I Locked A Perfect Player On The Worst Team In Football

[@bigtrey25]

Him switching to England is the only issue with this video. Bolivia could’ve had the chosen one

[@jamieeddolls5605]

They wouldn't have done much with him tho

[@jimmy1426]

Even if he scored a hattrick every game idk if Bolivia has a good enough defence to win something

[@d4v1do]

He was Nigerian originally smh

[@ZealandonYT]

This is all I wanted, I tried to give Bolivia a chance

[@mikexstad1121]

​@@d4v1do AFCON mid-season tournament would have messed with the video I think

[@nickgrosvenor5245]

There's nothing funnier than seeing that he's joining Real Madrid in the year 2100 when his contract runs out.

[@mixeusantos]

florentino perez's showing his patience

[@admontblanc]

About 60 years after retirement too, Penaldo and Pessi could never...

[@edventn.9140]

thats how he make him stay in the same club

[@STARpowwa]

I love how you've gone from a typical FM creator to now making an irl documentary, having a podcast with Julian Gressel and you run marathons for fun. Mucho respect.

[@bofrim4833]

Shouldve made his injury proneness 1

[@tsaageotrimm]

was thinking the same yeah..

[@new0126]

fr

[@srgtCwolf]

Anyone notice the heroism of Derby to get relegated in the final season and yet still get Europa league football the following year....

[@CaliMorningstar]

Wigan and Birmingham did that before lol

[@LajosKossuthOnline]

This actually happened in Turkey! Now defunct Turkish side Kayseri Erciyesspor in Turkey's top flight Süper Lig was relegated at 17th place to the country's second division First League and played in the Europa League (formerly UEFA Cup until 2009) with being runner up in the Turkish Cup giving them this oppurtunity, after beating Maccabi Tel Aviv 4-2 in aggregate, they faced Atleti... losing 9-0 in aggregate in the play-offs.

[@PointonMedia]

Couldn’t me more proud of the rams 😂😂

[@pheonixblue9434]

His back was breakin too many times cause of how hard he caried the Dover Athletic

[@JasonYeo]

Hence the slip disc

[@jaggillarananas2618]

Feels like I'm watching my football career once again

[@bruh_zinga9910]

You were perfect until that knee injury. Shame

[@ermann64-73]

kane is that you ?

[@christianlenik5307]

@@bruh_zinga9910 intil the Arrow in the Knee

[@KoNillaross]

@@bruh_zinga9910 that feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow

[@rupalthaus7071]

Born to be modern day Pelé on steroids. Forced out of football due to injuries. Feels bad.

[@benjaminbrown8591]

Yeovil did a good job of keeping pace with Dover's promotions for a little while

[@farmboyjad]

Would love to see how much of a difference a perfect goalkeeper would make. Guessing you'd struggle more without the ability to win games outright, but curious how far can you get by just not allowing the opposition to score?

[@njmksr8686]

That'd be fun, I think

[@gavelkind7506]

I think WorkTheSpace has a video on that. Turns out the impact is actually fairly significant

[@KyleJamesFrazer]

@@gavelkind7506got a link to that video? Couldn’t see it on the channel.

[@ALKAIDABACK]

​@@KyleJamesFrazerkzbin.info/www/bejne/o5ycaKahhpyFmtEsi=RbRUgX9PbAsnV15i

[@jonasemborg177]

When your Premier league team is facing a sunday league side 1st round. but they got superhuman Haaland lab experiment.

[@Nomolso_Netinei_Djer]

Honestly what iterests me the most is what position he would play if he were natural at all positions. Would he be a Libero CB, would he be a Box to Box freak, or an Advanced forward...

[@LeBronGotPosterisedByYabusele]

Probably a CAM or CM

[@thatissomeBS]

In a bad team I think it's okay to put him alone up top as a CF-At in like a 4141 or 541 type scenario, just putting his whole team back in defense and kicking out to him. In a good team he's an AM-At all day long. Don't give him to many instructions, just put him towards the top and let him do his thing. If I had two of him they are playing CB side by side and locking it down, then probably getting 25 goals between the two on set pieces. Well, maybe one as Libero-Su in a back 3 and the other up top. Or just side by side up top in a 532. You can do whatever at that point.

[@JesusChrist-pg5ox]

For England he starts as a winger but in real life probably CAM

[@GoonerGng]

No other game gives you goosebumps like FM ...I was in the crowd when Messi bagged that european final equaliser

[@ToriTrak]

23:45 i think i would have died laughing if Messi was the one to miss his pen

[@ianrae1546]

I can’t have been the only one that was secretly wishing this 😂😂

[@llSuperSnivyll]

An unsung hero is Yeovil Town because it also got back-to-back promotions and three points away from the League 2 playoffs at the start.

[@cklambo]

Liverpool getting relegated was the highlight for me

[@bartsimho1192]

Genuinely quite funny is in the 2nd season Crawley and Crewe have been relegated from League 2 to the NL. They were in the play off final IRL in 23/24

[@swchwrm020]

22:37 Liverpool, Derby and West Ham relegated, but Derby win a cup LOL

[@sergis528]

crazy that this seems so unrealistic yet it sort of happened in germany frank schmidt as a coach carried heidenheim from fifth division to the bundesliga and qualified for the uecl over the timespan of 15 years… and all of that without a lot of money - truly incredible!!

[@D64nz]

I can only imagine the rest of the team being horrified by facing players so much higher than they are, and the stress and depression knowing that everything hinges on one man.

[@AndreaChiarolini]

Oh that's the simulation of Niran's career if he didn't have that discombobulating knee injury!

[@rishinchakraborty0075]

real one

[@joaquin17171717]

Liverpool battling relegation and Everton winning the Prem. What hellscape is this!!?

[@joaquin17171717]

Liverpool relegated. Kill me.

[@godhimself1150]

Heaven. It’s heaven.

[@VillaFan767]

Be interesting to know of the manager changes throughout this run.

[@RyanXander06]

So basically Tsubasa on Nankatsu...

[@Bunniejasmine]

S tier reference

[@edwardpalmer6409]

As a Dulwich Hamlet fan I loved seeing them beat Dover! In the 22/23 season Dulwich were one place above Dover and three points ahead with Dover in the final relegation spot. Dover won and Dulwich lost their game in injury time for Dulwich to get relegated on goal difference. This felt like vindication.

[@PhelixTheSphinx]

What I want to see is a perfect staff and a starting team of all 1s. How many years until they are able to train and trade to win the Premier League?

[@tomjarrett8290]

Hearing a football club referred to as ‘it’ rather than ‘they’ sounds so strange to me

[@G4MER28]

I feel like this is something I should write down on a postcard and mail it back to last week when you would have given a f**k but you should have given him US Virgin island nationality, that way you could run a kinda double experiment and see if he can also carry a terrible national team to any glory.

[@Lęmœņaıðe]

The only guys to ever win a golden boot over Leonard Messi are mbappe, Endrick, and Haaland, and the only one to do so convincingly was Haaland. He has always won highest average rating, and has set multiple goal contribution records.

[@alaminbala7718]

Do this as a series With a different position for the best player each time i.e attack midfield defence goalie Them final episode will be all the positions and then also a perfect manager

[@TheRasyah23]

Continue as a perfect manager for dover could be an interesting storyline. Can he bring the european glory

[@admontblanc]

@@TheRasyah23 can you set it so that they never fire or transfer the manager too? If so then that would be cool to simulate. Also, trying thesame with just a perfect manager that is locked to the team, and then finally do it with a full perfect XI + manager.

[@TheRasyah23]

Maybe after this, the legend of leonard messi can become a perfect manager for dover and bring the european glory? It is definitely possible, right?

[@matthewbless3335]

Leonard Messi playing the Conference League Final on a broken ankle like: "I PUT DA TEAM ON MY BAAAAACK DUUUU"

[@andrewzuidema4901]

this kind of proves how good messi's 91 goal season is

[@morlath4767]

I love the fairy tale ending to this. Even though those Spanish cup winners did it again, the fact it was Dover trying to get their superstar over the line at the end was footballing magic.

[@AngryAnt0]

The most surprisingly thing is Yeovil town, following Dover in getting back to back promotions to L2 and then missing out by finishing 10th in L2 in the third season, without a wonderkid.

[@JimmuCossey]

0:11 my local catching strays 😂😂😂

[@Doc92IDH]

The really funny thing is, of those 13 goals at 01:45, you can basically guarantee they're all rebounds from his own chances or chances created too 😂

[@Kratosis-vf7uy]

@15:15 I honestly didn't expect that🤣

[@Billymortzz]

1:23 I follow tonbridge home and away, Dover are one of our biggest rivals - seeing them smash us 5-1 is not nice 😂

[@mattjc1990]

You are an incredibly gifted creator, very engaging and entertaining! Love your work!

[@GamerNintendo25]

That final season is wild. Liverpool relegated, Derby relegated while also making the Europa League, City in 9th after Haaland presumably retired

[@alastairjones0]

No one does better FM story telling than Zealand

[@robertjames2645]

Fun fact I am from Dover - this definitely isn't the worst team in the country FYI but thanks for putting us on the map lol

[@jonnyromanbyYork6616]

Best working progress when you taken Dover to Premier League and keeping climbing the ladder one season at a time is brilliant 🤩 Gold star for you mate⭐️

[@JamesTorquay]

Nelson Weiper sticking with the perfect player in multiple seasons! my Goat

[@jamesdrylie5584]

A Ryan Hardie sighting as the second top goal scorer in League One. Back in FM14 when Rangers was in Scottish League 1, Ryan Hardie was a beast. One of my favorite players in m first ever successful FM save.

[@liamthomas9622]

Seeing a hidden grounds for the magpies while I'm doing a build a nation with the magpies is gonna be amazing to watch 🥰🥰🥰

[@oliwills4339]

Can’t believe I’ve seen my home town pop up in a Zealand video as one of Leonard’s past clubs

[@Isherz314]

super excited for hidden grounds!

[@Kwinten1988]

8:17 This guy is 6'2" and 143 lbs? Are they keeping him imprisoned or something?

[@rx5mlqid732]

The most unrealistic thing about this whole simulation is England winning the World Cup

[@EscapeVelocity25k]

It would be interesting to see whether a perfect player in other positions can have a similar impact! I'm picturing a keeper with perfect stats who keeps all the clean sheets but also ends up being the designated set piece taker and scoring/assisting a bunch of goals.

[@admontblanc]

I've done experiments like that in older formats, CM4 if I'm not mistaking my dates, and the biggest issue was not conceding from 70 yards away when the keeper fails the freekick, specifically when the opposite keeper clutches it or the barrier stops it, since both scoring and making the ball go through the byline make it safe. But the keeper will score ungodly amounts of goals from freekicks and penalties, and it's hilarious to see him run back when he misses.

[@WeAreTheGrecians]

Yeovil Town had a secret rise

[@8exon]

lmao yeovil casually also bein promoted back to back years without a world class players. UP THE GLOVERS!!

[@SamButler22]

Have you seen the Conference League trophy? It has 32 spokes up the sides to represent the 32 teams in the group stage... the group stage that lasted for just 2 years before the 36 team league phase was introduced

[@Etn-o2z]

Yeovil with the back to back promotions at the beginning of the video 👏

[@linusandersson1535]

I would have liked to see leonard play together with his equally talented twin brother. If one is injured, the other could carry the team.

[@NeptuneTowers]

Do you adjust his hidden attributes to 20 or 1 too?

[@ianrae1546]

Should’ve went a further 5/10 seasons further ahead to see how Dover would’ve coped without him. Good wee video though 👍🏻

[@EdwardSturdy]

Might be an American thing, but in the UK we would never refer to a team using 'it' Instead of you saying "Dover lost 4 out of 6 of its remaining games" we would say "Dover lost 4 out of 6 of their remaining games"

[@PirateDrive]

Despite the fact that FM25 is delayed we're still sticking to the release window schedule of releasing experiment videos about locking perfect players in non League.

[@GreatGameCenter]

Would love to see this again, with the weakest team in Europe and see how the club and country would build around the perfect player

[@absurdist5134]

Ok, so, the crazy thing is when he wasn't playing, it looks like they actually won one

[@flameofthegame]

If i was on his team i would stat pat those assist like my life depended on it .

[@thehomeofsports6541]

63 goals in 28 games is absolutely ridiculous 😭😭😭

[@WingWingHerro]

An American who calls the beautiful game football? You just got a subscriber!

[@dannyjaye]

Bro out here not realising we were doing this exact same thing on Championship manager almost 30 years ago...

[@cutillas97]

This was the saddest and most beautiful story ever

[@K-E-N-07]

Videos like this is why Zealand is the GOAT

[@seanthecomentator]

Could you do the same but have a player from each position in different clubs and see how far they can get their teams? I think the GK would be the least successful but it would be interesting to see how much difference there is between having a good GK or a good CB

[@kingjojojo1]

would be interesting to see the same with players of other positions. I'm pretty sure good defenders can be stuck in ELO hell

[@greggashton5394]

Loved it! Love these types of videos, And wasnt an happy ending which was unexpected, Unlike those jake videos where after the rebuild everythings always perfect 🤦🏻😂

[@nick-c3w1j]

omggggggggg 🤣🤣 am from dover so this is my local it yeah we are not at what we used to be but just🤣🤣

[@TryjapaPlays]

Your story telling is amazing! :)

[@primeoetzand]

If you do something like this again could you simulate a couple of seasons after the legend leaves to see how the club fares?

[@stephenfalkner4213]

Would be interesting to find out how big a ground Dover ended up with by the end of those 15 years.

[@reverendroar]

The Hidden Grounds trailer should have been called ‘British pub lads go abroad and challenge the world!’

[@ArranStevens]

New episode of HG on my birthday? Fuck yeah

[@AlexVenthem]

Forget Dover, all I can notice is said 100m a year Ipswich finishing in the european places

[@TheKingOfEmeralds]

Congrats on scoring your first Goal for Brentford Zealand

[@MrScoot27]

Zealand singing his loan song after talking about a regen named Sam Smith is somewhat on point.

[@tipsgamez4447]

Man is really bagging goals like he’s playing Fifa player career mode

[@PresidentSquigglyMiggly]

Id have been interested to see what sort of trnasfers were being made around him

[@TugaBall689]

Please make a follow up with him picking up on this team as a perfect manager!! Please 🥺

[@joewood99]

Can't help but feel his hidden attributes can't be perfect, too

[@dylanproctor]

We love you Zealand we do, we love you Zealand we do, oh Zealand we love you! ❤

[@cynder623]

22:37 Liverpool got relegated. How the F does that even happen

[@jfbshef]

how come some Prem League team didn't come in to buy him?

[@nguyenductien9098]

cause he was set to transfer to Real in 2100

[@Jaysthudandblunder]

Sounds like Steve Bull regen then with that early call up

[@timtammmo]

I need to see the same thing with Christian Ronald who can’t get injured

[@teetoatler0me]

I love these original ideas!

[@jayer.]

*Misses Penalty* Leonard Fraud

[@admontblanc]

Leonard Pessi. He should do the next of these with his greatest rival in football, Christopher Ronaldo.

[@HarryBaum2512]

“This mateo Joseph guy” if only he knew

[@pacewalder6093]

How do you lock the player at the club?

[@mrbucker6]

My best FM moment ever was on Xmas night gerting the new Dover Stadium with my name 😢❤

[@kradria]

I would've really liked to see the team he played with at the end. Great video nevertheless!

[@therepful]

It would be cool to see the next 15 seasons without him to see if Dover can maintain its position in the pyramid!

[@shahir1395]

Crazy how his end of career records would not be much different than Lionel Messi’s.

[@MASHAFFILIATEDPZ]

Every time he says Leonard messi = drink

[@xavier.mauricio]

Sevilla can't be stopped

[@explodethebomb]

Would be nice to see the next year after he retires, and see if Dover can stay up without him