You Sent Me Your Funniest Football Manager Moments

[@CoupSounds]

Currently playing a save with Brentford and have a youth player in the ranks called Brent Ford.

[@lulubugs2752]

SI are taking the mick

[@ignacioryder4866]

Dream comes true!

[@themanucw]

I once had a Brazilian player called Everton who, whenever I played against his namesake club, absolutely slaughtered them every single time on the left wing 😂

[@razvangeorgescu1556]

That is captain material

[@alaminbala7718]

You can't write this😂

[@mmmmmmmm53]

The "Fills the gap in coaching staff" (13:40) is absolute gold in more ways than one.

[@TheBlueCaptain]

The strongly recommended on there makes it even better

[@TomFM]

It might be my favourite screenshot sent in 😂

[@mmmmmmmm53]

@@TheBlueCaptain “Cost of Payrroll” is also a very nice touch. 😂

[@fleureus1170]

This would be absolute gold when Women's football is added into this game

[@MrReese]

Back in FM20 where I played 1. FC Kaiserslautern in Germany I had Messi on a free transfer for one season before he retired and I had C. Ronaldo as an attacking coach, so he basically coached Messi for a season :D.

[@admontblanc]

You could only top that if Messi had scored the most goals in his whole career that one season.

[@MrReese]

@@admontblanc It was actually quite sad, he announced his retirement during the season, I then tried to talk him out of it, it didn't work. I then tried to talk him into getting into coaching and he said that's a good idea - and then he just retired without becoming a staff member and he was gone from the game lol.

[@NickolasOliveira]

The £8 spend was the metro ticket they bought

[@TomFM]

I really hope the reason is as trivial as that 😂

[@Murtini2023]

6:05 Omega Dad every transfer window.

[@SkovKosovic]

I did an Napoli save where I forgot to buy a backup keeper after i forgot to renew Meret’s contract and let Gollini go back to Atalanta. I signed Anatoliy Trubin that window, but my backup GK got a broken tibia in my 2nd game (preseason) and I forgot to buy a 3rd choice keeper. Following the day after the window closed, Trubin got injured for 4 months in training so I had to play my CB Anel Ahmedhodzic in goal. He did so well that by the time Trubin came back from injury, Anel had only let 4 goals in that season, so I kept him in goals. To make things better, he won serie a player of the season after only conceding 20 goals…and he somehow scored 4 goals and got 12 assists…bro just started cooking in goals for my 24/25 season

[@raidman_mucha]

Non - league save as Rugby Town. My goalkeeper was injured and I didnt have aby on the bench. I chose one of my defensive midfielders as a replacement. He was in the best 11 of the week

[@FC0T]

Rugby mentioned🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@minichalvo9818]

ayy same im doing a rugby town save, Ive managed to get to the VNL in 4 seasons, how you going?

[@FC0T]

@@minichalvo9818 doing a save with the town I’m from who’s in a lower league than rugby and u literally can’t do anything😭how do u do it

[@minichalvo9818]

@@FC0T Wait until contracts expire on youth players (Around First of June), then go to scouting and sort by world reputation, then offer trials to dozens of players at a time. You should find gems dependent on your league, that's how I do at least. Every year i have managed to find 2 or 3 players who are way to good for what league I am in and yeah.

[@DodgeeGamer]

I once has a South Korean regen called Lee Ki Wong. He was a winger and, yes, his dribbling was 18!

[@aardappeltaartje]

2:05 he was there for a year and 11 days, but close enough

[@theegamerdotcom]

Was thinking the same thing

[@2Randy4U]

Still cant believe he did not see it.

[@leoncru]

Jay Spearing was the manager that was there for 11 days, not Pep. Though I was confused initially too because Pep was there for a year and 11 days. But Tom's talking about Spearing when he's on about being sacked after 11 days not Pep.

[@tonysong6132]

@@leoncru Look at it carefully. Pep was there for less than a year and Spearing was there for a year and 11 days

[@TomFM]

I was too busy laughing :(

[@megalodon384]

Well, Jürgen Klopp was just named new Global Head of Soccer at Red Bull …

[@SandyRyeng]

That own goal at 4.27 is actually similar to something that’s happened in real life. Look for “Bjarte Flem own goal” or “Bjarte Flem selvmål” (in Norwegian). The story goes that Flem, the gk of top-tier side Tromsø, was about to start a quick counter-attack by throwing the ball to a teammate. But he realized mid-throw that an opposition player was blocking his throw, so he hesitated and tried to pull back - and he accidentally ended up throwing the ball in his own net instead. The game ended 1-1.

[@erdnasiul87]

I had a save a couple of years ago where Zlatan left PSG at end of his contract to join BASEL for just 30.000 a week. He scored like 70 goals that season, Basel lost THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL and, at the end of the season, he retired.

[@v.1kt0r3]

It's weird sometimes with coaches, my employee Jan Schäfer (Junior coordinator at RB Leipzig irl) agreed to sign for my club as a scout despite winning the champions league with real madrid as headcoach few years prior

[@gustavdorow7619]

14:25 how did he not see kamada being the DOF?😂

[@benjinoskilljustluck9235]

righttt

[@WERTYUIO821]

7:36 In a FM 2022 save of mine, Ronaldo played two years in Doxa Dramas aged 38-40 before becoming their manager, getting them in the first division of Greek football for the first time since 2012 and leading them to Europe.

[@PC001B]

In my save the Ivory Coast won the 2030 World Cup winning every knockout game on penalties (like with DR Congo here), their best player was an old Franck Kessie playing in Saudi Arabia

[@JennyQT]

In one of my fm24 saves, I've seen Zidane get sacked by liverpool and replaced with Marek Mintal, who I'm assuming was managing in the unplayable divisions of Germany with the only history prior to hm joining Liverpool In 2029 being the bundesliga 2 3rd top scorer in 08/09

[@Stiege02]

But you have to say in Germany he had the nickname "The Phantom" which goes hard as f*** tbh

[@WERTYUIO821]

My favourite funniest moment in my FM time was when a German player called Willy Wales that I signed from Dortmund broke the legs of the young English superstar of Manchester United, George England. He only got a yellow card, England lost the season, I won the Champions League with Sheffield Wednesday, United missed Europe.

[@MasterTramsYouTube]

7:35 Not FM, but I play a game called True Football 3 (mobile), and no matter how many saves I played, Cristiano Ronaldo always seemed to end up retiring at Accrington Stanley. Sometimes he went direct from Real Madrid, other times he went via a club in the Premier League, but somehow he always ended up at Accrington Stanley...

[@nabodabo1235]

Who are they?

[@MasterTramsYouTube]

@nabodabo1235 They are a team just north of Manchester who are perennially in England's 3rd and 4th divisions.

[@Robi2009]

2:22 - Apart from fact, that he was there a YEAR and 11 days, my guess would be demanding something from the board. I once got sacked after similarly short period because I demanded something, I think it was more coaches or so :)

[@JennFaeAge]

Tom watching the gk video: "I'm so confused" The GK: "Me too Tom, me too" 😛

[@stalk2951]

I'll top the guy at 7:44, drew 0-0 with Celtic without giving up a shot, had 5.5 XG, they had a red, in the UCL too...

[@HeGOATed-g2t]

I’ll top you, lost three nil taking 100 shots, twenty one goal, the opponent having three shots

[@zekdopa591]

@@HeGOATed-g2tcap

[@mrchrischamp1]

Nothing beats my FM24 save, which in around 2031 had Manuel Neuer retire, become Everton manager, get them just survival in his first season, sacked, replaced by Tom Heaton, and then he gets them relegated by losing to me on the final day of the following seaon! So much for goalkeepers making saves!

[@admontblanc]

Wtf how old was Neuer by then? He must have been nearly 50...

[@cyanlama2163]

I went to the Bundesliga with Kiel without a loss, won the conference without a loss the next season, won the EL the third year, made it to the QF of the CL in year 4, stayed for over a decade with couple of trophies and I am not even an icon... thats not fair :`(

[@Botosanipeople]

I won with fc botosani(one of the smaller and worst teams in Romania) 10 romanian league titles, 3 champions leagues, and the board and supporters always gave me only a B

[@CaaaaamOnYT]

Oh the topic of fun names I had a 198 ability cb come through called Jordan Jordan and he proceeded to be the greatest defender the prem had ever seen before I left and they sold him for 100 mil to juve even tho he was only 26

[@msumulehto]

Unfortunately don't have a screenshot of this anymore, but I once found a newgen named Haile Selassie in an old FM. Can't remember what version it was

[@smithys9370]

8:42 Made my one and only appearnace on this channel

[@F1LegoStopMotion]

11:45 for my 2026 World Cup (don’t remember if I have the screenshot still) the final was USA-Costa Rica. Costa Rica won 3-0😂

[@baky582]

Costa Rica actually won 2026 WC in my save as well. I basically only noticed because I was managing Red Star Belgrade and we had a Costarican winger who was suddenly a world cup winner. Mine was in FM 17 btw, but I literally played FM 17 until like a year ago.

[@F1LegoStopMotion]

Turns out I have the image lol. It was 2-1 Costa Rica actually and this happened while I was at Peterborough

[@LxGLegacyGaming]

Regen names are always a great laugh! I once had a goalie called Willie Strain 😂

[@Aldiyawak]

6:41 the highlight for me isn't that he's rinsing up Italy, it's that England is still schite even under a Triple Winner-caliber manager.

[@scpjack7856]

In my most recent save, Mourinho got sacked by England after losing to Austria in the Euro 2032 Round of 16. He took the France job, got them to the 2034 World Cup Final, then lost to Murat Yakin’s England on penalties. He immediately retired.

[@xtraviation]

seems like a very mourinho thing to do

[@marcosroca8486]

Hey tom! im the one who got RP congo world cup winner (11:39). It was something unbealivable, i just cant imagine how they won. It was hilarious when i found that and also their players where so mid. I think that it was the most random moment i ever had on fm. Pd: I found out that congo won world cup at 2028 cause i never pay attention to international football.

[@HEYBEYYYH]

I had a wonderful regen called Saddam Hussein once

[@iaincowell9747]

😂

[@THEmajnik]

Bro I had a Brazilian wonder kid called LENIN

[@SkovKosovic]

If you’re doing a part 2 of this, I was doing a AS Monaco career save, and in my first 9 league games, my LB had somehow scored 19 goals. Amar Dedic was cooking for me that season...

[@zekdopa591]

I was literally dying at the “fills gap in coaching team” part

[@jasonglasser1621]

I'm managing a second tier Finnish side. My chief scout is Carles Puyol. That's a pretty good one

[@Wojtinho]

15:00 man played FM25 before all of us

[@codiesmith9425]

2:08 it was 1 year and 11 days

[@SuperJNG18]

The Monique one was an example of how poor wording changes everything. I could tell they were TRYING to say “He’s also quitting the team because he’s loyal to her as a manager and wants to work wherever she is next,” but the wording…woof…

[@Chelskie-darts]

When I was in my teens as a kid it was championship manager we all played , very similar to football manager BUT champ manager was the dogs behollox, can still remember most of my teams back then

[@AGoofyGeographyYoutuber]

14:27 didn't even notice that the one anoucning this was kamada😭😭😭

[@Aolc_AideNYT]

Guy at the end got a £1 improvement 😂

[@SuperJNG18]

I got the “Decent result, decent match” thing when I won Vancouver FC a title in their DEBUT SEASON and I almost threw my computer across the room.

[@huseyinthetankplayer1126]

I got a wonder kid named Yetis Postaci. It means catch up postman in English. He was a quite well rb xd

[@thedj9553]

I once scored a goal with Badiashile in FM21 Mobile from within my own box. Badiashile took the ball down with his chest while defending a corner and whacked the ball in the back of the opposing GK's net. The opposing GK was in his own box, but clearly not paying attention as the ball sailed over him and hit the middle of the back of his net, I believe it was against Amiens or Angers.

[@Samyangaming1293]

Tom play Krumovgrad in FM24 plz😢

[@JulianvanGinkel-v8c]

Why

[@Samyangaming1293]

Home club, and underrated bulgarian team

[@stuartbannerman1848]

Dude will be playing fm25 soon

[@ItsJustGilbert90]

Just had a good win over loko plovdiv

[@levskilazio50]

Айде наще

[@Nitehawkmk77]

Gareth Southgate is the Manager of Brazil, Messi Newcastle Manager, David O'Leary left Sunderland for Denmark, Steve Evans Ath Madrid Manager in my Fm24 save currently in Season 26/27

[@wjwoodget01]

I'd love to see you do a challenge to recreate Antoine Griezeman's 5 cup win within 1 season. He won the Premiere League, Champions League, FA Cup, League/Carabao Cup and the Community Shield all in one season. But to make it interesting you could do it with a team that people might not be expecting, like Brighton.

[@MrLHVids]

Give me more of this, this is funny as hell 😂

[@RJR1787]

Mobile save, my coach said all my youth intake was rubbish and recommends me to release them all. I follow his instruction and then scout the released players. 2 of them came back in the scout reports with world class potential 😂

[@yojitkapoor8489]

Klopp did something similar💀

[@skollbrod]

Tom not knowing about the real player called Jizz Hornkamp dissapoints me...

[@HeGOATed-g2t]

I once had a save where Ronaldo was the Scout and Messi was the Head of Development after they both retired at the club playing as teammates

[@ileee1]

well I've had Finnish champions league final (2060 something) I was playing with one of them but the other got there by their own...I have to give some credit to FM BS

[@Robin-Paul]

What club!? That's incredible 😂🇫🇮💪🏻

[@Coffeekeeper]

I tried for ages to win it with AC Oulu but could only get to the semis

[@ileee1]

​@@Robin-Paul older FM 2009 HJK(me)-Tampere United tried to check if I still had the save unfortunatly I don't

[@OmnipresentPlay]

I got invited to a testimonial for Lewis Cook when i was Leeds, we played in it and Cook did the dirtiest 2 footer challenge you'll ever see and got sent off on his own testimonial. I uploaded it on SIForums a bit back hahaa.

[@tequilasharknj]

The several goalkeepers things happened to me in a non-league save... one team bought two of my reserve keepers, who must have been a bit miffed when they rocked up at the new club with eight other keepers incoming at the same time on deadline day.

[@VillaFanDan92]

I once had Sergio Aguero as a coach at the Egyptian club ZED FC. And he approached me too, answered a job advert.

[@gey_s3.xlover]

8:27 miss him at Beşiktaş

[@petermuk186]

In my save on FM24 Guardiola was sacked by City in 2024 and moved to Crystal Palace, he won two Europa League, a Uefa Super cup and made it to the CL semi final

[@YouNeedM3]

I'm on FM 2013 right now and Klopp went from Dortmund to Real Madrid for a season and half way through season 2 whilst RM are 1st he went to Gladbach.

[@xretcyvbnimo]

Neymar took over Portsmouth in my save and brought Luis Suarez & Messi in as coaches lol

[@giteausuperstar]

Not FM but career mode on Fifa 08. I was atletico Madrid, back to back league and champions league winners. Tried to sign Ronaldinho from Barca but he rejected the contract because my club wasn’t prestigious enough. He then signed for Rotherham.

[@apsimati4026]

for me fm 2012 is the best game of the franchise it was kinda a transition game from classic fm to modern fm it was right in the middle of classic era and modern era of fm... i can write thousands of words to describe my love to fm 2012...and i want to give a shout out to carlos fierro... he was my favorite player in fm 2012... i signed him every career of mine without exceptions

[@admontblanc]

FM2012 was so dirty, you could buy 15M worth of wonderkids, a whole squad for pennies and on season 2 you had a squad capable of challenging the UCL title. I had a save playing with a friend, both on the same league in rival clubs and he didn't knew any of the "secrets" and kept asking why I was only buying these young kids for small fees, the next season my team smashed his every game we played and of course we sort of lost interest afterwards.

[@ceciliaesazul]

Im going through a crisis in my life and this video made my day much better.

[@soccch]

10:23 Shoutout to my interests of Football Manager and hololive crossing over. Fantastic choice in oshis, Laverick.

[@thefabtastic3512]

That Klopp to City thing doenst sound to bad these days..

[@jerriejoen]

10:24 There is actually a real dutch footballer called 'Jizz Hornkamp' playing in the Eredivisie

[@mclauc1999]

Oh Tom, this was a great video! Could really become a regular thing! :D

[@DayGreenFreak]

I played an international save with Scotland and beat the Faroe Islands 12:0 and one of the fans had the gall to say on social media 'Had an absolute stinker here. So disappointed...'

[@MLong87]

Some of these had me in stitches 😂 gutted mine never made the video but hope they made you laugh/baffled you as much as they did me when they happened!

[@pepejr10king]

In my Sporting save i sold a guy named Estrela to Estrela da Amadora SAD😂

[@Wojtinho]

4:37 Janusz Jojko against Lechia Gdańsk in relegation play off, 1987, Football Manager'd

[@outlawedTV88]

Lower league managers gettin jobs at high profile PL clubs, AI buying loads of GK at once, (FIFA issue also) is exactly the point of broken AI for management in FM series espec after FM22 that they never fixed even after promising they would. Abslutely shocking giving any money to a broken game!!!

[@OmnipresentPlay]

Look at Forest, Newcastle, Chelsea, they all have about 6 goalkeepers each lol. Newcastle just paid 20 million for a 3rd choice keeper and they've got a 4th registered because he was homegrown and fills the quota.

[@outlawedTV88]

@@OmnipresentPlay those are tricks they use to avoid FFP in real life but not in FM mate!

[@OmnipresentPlay]

@@outlawedTV88 i'm using examples of teams who bought loads of goalkeepers.

[@nickjeffery536]

Talking regens, I once saw a Korean regen (possibly back in the Championship Manager days, I can't remember for sure), who was named Suk Mae Dik...

[@lfclfc5683]

The fake laugh is class 😂

[@BazT47]

Would love to see you do some Retro FM videos with the best version, that being FM12

[@stephenanakie3500]

That keepers throw into his goal did make me laugh

[@biohazard6233]

in my save england also got done over by congo in the world cup 3-2 because rice scored an og in the 1st minute and shaw scored another og in the 3rd, congo then scored a normal goal to make it 3-0 by halftime

[@rr0baGamer]

on FM 22 I managed PSG and Sergio Ramos broke Messis leg on training and made him lose the World Cup, that was the funniest realistic thing I ever saw on FM

[@c4b-bage]

Some of the funniest - yet most infuriating - shenanigans happen when you bring a team in a lowly rate league (say, switzerland or bulgaria) to the top of european football. Worse foreign clubs offering 10-15 millions for absolute beasts of players, you refuse and they get mad because they want to go play Europa league with Aston Villa instead of winning Champions league with your team. Or the immortal message: Miguel Arteta/Julian Nagelsmann/Jurgen Klopp, manager of [some big club] was in the stadium in your last match. Rumors say he's interested in signing some of your players: and then it list all 11 of your starters.

[@gilbertoverissimo3541]

In my save Sean Dacha takes Salertina to winning Italy Super Cup, Seria A, Copa Italia, Europa league and champions league in a span of 5 years. he retired as their legend

[@tanknightriders]

Not Football Manager but around 1996/7/8 sort of time on a football management game I can't remember which but a player of mine died in a car crash. It was Clive Wilson at Spurs. Just had a news pop up and carried on as usual.

[@admontblanc]

Championship Manager, also made by SI and the precursor to FM.

[@TheOfficialSmudgy]

I have a backup keeper in my Benfica save who has 19 penalties and 18 decisions,,, I sub him on to take penos if they are late in the game, resulting in him getting crazy ratings, for example 10 appearances, 10 clean sheets, 9 goals…

[@Somerandomblokefromreading]

Reading rebuild when tom???

[@roryslaine7896]

I once spotted a regen come through the Chelsea ranks called Jimmy Saville. Not James Saville, Jimmy Saville 😂

[@NuryPPanaligan]

I had a player named Saturday Friday.

[@MiroHeinonen]

Lollujo (Kevin Chapman) had Saturday Sunday in his latest Non-League to Legend save.

[@ludovicleleu7203]

I had one Regen in Lens who was already bald at his 16th birthday and sproting a great moustache, whose name was Mamadou Girard (he was white)

[@canbanksy9744]

In my old saves i tryed to sign some promising african players. Sometimes the price is aroud 10-50€. Its funny because if you want to give them the money, they negotiate the offer to ~80€. And then i offer 60€ with 30 mill in the bank. Do you think i throw the money out of the window?

[@williamtindale2768]

One save I had had Klopp being sacked from Liverpool and then they hired Pep to take over. Then Klopp was taken on as Man City manager! FM is bonkers at times!

[@matthewbanton7077]

that's genuinely most saves I played in FM22

[@cloverisfan818]

In my save, in December 2023, Man City were 7th in the table and sacked Guardiola. Then they appointed Dahm from Bayern. Guess where did Guardiola go? Yes, Bayern. They literally had a manager swap.

[@drebbihc]

Not necessarily funny, at the time I was raging, but on FM21 I took Aston Villa to the semi finals of the Europa League where I met Sean Dyche’s Leeds United. I was unbeaten in the competition and hadn’t even drawn a match, beat them 2-1 in the first leg and assumed it was in the bag that I was going to the final. Lost 8-0 to them at Elland Road in the second leg giving them the win 9-2 on aggregate.

[@mooonostreams]

For once I'm completely innocent. If anything Bergkamp is the homewrecker 😂🥺

[@angad1290]

I have watched turkey just win the World Cup with arda guler not even playing in the finals, wtf

[@angad1290]

This is an arda. Guler who can second in world best player last year. Scoring 22 goals and 25 assist. Fairly lost to Harland who scored 54 goals.

[@angad1290]

Also how has haaland won 5 golden balls despite man city doing nothing

[@angad1290]

And Liverpool coming 17th despite Wirtzs playing with Xabi Alonso as manager

[@angad1290]

This is only 2030

[@asafyaari]

There really is a real life Jizz Hornkamp playing for Heracles Almelo in Holland

[@JustJoeMCR]

Cant believe my DR Congo one had the perfect partner post to come before it😂

[@MadVybez]

I had a season a few years back where Iceland won the world cup

[@joshnkoy]

As a Congolese dude I need both those DR Congo results IRL 💀💀💀

[@Levi_FM_and_more]

The more i watch fm the more i see my local team telstar in it. Today Tom sayed telstar right for a uk person!

[@jamiehurst759]

I still play CM0304 occasionally and once saw a striker who scored a hat trick get a rating of 1.

[@zriv]

i had Chevalier, Mamardashvili and Slonina all injured so I had to play 16 year old regen Jack Porter in the fa cup and ucl just days before 16 year old Jack Porter played for arsenal in the efl cup 😭