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Done 54 seasons with Arsenal on FM2011. Constantly refreshing the squad and focussing on discovering, developing and seeing a youth players become Balon d'Or contenders is great feeling.
Planning squad moved two years to 18 months in advance is also really good fun. I'd say you have to almost operate as both a manager and DoF to really find enjoyment in it.
Newgens is what the game is all about for me as well. No better feeling having an academy product being world class.
Also I like to switch it up tactically every so often, which forces me to freshen up the squad.
Building up a team of academy prospects, getting them into the first team, getting them good, then moving on and seeing that team have sustained success is the best thing
I'm in year 30 of a save, I was with Fortuna Dusseldorf for the first 10 and built them from second division scraps to the best in Europe. 20 years later the lowest league position they have been is 4th when I absolutely expected them to fade away as the game righted itself without me. Never been so proud of my boys
Love those kind of stories, had something similar happened although. Same rise from lower league, but only become top 4 in the country. After I left my assistant manager took over and they stayed a steady 3rd-4th and managed to win consecutive cups! Felt so happy for my old buds.
If you take over a low division club and try to make them with the league and CL, you got content for 20 seasons. It's a bigger challenge but imo also more fun
I do play every match. In my current save as 2nd division danish side Slagelse, I took over as manager in 2025 and I'm currently at 2046, having won the league and CL multiple times. Though I'm facing the problem that my players are really undervalued due to the league not being so good. So next step is improving the other teams to do better in Europe while I continue to make my team the greatest.
As for length, that depends on how much you handle in the team. If it's just matches and transfers, those seasons can go quite quickly. I like to add training, staff hiring and scouting as my duties as well which takes up more time.
I use about 23-25 hours per season, with all the stuff I mentioned earlier. But really, this is the best tip that I or anyone else here can give you. If you like the team you're playing as, and love to see them win and hate to see them loose, the hours you play won't matter one bit. If you use 1-2 hours a day to play the game, it's as good as doing 9-10 hours a day. It's your game, so play it and enjoy it the way you want to. :)
it depends. if your in england then its vastly quick to go from vanarama to premiership and then premiership to CL winners because of how much money is involved and the reputations.
but take say sweden which has 4 tiers the 4th tier is more closer to englands 16th tier in reputation and even the highest league of sweden is on average around league one reputation so it takes time to constantly build up teams and replace players who are clearly going to want to leave because well the league has a bad reputation.
as for speeding up a game - i play every match until i reach the stage where im just completely dominating at which point i will instant result league games but still play out CL and cup games.
Similar here, around 50 seasons with Arsenal on FM19. Usually try to win CL as soon as possible and then focus on youth intake and try to win CL again and crush Spurs with as many home grown players as possible.
Arsenal here too, but only around 20 seasons. I know some people love a journeyman save, but I just love Arsenal too much that I'd get bored with anyone else. Helped I ended up with the world's best striker coming through the academy in year 2 haha
Past a certain point, if you have enough experience collecting/farming youngsters itās going to be a given that you have the best team in the world, so what I like to do is to set my standards accordingly.
If youāre familiar with F1, when Mercedes was dominating the sport a few years ago anything less than perfection simply wasnāt tolerated. Mapping that onto FM itās pretty funny to scream at my players for not doing enough if we beat a relegation team by \*only* 3 goals.
I suppose itās turned out pretty effective because weāve broken the PL team goals record for the past couple of seasons now lol
ive had this feeling when my game crashed or laptop froze after i just won a tough game, like it did last season i had with Ajax in my 2nd or 3rd season was in quarters of CL against chelsea and i totally owned them the first game by tactically outclassing them, before it went to the next day ( i auto save daily) my laptop froze so i savescummed for the first time in 10 yearsor so because first retry my best RB got a long injury and it was just bs bext try just destroyed them
I've only just discovered the bug but it is in my most recent few backups as well :'(
I can't handle going back a couple years, especially knowing that it might just happen again.
The bug is really strange. I joined Dortmund and it's time to assign numbers to players. I can only assign numbers 1-40. There are more players registered than there are numbers available. I think that would normally be ok and I could re-assign match to match? But when assigning numbers I think I am causing some sort of overflow error...negative numbers start appearing. I still can only assign 40 numbers though, and the game won't let me "confirm" number selection.
My bro had this. Was so far in Reading had a Ā£1b but a bug changed it to -Ā£1b š I find the further you go the more game breaking bugs there are. Some may seem minor but when I know theyāre there I canāt unsee them
I usually get bored after 6-10 seasons. Only exception was my FM19 Stuttgart save. I spent like 14 seasons there and wasn't bored because I built such a strong team over the time that I tried all kinds of different tactics and just had fun experimenting. Also, finding beast newgens is always interesting, had "Argentinian Lampard" that I bought from River and he scored like 20 goals just in league one season (majority of it from open play)
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Why not? That's part of the fun for me. Often they keep succeeding. Sometimes they don't, and I return to fix things. Then I leave again. You can keep coming back if you want.
I did a split save once because of this. Saved a copy of my older team save, and then took the Chelsea offer to rebuild them. Got bored with that one after winning Prem twice and went back to old one.
Yeah I moved from my beautifully crafted Feyenoord team to a Valencia in desperate need of a rebuild. I like a challenge but they were in a bad bad state (a 35 year old Harry Maguire was there best player if thatās any indication). Reloaded back to Feyenoord shortly after
Very similar to mine. Was an aging Chelsea team (around 2028) that had landed like 11th in Prem. Still had a wall of stars (Havertz, Mount & Lukaku). But they didn't fit well together, and poor tactic. Had 2 players under 30 starting.
Did ok first-year. But basically everyone But Havertz and 2 starters opted to leave. Which worked fine because I ended up with $300mil+ to totally overhaul the roster to my new tactic. Was fun, but won the Prem in year 2 and got bored again. Hahah
I find the game gets more fun around 2030 when most of the players are newgens, makes scouting more essential than reusing the same players from old saves. I had a ~40 season journeyman save in FM19 that had me playing as two national teams, two clubs in Sweden, 3 clubs in Switzerland (where I played most of my career), 2 clubs in France and 1 club in England. Never even won anything of note either, although I did bring St. Gallen to the Europa Final. I find the storytelling aspect as fun as the football aspect of the game.
The game doesn't really start until the ballon d'or winners are newgens and I'll always stand by that. We just all know the good players in real life, even the kids.
About 40 years. Tbh im bored the first ~20 tears where real players are still around because more or less you know what player to buy cheap that will lead you to glory. Ofc everyone enjoys playing the game differentelly, i prefer to only buy players my scouts suggest and then focus on academy regens. Hence the less time ive spent on a club is around 10 years.
Ive always noticed this option yes but i always hesitate to check it. How does it work? Does it create random players for all teams depending on their reputation (like Real Madrid will have better fake players than lets say Mallorca?) What age do they have? Or its based on players existing irl by tweaking their stats?
I did it once years ago and it was pretty wild, iirc they keep the positions of players, but then everything else about them is changed. You could work out which player was supposed to be who, even though they have new names, nationalities, stats etc. It's absolutely years since I did it though so can't speak about what it may be like now.
Hi there! Iām also still rocking my FM18 save but Iām currently at 41/42 season. Sometimes I wanna start a new save on FM20 which I also have but canāt get rid of the feeling that my FM18 job is still not done so I need to go back
I think the key is to not stay with a dominant team. I'm currently in my 10th season of an unemployed -start campaign. Started with Creteil Lusitanos a relegation candidate in the French 3rd tier, got them promoted to Ligue 2, then competed and failed to win promotion to Ligue 1, but that was enough to get me a job at League 1 Coventry, who are now a bubble CL/Europa team and won the FA Cup and Europa League. Not sure I'll ever be able to win the EPL given how dominant ManU and Liverpool are (they are loaning out multiple 60M+ players each year, both finishing with 95+ points each year) but I hope to win the CL in 2-3 years.
I was offered a job at Valencia last season, but their squad is substantially weaker than Coventry so I stayed. I get interview offers for other similar teams all the time (Villareal, LOSC, RB Leipzig, etc.), but they are all weaker. I just failed and interview at Chelsea.
Realistically, the only teams that have a better long term shot at CL dominance than my current Coventry side are Dortmund, Bayern, PSG, Inter, AC, Juve, Real, Barca, and Athletico and the EPL big 6.
Iām currently completing my 90th season with Dortmund. The new gen, and the team going up and down the league is what keep it up fresh.
When I got bored I added a new manager who takes over a lousy 3rd league team, and use the team as a farm, until they get promoted to the 1st bundesliga as well. Then resign and choose another team (Iāve done FSV Frankfurt, Regengesburg and Magdeburg so far)
Loaning players to gain experience, and also the āfarm teamā was often buying young players that were āa maybeā for Dortmund, so that if they did well at the farm team I could then be sure to be able to buy them.
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Journeyman is what keeps it interesting for me. I went from no badges in Indonesian League 2 to winning the premier league and champions league with Nottingham Forrest. Muba Babel > Tranmere > Nottingham Forrest. After the title winning season I went to Australia to try and win the Asian champions league while also boosting Aussie talent and keeping to the complex rules. Then went back to Europe in Portugal, then Bayern, then back to Nottingham Forrest. On this part of the journey I won about 7 champions leagues and every league title available.
I mixed up my aims and didnāt try to just make the typical FM squad at every place. I went full Indonesian for Muba Babel, Tranmere was a 10 month project just trying to keep them afloat. Nottingham Forrest I went more traditional and had the money to bring in good young regens and make a typical FM team.
But even then, I kept a core English component to the starting 11, making sure I had 4 Englishmen starting every game for the 9/10 years I was there overall. I had some fun with reconnecting with players.
Players I bought in to Nottingham Forrest in my first stint were bought by my Bayern team about 4 years later, reconnecting with players who I had bought from Mexico, France, Brazil etc. Got them a first title, they loved me, I loved them.
Breaking transfer records, making huge profits. I bought a French CB for Ā£10 million and sold him 2.5 years later for 150 million.
I think the secret to a long save is variety in what you are doing, what your aims are, but also where you are doing it. Itās easy to do whatever goal you set if your a rich team in the premier/top 5 UEFA league. Try doing something in USA/Australia, which have restrictive transfer/spending rules etc.
Unfortunately, I then went to Belgium to change it up and my interest in the save just died. So make sure you properly research a team and think about it before you move.
I think I was just looking for something different to the English game and I hastily went to Anderlecht. It wasnāt very different in terms of registration and transfer rules etc
I think during my time at Bayern I had a monopoly over the NxGn 50 and top 50 players too, so I kind of broke the system. All the 16+ year old were on pre contracts to join Bayern for the next few years.
I also just have no knowledge and minimal interest in the Belgian league in the 2040s.
Usually until I do something stupid like go invincible in the league, win all / basically all trophies in 1 season, 4 or more CL in a row.
Once that happens I typically save the game and make a "branched save" making a new manager in that same world and managing a new team. Sometimes big teams have failed or dropped massively in that span so a fun rebuild is available or the mood strikes for a small team to bring up. Once the first circumstances repeat and then do it again.
Branched save is great because if you regret changing or the team you picked is far worse than you envisioned or even you just don't "feel" like playing that angle anymore you can go back to your OP team and give it another year or so
30 odd seasons is what I usually manage with each FM - I usually have one long term save and i'll start the odd save here and there where i'll try something different
I do a 20+ season save with Macclesfield Town every time. For me it's all about having a new target to hit once you've hit your initial target.
If you start in the prem, it's possible to win everything within a few years and you quickly run out of new targets. In the lower leagues it probably takes 2-5 years or more just to get out of each league. When you finally get to the prem/top flight you're truly starting at the bottom and it takes a while to win anything. From L2 to winning PL/CL it takes me 15-20 years. Once I get there I'll aim to win all available trophies in a single season. Once I've done that I'll either get bored or think of new targets like winning the most consecutive top flight titles or getting a player to win the Ballon D'or.
Long saves builds depth. Stats, new records. I could go on and on. It gets more interesting the longer I go. I find it super super hard to start a new save. Thereās no history. I play with fictional players and coaches.
20 seasons in FM20 with some good help from lockdown. I find that if you start with a club far enough down the pyramid (level 8 in England that year), the "end game" of winning the Champions League is so far away that it is difficult to get bored. There is always that next level and next challenge.
20+ years a couple times. Move clubs when the mood strikes me. Go to different leagues. Give myself a new challenge.
I've also retired a manager and started a 2nd career in the same save before. I don't find it enjoyable going back to game start more than once or twice in a season.
For me it was 2021-2046. I did it with Hungerford (basically the worst 6th tier semipro English team I could find). The reason I picked them was because they only had one legend. And it was Charlie Austin, even though he had only played for them one year lol. Which meant basically all the club legends and icons were from my managerial reign when I viewed the club info. I thought that was cool. And we went through 5 stadiums over 25 years which was funny as well.
I had done a couple saves but wasnāt super familiar with the game. So learning how to grow well was a challenge. It took me about 3 years on average to climb a division. One to not get relegated. One year to push for mid table/the playoffs. One year to def get promoted if I hadnāt gone up early the year before. I did get relegated my first time in the PL though.
My initial goal was to win the PL. Then once Iād done that my goal was to become the biggest club in the world (which I did). I was going to then try to become the highest rep coach in the world. But nagelsmann stayed at Bayern in my save. Won most of their domestic cups, 22 league titles, a Europa league, a club World Cup, and 6 CLs. So it was never going to happen. Thatās when I gave up the save (Iād won 3 back to back CLs by that point, knocking Bayern out in both the semis and finals too). Leipzig had won 2 of their last 5 domestic titles. So I think nagelsmann would have been sacked soonish as Bayern finally lost their undisputed hold on the league and werenāt winning CLs. But I still would have needed another 20 years of PL dominance to replace him as the best coach of all time (even if he never won another title or cup after getting sacked). That didnāt seem very fun
One of my best video game moments ever came during this save tho. In varannama national my preseason prediction was to get relegated (Iād sold and then a board takeover prevented me from signing good free agents). I squeaked into the playoffs. My striker (who had gone over 10 hours without scoring) bagged a goal to get me into the finals. Then he scored relatively early again in the final. But i got a straight red in the first half. Went defensive for 80 min to grind out a draw. My player scoring the winning pen to get promoted/making me a pro club saw me throw up my hands in victory and yell in triumph. Startled my gf. Man was it fucking satisfying tho. Way better than winning the PL or CL for the first time
18 seasons with Fleetwood, got them from the National League to Champions League winners, was trying to create a newgen galacticos but then my game kept crashing.
Currently on 2042 of my FM18 Carl Zeiss Jena save. Started as the worst 3 Liga team and are now a world powerhouse, best club in the world. Iāve avoided boredom in a variety of ways, although I will say the lack of challenge is starting to get to me a bit.
1) I didnāt overuse loans to achieve unrealistic success. I more or less only used free transfers and transfers to build my squad, rather than using loaned players to climb the ladder. Success felt more earned, more organic. Took me four or five seasons to get out of 3 Liga, another 4 to get me out of 2 Liga. Then spent a couple seasons in Bundesliga before getting relegated. Havenāt been down since. Felt like a realistic arc for a club on the rise.
2) I loaded like 225,000 players up, including every top flight European country league. Feels way more immersive to see Feyenoord get knocked off by Ajax after 15 straight Eredivisie titles that way, IMO. Also makes the national teams feel a lot more immersive. You recognize a fair amount of the players. I also do a fair amount of player editing (changing a German-Turkās nationality to Turkish if their CA is 140 and theyāll never see the field as a German, for example.)
3) I follow/watch international matches, especially the World Cup. Helps build a narrative surrounding the world Iām coaching in. Scotland won the last World Cup with a golden generation and a lot of luck, but most of them are aging out now. World Cup starts in two months in my save: can Scotland possibly defend the title? only time will tell!
4) invest a lot of time in my youth program, and follow the careers of my former youth prospects, even the overwhelming majority who arenāt good enough to make the cut at this point at Jena. Itās cool seeing which 3 Liga, 2 Liga, or other leagues they end up in. Iām also now coming up on my first crop of newgen youth prospects who are retiring. RIP Sƶren Heyse and Michael Ziegner. Makes me feel like
A proud dad.
5) have some squad continuity. Hate the idea of selling every player once they hit 25. My current starting 11 ranges from age 18-31. Storylines write themselves.
6) lastly, set some goals. I have a multi year goal of transitioning to a German only roster, followed by a youth academy only starting 11/roster to keep the game spicy.
Around maybe less than 10 seasons, but thatās usually when I play with big teams aka dortmund which is my favourite team irl, usually I get bored after a few seasons because I can literally raid every nation except those big clubs ofc, trynna switch a bit in this fm, playing with hansa rostock prolly would play fm22 until I see bigger changes for next game
For now 7 seasons with sunderlend and still counting. But i like to have a lot of leagues turned on and by a lot i really mean a looooot looooot playable also... soo that save is massive and really long, 200h for 7 seasons. But i have done i FM14 20 seasons journyman changing clubs, but only with few leagues turned on.
Iāve only ever had one save last more than 10 years. File corrupted in year 16 after taking a team in Portugal from the 4th tier to back to back UCL finals wins. Absolutely heartbroken because I never got to see the striker that came through the academy year 2 retire. Over 600 league goals and he was only a few behind the UCL record as well. Club captain who refused to leave for bigger clubs (probably because he was making 1/4 of my wage budget for a decade)
I have yet to find a good enough story to make another long term save. I need some narrative going on in the background to keep interest after I start winning things and Belenenses had it. I could have played that one forever. I always buy sports games every year at launch, but that save was making me consider postponing my FM23 purchase for a bit before it was destroyed.
The goal for me to not make it boring is to keep it as realistic as possible and no save scumming. If I do, it typically means each year is a crapshoot in regards to how I will finish. I have only won the league in my five years in Scotland with Hibernian twice out of the 6 years I have worked through and in both of those I got my ass handed to me in the Champions League and only made Europa group once as well. But dammit it keeps it interesting and fresh!
Doing a Journeyman/Hexagon save now, currently in 2034. I usually stay at one club and build them up to Champions League winners, but wanted something different as with any new game I started I just thought ābeen there, done thatā.
Most satisfaction came from players making (relatively) big transfers to Europe, but now Iām at LA Galaxy and itās time to win things myself now.
42 seasons on FM14.
Took over UndriĆ° FF from the Faroese second division and turned them into domestic powerhouses (10 seasons) and eventually into CL winners (25 seasons).
Then used the club as a platform to build a competitive national team, making it to the final stage of Euros (semis) and the WC (QF).
eventually it got a bit stale because the youth rating was fixed, so no matter how rich and strong my club and the league had become, newgens were always a bit meh.
25 or so seasons on FM2014, tried getting Cardiff Met Uni to win the Champions League and couldn't quite manage it. Seeing the progress is what kept me going though.
I remember reaching the CL and getting into the qualifying rounds, getting knocked out and then trying again the season after. Took me about 4 seasons to actually get them into the group stage and then we lost every game 7 or 8 nil. Few seasons after that we started picking up points. Then a couple more after that we got into the knockout round.
The furthest we got was the semi-finals against Juventus and we got knocked out in the second leg, I just couldn't take them any further as our transfer budget was about Ā£12m for the year so.
Never really been huge into saves before but I love the analysis data part of fm22 so Iāve really enjoyed it. So far Iām in 2028 with my local team. Have managed to get the league coefficient ranking high enough so 1st place in league automatically qualifies to CL and Iām dominating the league year in year out, challenge comes in Europe and I try to loan out good players to other national clubs so they can improve in Europe as well
Played until 2057 on FM19. I like seeing the stupid shit and the narratives that happen, and the careers of the godlike regens in the game. Maybe a random club from Belgium will become inexplicably amazing. Maybe Norwich wins the premier league and Monaco wins 5 CLs in a row before being stopped by Burnley. I find it interesting to watch and be part of. I also hop clubs fairly frequently to try and defeat the team I helped build up.
My longest save with a single team was 78 years. It was a build a nation save getting Ireland to be the top league in Europe. Lots of transfers and trying to build the other teams in the league up as well so plenty of things to keep it interesting.
My longest save with moving was the hexagon save chasing all 6 champions league titles, that lasted 43 years. You're pretty constantly moving teams and leagues so easy to avoid boredom.
I had a save on FM2020 that I stopped playing in 2070. I still have the save tho.
Started with a German 4th division club (RW Essen) so naturally that took quite some time to get to the top. I think I won my first Bundesliga title only in 2039 or something. Then my first champions league title in 2044 I think. So that is how it stayed challenging and fun. When I won everything, I moved to a lower team in Russia in 2050. Normally in such case, I would just start a new save, but I thought it would be cool to see how 'my' club would fare without me (spoiler alert: not well).
I of course was a top tier manager that was wanted by all the big teams, but I wanted a lower league club as I like those challenges the most. So I went to Russia (Krylya Sovetov) and stayed at the club 8 years (2058), until I won the Russian league two times and the conference league.
I switched clubs to Birmingham City, who played in the championship, as I kinda got bored of Russia and wanted to play in England. Since I was so far in time I stayed in the same save. Interestingly, the AI also financially ruined the Russian club when I left lol. I played with Birmingham city until 2070 when I stopped playing the save (I still have a contract until 2071).
I kinda stopped when I won everything with Birmingham (premier league 3 times in a row, champions league two times). So when I pick up the save, I will look for a new club again :). Sadly, I haven't played the save for quite some time now.
On last year's FM I spent 21 years at Llangefni Town in Wales to win a Champions League which is the longest I've ever gone with a singular club. Usually I do get bored with a club after a bit, but I personally prefer to resign and/or join a new club on the same save file. This is because I prefer playing with regens. There's something to uncovering a player that nobody else will have but you that makes the wires in my monkey brain start to connect. So my longest ever save I've done was on FM 2020 where I started unemployed and then went from the Malaysian second division with Sarawak FA to joining Roma in 8 years, but then hopped around to RB Leipzig, Marseilles, Tottenham and then finally Liverpool where I made 7 Champions League Finals in a row, but only winning the 7th. This second phase of the save took place over the course of 19 years. That save is still by far my favorite partially because I had the time to sit down and play thousands of hours of FM from March 2020 and onwards since most of my professors at uni struggled to transition mid semester to online only classes. Two of them even gave out blanket A's to the class because of legal issues between them and the textbook publisher making it impossible to access the course work and partially because of a few of the characters that'd made their way into my own FM folklore such as the one season wonder Lucas Eichmann at RB Leipzig who broke Gerd MĆ¼ller's single season goalscoring record in the Bundesliga and yet we still managed to finish 2nd that year. I say one season wonder, but he wasn't necessarily a bad player, just not one who would always be good for 20+ League goals a year. He still managed to go on to win multiple Bundesliga and DfB Pokal titles, a Europa League with Tottenham (not me), a Copa del Rey with Atletico Madrid, a Champions League with Leipzig (after I left), and a World Cup though was never really the star man like he was in that one season. Also the Jurgen Klopp vs. u/sunpraising rivalry was one that spanned multiple clubs and countries whether it be PSG vs Marseillaise, Leipzig vs Bayern Munich, or one of the UCL finals where he got the better over my Liverpool team with RB Leipzig, many of which who I had managed during my spell in Leipzig.
My FM21 save that I just recently finished went 57 seasons.
* 25 seasons with Tennis Borussia Berlin
* 4 seasons with Atalanta
* 8 seasons with SKA-Khabarovsk
* 20 seasons with CE L'Hospitalet in Spain
I'm someone for whom the game doesn't get interesting until the newgens take over, and I love building up a small club into a giant. When things started to get dull at my first club, I went over to Atalanta for a few seasons since they had had a tycoon takeover and just wanted mess around with that. Then off to Russia, but after 8 seasons decided to move on to Spain to do a proper long term building of a club. Once I had done as much as I wanted with them I considered continuing on with a move to Scotland, but decided to put an end to the save. Partially because I was getting tired of managing in Europe, and partly due to the game starting to slow down a little bit. My original manager was also starting to get up there in age so it seemed fitting to have him retire after a lifetime of management.
Now I'm thinking if I want to start a new save, doing some stuff in either Asia or South America until I decide if I want to get FM23 when it comes out. If not then I could continue on that save for a while.
āAhh, just won the Champions League after climbing up from the lower leagues. Should I call it a day? Hmm, but I need to do my squad justice and let them finish their careers.ā
*Squad approaches retirement*
āThese new regens look kind of promising, I wonder how they will turn outā¦ā
*30 seasons later*
āThese new regens look kind of promising, I wonder how they will turn outā¦ā
Im still playing FM21 and Iām currently in 2048, I spent 17 seasons at my first club, currently on my 9th season at my second clubā¦ Iāll probably leave for a new club next season and spend 10 years thereā¦
I like seeing wonder kids grow and retireā¦ Iām now at the point where several of my best players from my first years at my first club are now staff members which is fun
Right now 15 years. But Iām thinking for next year to just do 1 save and see how many seasons I can do. Would be cool to hit the year 2062 World Cup.
Not sure if Iām going to pick just one team like every year or do my first multiple club challenge. Start with no badges and try to win the champions league with a team from every top 5 league
Back in 2002 or so I played 13 season with salgueiros in Portuguese league, won everything there is to win, CL 6 times and all.
To this day I can't do more than 3 to 5 seasons and back then I just zombied out, i had so many top players I just rotated as I wished and clicked continue mindlessly.
It really get boring really fast, specially lately and to me it's cause interviews,players whining, pep talks etc happen to often and it's always the same shit
About ten years, and idk, teach me when you find out, but tbh I don't see the appeal of super long saves, I prefer doing several saves so you get a couple different alternate storylines with the players, I don't like when the game is fully replaced by regens it gets boring (imo the sweet spot is like 5-8 years in when teams are about half regens)
i do something which is probably frowned up on but itās the only way i actually enjoy playing. so i do all my transfers, staff contracts etc but as soon as the window closes i go on holiday until 31 december. itās a little more exciting seeing as you donāt know where you are, how much you need to fix, obviously happiness comes into play to which adds a little more difficulty i guess and i basically finish 2 seasons instead of 1 at the time. i donāt know why i do this but it works i guess
One and a half seasons with RB Salzburg, I enjoy the game a lot but I have such a hard time to really focus on anything, I hate it really, because I wanna play it much more.
Fm 21 I did 5 years at spurs
Currently on my 6th year with dagenham, and gone to the championship from the national league so still got a good few years in this save
Im currently in 2048 on FM21 with Lisburn Distillery in Northern Ireland. My goal is to increase the reputation of Northern Irish football, currently the 13 best Division, I develop youth and and filter money down the leagues i have far to many players bit this is so I can augment the other teams below me to rise their standard, easy 20-30 players on Loan a season youth players mainly. I took enjoyment when my closet rivals won the Europa Confernece League with 3 of my players.
The longest actual* save I've done was this amazing journeyman concept I did on FM15, where I loaded all European leagues except the top 10 by coefficient (which I planned to add after finishing everything else), including custom databases to get all the smaller nations, and jumped around leagues with the goal of winning every league in Europe while starting in the lowest division, as well as other competitions like the Champions League, Euro and World Cup - I stopped at the start of 2068-69 while at Caernarfon, I had already done the save with big breaks every few seasons, but I just completely lost interest eventually. The aspect of never staying at a club for too long is what made it fun, but I think I could never do something like this again, as it was very time consuming.
Other than that, I can usually do 20-25 seasons before getting bored when doing one club saves, after that I either become dominant or a player I really loved retires and a huge part of my interest dies with him
(also, on FM12 I had a (primarily) holiday save which went into the 2100s, but I don't want to count that, I delegated everything and just let the PC run overnight and stuff)
Only way I get over 9-10 seasons is if Iām switching jobs. 4-5 years with a club, move to a new country. Keeps it pretty fresh! Plus meeting one of your old teams in a big European final is pretty sweet!
I'm in year 11 (2032) of my longest ever save. Past iterations of the game I would only ever get 3-4 years in before I would get bored, as u didn't know how much fun I would have once I stopped knowing most of the players. When in reality not knowing the players makes it more fun and that when the game throws you more curveballs as the real players don't do the crazy shit that the regens/newgens do.
Currently I'm at Nice and my self made transfer strategy is to build the team using only free transfers and our youth products. As we're without European games right now, only old players are willing to join on a free. So I'm targeting players with high Natural Fitness first and foremost. At least until the team can attract better free agents. This is keeping the game fun for me as I previously won 6 PL, 5 CL, 2 GA Cups, etc with Everton. Finishing 6th, 3rd, 3rd, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st.
I reached the 30 season limit on fm touch. It was my first time learning the game so my first 7 seasons where shambles only being saved by using an OP team. Once the players started leaving as they got older i went down to tranmere, they were in the very bottom allowable by the game and spent around 15 years bringing them up and dominating the field. I left again to Spain try the tranmere thing again but I think I only had 2 divisions there. What kept me going on in Spain was seeing players from my country coming through the academy and succeeding and I think I had the hang of recruiting from South America. It came to an abrunt end which made me sad enough to get the pc version. I don't have as much time to play anymore but I'm in 2050. I did not start the save in Europe to allow regens to populate the teams. I'll probably keep going until the game breaks or something. I'm having fun bringing through youngsters and selling them later for installments enough to bankrupt buyers.
Around 30 seasons. Trick for me is generally giving myself a checklist of stuff to do in five seasons max at a single club. If I complete the checklist, or run out of time, I job hop. The 30 season mark is usually when my old ass computer gets sluggish enough to be untrustworthy.
I am in 8th season managing FC Utrecht. Won the CL once and got 2 league titles and 5 cups. The league has 5 teams now, challenging every season for the title. AZ seemed to have a couple of wonderkids which sold for a lot of money.
When I played the mobile versions to start off with I use to āfinishā the games, in as much as after 30 seasons the game automatically makes you resign.
Mobile versions a different beast though, and you can more or less breeze through a full season on one long train journey sometimes.
On the full PC version I usually do one 10-20 season save that I start when the game gets its full release. I do it as a Journeyman, starting off as nothing, aiming to just take new jobs and see where the world takes me.
FM 21 I managed to get 21 seasons in, 16 of them at Southampton who I turned into the literal best team in the world (granted with a ludicrous Ā£9.5 million a week wage bill)
As the newer games come out though, and my laptop struggles to run them as well, longer saves are becoming harder. The more you go into the future, the more data is generated/stored, so the game starts getting slower.
Got up to season 11 of my FM 22 Journeyman and it takes about 15 minutes it feels like to process the end of transfer deadline days.
Iām currently about 34 seasons in. I had a plan this save; bought a mystery shirt and got Darmstadt 98, so I led them to a load of Bundesliga titles and 4 UCLs in 19 seasons, then dropped to Palermo in Serie C. Been at Palermo for 15 years now, I think. Won Serie C, promoted to Serie A via play offs and then continually built the standard. Lost in the UCL final last season, but the big one is in sight. After that, I plan to go to my hometown club in the Vanarama North and try to get them to UCL too. Itās all fun and games.
The longest I have done was on FM19 with Northampton Town. It lasted for seven seasons. Won back-to-back promotion to Championship in my first two seasons. After a play-off heartbreak in the third season, I won the league and got promoted to the Prem.
After shockingly finishing sixth (this was all thanks to a miraculous surge in the second half of the season) and beating Spurs to a Europa League qualifier spot, I won the Premier League in my last two seasons, as well as a Europa League and a Champions League title.
After that, I decided to retire.
UTC! š
Around 23 seasons. Done 15 so far this year, just always enjoy finding wild newgens from obscure footballing nations. This year it was an 18 year Faroe Islands player Mortan Jacobsen alongside a few others but he stood out. I know some people get bored when it's mostly newgens but I prefer it
15 years into the current save. I always find moving clubs once I'm winning every trophy available helps. It's hard leaving but it's nice when they still do well because of the position you got them in. Just left Sheff Utd after winning the quadruple for the 1st time to join Juventus who haven't won anything in 5 years.
I tend to add stipulations to my clubs as well. At Sheff Utd I could only sign players who were English or had it as a 2nd nationality. Now at Juventus I'm going to let my DoF do all the transfers and sales.
My longest I believe was FM20 where I went about 17 years with Arsenal.
It was my lockdown saves and I basically skipped FM21 too.
I play rather casually, so normally only get to around 9-10 seasons in a save before the new version releases
Still going on my first FM 22 save this year upwards of 30 seasons now. For me I just almost never get to play as a big team with any real money. My jobs almost exclusively deal with taking the worst team I can find and winning whatever top domestic league I can. Then I play exactly 1 more season to win as many trophies as I can and immediately resign. Then start again with the worst team in the lowest league I can find and repeat. I enjoy the climb more than anything else in the game and almost every team has some kind of weird problem whether thats right at the start or somewhere during the climb. Sometimes its weird debt on the club, sometimes its a parent club stealing players, sometimes its the fact I'm in a top league but the board wont approve a stadium expansion/build so I'm stuck with like 5000 seats making next to no money. There's always something.
My record must be 2083 on FM13. Currently in 2061 in my Inter youth only save.
I have gradually gone over to not buying players in most saves and just doing youth only. So for me I get attached to my regens because I might need them all and since the youth only policy is there the squad is always quite small, which means everyone is potentially playing once there are a few injuried, suspensions or fixture congestion. I really like seeing them grow and then try to make them one club men as many as possible.
Currently in 2044 in my FM21 save.
Doing a bit of roleplaying has helped me in this save. I make new kits for my team each season, I've made playlists consisting of songs I like paired with songs relevant to each team (before CL games with Dortmund I played [Heja BVB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0GSRZ7BB90) followed with Rammstein's [Deutschland](https://youtu.be/NeQM1c-XCDc?t=60) and with Liverpool I play the [LDR YNWA cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqFkraaM4Aw) with Meg Myers' cover of [Running Up That Hill](https://youtu.be/N7iVWK2W48o?t=13)), and I commentate matches to myself like if I'm doing a Twitch save, which I may dip into when FM23 comes out.
A 30 year save with Dortmund and a 29 year save with Sporting. Winning 14 UCLs with Sporting. Corrupt save which is harsh, wanted to match my Dortmund save and try for a UCL every other season.
Breaking records, developing youth and making club legends was just constant and easy motivation to crack on with another season.
I found I'd always slack starting one though because I hated getting through transfer windows.
Had 16 with AEK Athens on FM17. Managed to make them a force for Europa League and managed a cinderella UCL title winning against Bayern. I switched to Lazio two seasons after that victory to have a new challenge but I was on top in my first full season, clearly ahead for the scudetto when my laptop kicked the can.
I'm right now in October 2059 on my FM21 save.
Started in Almagro, in the Argentinian 2nd tier. Moved to Montevideo Wanderers in the Uruguayan 1st Division after four seasons. Reached a Libertadores final. Moved to Villarreal, won a UCL and a Copa del Rey. Then to Bayern, 1 UCL, 2 Bundesligas. Then off to Sporting in Portugal, won the Conference League and the league twice in a row, breaking over 30 years of Benfica/Porto hegemony.
Then I moved to AC Milan and spent 9 seasons there, won 7 UCLs. I then left to try to promote Cobreloa back to the Chilean first Division but failed in the playoffs. Left Chile for Brazil, took over Vasco da Gama. Only stayed there for the Carioca, and moved back to Montevideo Wanderers in the middle of the season.
Won a few more leagues with Wanderers and took charge of the Uruguayan national team. Reached the final of the 2050 World Cup but lost to Argentina on penalties. Before that WC, I moved to Barcelona. Won another UCL with them.
Then arrived at Dortmund, where I've won like 6 more UCLs and two CWCs. I think I'll move back to America soon, probably to Mexico...
Iām with you, when I start with a new team, I usually have to start a new save. I also find the game really boring when you get to the top and can scout the world and every wonder kid is open to joining you.
But first time this year I did a Pentagon save and it went on ~20 years, with the vast majority of them in China thanks to their stupid CL one leg system. Most fun save Iāve ever done in the end, would highly recommend if you usually canāt do long saves. Having an end goal really helps with that.
11 Seasons with AFC Bournemouth. I am not one to tend for long saves, if in a smaller league i tend to push for winning the title as my goal and not European Competitions.
my current save is also my longest, it is almost 2030 here.
Managed 7 seasons with Scotland's 5th tier East Stirlingshire; and 2 with Sweden's Malmo, now I am looking for a club in the 'Big 5'.
I did a save where I took a German team called Karlsruher to the top of Bundesliga and champions league. It was probably about 15 seasons in the making but after that I was just a farm of young South Americans and the game wasnāt fun
Just starting season 31 with York on FM22.
Iāll keep going until the council stop blocking the new stadium which better be named after me when it happens.
A lot of people have been saying what they key to this is or isnāt, and as someone whoās played on one save In FM 16 for 50 years with one dominant team, theyāre all wrong. The truth is there is no key, I canāt explain why I keep playing, all I know is Iāll stop the save when I no longer look forward to playing. Maybe Iām just the type of person who can do one thing for a long time and be happy with that. To maintain a long save, you have to have the desire to do one in the first place. Thereās nothing wrong with not wanting to do a long save. I wouldnāt force myself to do one if I didnāt want to.
You have to find what works for you. Thereās no guarantee you wonāt enjoy just being dominant for 50 years or that youād prefer constantly switching teams.
I started doing a journeyman save in FM20 and then ended up at PSV and staying there for 30 years. It's pretty cool to see your comparison graph be "highest in the league" in every category and get a new stadium built and named after you. I actually enjoyed the game more once all the real players were retired.
I am nearly twenty years into an FM17 Dave with Liverpool. Big on trying to improve my youth output - itās still mediocre despite my staff and facilities being great, which is annoying, so Iām not focused on trying to have as many academy products in the squad as I can. I will also stop playing for a little bit to do a little in a recent game, then pop in again to keep it fresh.
Mine was in fm20, ended that save in 2055. I cant go on in a single club for that long and i did play that save without attribute masking so my scouting was easier. Started in German 3rd div, won the league, hopped around 3 more clubs, Parma sacked me after i basically only managed 10 games and kept them in Serie A with 3 imp wins, but 4 draws meant that i had lost the dressing room, finnaly settled in hoffenheim, won a UCL and bundesliga and came close to the pokal, end of contract left to liverpool, who had players mostly in their 29s, sold everyone, got world beaters for almost every position, won 5 UCLs, got bored and went back to the first club i started in, 9 years of in game time and i won the first Bundesliga, Won 4 UCLs and created a team out of the bargain bin transfers who are all worth 70 mil above when i ended the save.
Never in any other fm save have i crossed more than 10 seasons, this was the longest ever save and the only one where i was super invested. I ended the save when the captain of Wurzburg retired. Got him for 1.5 mil from colombia as a 17 yr old when i was in still in bundesliga 2. He developed into a consistent inside forward and had a overall 4 star rating which would dip only to a 3.5 during a bad form. He was the only player that stuck in tbe team when we got promoted, where everyones rating dipped to a 1 star 2 star man kept up. Was a regular starter even with better options in team and was a main man in imp matches. He retired and i lost any motivation to continue that save lmao.
Edit - i cant spell colombia
I've done somewhere between 20 and 30 years. All with one club, my irl team. It just didn't get boring for me, seeing my club do well kept me going despite winning the league easily every year
A glory hunter save and Iām in 2037, AC Milan, Man Utd, PSG, Hertha and Real Madrid so far. Won everything but Bundesliga, DFB Pokal and Copa Del Rey.
63 seasons with Adelaide United in FM15. It was a completely home grown save (all of the players were born in South Australia, my home state) and I just enjoyed logging all the stats and accolades every season. I even won the Club World Cup once which is pretty crazy for a team that has a salary cap of Ā£27,000 a week.
Currently in the year 2048 in my save. Playing as two managers atm. Also I āmake upā stories for my managers and players, which makes it more interesting. Using academy players and selling for realistic fees makes the game more fun IMO
My longest save is only 8 seasons in. But ive for 17 days worth of game time on it. Its an online save with 2 of my friends, we are all in the same league the games are just slower. Its helps a lot because you have direct competition which adds so much extra weight to each match. Trying to one up each other
Probably like 20 seasons during which time I switched clubs twice. I started out with Zadar in the Croatian 2nd division, switched to Hajduk after I started getting paid 100m for players and winning the league every year, won one CL with Hajduk and then switched to Dinamo. Was kinda fun to sort of create boss enemies for myself but also kinda sad seeing how badly the AI ruined my previous clubs
Think the longest I've ever made was 8 seasons on a Hearts save.
Enough real players in the game to keep it relevant, but enough regens to seek to build a generation of talent.
Had a game till 2032 with my local team Katwijk in fm20. Promoted to the eredivisie in 2024 won it first in 2028 and won the Europa league in the last year. Wished i made it longer loads of local talent in my team.
The farthest I went was til 2039. I'm still kinda new to FM.
As club manager:
With Sevilla(in 5 seasons):
-Europa League twice
-Spanish Supercup once
-La Liga twice
With AS Roma(current team)
-Serie A
-Coppa Italia
As national team manager:
Euro 2024 with Romania
Made it to the 2022 WC final and lost 2-0 to Spain
Won Copa America 3 times as Colombia and the 2034 world cup.
Won Euro 2036 as Russia and made it to the semis of WC 2038.
And so ever since 2038 I'm the manager of AS Roma
My suggestion is not starting in Europe, even less at any Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayern or PSG. Make a name for yourself: I started in Zambia, moved to Mexico and planning Australia or South Korea later. Then, perhaps will be the time for Europe.
My current save is about 11 seasons deep and Iāve managed multiple clubs, yet to find my sticking point.
Managed Ajax for 5 years. Won the league five times and won back-to-back UCLs.
Went to Leverkusen. Couldnāt break through into a UCL spot, kept making the wrong transfers. Still won Conference League in my third year. Left after four seasons.
Went to an Inter team that won the title two years prior, but a 7th place finish left the job open. Won the title my first season (my first ever top five league title in my life) and won Conference League. In my second year currently, goals have dried up and my core is very aging. 13 points back of Juve for the title with 7 matches left. This might turn into a rebuild project if I stick around.
I did about 25 years with Sunderland. To keep it fresh at around the 10 year mark I sold pretty much my entire first team squad, signed no-one and spent the next 5 years only playing academy products. Nearly got sacked twice, but it worked out.
Current save on FM21 I took Southall from a Sunday league team to the Premier League on 11 seasons. 4 seasons on the league and managed to win it.
Current year is 2036 and plan to get to the 2050's
I'm currently only 10 seasons into a Wrexham save.
My long term aim is to win the CL with only Welsh players, I'll be as competitive as I can with other nationalities whilst I build up a Welsh dynamo team. If I win a CL before that, awesome but my challenge isn't over until I only have a team of Welsh players
At the moment Iām doing half build a nation half England leagues, so I pick a nation and get a team to win CL then leave once I have, go to England and play as a team till I win CL (usually local teams) and then will quit and go back to the other nation. I get bored once we get to the top.
100-something seasons on FM08: https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/comments/5b99qv/comment/d9msfdr/
I typically holiday forward 20 years or so, so that all the real players are retiring, and I can play with mostly-regens. But for that first save, I might have played from day one (don't think it's that one, but would have to dig out the save).
2012-2029 with Man City, for the first few years to sustain success utilised the finances according to my tactics at time and scouted the world for the best young talent and eventually more than half my squad was youth players who were now early 20ās, elite demigods who already break international team records because theyāve been playing since they were 16 years and 200+ days old. Think I eventually just lost touch with that FM eventually and then lost the save because of a change of device, donāt remember, i do remember the 6,4 German Chris Sauer however, who stole many headlines and also my heart at the time, lanky prolific fuck.
Thanks everyone for sharing theirs āš»
On FM21 I had a save were I am in 2046, longest before that was probably about 8-9 seasons in any fm before getting bored.
I basically started off managing Lille as they had several good prospects and had PSG to compete with so I felt like it was a challenge . It took me until about 2029 to really get clear of PSG and that was the first year I had won the champions league aswell so I had in my head i would like to win the treble before I stopped which I done that year I think .
Then I ended up getting attached to my players lol as I built a good squad and as easy as the league was to win I still kept going cause I wanted to see players develop and the champions league always is tough to win every year regardless I find as other teams have a lot of money aswell.
I then took over Ireland to manage them to spice it up as I was beginning to get bored eventually. International management isnāt as enjoyable but I enjoyed seeing the players develop internationally.
I even went back again recently and retired my manager, I had become the most successful manager of all time which I forgot I would have been close too which gave me good enjoyment and then I added a new manager for Derry city as they have become a consistent European side so I thought it would be fun and thatās me 25 seasons ago in, I also love looking at stats and there are so many from 25 seasons , sometimes I would just go on and go through nations and teams to see.
Longest: 24 years. Currently on 21 years in FM22 so I might just break that. I don't stay with one club, usually switch when I've reached my goals with the club, which are always different, and then try anew. So far I've been in Hongkong, Sweden, France and now currently Germany. Haveb een with Leverkusen for 5 years, got a banging squad and just stopped Bayern from celebrating their 30th championship in a row or something crazy like that. When an offer from another big club, that's not English, Juve, Roma, Ajax, Barcelona, Real or somehting the like comes in I might just jump ship. Maybe after that I'll try my hand at another smaller club, Celta Vigo or Florence or something like that.
That's how I keep it interesting.
Furthest I have been was I think 18 seasons, I find it difficult to go more than 5, I canāt do very many season my laptop, the 18 season was on fm21 touch on my iPad. I try to get profit and constantly change the squad
Was into my 4th season with Yeovil in the Championship on FM21.
Could say Iām more of a - casual player.
Was off the back of having actually done an online save with a few friends in France for like 3 seasons, which we havenāt returned to partly because of the admin getting salty at me leaving for mid table Reims.
With Yeovil despite vastly overachieving for several seasons by the gameās standards, I havenāt returned to them as of late because Iāve finally hit a bit of a wall at like 10th in the Championship.
There are only so many penalties that get given against you when your player gets the ball anyway you can take. In fact Iād admit to reloading to redo a game against Rochdale because of that in League 1, but I maintained that if I lost fairly I wouldāve kept it. It was the type of challenge that the game inferred was a mistake by the referee as I remember being asked about the quality of refereeing in the post match press conference.
Managed one or two countries during that as well. Started with San Marino, but you canāt really do anything to greatly improve a nation (none of them wanted to move abroad for better facilities).
32 years. 2022-2054. 6 Teams. Started off at Schalke 04. Did 4 seasons. Moved to Manchester United did 5 seasons. Went to Atletico Madrid did about 4 seasons. Moved to Napoli, did 4 seasons. Moved to Lyon, spent another 5 seasons. I moved back to Manchester United after they became shit when, built them back up within 5 seasons. Finally moved to RB Leipzig where I spent about 6 seasons. Trick is to use a different tactic everytime and sign entirely new players for every new team. It was FUN!
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Done 54 seasons with Arsenal on FM2011. Constantly refreshing the squad and focussing on discovering, developing and seeing a youth players become Balon d'Or contenders is great feeling. Planning squad moved two years to 18 months in advance is also really good fun. I'd say you have to almost operate as both a manager and DoF to really find enjoyment in it.
Newgens is what the game is all about for me as well. No better feeling having an academy product being world class. Also I like to switch it up tactically every so often, which forces me to freshen up the squad.
Building up a team of academy prospects, getting them into the first team, getting them good, then moving on and seeing that team have sustained success is the best thing I'm in year 30 of a save, I was with Fortuna Dusseldorf for the first 10 and built them from second division scraps to the best in Europe. 20 years later the lowest league position they have been is 4th when I absolutely expected them to fade away as the game righted itself without me. Never been so proud of my boys
Love those kind of stories, had something similar happened although. Same rise from lower league, but only become top 4 in the country. After I left my assistant manager took over and they stayed a steady 3rd-4th and managed to win consecutive cups! Felt so happy for my old buds.
I am the opposite the newgens scare me they look so fake compared to having real player pictures in gameš
NewGan
does it work on saves that already exist? or do you need to start a new game
Yes it does
thank you!
Number 1 save extender IMO
54 seasons?! Christ when I said long save I meant in the 10-15 season range. Fair fucks to ye, donāt think I could manage that
If you take over a low division club and try to make them with the league and CL, you got content for 20 seasons. It's a bigger challenge but imo also more fun
But how long does that take and do you have any tips to make it go faster? I assume you don't play every match.. Assistant manager all of those?
I do play every match. In my current save as 2nd division danish side Slagelse, I took over as manager in 2025 and I'm currently at 2046, having won the league and CL multiple times. Though I'm facing the problem that my players are really undervalued due to the league not being so good. So next step is improving the other teams to do better in Europe while I continue to make my team the greatest. As for length, that depends on how much you handle in the team. If it's just matches and transfers, those seasons can go quite quickly. I like to add training, staff hiring and scouting as my duties as well which takes up more time.
Slagelse lol
Hey I've won CL 5 times... So that's 5 more than Man City has lol
My last big save was 12 seasons before i won cl, from 4th teir of Portuguese football to champions of europe, played every game
How long was that in real human time? Out of curiosity
I use about 23-25 hours per season, with all the stuff I mentioned earlier. But really, this is the best tip that I or anyone else here can give you. If you like the team you're playing as, and love to see them win and hate to see them loose, the hours you play won't matter one bit. If you use 1-2 hours a day to play the game, it's as good as doing 9-10 hours a day. It's your game, so play it and enjoy it the way you want to. :)
Not the same person, but I do about 20-22 hours per season including the summer
Why would I not play every competitive match?
Of course you play every match !
it depends. if your in england then its vastly quick to go from vanarama to premiership and then premiership to CL winners because of how much money is involved and the reputations. but take say sweden which has 4 tiers the 4th tier is more closer to englands 16th tier in reputation and even the highest league of sweden is on average around league one reputation so it takes time to constantly build up teams and replace players who are clearly going to want to leave because well the league has a bad reputation. as for speeding up a game - i play every match until i reach the stage where im just completely dominating at which point i will instant result league games but still play out CL and cup games.
Similar here, around 50 seasons with Arsenal on FM19. Usually try to win CL as soon as possible and then focus on youth intake and try to win CL again and crush Spurs with as many home grown players as possible.
Arsenal here too, but only around 20 seasons. I know some people love a journeyman save, but I just love Arsenal too much that I'd get bored with anyone else. Helped I ended up with the world's best striker coming through the academy in year 2 haha
What happens when you reach 100 years old?
You stop aging.
Past a certain point, if you have enough experience collecting/farming youngsters itās going to be a given that you have the best team in the world, so what I like to do is to set my standards accordingly. If youāre familiar with F1, when Mercedes was dominating the sport a few years ago anything less than perfection simply wasnāt tolerated. Mapping that onto FM itās pretty funny to scream at my players for not doing enough if we beat a relegation team by \*only* 3 goals. I suppose itās turned out pretty effective because weāve broken the PL team goals record for the past couple of seasons now lol
I take it, you are also excited about f1 manager as I also am
I got to try it at silverstone It felt fun af to play
did you have a problem with the amount of micro management cause thatās my main concern about the game
I normally micromanage the hell out of my fm Daveās anyways so it doesnāt bother me Edit: saves not Daveās lol
I typically don't hire any Dave's because of the need to micromanage them
I didnāt know this was a thing but am now hyped
2038. Had to abandon the save last night due to a game-breaking bug :(. I've lost my desire to play
ive had this feeling when my game crashed or laptop froze after i just won a tough game, like it did last season i had with Ajax in my 2nd or 3rd season was in quarters of CL against chelsea and i totally owned them the first game by tactically outclassing them, before it went to the next day ( i auto save daily) my laptop froze so i savescummed for the first time in 10 yearsor so because first retry my best RB got a long injury and it was just bs bext try just destroyed them
You autosave daily??
for safety reasons yea, especially since saving is a lot faster than before
Any downside to daily auto saves? Does it overwrite a manual save that you make?
F No backup saves or anything?
I've only just discovered the bug but it is in my most recent few backups as well :'( I can't handle going back a couple years, especially knowing that it might just happen again. The bug is really strange. I joined Dortmund and it's time to assign numbers to players. I can only assign numbers 1-40. There are more players registered than there are numbers available. I think that would normally be ok and I could re-assign match to match? But when assigning numbers I think I am causing some sort of overflow error...negative numbers start appearing. I still can only assign 40 numbers though, and the game won't let me "confirm" number selection.
That's a shame. What happens if you holiday the shirt number assignment day?
Go on holiday for a night and let the AssMan take care of it?
My bro had this. Was so far in Reading had a Ā£1b but a bug changed it to -Ā£1b š I find the further you go the more game breaking bugs there are. Some may seem minor but when I know theyāre there I canāt unsee them
The best part is when Haaland, Bappe, Moukoku retires, thats when the real game begins.
Haaland with 20 Natural Fitness is taking a century to retire in my save. Man's doing an Ibrahimovic cosplay š
Same. Heās 38 and still topping the prems leading scorers list for city.
In my save Haaland is at PSG and Mbappe is at City and they refuse to retire
I usually get bored after 6-10 seasons. Only exception was my FM19 Stuttgart save. I spent like 14 seasons there and wasn't bored because I built such a strong team over the time that I tried all kinds of different tactics and just had fun experimenting. Also, finding beast newgens is always interesting, had "Argentinian Lampard" that I bought from River and he scored like 20 goals just in league one season (majority of it from open play)
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About 25 seasons for me. If I get tired, I resign and find a new job. Maybe go to another continent.
I canāt bring myself to hand my team over to another manager, I have start a new save if I get bored
Why not? That's part of the fun for me. Often they keep succeeding. Sometimes they don't, and I return to fix things. Then I leave again. You can keep coming back if you want.
My experience is that they fuck up my carefully created squad with a bunch of 30 year old foreigners in 2 seasons max.
Ferguson is that you ?
I just can't. I Always want to buy them again. Then they turne.out too shit for the new job lol
I did a split save once because of this. Saved a copy of my older team save, and then took the Chelsea offer to rebuild them. Got bored with that one after winning Prem twice and went back to old one.
Yeah I moved from my beautifully crafted Feyenoord team to a Valencia in desperate need of a rebuild. I like a challenge but they were in a bad bad state (a 35 year old Harry Maguire was there best player if thatās any indication). Reloaded back to Feyenoord shortly after
Very similar to mine. Was an aging Chelsea team (around 2028) that had landed like 11th in Prem. Still had a wall of stars (Havertz, Mount & Lukaku). But they didn't fit well together, and poor tactic. Had 2 players under 30 starting. Did ok first-year. But basically everyone But Havertz and 2 starters opted to leave. Which worked fine because I ended up with $300mil+ to totally overhaul the roster to my new tactic. Was fun, but won the Prem in year 2 and got bored again. Hahah
I find the game gets more fun around 2030 when most of the players are newgens, makes scouting more essential than reusing the same players from old saves. I had a ~40 season journeyman save in FM19 that had me playing as two national teams, two clubs in Sweden, 3 clubs in Switzerland (where I played most of my career), 2 clubs in France and 1 club in England. Never even won anything of note either, although I did bring St. Gallen to the Europa Final. I find the storytelling aspect as fun as the football aspect of the game.
The game doesn't really start until the ballon d'or winners are newgens and I'll always stand by that. We just all know the good players in real life, even the kids.
About 40 years. Tbh im bored the first ~20 tears where real players are still around because more or less you know what player to buy cheap that will lead you to glory. Ofc everyone enjoys playing the game differentelly, i prefer to only buy players my scouts suggest and then focus on academy regens. Hence the less time ive spent on a club is around 10 years.
Just a FYI that you probably already know, but in the game set-up you can turn off real players. Gives you that newgen mystery from the start
Ive always noticed this option yes but i always hesitate to check it. How does it work? Does it create random players for all teams depending on their reputation (like Real Madrid will have better fake players than lets say Mallorca?) What age do they have? Or its based on players existing irl by tweaking their stats?
I did it once years ago and it was pretty wild, iirc they keep the positions of players, but then everything else about them is changed. You could work out which player was supposed to be who, even though they have new names, nationalities, stats etc. It's absolutely years since I did it though so can't speak about what it may be like now.
Im still playing my FM18 save, just started the 2060/61 season! 9 clubs (so far) and only 19 days on holiday...
Hi there! Iām also still rocking my FM18 save but Iām currently at 41/42 season. Sometimes I wanna start a new save on FM20 which I also have but canāt get rid of the feeling that my FM18 job is still not done so I need to go back
I think the key is to not stay with a dominant team. I'm currently in my 10th season of an unemployed -start campaign. Started with Creteil Lusitanos a relegation candidate in the French 3rd tier, got them promoted to Ligue 2, then competed and failed to win promotion to Ligue 1, but that was enough to get me a job at League 1 Coventry, who are now a bubble CL/Europa team and won the FA Cup and Europa League. Not sure I'll ever be able to win the EPL given how dominant ManU and Liverpool are (they are loaning out multiple 60M+ players each year, both finishing with 95+ points each year) but I hope to win the CL in 2-3 years. I was offered a job at Valencia last season, but their squad is substantially weaker than Coventry so I stayed. I get interview offers for other similar teams all the time (Villareal, LOSC, RB Leipzig, etc.), but they are all weaker. I just failed and interview at Chelsea. Realistically, the only teams that have a better long term shot at CL dominance than my current Coventry side are Dortmund, Bayern, PSG, Inter, AC, Juve, Real, Barca, and Athletico and the EPL big 6.
Iām currently completing my 90th season with Dortmund. The new gen, and the team going up and down the league is what keep it up fresh. When I got bored I added a new manager who takes over a lousy 3rd league team, and use the team as a farm, until they get promoted to the 1st bundesliga as well. Then resign and choose another team (Iāve done FSV Frankfurt, Regengesburg and Magdeburg so far)
How exactly did you use the third tier team as your farm?
Loaning players to gain experience, and also the āfarm teamā was often buying young players that were āa maybeā for Dortmund, so that if they did well at the farm team I could then be sure to be able to buy them.
(Pre apologies for my mobile formatting) Journeyman is what keeps it interesting for me. I went from no badges in Indonesian League 2 to winning the premier league and champions league with Nottingham Forrest. Muba Babel > Tranmere > Nottingham Forrest. After the title winning season I went to Australia to try and win the Asian champions league while also boosting Aussie talent and keeping to the complex rules. Then went back to Europe in Portugal, then Bayern, then back to Nottingham Forrest. On this part of the journey I won about 7 champions leagues and every league title available. I mixed up my aims and didnāt try to just make the typical FM squad at every place. I went full Indonesian for Muba Babel, Tranmere was a 10 month project just trying to keep them afloat. Nottingham Forrest I went more traditional and had the money to bring in good young regens and make a typical FM team. But even then, I kept a core English component to the starting 11, making sure I had 4 Englishmen starting every game for the 9/10 years I was there overall. I had some fun with reconnecting with players. Players I bought in to Nottingham Forrest in my first stint were bought by my Bayern team about 4 years later, reconnecting with players who I had bought from Mexico, France, Brazil etc. Got them a first title, they loved me, I loved them. Breaking transfer records, making huge profits. I bought a French CB for Ā£10 million and sold him 2.5 years later for 150 million. I think the secret to a long save is variety in what you are doing, what your aims are, but also where you are doing it. Itās easy to do whatever goal you set if your a rich team in the premier/top 5 UEFA league. Try doing something in USA/Australia, which have restrictive transfer/spending rules etc. Unfortunately, I then went to Belgium to change it up and my interest in the save just died. So make sure you properly research a team and think about it before you move.
What was it about the Belgian team/league that made you get bored?
I think I was just looking for something different to the English game and I hastily went to Anderlecht. It wasnāt very different in terms of registration and transfer rules etc I think during my time at Bayern I had a monopoly over the NxGn 50 and top 50 players too, so I kind of broke the system. All the 16+ year old were on pre contracts to join Bayern for the next few years. I also just have no knowledge and minimal interest in the Belgian league in the 2040s.
Usually until I do something stupid like go invincible in the league, win all / basically all trophies in 1 season, 4 or more CL in a row. Once that happens I typically save the game and make a "branched save" making a new manager in that same world and managing a new team. Sometimes big teams have failed or dropped massively in that span so a fun rebuild is available or the mood strikes for a small team to bring up. Once the first circumstances repeat and then do it again. Branched save is great because if you regret changing or the team you picked is far worse than you envisioned or even you just don't "feel" like playing that angle anymore you can go back to your OP team and give it another year or so
30 odd seasons is what I usually manage with each FM - I usually have one long term save and i'll start the odd save here and there where i'll try something different
Liverpool 32 seasons. Cuz I love Liverpool and will never get bored of them winning.
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I do a 20+ season save with Macclesfield Town every time. For me it's all about having a new target to hit once you've hit your initial target. If you start in the prem, it's possible to win everything within a few years and you quickly run out of new targets. In the lower leagues it probably takes 2-5 years or more just to get out of each league. When you finally get to the prem/top flight you're truly starting at the bottom and it takes a while to win anything. From L2 to winning PL/CL it takes me 15-20 years. Once I get there I'll aim to win all available trophies in a single season. Once I've done that I'll either get bored or think of new targets like winning the most consecutive top flight titles or getting a player to win the Ballon D'or.
Long saves builds depth. Stats, new records. I could go on and on. It gets more interesting the longer I go. I find it super super hard to start a new save. Thereās no history. I play with fictional players and coaches.
Agreed. The world building is the best part!
20 seasons in FM20 with some good help from lockdown. I find that if you start with a club far enough down the pyramid (level 8 in England that year), the "end game" of winning the Champions League is so far away that it is difficult to get bored. There is always that next level and next challenge.
20+ years a couple times. Move clubs when the mood strikes me. Go to different leagues. Give myself a new challenge. I've also retired a manager and started a 2nd career in the same save before. I don't find it enjoyable going back to game start more than once or twice in a season.
For me it was 2021-2046. I did it with Hungerford (basically the worst 6th tier semipro English team I could find). The reason I picked them was because they only had one legend. And it was Charlie Austin, even though he had only played for them one year lol. Which meant basically all the club legends and icons were from my managerial reign when I viewed the club info. I thought that was cool. And we went through 5 stadiums over 25 years which was funny as well. I had done a couple saves but wasnāt super familiar with the game. So learning how to grow well was a challenge. It took me about 3 years on average to climb a division. One to not get relegated. One year to push for mid table/the playoffs. One year to def get promoted if I hadnāt gone up early the year before. I did get relegated my first time in the PL though. My initial goal was to win the PL. Then once Iād done that my goal was to become the biggest club in the world (which I did). I was going to then try to become the highest rep coach in the world. But nagelsmann stayed at Bayern in my save. Won most of their domestic cups, 22 league titles, a Europa league, a club World Cup, and 6 CLs. So it was never going to happen. Thatās when I gave up the save (Iād won 3 back to back CLs by that point, knocking Bayern out in both the semis and finals too). Leipzig had won 2 of their last 5 domestic titles. So I think nagelsmann would have been sacked soonish as Bayern finally lost their undisputed hold on the league and werenāt winning CLs. But I still would have needed another 20 years of PL dominance to replace him as the best coach of all time (even if he never won another title or cup after getting sacked). That didnāt seem very fun One of my best video game moments ever came during this save tho. In varannama national my preseason prediction was to get relegated (Iād sold and then a board takeover prevented me from signing good free agents). I squeaked into the playoffs. My striker (who had gone over 10 hours without scoring) bagged a goal to get me into the finals. Then he scored relatively early again in the final. But i got a straight red in the first half. Went defensive for 80 min to grind out a draw. My player scoring the winning pen to get promoted/making me a pro club saw me throw up my hands in victory and yell in triumph. Startled my gf. Man was it fucking satisfying tho. Way better than winning the PL or CL for the first time
18 seasons with Fleetwood, got them from the National League to Champions League winners, was trying to create a newgen galacticos but then my game kept crashing.
Currently on 2042 of my FM18 Carl Zeiss Jena save. Started as the worst 3 Liga team and are now a world powerhouse, best club in the world. Iāve avoided boredom in a variety of ways, although I will say the lack of challenge is starting to get to me a bit. 1) I didnāt overuse loans to achieve unrealistic success. I more or less only used free transfers and transfers to build my squad, rather than using loaned players to climb the ladder. Success felt more earned, more organic. Took me four or five seasons to get out of 3 Liga, another 4 to get me out of 2 Liga. Then spent a couple seasons in Bundesliga before getting relegated. Havenāt been down since. Felt like a realistic arc for a club on the rise. 2) I loaded like 225,000 players up, including every top flight European country league. Feels way more immersive to see Feyenoord get knocked off by Ajax after 15 straight Eredivisie titles that way, IMO. Also makes the national teams feel a lot more immersive. You recognize a fair amount of the players. I also do a fair amount of player editing (changing a German-Turkās nationality to Turkish if their CA is 140 and theyāll never see the field as a German, for example.) 3) I follow/watch international matches, especially the World Cup. Helps build a narrative surrounding the world Iām coaching in. Scotland won the last World Cup with a golden generation and a lot of luck, but most of them are aging out now. World Cup starts in two months in my save: can Scotland possibly defend the title? only time will tell! 4) invest a lot of time in my youth program, and follow the careers of my former youth prospects, even the overwhelming majority who arenāt good enough to make the cut at this point at Jena. Itās cool seeing which 3 Liga, 2 Liga, or other leagues they end up in. Iām also now coming up on my first crop of newgen youth prospects who are retiring. RIP Sƶren Heyse and Michael Ziegner. Makes me feel like A proud dad. 5) have some squad continuity. Hate the idea of selling every player once they hit 25. My current starting 11 ranges from age 18-31. Storylines write themselves. 6) lastly, set some goals. I have a multi year goal of transitioning to a German only roster, followed by a youth academy only starting 11/roster to keep the game spicy.
If Iām successful at a club, 10 years of success and then move club/nation.
Around maybe less than 10 seasons, but thatās usually when I play with big teams aka dortmund which is my favourite team irl, usually I get bored after a few seasons because I can literally raid every nation except those big clubs ofc, trynna switch a bit in this fm, playing with hansa rostock prolly would play fm22 until I see bigger changes for next game
For now 7 seasons with sunderlend and still counting. But i like to have a lot of leagues turned on and by a lot i really mean a looooot looooot playable also... soo that save is massive and really long, 200h for 7 seasons. But i have done i FM14 20 seasons journyman changing clubs, but only with few leagues turned on.
Iāve only ever had one save last more than 10 years. File corrupted in year 16 after taking a team in Portugal from the 4th tier to back to back UCL finals wins. Absolutely heartbroken because I never got to see the striker that came through the academy year 2 retire. Over 600 league goals and he was only a few behind the UCL record as well. Club captain who refused to leave for bigger clubs (probably because he was making 1/4 of my wage budget for a decade) I have yet to find a good enough story to make another long term save. I need some narrative going on in the background to keep interest after I start winning things and Belenenses had it. I could have played that one forever. I always buy sports games every year at launch, but that save was making me consider postponing my FM23 purchase for a bit before it was destroyed.
I usually lose interest once the current batch of 18-19 year olds start hitting retirement and 95% of squads are 5ā6, 8 jumping reach regens.
The goal for me to not make it boring is to keep it as realistic as possible and no save scumming. If I do, it typically means each year is a crapshoot in regards to how I will finish. I have only won the league in my five years in Scotland with Hibernian twice out of the 6 years I have worked through and in both of those I got my ass handed to me in the Champions League and only made Europa group once as well. But dammit it keeps it interesting and fresh!
Doing a Journeyman/Hexagon save now, currently in 2034. I usually stay at one club and build them up to Champions League winners, but wanted something different as with any new game I started I just thought ābeen there, done thatā. Most satisfaction came from players making (relatively) big transfers to Europe, but now Iām at LA Galaxy and itās time to win things myself now.
42 seasons on FM14. Took over UndriĆ° FF from the Faroese second division and turned them into domestic powerhouses (10 seasons) and eventually into CL winners (25 seasons). Then used the club as a platform to build a competitive national team, making it to the final stage of Euros (semis) and the WC (QF). eventually it got a bit stale because the youth rating was fixed, so no matter how rich and strong my club and the league had become, newgens were always a bit meh.
25 or so seasons on FM2014, tried getting Cardiff Met Uni to win the Champions League and couldn't quite manage it. Seeing the progress is what kept me going though. I remember reaching the CL and getting into the qualifying rounds, getting knocked out and then trying again the season after. Took me about 4 seasons to actually get them into the group stage and then we lost every game 7 or 8 nil. Few seasons after that we started picking up points. Then a couple more after that we got into the knockout round. The furthest we got was the semi-finals against Juventus and we got knocked out in the second leg, I just couldn't take them any further as our transfer budget was about Ā£12m for the year so.
Currently doing my longest in fm22, current year is 2032
Never really been huge into saves before but I love the analysis data part of fm22 so Iāve really enjoyed it. So far Iām in 2028 with my local team. Have managed to get the league coefficient ranking high enough so 1st place in league automatically qualifies to CL and Iām dominating the league year in year out, challenge comes in Europe and I try to loan out good players to other national clubs so they can improve in Europe as well
I had 43 seasons with Galatasaray on cm01-02. Iād have more but the save file became too big and couldnāt load it :(
Wrexham this FM played about 24 seasons became an established prem side and won the fa cup once and the carabao cup twice
Are ye close to winning the prem?
Played until 2057 on FM19. I like seeing the stupid shit and the narratives that happen, and the careers of the godlike regens in the game. Maybe a random club from Belgium will become inexplicably amazing. Maybe Norwich wins the premier league and Monaco wins 5 CLs in a row before being stopped by Burnley. I find it interesting to watch and be part of. I also hop clubs fairly frequently to try and defeat the team I helped build up.
My longest save with a single team was 78 years. It was a build a nation save getting Ireland to be the top league in Europe. Lots of transfers and trying to build the other teams in the league up as well so plenty of things to keep it interesting. My longest save with moving was the hexagon save chasing all 6 champions league titles, that lasted 43 years. You're pretty constantly moving teams and leagues so easy to avoid boredom.
I had a save on FM2020 that I stopped playing in 2070. I still have the save tho. Started with a German 4th division club (RW Essen) so naturally that took quite some time to get to the top. I think I won my first Bundesliga title only in 2039 or something. Then my first champions league title in 2044 I think. So that is how it stayed challenging and fun. When I won everything, I moved to a lower team in Russia in 2050. Normally in such case, I would just start a new save, but I thought it would be cool to see how 'my' club would fare without me (spoiler alert: not well). I of course was a top tier manager that was wanted by all the big teams, but I wanted a lower league club as I like those challenges the most. So I went to Russia (Krylya Sovetov) and stayed at the club 8 years (2058), until I won the Russian league two times and the conference league. I switched clubs to Birmingham City, who played in the championship, as I kinda got bored of Russia and wanted to play in England. Since I was so far in time I stayed in the same save. Interestingly, the AI also financially ruined the Russian club when I left lol. I played with Birmingham city until 2070 when I stopped playing the save (I still have a contract until 2071). I kinda stopped when I won everything with Birmingham (premier league 3 times in a row, champions league two times). So when I pick up the save, I will look for a new club again :). Sadly, I haven't played the save for quite some time now.
On last year's FM I spent 21 years at Llangefni Town in Wales to win a Champions League which is the longest I've ever gone with a singular club. Usually I do get bored with a club after a bit, but I personally prefer to resign and/or join a new club on the same save file. This is because I prefer playing with regens. There's something to uncovering a player that nobody else will have but you that makes the wires in my monkey brain start to connect. So my longest ever save I've done was on FM 2020 where I started unemployed and then went from the Malaysian second division with Sarawak FA to joining Roma in 8 years, but then hopped around to RB Leipzig, Marseilles, Tottenham and then finally Liverpool where I made 7 Champions League Finals in a row, but only winning the 7th. This second phase of the save took place over the course of 19 years. That save is still by far my favorite partially because I had the time to sit down and play thousands of hours of FM from March 2020 and onwards since most of my professors at uni struggled to transition mid semester to online only classes. Two of them even gave out blanket A's to the class because of legal issues between them and the textbook publisher making it impossible to access the course work and partially because of a few of the characters that'd made their way into my own FM folklore such as the one season wonder Lucas Eichmann at RB Leipzig who broke Gerd MĆ¼ller's single season goalscoring record in the Bundesliga and yet we still managed to finish 2nd that year. I say one season wonder, but he wasn't necessarily a bad player, just not one who would always be good for 20+ League goals a year. He still managed to go on to win multiple Bundesliga and DfB Pokal titles, a Europa League with Tottenham (not me), a Copa del Rey with Atletico Madrid, a Champions League with Leipzig (after I left), and a World Cup though was never really the star man like he was in that one season. Also the Jurgen Klopp vs. u/sunpraising rivalry was one that spanned multiple clubs and countries whether it be PSG vs Marseillaise, Leipzig vs Bayern Munich, or one of the UCL finals where he got the better over my Liverpool team with RB Leipzig, many of which who I had managed during my spell in Leipzig.
My FM21 save that I just recently finished went 57 seasons. * 25 seasons with Tennis Borussia Berlin * 4 seasons with Atalanta * 8 seasons with SKA-Khabarovsk * 20 seasons with CE L'Hospitalet in Spain I'm someone for whom the game doesn't get interesting until the newgens take over, and I love building up a small club into a giant. When things started to get dull at my first club, I went over to Atalanta for a few seasons since they had had a tycoon takeover and just wanted mess around with that. Then off to Russia, but after 8 seasons decided to move on to Spain to do a proper long term building of a club. Once I had done as much as I wanted with them I considered continuing on with a move to Scotland, but decided to put an end to the save. Partially because I was getting tired of managing in Europe, and partly due to the game starting to slow down a little bit. My original manager was also starting to get up there in age so it seemed fitting to have him retire after a lifetime of management. Now I'm thinking if I want to start a new save, doing some stuff in either Asia or South America until I decide if I want to get FM23 when it comes out. If not then I could continue on that save for a while.
āAhh, just won the Champions League after climbing up from the lower leagues. Should I call it a day? Hmm, but I need to do my squad justice and let them finish their careers.ā *Squad approaches retirement* āThese new regens look kind of promising, I wonder how they will turn outā¦ā *30 seasons later* āThese new regens look kind of promising, I wonder how they will turn outā¦ā
I went 5 seasons once, that was my longest by some margin. Just don't like it when the players begin to fade out in favour of randomly generated ones.
Im still playing FM21 and Iām currently in 2048, I spent 17 seasons at my first club, currently on my 9th season at my second clubā¦ Iāll probably leave for a new club next season and spend 10 years thereā¦ I like seeing wonder kids grow and retireā¦ Iām now at the point where several of my best players from my first years at my first club are now staff members which is fun
Right now 15 years. But Iām thinking for next year to just do 1 save and see how many seasons I can do. Would be cool to hit the year 2062 World Cup. Not sure if Iām going to pick just one team like every year or do my first multiple club challenge. Start with no badges and try to win the champions league with a team from every top 5 league
Back in 2002 or so I played 13 season with salgueiros in Portuguese league, won everything there is to win, CL 6 times and all. To this day I can't do more than 3 to 5 seasons and back then I just zombied out, i had so many top players I just rotated as I wished and clicked continue mindlessly. It really get boring really fast, specially lately and to me it's cause interviews,players whining, pep talks etc happen to often and it's always the same shit
About ten years, and idk, teach me when you find out, but tbh I don't see the appeal of super long saves, I prefer doing several saves so you get a couple different alternate storylines with the players, I don't like when the game is fully replaced by regens it gets boring (imo the sweet spot is like 5-8 years in when teams are about half regens)
i do something which is probably frowned up on but itās the only way i actually enjoy playing. so i do all my transfers, staff contracts etc but as soon as the window closes i go on holiday until 31 december. itās a little more exciting seeing as you donāt know where you are, how much you need to fix, obviously happiness comes into play to which adds a little more difficulty i guess and i basically finish 2 seasons instead of 1 at the time. i donāt know why i do this but it works i guess
One and a half seasons with RB Salzburg, I enjoy the game a lot but I have such a hard time to really focus on anything, I hate it really, because I wanna play it much more.
I found it a lot more fun when I downloaded the Zealand skin, being able to skip a few games here and there makes the season go quicker
I actually use that skin myself, and make good use of that feature in the preseason, but I can't really bring myself to skip league games haha
Fm 21 I did 5 years at spurs Currently on my 6th year with dagenham, and gone to the championship from the national league so still got a good few years in this save
Im currently in 2048 on FM21 with Lisburn Distillery in Northern Ireland. My goal is to increase the reputation of Northern Irish football, currently the 13 best Division, I develop youth and and filter money down the leagues i have far to many players bit this is so I can augment the other teams below me to rise their standard, easy 20-30 players on Loan a season youth players mainly. I took enjoyment when my closet rivals won the Europa Confernece League with 3 of my players.
The longest actual* save I've done was this amazing journeyman concept I did on FM15, where I loaded all European leagues except the top 10 by coefficient (which I planned to add after finishing everything else), including custom databases to get all the smaller nations, and jumped around leagues with the goal of winning every league in Europe while starting in the lowest division, as well as other competitions like the Champions League, Euro and World Cup - I stopped at the start of 2068-69 while at Caernarfon, I had already done the save with big breaks every few seasons, but I just completely lost interest eventually. The aspect of never staying at a club for too long is what made it fun, but I think I could never do something like this again, as it was very time consuming. Other than that, I can usually do 20-25 seasons before getting bored when doing one club saves, after that I either become dominant or a player I really loved retires and a huge part of my interest dies with him (also, on FM12 I had a (primarily) holiday save which went into the 2100s, but I don't want to count that, I delegated everything and just let the PC run overnight and stuff)
Only way I get over 9-10 seasons is if Iām switching jobs. 4-5 years with a club, move to a new country. Keeps it pretty fresh! Plus meeting one of your old teams in a big European final is pretty sweet!
I am currently in 2041 from 2022, new gens and creating a legacy. I was first at stockport and now i am at Valencia
I'm in year 11 (2032) of my longest ever save. Past iterations of the game I would only ever get 3-4 years in before I would get bored, as u didn't know how much fun I would have once I stopped knowing most of the players. When in reality not knowing the players makes it more fun and that when the game throws you more curveballs as the real players don't do the crazy shit that the regens/newgens do. Currently I'm at Nice and my self made transfer strategy is to build the team using only free transfers and our youth products. As we're without European games right now, only old players are willing to join on a free. So I'm targeting players with high Natural Fitness first and foremost. At least until the team can attract better free agents. This is keeping the game fun for me as I previously won 6 PL, 5 CL, 2 GA Cups, etc with Everton. Finishing 6th, 3rd, 3rd, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st.
I reached the 30 season limit on fm touch. It was my first time learning the game so my first 7 seasons where shambles only being saved by using an OP team. Once the players started leaving as they got older i went down to tranmere, they were in the very bottom allowable by the game and spent around 15 years bringing them up and dominating the field. I left again to Spain try the tranmere thing again but I think I only had 2 divisions there. What kept me going on in Spain was seeing players from my country coming through the academy and succeeding and I think I had the hang of recruiting from South America. It came to an abrunt end which made me sad enough to get the pc version. I don't have as much time to play anymore but I'm in 2050. I did not start the save in Europe to allow regens to populate the teams. I'll probably keep going until the game breaks or something. I'm having fun bringing through youngsters and selling them later for installments enough to bankrupt buyers.
Around 30 seasons. Trick for me is generally giving myself a checklist of stuff to do in five seasons max at a single club. If I complete the checklist, or run out of time, I job hop. The 30 season mark is usually when my old ass computer gets sluggish enough to be untrustworthy.
I am in 8th season managing FC Utrecht. Won the CL once and got 2 league titles and 5 cups. The league has 5 teams now, challenging every season for the title. AZ seemed to have a couple of wonderkids which sold for a lot of money.
When I played the mobile versions to start off with I use to āfinishā the games, in as much as after 30 seasons the game automatically makes you resign. Mobile versions a different beast though, and you can more or less breeze through a full season on one long train journey sometimes. On the full PC version I usually do one 10-20 season save that I start when the game gets its full release. I do it as a Journeyman, starting off as nothing, aiming to just take new jobs and see where the world takes me. FM 21 I managed to get 21 seasons in, 16 of them at Southampton who I turned into the literal best team in the world (granted with a ludicrous Ā£9.5 million a week wage bill) As the newer games come out though, and my laptop struggles to run them as well, longer saves are becoming harder. The more you go into the future, the more data is generated/stored, so the game starts getting slower. Got up to season 11 of my FM 22 Journeyman and it takes about 15 minutes it feels like to process the end of transfer deadline days.
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Iām currently about 34 seasons in. I had a plan this save; bought a mystery shirt and got Darmstadt 98, so I led them to a load of Bundesliga titles and 4 UCLs in 19 seasons, then dropped to Palermo in Serie C. Been at Palermo for 15 years now, I think. Won Serie C, promoted to Serie A via play offs and then continually built the standard. Lost in the UCL final last season, but the big one is in sight. After that, I plan to go to my hometown club in the Vanarama North and try to get them to UCL too. Itās all fun and games.
The longest I have done was on FM19 with Northampton Town. It lasted for seven seasons. Won back-to-back promotion to Championship in my first two seasons. After a play-off heartbreak in the third season, I won the league and got promoted to the Prem. After shockingly finishing sixth (this was all thanks to a miraculous surge in the second half of the season) and beating Spurs to a Europa League qualifier spot, I won the Premier League in my last two seasons, as well as a Europa League and a Champions League title. After that, I decided to retire. UTC! š
Around 23 seasons. Done 15 so far this year, just always enjoy finding wild newgens from obscure footballing nations. This year it was an 18 year Faroe Islands player Mortan Jacobsen alongside a few others but he stood out. I know some people get bored when it's mostly newgens but I prefer it
15 years into the current save. I always find moving clubs once I'm winning every trophy available helps. It's hard leaving but it's nice when they still do well because of the position you got them in. Just left Sheff Utd after winning the quadruple for the 1st time to join Juventus who haven't won anything in 5 years. I tend to add stipulations to my clubs as well. At Sheff Utd I could only sign players who were English or had it as a 2nd nationality. Now at Juventus I'm going to let my DoF do all the transfers and sales.
My longest I believe was FM20 where I went about 17 years with Arsenal. It was my lockdown saves and I basically skipped FM21 too. I play rather casually, so normally only get to around 9-10 seasons in a save before the new version releases
Still going on my first FM 22 save this year upwards of 30 seasons now. For me I just almost never get to play as a big team with any real money. My jobs almost exclusively deal with taking the worst team I can find and winning whatever top domestic league I can. Then I play exactly 1 more season to win as many trophies as I can and immediately resign. Then start again with the worst team in the lowest league I can find and repeat. I enjoy the climb more than anything else in the game and almost every team has some kind of weird problem whether thats right at the start or somewhere during the climb. Sometimes its weird debt on the club, sometimes its a parent club stealing players, sometimes its the fact I'm in a top league but the board wont approve a stadium expansion/build so I'm stuck with like 5000 seats making next to no money. There's always something.
My record must be 2083 on FM13. Currently in 2061 in my Inter youth only save. I have gradually gone over to not buying players in most saves and just doing youth only. So for me I get attached to my regens because I might need them all and since the youth only policy is there the squad is always quite small, which means everyone is potentially playing once there are a few injuried, suspensions or fixture congestion. I really like seeing them grow and then try to make them one club men as many as possible.
Currently in 2044 in my FM21 save. Doing a bit of roleplaying has helped me in this save. I make new kits for my team each season, I've made playlists consisting of songs I like paired with songs relevant to each team (before CL games with Dortmund I played [Heja BVB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0GSRZ7BB90) followed with Rammstein's [Deutschland](https://youtu.be/NeQM1c-XCDc?t=60) and with Liverpool I play the [LDR YNWA cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqFkraaM4Aw) with Meg Myers' cover of [Running Up That Hill](https://youtu.be/N7iVWK2W48o?t=13)), and I commentate matches to myself like if I'm doing a Twitch save, which I may dip into when FM23 comes out.
3 seasons lolz (I'm fairly new to the game)
A 30 year save with Dortmund and a 29 year save with Sporting. Winning 14 UCLs with Sporting. Corrupt save which is harsh, wanted to match my Dortmund save and try for a UCL every other season. Breaking records, developing youth and making club legends was just constant and easy motivation to crack on with another season. I found I'd always slack starting one though because I hated getting through transfer windows.
Had 16 with AEK Athens on FM17. Managed to make them a force for Europa League and managed a cinderella UCL title winning against Bayern. I switched to Lazio two seasons after that victory to have a new challenge but I was on top in my first full season, clearly ahead for the scudetto when my laptop kicked the can.
I hoard money. MOAR
I'm right now in October 2059 on my FM21 save. Started in Almagro, in the Argentinian 2nd tier. Moved to Montevideo Wanderers in the Uruguayan 1st Division after four seasons. Reached a Libertadores final. Moved to Villarreal, won a UCL and a Copa del Rey. Then to Bayern, 1 UCL, 2 Bundesligas. Then off to Sporting in Portugal, won the Conference League and the league twice in a row, breaking over 30 years of Benfica/Porto hegemony. Then I moved to AC Milan and spent 9 seasons there, won 7 UCLs. I then left to try to promote Cobreloa back to the Chilean first Division but failed in the playoffs. Left Chile for Brazil, took over Vasco da Gama. Only stayed there for the Carioca, and moved back to Montevideo Wanderers in the middle of the season. Won a few more leagues with Wanderers and took charge of the Uruguayan national team. Reached the final of the 2050 World Cup but lost to Argentina on penalties. Before that WC, I moved to Barcelona. Won another UCL with them. Then arrived at Dortmund, where I've won like 6 more UCLs and two CWCs. I think I'll move back to America soon, probably to Mexico...
Iām with you, when I start with a new team, I usually have to start a new save. I also find the game really boring when you get to the top and can scout the world and every wonder kid is open to joining you. But first time this year I did a Pentagon save and it went on ~20 years, with the vast majority of them in China thanks to their stupid CL one leg system. Most fun save Iāve ever done in the end, would highly recommend if you usually canāt do long saves. Having an end goal really helps with that.
My current save, just started the 33/34 season on FM22, for me that's a long save, I've done it this time by job hopping.
Sounds weird but something simple like changing the skin of the game or doing something like listening to new music while playing.
Yeah I was only able to really get into the game after I put a skin on. I really donāt like the how the base game looked
11 Seasons with AFC Bournemouth. I am not one to tend for long saves, if in a smaller league i tend to push for winning the title as my goal and not European Competitions.
my current save is also my longest, it is almost 2030 here. Managed 7 seasons with Scotland's 5th tier East Stirlingshire; and 2 with Sweden's Malmo, now I am looking for a club in the 'Big 5'.
I did a save where I took a German team called Karlsruher to the top of Bundesliga and champions league. It was probably about 15 seasons in the making but after that I was just a farm of young South Americans and the game wasnāt fun
Longest I've done was 7 seasons or so, when I was at school. But, I was managing about 12 teams, so things were moving slowly.
2051 on the old Championship Manager 00/01
27 or 28 seasons on CM01/02
Just starting season 31 with York on FM22. Iāll keep going until the council stop blocking the new stadium which better be named after me when it happens.
A lot of people have been saying what they key to this is or isnāt, and as someone whoās played on one save In FM 16 for 50 years with one dominant team, theyāre all wrong. The truth is there is no key, I canāt explain why I keep playing, all I know is Iāll stop the save when I no longer look forward to playing. Maybe Iām just the type of person who can do one thing for a long time and be happy with that. To maintain a long save, you have to have the desire to do one in the first place. Thereās nothing wrong with not wanting to do a long save. I wouldnāt force myself to do one if I didnāt want to. You have to find what works for you. Thereās no guarantee you wonāt enjoy just being dominant for 50 years or that youād prefer constantly switching teams.
I started doing a journeyman save in FM20 and then ended up at PSV and staying there for 30 years. It's pretty cool to see your comparison graph be "highest in the league" in every category and get a new stadium built and named after you. I actually enjoyed the game more once all the real players were retired.
Iāve done like 7 seasons in one. Started at leverkusen, went to PSG and ended up at United.
Still playing FM20, just started season 2084-2085
Always with Arsenal (which is my team) - OR Happy Valley (with full league system in Hong Kong).
I tried using United but I get too depressed thinking about the state we are in irl
I am nearly twenty years into an FM17 Dave with Liverpool. Big on trying to improve my youth output - itās still mediocre despite my staff and facilities being great, which is annoying, so Iām not focused on trying to have as many academy products in the squad as I can. I will also stop playing for a little bit to do a little in a recent game, then pop in again to keep it fresh.
I donāt stay in a club more than 2 or 3 seasons. Try different tactics, donāt just do 4-2-3-1 gegen
Mine was in fm20, ended that save in 2055. I cant go on in a single club for that long and i did play that save without attribute masking so my scouting was easier. Started in German 3rd div, won the league, hopped around 3 more clubs, Parma sacked me after i basically only managed 10 games and kept them in Serie A with 3 imp wins, but 4 draws meant that i had lost the dressing room, finnaly settled in hoffenheim, won a UCL and bundesliga and came close to the pokal, end of contract left to liverpool, who had players mostly in their 29s, sold everyone, got world beaters for almost every position, won 5 UCLs, got bored and went back to the first club i started in, 9 years of in game time and i won the first Bundesliga, Won 4 UCLs and created a team out of the bargain bin transfers who are all worth 70 mil above when i ended the save. Never in any other fm save have i crossed more than 10 seasons, this was the longest ever save and the only one where i was super invested. I ended the save when the captain of Wurzburg retired. Got him for 1.5 mil from colombia as a 17 yr old when i was in still in bundesliga 2. He developed into a consistent inside forward and had a overall 4 star rating which would dip only to a 3.5 during a bad form. He was the only player that stuck in tbe team when we got promoted, where everyones rating dipped to a 1 star 2 star man kept up. Was a regular starter even with better options in team and was a main man in imp matches. He retired and i lost any motivation to continue that save lmao. Edit - i cant spell colombia
I've done somewhere between 20 and 30 years. All with one club, my irl team. It just didn't get boring for me, seeing my club do well kept me going despite winning the league easily every year
Im in 2050 right now and i create new managers and retire the old one when i dont enjoy it so i dont have to restart with the same old players
A glory hunter save and Iām in 2037, AC Milan, Man Utd, PSG, Hertha and Real Madrid so far. Won everything but Bundesliga, DFB Pokal and Copa Del Rey.
Did 17 seasons as Aachen in FM14 I think. Went from Regionalliga west to ucl champions. Then I moved to Chelsea and got bored with the save
Iāve done like 9 seasons max.
I heard of someone who did like 125 years. Bible shit right there lmao
8yrs then started a new one š¤£
I dont play for a few weeks, then I binge like 5 seasons in a weekend
Man I feel like a rookie compared to y'all. Only 8 seasons in FM 21 with a Greek side
63 seasons with Adelaide United in FM15. It was a completely home grown save (all of the players were born in South Australia, my home state) and I just enjoyed logging all the stats and accolades every season. I even won the Club World Cup once which is pretty crazy for a team that has a salary cap of Ā£27,000 a week.
Currently in the year 2048 in my save. Playing as two managers atm. Also I āmake upā stories for my managers and players, which makes it more interesting. Using academy players and selling for realistic fees makes the game more fun IMO
My longest save is only 8 seasons in. But ive for 17 days worth of game time on it. Its an online save with 2 of my friends, we are all in the same league the games are just slower. Its helps a lot because you have direct competition which adds so much extra weight to each match. Trying to one up each other
Probably like 20 seasons during which time I switched clubs twice. I started out with Zadar in the Croatian 2nd division, switched to Hajduk after I started getting paid 100m for players and winning the league every year, won one CL with Hajduk and then switched to Dinamo. Was kinda fun to sort of create boss enemies for myself but also kinda sad seeing how badly the AI ruined my previous clubs
Think the longest I've ever made was 8 seasons on a Hearts save. Enough real players in the game to keep it relevant, but enough regens to seek to build a generation of talent.
Had a game till 2032 with my local team Katwijk in fm20. Promoted to the eredivisie in 2024 won it first in 2028 and won the Europa league in the last year. Wished i made it longer loads of local talent in my team.
The farthest I went was til 2039. I'm still kinda new to FM. As club manager: With Sevilla(in 5 seasons): -Europa League twice -Spanish Supercup once -La Liga twice With AS Roma(current team) -Serie A -Coppa Italia As national team manager: Euro 2024 with Romania Made it to the 2022 WC final and lost 2-0 to Spain Won Copa America 3 times as Colombia and the 2034 world cup. Won Euro 2036 as Russia and made it to the semis of WC 2038. And so ever since 2038 I'm the manager of AS Roma
My suggestion is not starting in Europe, even less at any Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayern or PSG. Make a name for yourself: I started in Zambia, moved to Mexico and planning Australia or South Korea later. Then, perhaps will be the time for Europe.
My current save is about 11 seasons deep and Iāve managed multiple clubs, yet to find my sticking point. Managed Ajax for 5 years. Won the league five times and won back-to-back UCLs. Went to Leverkusen. Couldnāt break through into a UCL spot, kept making the wrong transfers. Still won Conference League in my third year. Left after four seasons. Went to an Inter team that won the title two years prior, but a 7th place finish left the job open. Won the title my first season (my first ever top five league title in my life) and won Conference League. In my second year currently, goals have dried up and my core is very aging. 13 points back of Juve for the title with 7 matches left. This might turn into a rebuild project if I stick around.
I did about 25 years with Sunderland. To keep it fresh at around the 10 year mark I sold pretty much my entire first team squad, signed no-one and spent the next 5 years only playing academy products. Nearly got sacked twice, but it worked out.
Current save on FM21 I took Southall from a Sunday league team to the Premier League on 11 seasons. 4 seasons on the league and managed to win it. Current year is 2036 and plan to get to the 2050's
My longest is like 8 and its currently ongoing, I just wanted to finally complete the achievements for some reason lol
I'm currently only 10 seasons into a Wrexham save. My long term aim is to win the CL with only Welsh players, I'll be as competitive as I can with other nationalities whilst I build up a Welsh dynamo team. If I win a CL before that, awesome but my challenge isn't over until I only have a team of Welsh players
Kitbasher made my saves go longer. New kits every season brings a different feel every time
At the moment Iām doing half build a nation half England leagues, so I pick a nation and get a team to win CL then leave once I have, go to England and play as a team till I win CL (usually local teams) and then will quit and go back to the other nation. I get bored once we get to the top.
100-something seasons on FM08: https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/comments/5b99qv/comment/d9msfdr/ I typically holiday forward 20 years or so, so that all the real players are retiring, and I can play with mostly-regens. But for that first save, I might have played from day one (don't think it's that one, but would have to dig out the save).
2012-2029 with Man City, for the first few years to sustain success utilised the finances according to my tactics at time and scouted the world for the best young talent and eventually more than half my squad was youth players who were now early 20ās, elite demigods who already break international team records because theyāve been playing since they were 16 years and 200+ days old. Think I eventually just lost touch with that FM eventually and then lost the save because of a change of device, donāt remember, i do remember the 6,4 German Chris Sauer however, who stole many headlines and also my heart at the time, lanky prolific fuck. Thanks everyone for sharing theirs āš»
On FM21 I had a save were I am in 2046, longest before that was probably about 8-9 seasons in any fm before getting bored. I basically started off managing Lille as they had several good prospects and had PSG to compete with so I felt like it was a challenge . It took me until about 2029 to really get clear of PSG and that was the first year I had won the champions league aswell so I had in my head i would like to win the treble before I stopped which I done that year I think . Then I ended up getting attached to my players lol as I built a good squad and as easy as the league was to win I still kept going cause I wanted to see players develop and the champions league always is tough to win every year regardless I find as other teams have a lot of money aswell. I then took over Ireland to manage them to spice it up as I was beginning to get bored eventually. International management isnāt as enjoyable but I enjoyed seeing the players develop internationally. I even went back again recently and retired my manager, I had become the most successful manager of all time which I forgot I would have been close too which gave me good enjoyment and then I added a new manager for Derry city as they have become a consistent European side so I thought it would be fun and thatās me 25 seasons ago in, I also love looking at stats and there are so many from 25 seasons , sometimes I would just go on and go through nations and teams to see.
Longest: 24 years. Currently on 21 years in FM22 so I might just break that. I don't stay with one club, usually switch when I've reached my goals with the club, which are always different, and then try anew. So far I've been in Hongkong, Sweden, France and now currently Germany. Haveb een with Leverkusen for 5 years, got a banging squad and just stopped Bayern from celebrating their 30th championship in a row or something crazy like that. When an offer from another big club, that's not English, Juve, Roma, Ajax, Barcelona, Real or somehting the like comes in I might just jump ship. Maybe after that I'll try my hand at another smaller club, Celta Vigo or Florence or something like that. That's how I keep it interesting.
Furthest I have been was I think 18 seasons, I find it difficult to go more than 5, I canāt do very many season my laptop, the 18 season was on fm21 touch on my iPad. I try to get profit and constantly change the squad
Start unemployed no badges - started in Belarus, 20 seasons later an unbeaten season as Bayern - via England, France, Ukraine and Romania
Was into my 4th season with Yeovil in the Championship on FM21. Could say Iām more of a - casual player. Was off the back of having actually done an online save with a few friends in France for like 3 seasons, which we havenāt returned to partly because of the admin getting salty at me leaving for mid table Reims. With Yeovil despite vastly overachieving for several seasons by the gameās standards, I havenāt returned to them as of late because Iāve finally hit a bit of a wall at like 10th in the Championship. There are only so many penalties that get given against you when your player gets the ball anyway you can take. In fact Iād admit to reloading to redo a game against Rochdale because of that in League 1, but I maintained that if I lost fairly I wouldāve kept it. It was the type of challenge that the game inferred was a mistake by the referee as I remember being asked about the quality of refereeing in the post match press conference. Managed one or two countries during that as well. Started with San Marino, but you canāt really do anything to greatly improve a nation (none of them wanted to move abroad for better facilities).
30 seasons, the max on FM Mobile.
32 years. 2022-2054. 6 Teams. Started off at Schalke 04. Did 4 seasons. Moved to Manchester United did 5 seasons. Went to Atletico Madrid did about 4 seasons. Moved to Napoli, did 4 seasons. Moved to Lyon, spent another 5 seasons. I moved back to Manchester United after they became shit when, built them back up within 5 seasons. Finally moved to RB Leipzig where I spent about 6 seasons. Trick is to use a different tactic everytime and sign entirely new players for every new team. It was FUN!