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why dont you try and get the leicester job irl now that vacancy has opened up?

Love these rebuilds, it’s nice to see the way the some Of the smaller clubs are rebuilt

I know it won’t happen but it would be cool to rebuild benfica macau, Monte Carlo or sporting Macau . Benfica were champions of the league 2014-2018 5 times in a row but haven’t won one since, but we are top heading into last game against 2nd place. Monte Carlo are old rivals of defunct Lam Pak and used to be the 2nd most successful club behind them but they haven’t won a title since 2013. Sporting are the oldest but haven’t won anything since 1990 and before that the 1950’s

Great Video...as a Hamburg Supporter I would definetly take such a development in real life 😂

I got FM24 on discount. First time I bought a 'new' FM since like 2010. Amazing how the game has changed since then. My club is Ajax so of course I wanted to face the challenge of improving on their real-life season (18th at some point in the season, and finished 5th). I played 'blind' at first without looking for hints and wonderkid tips, but did eventually download some tactics to speed things along. Yeah... 23/24: finished 2nd, 4 points behind Feyenoord. Won the Dutch Cup. Eliminated in EL round of 16 by Galatasaray after being up 3-0, but conceded 3, same kind of scenario as real-life Ajax against Spurs in 2019. God damn it. I started with the 23/24 winter signings, so Henderson was there and actually damn good. Played 4-2-3-1 most of the time. Ramaj on goal until Rulli came back from injury. Brought back Tagliafico to break legs as an inverted left WB, so Hato and Sutalo could be the centre backs. Rensch right wing back. Henderson and Taylor as DMs. I bought a Spanish guy named Fidalgo as AMC for €6M. Bergwijn and Berghuis as left and right wingers, respectively, both cutting inside. Brobbey leading the line, Akpom as super-sub. Feyenoord were leading all season, but Slot left mid-season to manage Spurs, and they got some Spanish manager who wasn't as good, so we came within 1 point, but then squandered a 3-0 lead against Volendam, FML. But still a great improvement on the real-life situation, with the benefit of having Henderson all season and fit, who absolutely led the dressing room. Offloaded most of the crappy Mislintat purchases. 24/25: Won the Double, including the league with 13 points difference over Feyenoord and the Dutch Cup. Feyenoord and PSV were very poor competition this season, and I remained unbeaten against them. Reached the CL play-off round in the new format (against Feyenoord, whom I beat easily!) and then round of 16, eliminated by PSG. I sold Fidalgo for €40M (decent bit of business) and brought back Van de Beek for €13M, but Hlynsson started improving a lot, so competition for the AMC spot remained fierce. Rulli remained my first GK, but Ramaj got better by the end of the season so I made him my first GK officially in the summer. Berghuis started falling off a bit, but I brought back Conceiçao from loan mid-season, and he became very good. Brobbey top scorer of the league, but with 'only' 21 goals. Mannsverk and Forbs also increasingly started asserting themselves. 25/26: For some reason, we qualified for the new format Club World Cup in the summer of 2025, which I won, beating PSG, Man City and Barcelona (!). WTF, I love FIFA now! Been saving lots of money, the balance went from €63M in July 2023 to €170M in July 2025 what with all the CL money, transfers out, and other bonuses. I asked the board to give me one big coup above and beyond the transfer budget, to sign Koopmeiners for €84M. Brought back Veltman and Blind, but more for depth and the dressing room. Struggling a bit at the moment however, 10 games in and already trailing Feyenoord by 6 points. We'll have to improve. The CL draw is decent, with quite a few weaker opponents than last time, so hoping to reach the round of 16 in one go. The 24/25 youth haul was a golden generation with about 6 positions having potential star players, so it will be fun to develop them and slot them in. Brobbey is having a lot more trouble finding the net this season, which is worrying because Akpom is still the only stand-in. OTOH, Conceiçao scored 7 goals in 10 games from the right wing. Proof that the 'star' rating doesn't tell the whole story. This isn't exhaustive, but it's certainly possible to rebuild Ajax. The foundations aren't bad in 23/24, especially if you get Henderson all season and still have a bit in the kitty, which isn't really realistic for the situation of Ajax IRL. Real-life Ajax currently still need to reduce the wage budget even now, even if it means selling Bergwijn, to get more budget. Sutalo might have to be offloaded for the same reason, even though he has potential. Ajax in real life are hoping to keep Ramaj, Hato, Taylor and Brobbey, and rebuild from there. IRL Ajax are even losing youth players to Feyenoord. PSV is playing the football style that Ajax should be playing, and buying the players that Ajax should be buying. AZ has the kind of youth development that Ajax used to be good at. It's hard to overstate how bad Ajax's situation is. So you have it a bit easier in FM because you can build, instead of just struggling to survive and compete for Eredivisie honours. Without transfer tips or anything, just using my scouting and DoF, I made some good and some crappy transfer decisions. My team now is a bit unbalanced, a few too many of the same type of players. And lacking a bit of depth since I offloaded some players who wanted first-team football but were not first on my team sheet. While some other positions are over-occupied with some players with potential, who are not there yet and have to be loaned out. Repeating some Mislintat mistakes? There is some great youth, but at 17 they're not yet going to be making the difference on a rainy day trailing 2-0 at Heerenveen or something. The fans and board love me on the back of the 24/25 results and the entertaining football we play, but as any Ajax fan knows, things can turn sour for managers very quickly. And with the 24/25 results and the great financial recovery, the expectations of the Ten Hag era are back: we're expected to win the league every season now. So things will stay challenging.

Great rebuild and done in impressive way with being profitable year after year. How about rebuilding Saarbrucken in third tier of Germany? They went into semi-final of DFB Lokal this year, beating Bayern on their way.

Would love to see a sampdoria rebuild

Mate, that's up there with your best rebuilds 🏆 great watch! 👍

i'm at my 5 save in fm24 and now i manage arsenal. In all of my saves not 1 offer i got from saudi . I see a lot of youtubers that post rebuilds and they get offers even for the worst players form saudi for top money. Whyyyy? I cant even sell partey , no one wants him

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What was Courtois thinking 😂😂😂

Any small Portuguese club is really a challenge. Although Portuguese league doesn't have much restrictions on signings or registration, they are hard financially. Congrats.

Pedro Tiba was such a joy to watch in my hometown club, Lech Poznań, stunning player

I reckon you should do Hull City, they have been out of the prem for a while and it will be cool if you bring them back

didn't know you are a blue, up the chels 💙💙

🙌 Props from Portugal 🙌

When I saw Paul Okon Jr, I shuddered a little because I could never get a tune out of his dad in the CM games.

😂😂😂 this reminds me of my mystery shirt I got for Christmas I got the last ever Chievo Verona shirt before they went bust so yeah my mystery shirt save didn’t go the way I’d planned 😂😂

I just bought that exact shirt a few days ago. I'm a Benfica fan but Barcelos (hometown of Gil Vicente) is near my hometown so i'm fond of Gil. Great video mate 👌🏼

Love the videos Jake, been watching for a coupla years and you’ve flourished!

Great rebuild with some awesome signings. Dijon Kameri is an FM favourite of mine!

in every save game i play i find a newgen named andy harwood, left back in the escandinavian divisions always with english second nationality

Gil Vicente it's my hometown club. Great video and I liked the fact that you kept some of the big names form the begining in Andrew and Fugimoto

Sweet rebuild, maybe next time play one more season to see if you can remain on the same levels. I constantly find my self struggling the season after overachieving with an unserdog. It feels like some players simply have nothing more to offer, others leave for bigger clubs etc.

This channel is so good

50 thousand pounds at the end :D

I work as a personal healthcare assistant so I spend a lot of time just waiting, especially in the evening since I have to go to sleep after the person I assist wants to. Your rebuilds changed how I feel about that period of my workday. I used to sort of dread those impending hours of restlessness, now I have something to look forward to in the evenings. A big cup of tea and some transfer window dopamine. Cheers mate and entertaining rebuild as always. Rebuild suggestion: I'd love to see a Swedish team rebuilt. We are one of the few top leagues that have continued supporting the 51% rule and, because of that, we have extremely passionate fans. The league is in a healthy state, but because of the lack of money we can't really push for European trophies. Östersunds FK has had the best European run in recent history when they beat Galatasaray 3-1 on aggregate in the UEL play-ins, then comfortably got through their group equaling A.Bilbao on 11 points, only to get demolished by Arsenal in the first playoff round. Malmö FF have qualified for the Champions League group stages a few times, but usually get manhandled every time. Could you break our dry spell and challenge for a European trophy with a Swedish side? Team suggestions would be: - Malmö FF who are the most dominant side in the country - Djurgården IF who just signed wonderkid Tobias Gulliksen (and have developed other rising talents like Lucas Bergvall and Isak Hien) - Mjällby AIF who are a team from Hällevik, a small town with a population of around 1.5k people. They are currently 3rd place in Allsvenskan and is the team I support.

Would you like to make a rebuild for a danish, my favorite is AGF, you can decide if u wanna take them or a different danish team🇩🇰🇩🇰 this really was a fun rebuild to watch.

I love surprises shirts. Love ordering their FM kit for collection purposes too.

This is my hometown club! Good vid

Funny to call a Chilean called Allende a coup ^^

You should do another 5 years on this one! Great vid, keep it up

Andrew the GK is not an handy option. He is only one of the best keepers in the game.

day 2 of asking for a ASSE rebuild, we just got promoted btw 😎

Probably one of your best rebuilds. A double while always making a profit and doing outstanding free transfers. Well done. And to top it off a really good Champions League run . Can't give you two likes unfortunately. Anyone that beats Inter is my friend.

Good rebuild - I always enjoy these type of ones, shame you couldn’t do a 10 year rebuild for this one

Do Andeerlecht next! They are the recordchampion in Belgium but the last seven years haven't they won a price. This year they bottled it in the last two games.

i liked its rare see someone rebuild portuguese teams

Love all of your videos. Keep it up! 😁

very cleaver idea well done

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guys i keep trying to sign bouanani, i make the transfer offer the club accepts it then i send the contract offer, bouanani says he accepts but then says "The deal with bouanani broke", can anyone pls tell me what am i doing wrong?

its not fair to compare any player with Maradona. Prime Diego was too much unique and outstanding

Another top rebuild

Do a Greek rebuild

You're good. Have you done a video where you show your main priorities of getting the team set up at the start of a save ?

when you use 2 inverted player on one wing dont use play down th left/right

Fulham next!

what skin are you using right now?

Fiorentina been my foreign team since the late 90s and im a season ticket holding Manchester United fan recently been playing a fiorentina save the full back kayode is insane by the time he’s mid 20s 🔥also signed Dijon kameri an Austrian AM 19 years old by the time he was 24 was being nominated for the balon dor 😮