What if Football had a 50 Year Global Transfer Ban?

[@TomFM]

Apologies if you notice a slight decrease in the actual video quality. My PC and Premiere Pro didn't get along when trying to render the video, so to stop it from failing every time, I had to render it out at a lower bit rate. Maybe you don't notice anything and maybe I'm overthinking, but if you did notice, now you know why! Hope you all had a good holiday period and a happy new year!

[@jackross5205]

i still love u tom brother

[@footballoracleai]

Great video, my friend!

[@noahfreezy]

Didn't even notice, great vid!! 🙏

[@LordWaffle]

Hey Tom I have a proposed idea. Dunno if you've done it before or if it's possible. (I'm not smart enough to do it myself) Would you be able to make an FM save with The US leagues, including in it promotions and relegation. Seperating feeder club (making them independent) from there mls parent club. Also get rid of the draft?? Was curious what the league could become if all this happened.

[@superalex120]

Hey Tom if you give Sunderland 100,000,000 pounds I will subscribe to your channel( not joking) 15:41

[@ssbooth]

Yes, this video is 3 months old now, but yes, this video (if it doesn't already) absolutely needs a part 2 whereby you go another 30-50 years in the future, post-embargo era, and see if the powerhouses can claw their way back to the summit and topple the current status quo!

[@georgedarbyshire5222]

Give the Welsh league 1 billion but bring back teams playing in England like Cardiff attempt 5

[@DG-rb7bo]

Nah bro shh

[@pillwolak]

It would still be a shit league if you gave them a £1 trillion

[@truechaosmulala3831]

Only if they kick out English based clubs like tns

[@georgedarbyshire5222]

@@truechaosmulala3831 I forgot about that but I would include if I did the comment again

[@geoffreypannecouque5099]

Well, he did it

[@tylersteinberg6468]

I appreciate you taking a look at the continental competitions outside of Europe. Interesting for people that follows teams outside of Europe

[@rossh3873]

As a Halifax fan this is very nice to see!! 😅 I’d love to be able to have a deeper look at them and how they’ve progressed through the leagues

[@javibolso]

Cerro Porteño is one of the most important clubs in Paraguay and the second biggest club there. They always appear in round of 16, quarter finals. Not a huge surprise.

[@michaelduarte2486]

The huge surprise is Caldense actually He missed that 😂

[@tl8211]

@@michaelduarte2486 Caldense is nuts cause they're an agent team, so with big youth intake clubs under a transfer embargo they should have fewer players to work with? The big teams should be winning everything, really.

[@joaopires1761]

13:30 hey Tom, it's actually not "literally everyone else", haha. CD Chaves (placed 15th on the table you were checking) is also currently in the Portuguese Premier Division.

[@footballoracleai]

I would be interested to know how the national teams have developed in that time!

[@frozenx1337]

I mean: 15:02

[@footballoracleai]

@@frozenx1337 Someone is clearly smarter than me.

[@zacharybrazier5852]

I think seeing national coefficients would be pretty interesting. Maybe South American clubs would grow due to the better academy players staying in the country?

[@jorgeabud1133]

Given that Halifax has 14 Champions Leagues and 2 Club World Cups, yes, they would grow a lot

[@Nico_M.]

Also the results from the Club's World Cup. Surely they're more even than today.

[@maattamaraal]

lmao it's fucking bonkers that my hometown Resende team becomes the most dominant team in South America!!! they're currently in the Brazilian 4th tier and in the 2nd tier of the RIo State championship. VERY far away from winning anything meaningful. they do have a youth collaboration/partnership with Lyon though, so that's cool. banger video as always Tom, loved this twist!

[@GetStuckInThere]

as an eastliegh fan i have always been watching these videos begging that they benefit or even just get mentioned, fair to say winning the champions league is a fair mention

[@tcg_eu]

Absolutely mental the state of Croatian First Division, only Dinamo is the member of the "old guard", all the other clubs are Third or Fourth Division local small teams, maybe Opatija a Second Division member is better known but still acting as a feeder club for Rijeka in real life. Mental.

[@atee8608]

Love going to Eastleigh games a few times per year, hilarious to see them win the CL. Their academy is solid tbf.

[@Kestrel342]

brentford not even in the national north/south: i assume as they don't really have a youth academy they've just fallen out of the playable leagues

[@appledotted]

I would love to see the ca and pa of the Halifax squad, as well as a team with embargo like Man City. Nice work!

[@tvablfc]

3:44 Pau FC's also the former club of one of the best football players in my country

[@MrJude909]

Nice video! Keep up the good work. Only thing about this video is I would have liked to see the transfers and the transfer fees of the clubs with the transfer embargo, hopefully a quick part 2?

[@rubeushagrid5376]

Well there isn’t any? They can’t make transfers?

[@lucsided6571]

Would have been interesting to take a look at the finances of the teams, decade by decade to see which clubs are richer and how does that switch. How do they invest money? They get hundreds of millions in income they cannot spend other than in wages, then as soon as players start to retire, not even in wages. After the first 10 years living off of reputation alone certain teams would have more money than the games mechanics would allow them to keep. Also, lots in tax bills.

[@SanFranFan30]

That Brazilian club seems to be affiliated with Olympique Lyon based on their club crest, which might have something to do with their massive rise.

[@icelanddragon1010]

Curiously enough, Canelas 2010, who have done really well, are known to be the most violent team in the world. They are reaaally aggressive hahaha

[@papak2039]

I can’t imagine how long it took to actually place the ban on all these clubs. Thank you for another brilliant video Tom.

[@SneakyMiki]

A few seconds 😂

[@papak2039]

@@SneakyMiki Really? I wouldn’t know because I’ve never played FM before

[@deraokoli7746]

@@papak2039 with the pre game editor you can alter multiple clubs at once.

[@drem22c51]

In croatian League, every club, except Dinamo are actually from Lower leagues. Thats insane

[@adzter96]

My Current save is with Tours, I seen they had been relegated 2 times in a row to the 4th tier and the name is pretty good.

[@JasonCliftJones]

2:05 - Fairly normal, Crewe academy prob pulling them up, Luton a bit odd but plausible... Hang on, HALIFAX in 13th!?! 4:52 - Tom has the same reaction...

[@MrHoopski]

id like to see a video where all leagues have a massively reduced prize money and TV deal (maybe just 10% of what it is now) would wages come down. would clubs go bankrupt! etc etc should be v interesting

[@GeorgeTaylor-ox8kj]

As someone who was born in Halifax, lives in Halifax and is a massive Halifax town fan, this is a massive dub for the shaymen and me

[@ashmiester84]

As someone born and bred in Halifax this video warms my heart ❤

[@pooch443078]

I have a recommendation - If there's a way you can upload your savegame for users to download and explore more thoroughly I think that would be interesting. I'd love to see the talents from around the world.

[@NexoProTC]

I love the fact that Tours FC is currently 1st of his Regional groupe of National 3 (5th French division). They went like Halifax

[@thomasfriis3651]

Should have simulated another 10-20 years to see if things went back to normal in all the leagues :)

[@johnodaz1273]

Nice stuff Tom. This Transfer Ban Experiments are always very interesting too Watch 👌👍.

[@MrWiktorHere]

Hi Tom, could you do an experiment to see if AI will retrain players to more appropriate positions? Such as making a winger with good tackling marking and jumping and see if ai retrains it to CB/FB. Maybe do it for a few positions

[@TomFM]

I like this idea a lot! I'll look into it

[@superalex120]

@@TomFM if you give Sunderland 100,000,000 pounds I will subscribe to your channel ( I am not joking) 1:33

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Well, when I play my yea old Championship Manager 03-04, I make a shibboleth of defenders always having 12 or above finishing, 13 for midfielders, and 15 for strikers (unless I am bringing on from the reserves). It works, it really, really works!😅

[@domjl17]

I've seen Resende play a couple of times when I used to live in Rio. I cannot imagine how bad everything else would have to become for them to be South American champions.

[@stark4100]

My gosh I could not recognize the portuguese league, really happy to see that a club from my county has won the UCL (União Lamas) and other 2 were in the league (Oliveirense and S. João de Ver). Could you see more details about it? Länk Vilaverdense winning the Europa League makes sense, they have been bought recently by some rich guys

[@stark4100]

@Rafa Abrantes mas eles foram comprados nao foram?

[@Pattonator14]

Would have been nice to see some of the actual transfers being made since that's how a lot of teams got big. Also funny seeing Chelsea not holding up despite probably being one of the best prospects of this was done irl

[@santiagoguevara8579]

Cerro porteño isnt a big surprise, its one of the biggest clubs of south america (debatable) but winning cups inst really put of the normal

[@marlonherr8013]

4:45 the club who made the 8th highest signing in this list is only ca. ¾ hours away from me

[@lovroradic6321]

When you showed Croatian league Dinamo was the only team currently in the top flight

[@oledechert3278]

I haven’t watched the video yet but the effort that this challenge must have been deserves a like on its own. Wow

[@rodrigoft]

Probably Resende topped the charts outside Europe because of its recently improved youth facilities and its partnership with French side Lyon.

[@jake91Gr]

Me: I have to study for the B2 exams that I give by next May for German language 🇩🇪 , i have to study electronic engineering for my university 🏛 and later I have to go at the basketball training session with my amateur local team 🏀 Also me: A new TomFM video? Vamos a ver all his videos 🤩

[@Camakaze13]

City being so high after the transfer ban suggests they cheated. Didn't realize the level of realism the game had

[@lachlanhines7644]

Wrexham don't look strange in the championship: Coming to you from 2035

[@mariop8101]

I tried a real global transfer embargo to all teams on the database, but already found 2 teams that broke it, Derby and Reading on FM 22. I didn't set the appeal date.

[@fredsmith512]

would love to see like 20 more years to see if the teams still stay or if the other teams work back up

[@juliochabal6900]

Thanks for watching France more than usually. As a French I really appreciate it

[@arthurterpstra7422]

Missed opportunity to look at some player stats/records. Has a New GOAT been born or not? How good was that Josh Hassel that destroyed the premier league in the last season? Who won the most player awards? What was the biggest transfer fee paid in these past 50 years? Etc. Etc.

[@Joe-lf3hu]

As a Halifax fan, this warms my heart

[@yeahbee8237]

Could you do a database save where Homegrown and clubgrown status is jacked up for both league and europe? To maybe 12clubgrown and 12 home grown? Leaves room for one star player... Would the simed ai clubs realize that? Would be a funny database to play...

[@MrJoeolive]

Interesting that Palace didn't do better with homegrown talent since their academy has been recently improved to Cat 1. Even before the higher tier they brought through players like Zaha, Wan-Bissaka, Clyne, Mitchell.

[@widehardo3538]

Tom how do you sim so fast? Do you set the save to view only, or does it actually take a while to get through that many years

[@lochlainngaming7182]

He has a mod

[@robsonlucas4864]

I am going to a Resende x Bangu game next 18/01/23 and i expected until there, we dont have a global transfer ban. By the way, Resende is an afilliated club to Lyon!

[@eduardodiasdeandrade5648]

Loved seeing my club winning the Libertadores 8 times during this period of time

[@thorstenvantrottel3076]

As a german I did expect Hertha BSC or Schalke to be at the top clubs since they got a way better youth team then Bayern. I'm curious how Bayern was able to stay that dominant

[@joshbrown3439]

I did see that Halifax only won 2 club world cups, which continent dominated that?

[@diegounder777]

Resende and Caldense are clubs without division in Brazil and they won Copa Libertadores, incredible

[@michaelphillips9539]

As a season ticket holder at eastleigh, this video makes me happy😂

[@footballoracleai]

Anyone have any ideas for a long term save game? Preferably I would like to focus on youth, develop and sell for profit.

[@mariop8101]

If you have a global transfer ban, nobody can buy your players...

[@DingusMcBride]

Wanted this video for a while. Thanks tom

[@Mateo_CepedaSoccer]

Team that came runner up in the 28 years Libertadores is the team my coach ised to play for and the neighborhood that team is in is where my parents grew up

[@samuelschonenberger]

Most importantly, Halifax won the Papa John's Trophy Also, why do the Japanese clubs have such wierd names? They are nothing like their real life names

[@patogames5099]

Would have thought Ajax and Barca, with all their youth academy success, would have dominated this. Were players still able to move as free agents?

[@vagas7771]

I would have liked to see the winners of the club World Cup to see if some of the South American clubs began to challenge Europe

[@TMul46]

Up the Spitfires! Class to see Eastleigh up there for once

[@jaredcrocker4252]

Up the spitfires! I always knew they’d come good

[@blufferfish0896]

5:43 Never prouder to be a spitfires fan 😂

[@miguelaraujo7061]

Put an embargo on Europe and band all The non europeans from The top 5 leagues. After a few years u can check if these players will be back tô their home contries or if Arábia, MLS or South América became The New europe

[@dirtykebab]

what league did spurs end up in? couldn't see them all the way down to vanarama?

[@davidsantiagopereanezrojas613]

La única manera que Cerro gana una Libertadores. Great video, can you do more experiments in South America?

[@LifeofPandK]

Would be cool if the video continued another 50 years after the transfer ban is lifted. Would the big clubs come back to first place?

[@AIK.1891]

How come the game adds players as with Crewe A. where in reality that team would have to leave a walk over and adventually be dropped down the league system... ?

[@matthewgraham6166]

Question - When you were going through the leagues why did you skip the A-League in Australia?

[@germankid866]

nice list to pick from. found new teams that must have good youth, facilities, scouting. all with reasonable budgets.

[@ren-1145]

looks like every club that had the money for it maxed out their youth academy

[@Nicc11221]

League Uh! And what's their name? Pow... Pow FC! :) Love it.

[@ccityplanner1217]

64,000 between 4,000 clubs is an average of only 16 players per club.

[@p0l4k28]

It's all fun and games until Brown de Adrogué finishes as runner's up in the Copa Libertadores

[@garypsg]

35 year old haaland still 2nd in top scoring and it makes me happy to see cerro porteno win copa libertadores

[@nongencystalker4138]

Video suggestion: Give a random top flight league in Europe ridiculous amount of TV money

[@MihailBFC]

i guess teams without a transfer ban and a big stadium + a good youth academy will thrive

[@JCEurovisionFan1996]

Do more World Cup 2022 simulations such as population density and largest countries by area

[@kinmckinnon2505]

"Crewe are just cheating" Me, a Crewe fan: Accurate.

[@Wide_county33]

How to do you make the current and potential ability numbers?

[@flak509]

Grimsby never lets us down Tom. Good video

[@michaelduarte2486]

"Things don't seems to be quite as effective in south america" Caldense winning TWO Copa Libertadores in 2046 and 2048 and RESENDE winning one too 😂

[@MihailBFC]

you never look in any Eastern European Championships...like România, Bulgaria, Ukraine etc

[@kyleskingdom1583]

This is a great idea I love your videos so I'm sure it'll be great

[@richminer1]

Interesting, because Burton Albion had perfect facilities and they still couldn't reach top flight.

[@vinchiiii98]

14:19 7 of 10 clubs never play in Croatian First Division in real life 😂 Marsonia and Belišće played just some seasons in elite League.. Dinamo relegated, very interesting...

[@tewsgcdcfgechk908]

Could have at least looked at the top 5 leagues, like bro no germany or italy at all in the video? For example BVB, who have a great youth academy? Or Ajax even?

[@PsychoSaint13]

Is there any way to download this database? That sounds incredible to manage in

[@HistorysRaven]

The thing that saddens me is the MLS doesn't have a promotion/relegation system, so looking at the league in this would almost be worthless. Maybe to see how good their youth system is, but that would be about it.

[@bub-e2592]

Theres mods tho

[@clursunny]

@@bub-e2592 but the mods are realistic, and there’s no relegation/promotion on mls

[@donaldleroi9544]

Is the Lincoln locos series dead?

[@wilf_the_proo6998]

7:26 that team was founded in 2020

[@christianlenik5307]

14:15 Dont need to apologize - its kinda normal now xD

[@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman]

As Monaco getting related wtf that's a shock

[@JossLun]

Could we get the database to test it ?

[@yuvrajgupta571]

Such an underrated video

[@DHW3008]

Grimsby in the Prem, Lincoln relegated from League 1, love to see it

[@tumama7799]

Just telling you cerro is one of the biggest teams in paraguay so don’t be surprised they won trophies.