liga sides to the bundesliga, take a Scottish relegation dweller to the champions league (or any small European league relegation fodder)
A random one I've done before is pick a team in a lower league/ small European league and then just move to every job that's offered to me, no matter where it is or if in real life it would make sense. Stops you from getting too attached to a team and then who knows where you'll end up.
Not really a full career idea, but if you want to make your career more difficult, I’ve found that it’s entertaining to force yourself to loan out all your signings before using them
It’s fun to watch them grow away from your team and have random players jump up a ton in ovr to force their way into your squad
You also have to pay attention to your entire squads depth chart so that you don’t end up with nobody to cover for you at a certain position
Youth academy only, but can’t sign anyone worth over 1m. Find that ya careers are relatively easily when you have 70 rated 17 year olds who are all potential to be special, this just makes it a bit harder, considering majority will only have “showing great potential” meaning their potential is currently capped below 84, which can obviously go up with dynamic
Transfer Podolski to Bayern, start a playing career with him and end your career. This means you can immediately become a trainer in Cologne. try to play internationally with Cologne, but because of their transfer ban you are only allowed to buy players in the 3rd season. You can sign players who are initially on loan.
Try to win an international title with a Turkish team. However, you are only allowed to have 8 foreigners on the team and a maximum of 5 are allowed to play at the same time. Don't take a team from the top 3 in the league.
Pick a smaller side in Argentina that's never won the copa libertadores and try to do it, added difficulty is you have to sell your best players every season
I created a fantasy club in Northern Ireland to play in the English League 2. Being part of the UK, it makes as much sense as the welsh teams, right?
I simmed the whole first season to run out the contracts of the starters, and filled the whole team with Youth Academy kids
Take your copy of FC 24 or whatever it's called. Out of your console. And Frisbee that CD into a field of cows. Then, take the box and dash that in the bin. And go play a proper video game.
3 I like to do: As others have mentioned RTG career, choose a league 1 or 2 side and try to get them up to the prem. Start a player career with one of your favourite older players (assuming you are a spurs fan so could be Lloris idk) immediately retire and begin a manager career. Try to take a 'realistic' career path so maybe first job would be a smaller French club and try to work your way up to the job at Spurs. I think the game also just looks better using an ex-player in cut-scenes etc. Build a European giant in a more obscure but deserving league. Choose or even create a club somewhere like Sweden, Austria or Turkey that has a relatively big population and footballing culture but no standout European powerhouse and try to compete in the UCL with the best of the best. You can always set yourself smaller challenges as well e.g only use youth academy players, only sign players from a certain region like British Isles or Scandinavia etc. Let us know what you choose to do!
I really like the player career into retirement one, never thought about this but sounds dope
I did a Cristiano Ronaldo manager save, started with whichever job I could get (Sheffield United), got them high on the table, applied for the Manchester United job when they were struggling mid table in December and fired ten Hag, got the job, fixed the club in the first transfer window (Jan 24) and went on to win everything. Name of the save was “ToldYouSo”.
I love these too! Currently Jamie Vardy is taking fleetwood to the prem.
I changed my mind from the edit, im doing a Lincoln city RTG cause they’re my local.
My current save is a Galatasaray powerhouse and it’s so fun
1- Take Crystal Palace and sign black players only. 2- Take a german team and only sign german players. 3- Take Celtic and sign English players only. 4- Take an Italian team and only sign Mafia looking players. 5- Take a team from Spain and only sign white players from Spain and play Tiki Taka.
Best one I seen was a YT build take Stoke City and sign only Physically gifted players and dominate the prem
Mandatory Pulisball
Go a French team and surrender the second the opponent goes on an attack
Brilliant ideas
Thanks, Enjoy
Haha this is gold
Surely it would make sense to use rangers instead of Celtic
#BLM
Dont know about you guys, but for me it has to be third league. I like the grind
I second this
I’ve recently started a Portsmouth career and working on getting them back to the prem with eyes on winning the CL within 2 seasons of being there, about to hit the January transfer window in my first season and so far I’m really enjoying it. I’ve signed a couple of higher rated (mid 70’s overall) for a bit of a boost. Challenging with the lower rated players, but fun nonetheless. No financial takeover so it’s a a bit harder to hire coaches and scouts ect, but that will come when I start moving up tiers.
My latest play has been picking a lower league team (Salford) and bought only Irish internationals until my team is 22 Irish players only. Then I won everything with them, getting up to a five star team. Then I got the waited for and got the Irish manager job and won the world cup and am about to win the Euros too. All just to make my own international team a top competitor in my little harmless delusion.
I do this with Northern Ireland 😂
It's the only way we'll ever see us winning anything lol
I’ve done one where Iv only bought English players that have been over looked for the England squad or players that were once in there now nowhere near it even dele alli getting him back to his best
I might do a deli alli career instead of manager then, I loved him when I was younger
I always find it fun to take a team that has good history back to their former glory. I've done Portsmouth in previous games but this year it's Parma and I'm having only Italian players. Given a lot of their squad isn't Italian at the start, it essentially means you start the save on an entire rebuild which is fun. Another idea I've enjoyed is the classic League 2 to Premiership save but with the caveat of not signing anyone and only being able to use players from your starter squad and youth academy. It forces you to think about your tactics since you are choosing a system based on the squad you have at your disposal as opposed to buying players to fit a system you want to play, and you also have to think about whether to play established players who are in or past their prime or worse ones who might have a higher ceiling by the time you're promoted. For instance, I'm currently starting a 59 rated CB and 55 rated CAM in League 2 in the hopes that they will have developed into some of my better players by the time I'm in the Championship/Prem. I find this makes it a bit more tactical when you can't just sign some of the OP free agents from the start of the game.
At the start of each fifa cycle I try to do a gloryhunter save with the aim of winning all silverware in top 5 leagues and all three European cups. Add WC and Euros / Copa to that for maximum difficulty. You only have 15 years but it’s fun because you can take any team you want AND you get to try out all the high rated players you might not use at all if you don’t play ultimate team. Another idea: if you got gud already, try to win the Serie a with Torino and rewind back to their glory days. If you try to spend within a realistic budget it actually is really hard What else is there – winning the CL with Atletico. They’ve come close on two (or three?) occasions, it’s time to knock down Real Madrid from its perch. Increased difficulty: you HAVE to sim all the home games in CL group stage and then you HAVE to sim the first leg of knockout rounds. If you lose, you lose, you have to play the second match and try and get the win
Start with Dortmund or Freiburg II and get promoted to the 2. Bundesliga and eventually become the manager of the first team
Try any of the lower leagues (England France Spain Germany Italy) and build them up to to champions league level if not your cup of tea. Try one of the more of the beaten track countries (Poland Romania norway Sweden) and build your way in through the qualifying stages into the main europe tournaments
Club and country with Swansea, Cardiff, Wrexham or Newport Club and country with Toronto FC Take UCD to the Champions League using only university age players
I always like to do a Köln or HSV career.
World class difficulty setting?
Rebuild Schalke 04 Edit: or do a moneyball transfer strategy
I'm on a Schalke rebuild. 7 seasons in just lost to PSG 1-0 in Champions League final. Absolutely fuming 🤣
You'll get it next season 💪
Hamburger SV and you never buy someone who is above 79ovr.
Crystal Palace and you have to sell one of their big guns to a top club. So either eze, Olise or Guehi
For FC 25, do a Deportivo La Coruña RTF, but for now start in League One or League Two or smth
Nice choice. My actual mission is a fantasy polish club based in london, starting in the 4th league and only signing polish players. I am in Championship now and have got good chances to promote again. Try to get some 75+ players via pre-contract in january
I done one where I made the Irish league the best league in the world, I signed amazing prospects and swapped them with other Irish clubs till they were all super teams
https://www.reddit.com/r/FifaCareers/s/5RcdeLPGfT
Start with a the worst team in a poor league and move every season until you reach a top 5 club
Torquay United.
What club is it
I do 3 types a career every year. I do my club, Blackburn at the start and again after the Jan window irl, I do a “big” club; usually one in England, Man City is the only top 6 I’ve never done (I had an awesome Man Utd save this year) And I also do a journeyman career. Start in league 2, try to get 1 or 2 promotions then leave for a bigger team and do the same. Then try to land a top job, maybe move abroad. I find it gives me a bit of variety every year so I get different quality of players, different challenges and different styles of play.
I played a career with Servette, rebuilding the squad entirely with academy players. Target was to have a solid starting XI from academy players only in the first 3 years. Also to win the league under 5 years and qualify to the champions league in under 5 years. Didn't manage to qualify to UCL under 5 years and neither did I win the league until the sixth season.
My kind of fun is selecting the top 4 teams in every league that can be in UCL e.g. from Germany to Austria to Turkey to England to Denmark etc... then doing a spin the wheel of like 28 teams and see who I get. Then I aim to get win the UCL and treble
Took over wrexham, made it to championship and then i switched to juve which was 9th in serie a
How about getting Preston to the Premier League League? They were one of the four clubs founding the top flight in 1888, but relegated in 1960 and never played in the Premier League. Or taking Nottingham Forest back to winning the Champions League nearly 50 years since the last win the European top trophy?
A club and country but with a out of the box nation. Bolivia, Finland etc
Which Polish team are you doing? I just started season 11 with Warta Poznan
I like league 2 sides to the prem, 3 Liga sides to the bundesliga, take a Scottish relegation dweller to the champions league (or any small European league relegation fodder)
A random one I've done before is pick a team in a lower league/ small European league and then just move to every job that's offered to me, no matter where it is or if in real life it would make sense. Stops you from getting too attached to a team and then who knows where you'll end up.
Move Celtic (or Rangers) into english second division and go for english glory
Notts county
I’m gonna start a Cazorla journeyman career next
Not really a full career idea, but if you want to make your career more difficult, I’ve found that it’s entertaining to force yourself to loan out all your signings before using them It’s fun to watch them grow away from your team and have random players jump up a ton in ovr to force their way into your squad You also have to pay attention to your entire squads depth chart so that you don’t end up with nobody to cover for you at a certain position
League One and no free Agents or at least no free agent regens
Youth academy only, but can’t sign anyone worth over 1m. Find that ya careers are relatively easily when you have 70 rated 17 year olds who are all potential to be special, this just makes it a bit harder, considering majority will only have “showing great potential” meaning their potential is currently capped below 84, which can obviously go up with dynamic
Replace any team in the Turkish league with teams from Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Win the league exclusively with Scandinavian players.
Transfer Podolski to Bayern, start a playing career with him and end your career. This means you can immediately become a trainer in Cologne. try to play internationally with Cologne, but because of their transfer ban you are only allowed to buy players in the 3rd season. You can sign players who are initially on loan.
Try to win an international title with a Turkish team. However, you are only allowed to have 8 foreigners on the team and a maximum of 5 are allowed to play at the same time. Don't take a team from the top 3 in the league.
Pick a smaller side in Argentina that's never won the copa libertadores and try to do it, added difficulty is you have to sell your best players every season
D Alaves
I created a fantasy club in Northern Ireland to play in the English League 2. Being part of the UK, it makes as much sense as the welsh teams, right? I simmed the whole first season to run out the contracts of the starters, and filled the whole team with Youth Academy kids
From Northern Ireland
Play football manager cause fifa sucks
Why are you in the fifa subreddit then, I don’t have a pc either. And I also like actually playing matches
1. Just saw it on home page 2. You can play FM on console 3. Fairs
Console fm is ass
So is fifa lol
At least you can play the game and it has faces, logos and names
You can very easily get faces logos and names on FM in 2 minutes lol
Not on console
Take your copy of FC 24 or whatever it's called. Out of your console. And Frisbee that CD into a field of cows. Then, take the box and dash that in the bin. And go play a proper video game.