How I Find Players in Non-League in FM23 | Football Manager 2023 Transfers Guide

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One of the most common questions I'm asked in the comments is how I find such good players when managing in non-league on FM23. In this video I take you through an the start of the first transfer window with National League South side Tonbridge Angels on Football Manager 2023 to show you how I find players, how I scout them, and how I manage the finances to make sure I can afford them!
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[@jasonrooney8871]

Quick tip Kev, if you highlight all from DOF recommendation, use scout all option on the right, then go to scouting>assignments>scouting priorities you can then highlight them again and use transfer>offer trial.

[@ceedub1654]

Not played FM for about 3 months but will be loading up to test this! Hero of the week award.

[@godseye13k]

Thats almost the same amount of work as doing them single so whats the point really.

[@jasonrooney8871]

​@@godseye13k The point is that a couple extra clicks to be able to highlight all the recommendations is a lot less actions to perform to get the same desired result instead of individually clicking trial for 30+ players. but each to their own 🤷‍♂

[@daveappleby1696]

excellent . just improved my wages by lowering scouting coverage . thanks for that !! i was over budget before !!

[@bizkit_pilled]

as an American with little knowledge transfers are especially confusing to me. This helped a lot.

[@2talnerd27]

Hi Kev! I'm playing in the Danish 3rd division with Lyseng, an ameture club with an overall balance of nearly 30,000£, a scouting budget of 18,000£, transfer bufget at 0£ and wage budget at 0£. It could be really fun to see you tackle a set-up of said club with both transfers, staff, training, etc. I am really enjoing your content, keep it up!

[@DRBxx]

Really helpful Kev. I've been playing for years and have never thought to utilise the DOF. A part 2 seeing the next summer's rebuild would be great.

[@BarryH1963]

Thank you Kev as a new football manager I appreciate you taking the time to do videos like this for us nubes

[@sammybodfm6944]

After 15 years playing football manager this had bits in I didn't know. Thanks kev

[@OrangeBananaPear]

Nice one, I’m in Step 10 with Runcorn Town and it’s taken over half a season to get a competitive squad. Now with 5 games to go we should grab second place and promotion.

[@willmurrill3572]

This is what we want to see!!!!!!!!!! More non league content that goes into the details of managing in this level!!!!!!!!!

[@MarkDyck]

This is awesome. Thanks for this overview. I love the reminder that we have time. I started a save with Chester and had 20 players in right away, before ever really looking at my team.

[@penthief83]

Kev, I started watching you back at Alfreton, and done a few good years here with you. I was struggling back with fm18 I think it was then or 17 as I hadn't played since championship manager 02/03. You did a similar video back then and it breathed life into the game as I was abit overwhelmed and frustrated but you made it all sound so simple. Been applying your advice and tips ever since. Cheers pal

[@DelinquentTheBand]

My goodness, something happened I have to resubscribe to all these channels. I appreciate this one.

[@OhHeyRad]

Super useful! Teams stealing my non league players is driving me crazy!

[@OhHeyRad]

Non-contract*

[@samuelcollins59]

Kev!!!! If you select all your trialists for a position in squad screen. Right click then select report. You can add them in bulk to squad planner from there

[@stevescott4710]

Tonbridge Angels are my FM 23 team. they are a massive challenge as no money and poor facilities. I have managed to get in one or 2 quality players so far that make a difference.

[@michaelfarrow5817]

In my day, Tonbridge Angels were an old Southern League team because they were historically semi-professional. Then they moved over to the Isthmian League when non-league was reorganised in 2004.

[@samiam199X]

thanks to u i didnt waste my money and have a new passion

[@acegio1979]

Omg..Can I give you two likes or something??Tonbridge Angels!!!My best ever save on previous FMs.Took them from Vanarama South to Premier League and Champions League..I quit the save when they build a new stadium after my name!!!

[@mathewhunt7282]

Nice to see more stuff like this from you Kev 👍

[@Draddar]

I mean, I just started a Tonbridge Angels save yesterday🤣 Must be some kind of sign. Cool video Kev, very useful and straightforward. Maybe a tactical video would also be helpful, at like non league level, no fancy stuff. More in terms of how to choose playstyle and formation, which instructions are worth messing with and what to avoid.

[@raiffelwurr3837]

As a new starter really appreciate this hard work.

[@emodzsiraf]

Hardest for me was promoting in my first season and going to the summer like that. All my key players wanted to leave or wanted insane amount of money, the others were not good enough for the stronger league. So I signed almost an entire new squad, that was hard.

[@goodfractalspoker7179]

Yeah if possible try to sign them to a 2 year deal even if you have to offer a little bit more, that way when you increase their value they still have a year on their contract you can leverage into a nice transfer fee.

[@chrisdanish84]

Yeah, love this. Returning player looking for all the help I can get.

[@lawrencehomer5682]

Hi Kev...I would like if possible a video on setting up set pieces and also making the most of training

[@lollujo]

I’ll have a think. It would probably be a pretty short one - aim for the tall guy and leave training to the assistant manager!

[@GibB42]

Much thanks from someone still getting the swing of things as a new player!

[@richiewhelan1554]

Great video Kev. Would love to see more of them. The next "rebuild" transfer window would be really good. Then maybe down the line the approach of clubs higher up the leagues in transfer windows. League 2, Championship and Prem approach.

[@TUKKERCLAN]

Jordan Addo-Antoine rocking in my Dulwich save too. Decent left back!

[@Wato82]

Great video sir and can we see how you set your player filters that come in inbox eg for agent offers, transfers etc that get recommended and what you do with them and also how you find a settled tactic in non league to fit players and what you do to change them when things go wrong etc

[@e1westy]

Top video Kev, great advice for the non-league manager...... Learned plenty! 🙌🏼

[@steveburton8904]

This is exactly how I do it Kev, although for realism I keep players on trial until I can see all attributes before signing. This normally means having a smaller group for positions I know I need. Didn't think about the scouting/wage budget though, top tip!

[@drblacko]

Nice little video! I'm still sturggling to get coaches/scouts for my second division Finnish team. Manually offered contracts to hundreds of people from local areas to other countries and nothing.

[@lollujo]

Just get your director of football to do it

[@iekue]

U can set staff to do the staff hiring like kev says. Or u go to job center and on the right bottom thers a "put out job ad" button. People who reply to the job ad (takes a while) will always be interested to go work at the club (since they applied to the job ad!).

[@drblacko]

@@lollujo I've only recently got one, delegated everything. Easy life, thanks!

[@drblacko]

@@iekue Thanks! I only realised that was a thing a good while in, no responses for months and then I finally offered the DoF job to a sport scientist and delegated everything to them. It's a while different game when you've not got 30 staff from the beginning

[@eddieroberts2639]

exactly what I needed thank you very much

[@paulraymond1357]

Love these types of video i play a lot of lower league saves so this is really useful.

[@hASBO96]

Great kind of video Kev!❤

[@simonwadd4038]

Yoink. Off to check scouting budget and start offering trials. Hadn't found DoF thing yet.

[@theflyinfoote]

Great Vid Kev! love your tutorials. Would love to see one on how you build your tactics both in NL and once you get to the upper leagues.

[@craigrowan4001]

Great video, that's really helped. i'd love to see a video about how you analyse players to decide on the best initial tactic.

[@motiv8j]

This is great. Lots of questions: how do you manage shortlist? When are the best times to transfer? Second season, yes please. All the end of contract shenanigans worries me. Thanks Kev. Just won VLN with Banbury. Love it.

[@delaray7]

Yes, More please. Maybe a little higher up the league. Thank you. In Kev We Trust.

[@stevenpillivant1733]

Great content, Kev. Love this kind of video. The NLTL series already has me hooked! More of this too would be great.

[@matthale6637]

great video sir!

[@Dukey39]

Just what I needed cheers Kev!

[@arnefredriksamuelsen6290]

Very nice, i have not a got a hold of it yet, but i am trying, ty for good info Kevin!

[@Dooley14]

Thanks Kev. I really liked the video. Much appreciated. Now to find a save I can get into. Trying a Romanian save now.

[@kevinhammond2385]

Great video just what i have been looking for

[@NIDOKING]

Taylor-Crossdale, nice throwback to an earlier FMs Non League to Legend there

[@poseidon2120]

Thank you Kev for this awesome video. I absolutely love it and the process that you take from start to finish and the tactics you use when transferring in new players using the minus 4 click process is a genius stroke, I shall be doing that all the time. I would love to see more of these transfers and also how to sell players and loan out players. Also, a video focusing on how to set up set pieces and why you choose a set piece over another one. Thank you again.

[@gamefan8552]

Would hope to know what does Lollujo delegate and what does he do, I have delegated training and individual training and leads to injuries and overworked players. Your tip on how to get early decent players is great, I always prefer to get new players from scout focuses as that makes the game feel more real, but understand that waiting for them to get going and then fully scout them would take forever.

[@FIFAmobilecontent-uh6wd]

This content is so useful

[@godseye13k]

Love the vids thanks, and Stay safe 😷

[@yusufhassen528]

I love the tutorials Kev just thought I’d let you know!

[@jackprothero4372]

I really want to see more of these videos

[@GateTree]

I’d like to see you on end of season release day. I go into transactions on the day and find English releases and offer trials to big team releases. Is there something else that you do?

[@bonggtal]

I'll show you how Negotiations done properly, probably should've push him too hard . 🤣🤣 I feel you man . everytime I try to make a pre contract signing 🤣

[@stuartstapleford]

Great, really helpful. Thanks

[@pulpvictim1900]

I hadn't played FM for some years but I was highly inspired by your "non league to legend" idea with the rules to make it more difficult and more realistic. Still in my first season but I'm having a lot of fun! Scouting wasn't going well though, I knew about the getting a lot of players on trial to scout them quickly but I thought I would go against the keep it as realistic a possible rule so I didn't use it so far. But maybe it isn't possible to succesfully build a team in the lower leagues without using the trial tactic. Have you tried playing without getting much players on trial before?

[@fsdafdsafdas]

I think in that case you can still just only use star ratings and sign them with the player attributes hidden and based off your coaches or scout recommendations. But also hide the ratings for staff too which Loll doesn't do but he really should. Honestly we should really see attributes for anyone event after trials and def not for staff we hire, we should just see player reports with star ratings and our staff impressions of them and then reputation for coaches along with their coaching credentials, formation preference ect.

[@keithwhittaker]

Nice 1 Kev👌

[@benkendle8642]

Can you do a video showing how to choose the best formation when starting out at a new non-league club?

[@nielsbw_3325]

I do realy like the Lets plays so keep ist going 😂

[@lollujo]

It’ll continue Monday - Friday as usual!

[@eddiebottom37]

Excellent video. That helps me a lot. Want to start playing with my local team trouble is they are in the league below national league south.

[@mikeraymond8614]

Thanks for this keV will help me loads

[@theworldcyclist]

At 6 foot 6, I am surprised you wouldn't retrain Tommie Fagg to be a back up CB. Also, you couldn't transfer list Parkinson because he is your assistant manager!

[@lollujo]

For now…

[@DiagorasPL]

Thank you for this video. It's very helpful. :)

[@ErwinOomen]

Interesting stuff Kev, would definitely like to know how you handle the second window.

[@Fossey1990]

How to find decent loans would be a good vid

[@billykuan]

Enquirer about players in their early 20's and listed for 500-1500 often the player is surplus and given for 0.

[@benjaminkuhn2878]

Kev, mate you can highlight 50 players at one time and interact with them.

[@lollujo]

Try it on that screen.

[@marcwaller6708]

Would love to see the big rebuild version of this. 🎉🎉 bring it on.

[@gettrtr1456]

Tonbridge are my starting team. COYA.

[@craigbarker7918]

I really wish I seen this video before blowing all my wage budget on trash at Bradford Park Avenue.

[@peterkjrsrensen1952]

Super helpfull for a near noob 👍

[@AshleyMilner19831]

Tonbridge Angels…..not far away from me 👍🏻

[@JoshAston23]

Do you ever use the 'Discard' or 'Not Interested' feature? I got into the habit of ticking absolute every player, as depending on whether my club's fortunes change or the player develops dramatically, or they suddenly become financially viable, I didn't want to completely discard them. My issue now, however, is that the same players keep appearing in my inbox repeatedly. Is there a quick/easy way to move close to 400 players from the 'scouted players/acknowledged' list to 'ignore/discard'?

[@trevorrichard7944]

Please do the second season of transfers. I will definitely struggle with that first time

[@5tuartGuy]

got Exeter to the Prem basically off free transfers as they have no money doing this

[@ShadowsUntold]

Is it just me but when he mentioned Loans, there first reaction was Zealand

[@andabossftw]

I get regens from divison 9 teams with only a sell-on clause and no upfront fee.

[@stuartdavies3250]

Any tips on how I can fit my wife and kids in to my life now fm23 is fully out? I just can’t seem to find time to speak to them at the moment?

[@lollujo]

They’ll still be there in a few months. And if they’re not, that solves the problem for next year!

[@michaelduvernay3111]

Awesome crash course. Looking forward to building up my Forest Green squad. March to Premier League begins.

[@orthanus]

More tutorial content please!

[@FlyFoxPro]

Nice

[@stuarthughes4195]

Any chance of a tutorial on training please?

[@gettrtr1456]

Also if you never found out, Parkinson is a player coach, so you need to terminate his staff contract.

[@RS-lu5ql]

Great video Kev, always struggled with super low budgets, thanks.

[@Falvinea89]

If you don't select to many players from that list (50 max), you can invite more than one player at once!

[@lollujo]

Not on the director of football page you can’t.

[@cfitzwater01]

Zero out the Non Playing (not selected/setting on bench)fee…they won’t fight that!

[@upthereds9734]

Kev why don’t you use the red padlock on weekly wage on contracts? I do it every time I sign a player always save like 25% what they originally asked

[@lollujo]

I don’t want to scare them off

[@upthereds9734]

If your not too cheeky with the counter offer, as I say stay within 25%…they never get scared off, they just bump up their bonus’s a bit

[@fsdafdsafdas]

Careful on those bonuses for non leagues. The club you're at is always running in the red as is, but if you lock in a appearance fee that's high that's a fast track to bankruptcy at sub League 1 level. At least for clubs that have never made it to the league proper or it's been so long financially it's like they haven't.

[@91weesean]

Awesome

[@deanbraxton5864]

Can you do more fm 23 touch wonderkids for non league plz

[@patrickgames792]

Kev, can you show us how u set up scouting

[@lollujo]

I just leave it the chief scout. It’s not something I’ve ever felt the need to bother with.

[@jjiow6663]

Nice cheerio

[@Treatrunk]

Not sure if already mentioned. I think you can select the trialists in the squad screen -> right click -> transfer -> add to squad planner. Might be in another category then transfers.

[@therealMeastro]

Would not reccomwnd that, when they leave your club they will stay in the planner. Have to manually delete them from all of their possible positions

[@Shewless11]

What mod do you use to get all the peoples faces in? One of my biggest problems is having a starting 11 with 1 guys real face lol

[@GamenMetFrank]

Wich skin do u use?

[@Simon.Thornley]

I would be interested in an explanation of your "you lot are too worried about attributes" comment which you drop every few episodes..!

[@lollujo]

I just don’t really look at them! It’s not much deeper than that!

[@Simon.Thornley]

@@lollujo Invisible attributes save next? We do like to see you challenge yourself!

[@ANDY1985UK2011]

This doesn't work on console version as there is no scouting budget to alter

[@sakke851]

When will there be a new nonleague to legend video?

[@lollujo]

Monday-Friday as usual.

[@sakke851]

@@lollujo oh Ok im new here so i didnt know when u upload usually

[@OhHeyRad]

When you say "do this constantly over the first season", how often? Do you mean weekly or maybe monthly?

[@lollujo]

You reach a point where they stop recommending players or recommend the same ones all the time, so I tend to stop doing it as often then. Once you start getting regular scout recommendations through I tend to use them more during the season

[@camjacl2547]

Hi Kev, I’ve commented a few times… do you do the same with loans? I’m really struggling to get really great loan options and when I try to offer trials sometimes as you know the current club of the players reject it? Do you have any suggestions?

[@lollujo]

All my loans will come from director of football suggestions or scout reports. A large percentage of them decline or go somewhere else, so it’s a bit hit and miss at this level

[@camjacl2547]

@@lollujo thanks so much for getting back! Been a fan since Boston, keep up the good work! (p.s. used your code for FM over the others because I support the network game champion)

[@Blowerskieran]

Do you use the DOF when the prem youth departures happen?

[@lollujo]

Yes