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 🤷‍♂

[@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.

[@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.

[@bizkit_pilled]

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

[@gettrtr1456]

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

[@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!

[@daveappleby1696]

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

[@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!

[@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!

[@LanskeyBeatz]

Unpopular opinion but this is an exploit because there are trial days that are put together by your board if you ask. They’ll usually decline if the finances aren’t up to par. What we can do here is essentially create a trial day without any costs…For realism, we probably shouldn’t be able to bring in 30 trial lists at a time. Fwiw, the AI barely brings in any trials. Or trials should only be accepted by players who have significantly lower reputations than the team. In no way should we be finding starting 11 players through trials.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@mathewhunt7282]

Nice to see more stuff like this from you Kev 👍

[@willmurrill3572]

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

[@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…

[@AshleyMilner19831]

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

[@sammybodfm6944]

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

[@OhHeyRad]

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

[@OhHeyRad]

Non-contract*

[@fsdafdsafdas]

I'm surprised at least for the first year you don't recommend using month to month players. Almost everyone you're going to sign has 0 real potential because your staff is shit so they can't tell you anything and your training facilities + league quality is shit so you can't develop them even if they had potential... and you can't sign them long term without being a professional team (your max is 2 years signed I believe). A good exploit is just to load up on win now players with month to month contracts who will fill your team up with cheap depth that won't hit the team's bottom line hard and after about 4ish months of playing data you'll get a sense of who is actually worthy of 3 stars or not on your team. As a non professional team it isn't like the extra bodies are going to hurt your once a week training sessions much. Those training sessions are crap, with your 1-3 crap staff members, and well that's the best you can get with unprofessional status. But doing it this way you can beat out the rest of the league by having better depth to survive the injuries but more importantly have fresh bodies every match for things like pressing tactics, end up discovering the diamonds in the rough on your team by having them in house and giving them some playing time, and 90% of the time no one will snatch up anyone because no one is getting famous off non league football and for role playing sake we can just say the player rather just stay with his current winning team then go to another meaningless non league team. Keep doing that until you come across someone worth locking down into a contract (fully scouted league 1 at least potential + 18 year olds max), to which you really can't even lock someone down honestly until you're professional and you can sneak in those "if promoted + 3 year extension" type clauses ect ect ect. With this method you can get promoted through the lower leagues and bankroll money as you go while only committing salary to the high value upside assets when they appear (those sub 18 year old, league 1 or championship or more potential players). (same concept as the loan army strat as long as the loan in is free. Whatever your rep allows you do get. At this low of a level often no one wants to come in for loan for free that matters outside of your senior partner though so you use non contracts instead of desperate for playing time players that are free agents.)

[@5tuartGuy]

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

[@craigbarker7918]

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

[@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?

[@andabossftw]

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

[@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.

[@eddieroberts2639]

exactly what I needed thank you very much

[@delaray7]

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

[@ShadowsUntold]

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

[@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.

[@gettrtr1456]

Tonbridge are my starting team. COYA.

[@_manboy2.0]

How do i get free transfers mate?

[@chrisdanish84]

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

[@cfitzwater01]

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

[@ANDY1985UK2011]

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

[@matthale6637]

great video sir!

[@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.

[@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.

[@TheExaltedDave]

Tonbridge Angels arent that far from me

[@lukaszparalusz3365]

@lollujo - How I can get that view ?

[@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.

[@samiam199X]

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

[@godseye13k]

Love the vids thanks, and Stay safe 😷

[@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.

[@jackprothero4372]

I really want to see more of these videos

[@nielsbw_3325]

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

[@lollujo]

It’ll continue Monday - Friday as usual!

[@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 🤣

[@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'?

[@hASBO96]

Great kind of video Kev!❤

[@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!!!

[@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.

[@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

[@mikeraymond8614]

Parkinson was your assistant

[@simonwadd4038]

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

[@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

[@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

[@DelinquentTheBand]

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

[@NIDOKING]

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

[@billykuan]

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

[@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.

[@e1westy]

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

[@mdooley1992]

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

[@BarryH1963]

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

[@stuartygibson7079]

Show more transfers

[@mbkeller]

"Vote with your feet and leave a thumbs up." Um....

[@TUKKERCLAN]

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

[@DiagorasPL]

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

[@deanbraxton5864]

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

[@FlyFoxPro]

Nice

[@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?

[@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

[@xpatriotkiwi]

Do a Football Kev.

[@tictak5243]

comment was left

[@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.

[@Callumcox2349Gaming]

Dead easy 😂👍

[@ErwinOomen]

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

[@GibB42]

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

[@benkendle8642]

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

[@paulraymond1357]

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

[@trevorrichard7944]

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

[@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

[@yusufhassen528]

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

[@arnefredriksamuelsen6290]

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

[@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.

[@kevinhammond2385]

Great video just what i have been looking for

[@stuarthughes4195]

Any chance of a tutorial on training please?

[@mikeraymond8614]

Thanks for this keV will help me loads

[@raiffelwurr3837]

As a new starter really appreciate this hard work.

[@stuartstapleford]

Great, really helpful. Thanks

[@Fossey1990]

How to find decent loans would be a good vid

[@marcwaller6708]

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

[@benjaminkuhn2878]

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

[@lollujo]

Try it on that screen.

[@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

[@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!

[@orthanus]

More tutorial content please!

[@Dukey39]

Just what I needed cheers Kev!

[@peterkjrsrensen1952]

Super helpfull for a near noob 👍

[@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.