The Most Important Thing in FM

[@lollujo]

For some reason this is my favourite ever video of yours...

[@Brianmeneer]

7-1

[@robertbradshaw5281]

Yes kev lovin the chives series

[@donnastevenson2135]

I see you have been watching his videos because obviously your not good enough to win 4 steamer showdowns without them. P.S Chiva save is what we needed freshened up the channel some of the corny side if you we have missed

[@Roscododger]

Wow that cuts deep

[@robertnicolae1882]

There’s no silly intro, probably that’s why

[@09valerio09]

fyi you can add playing time happiness as a custom column in your squad/tactic view, pretty handy especially if you're like me and forget about this stuff.

[@ZanWK5678]

9:31 About finishing Top 6 or Top 10 in league, I'm playing as Mura in Slovenia and there are only ten teams in the league!

[@Lunch_at_Marcos]

Top 6 then lol

[@llSuperSnivyll]

Like in my current andorran save. Finishing top 6 means finishing in the bottom three... but at the same time you get an Euro Cup II place because we are 6th in the UEFA Nations Coefficient table. Literally everyone that doesn't get relegated gets continental football at this point.

[@rileypassias2549]

I love playing in Slovenia, although Mura and Olympija got relegated season 1 somehow

[@ZanWK5678]

@@rileypassias2549 Maribor were in ninth place for most of the first season!

[@conorshaughnessy4912]

No joke, the body language text size throw away point was the biggest help for me!!!

[@Roscododger]

I see some people who hate the intros. Well I watch every single Zealand video, but normally the upload time isnt convenient so I cant watch immediately so I just click, watch the intro and watch the rest later because I love them so much.

[@gm2407]

the intros make Zealand different, they are fun.

[@rasmusjensen291]

The FM Base intro is a bit more partyish

[@Hyde_Hill]

My first of the month reminder: Board Requests, Transfer Listed, End Contract, DoF Suggestions, Shortlist update (don't have it on auto), Team Training, Individual Training, Mentoring if influence changed may need switching , Happiness. Always good to have one.

[@knownbyFox]

Morale is a killer in the showdown if you get hit early in the first few games - managed to recover mine but was too late, damage was done!

[@knownbyFox]

Benn Venables I’m going to do it more now

[@alperenustaomer3955]

Although I am not playing fm these days, I watch all of your videos. You became my favorite youtuber in very short time :D. Thank you and Keep going!

[@Telsion]

"Set a reminder on your calendar in-game!" ... You ... can do that? 1100 hours and I've never known this was possible

[@RyanBrower407]

Saving your game is pretty important too

[@Ronnykjaer]

I'd almost argue that Football Manager should be renamed Morale Manager due to the importance of it. With low team morale you are basically screwed. Also thank you Zealand for your videos. I've been struggling in FM and just thought the game was out to get me, but I've been applying your tips the last few weeks and strangely enough, my team and the setup surrounding it has improved immensely.

[@Zeerse_Chef]

This is spot on. I'd add whether you're playing at home or away should drive the confidence/complacency media answers more so rather than expectations, the expectations drive how far on the scale of the answer you go. The post-match team meeting works the opposite way where expectation is more important. Once you get in the groove with the high morale wins matches keeps high morale, it becomes a bit of a rinse and repeat.

[@andreafresca9869]

Damn, Zealand, you're consistent as heck lately. 👏

[@MuttonChopDavo]

If your morale is low you can arrange a friendly with a very low reputation team and beat them like 10-0, it will put your morale back to a overall good standing. Very useful if you are fighting relegation in a season and you are getting beat often - just arrange a friendly every other match and get an easy win.

[@Tomironi]

Your constant FM content honestly provides me with so much expertise. Brilliant videos time and time again 🔥

[@jc6087]

Morale is underrated... I sold ozil and bought 2 players at Arsenal (van de beek, Lautaro) and went unbeaten in the league 19/20.

[@tmaki6]

how tell me please

[@Mr_jz_12]

Not sure why i find these videos enjoyable, but I do. Keep up the good work sir! :)

[@tmaki6]

I've been doing this my whole (short) FM career and boy am I pleased

[@lorenzomartinez8543]

I would love to see you highlight the little tab in Tactics > Analysis > Team Talk Feedback the next time you talk about morale and give us your opinion thereon. Good video!

[@sampowell6350]

Should do a video about mentoring groups and how they can be used to gain on pitch traits as well as personality traits, and the ups and downs of using mentoring

[@SuperDaan98]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIfOZ4uiit6KkKc you mean like this haha

[@sampowell6350]

Yesssss

[@dylansaccount20]

That streamer showdown was the second best after the one you won tbh.. zealando escobar was so clutch

[@xJoakimOMG]

Will there be a difference in morale praising their conduct on «passionate» instead of calm etc?

[@hilarytinomiti]

Love your videos, by the way.

[@shawngillogly6873]

Team Bonding and Match Reviews, the 2 things you should drop into the schedule every week that regular schedules never include. Also, any week I have 1 or fewer matches, I use Community Outreach in addition to the Team Bonding. It helps get the team pulling together on the field if they do it off the field.

[@AskingAlexandria43]

I ALWAYS have my team doing a bonding session nearly every week. Aswell as training teamwork, match tactics and fitness etc. I like to balance most areas but I always do community outreach and team bonding

[@xute89]

If you have players with good personality, consistency, determination, decision and concentration everything will be fine. Mental atributes is the key for this game

[@KingHunter868]

Love that you put your livestream on KZbin now!

[@ZealandonYT]

They are!

[@AussieDownUnder]

Another cracking video

[@DetectiveJohnKemble]

3:30am on the dot, I like it.

[@Hyde_Hill]

The one happiness one I dislike is the three striker management complaint. I want my third choice to be a talent but the squad all want three (near) first team quality strikers.

[@robinvr7151]

jup, now i know why i hate them team meetings so much, when i talk i talk in the moment not about 6 months ago, geez si

[@thomasalves2827]

Hi Zealand ! Love your videos man ! Keep going ! I’ve got a question : In the game, how can you find a solution to the problem of affinity between two players ? Can you make a video about it someday maybe ? Big up to you and continue what you’re doing !

[@thomasalves2827]

jdkejzjzjz JEgapjgepajgz thx but when you say that the captain can solve it, what have you got to ask him to do so ?

[@ZealandonYT]

Play better and everyone likes each other more honestly

[@thomasalves2827]

Zealand I won everything with Aston Villa. And the affinity problem comes from the young recruits. Should I be patient and see if there’s a change ?

[@tubble3058]

you should do something about corner tactics cos i dont have a clue and im guessing alot of others dont

[@josephchambers4509]

awesome video! learned a lot

[@awildhumanoid5436]

For those wondering, your players do get over sales of important players, but it does take a while & you might need to hold a team meeting if you’re selling a big player. For example, I tried to sell Troy deeney as Watford. Needed to hold a team meeting 😂

[@majsketchup]

The man, the myth, the Wayne Shaw

[@benjaminventer415]

Okay I'll watch this video here we go

[@medoghosting3429]

14:50 I watched your video about how to win the champions League .. and you sayed i have to be hard on the team .. so that what i have done .. now i am confused by this 😂 Explain please .. thanks

[@ZealandonYT]

You have to be hard on the team to keep them from being complacent, but not all the time which could make them nervous

[@bobduck8034]

recently started playing and won champions league 2023 w/ my barca club. Got fired immediately after, but I dedicate my win and immediate retirement to you, ZEALAND, the GRANDMASTER OF FM

[@2xAcTiOnXJaCkS0nx]

Video idea breaking down what stats lend themselves best to the different roles for recruitment purposes :)

[@JayJohnsonStoke]

Why the old FM Base intro?

[@harrierjames7727]

so is the playing time happiness the most important component of morale?

[@maka-zd7dt]

Give us a video about work permits please! Love your videos!

[@manofconstantsorrow]

What if I play Touch version and I don't have dynamics or team meeting?

[@Doughnutellow]

Can we all say that the best morale is "The Banana Morale"?🤠

[@soccerstarspro7495]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmTKnomCd86YfLM watch this interesting thing

[@Mombot_z]

Where’s Waldo, I mean Banana 🍌? Zealand + Reece = another 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻video!

[@owennewell474]

Don’t know if anyone would be able to help me but how would you setup against online users? Asked cause obviously Zealand played streamer showdown so may be able to give some tips

[@JonathanI10I]

Can you please make a video on tweaking your tactics on away games? My team suddenly forgets how to play football when not at home

[@James_Byron]

I'm doing a save with Les Herbiers from the third division in France, my captain is a guy called Beherlé, I've never a better captain, every single issue the players have, he just go talk to them and they drop it, even if it happens very often, like a shitty player wanting game time over my best player when we are pushing for promotion, every time it works, it's the first time I have a good captain.

[@kushagratomar2335]

Wow my biggest takeaway from this entire video about Morale is that I need to adjust my text size

[@JohnSchneiderII]

The most important ability is availability!

[@mihaiconstantin7814]

any chance we can get a video on how to manage a team in the MLS?

[@ZealandonYT]

It's tough

[@rashesttrack8]

Why is it tough?

[@ZealandonYT]

@@rashesttrack8 the AI is not good for the MLS typically so I don't want to lead people to it

[@Silentfeety]

Any idea why I started losing sponsor money? Even winning league every year. I see no good players world class that I need just to get sponsor. Any advice?

[@CarpAlex]

Hey zee...is any way i can see happiness panel for second team and youth team? :) 🙁(concerned)

[@CarpAlex]

Please dont say to move players to first team 😅😅😅

[@Oll1000]

If you're not winning by 3 goals, aggressively shout at them. Always works for me.

[@JoeyKneecap]

Mr Z - what's the intro song? I love it - but my Shazam doesn't recognize it. Help!?

[@jamiemontgomery6963]

Yo Zealand. I always have brilliant morale in every team but my team don’t perform still can you explain for me? I’m not trying to prove you wrong or anything I’m just pretty new to the game and it’s pretty confusing to me

[@billyplays247]

There moraal can move when they have issieus just matters how big the issieu is.

[@joeschmoe2030]

Meat pie? What the hell... Ps I saw the streamer showdown. There was an appalling lack of defense being played on the wings. Most everyone was sending fullbacks and wingbacks screaming upfield. The people who did the best, from what I saw, sat back and countered up the wings. More than once i saw 3 on 2s coming back on people who were playing way too attacking considering the level of players that were drafted. Then the “solution” was to overload forward... the worst possible thing to do.

[@ZealandonYT]

I’ve learned

[@joeschmoe2030]

Zealand doing a counter attacking video would be interesting, in my opinion, if I may be so bold. Many of us start playing this team with a weak team to gradually raise it against and eventually slay the giants. Starting out counter attacking would be useful, to me at least.

[@tim3440]

Hey Zealand, Loyal watcher of your videos for some time now. I was wondering how do you get an affiliated club in a specific country like brazil or Argentina? Kind regards

[@darraghcoughlan6020]

Crazy that Zealand got THE Miles Jacobson in one of his videos

[@AzakielRuns]

18 of my players are unhappy with "the way I lead the team". I think that's why I struggle to win matches (got promoted to the Bundesliga, then relegated, and I am struggling in the bottom of Bundesliga 2 although my squad should be good enough to compete for promotion again). But it doesn't say WHY they are unhappy with the way I lead the team. Are they unhappy with my tactics? Are they unhappy with my team talks/shouts? A little help would be appreciated. (They are satisfied with everything else).

[@sasukedfg]

probably training and tactics. Be aware that morale is a dangerous thing. You can have the team to compete for promotion but if you have a few bad games and morale goes down, bringing it up can be hard if you dont have consistent good results. Try to inject new blood in the team, make a few transfers and talk with your players individualy. Level up their morale and adjust your training and you should recover

[@gm2407]

could always arange a friendly against a nobody team to get an easy win if you bottomed out on morale.

[@afonsoduarte992]

How do you set a monthly reminder in the game?

[@reintaler6355]

You create a note. You can do that on your manager's or any person's page

[@LDB2005]

I can’t find you on twitch the link keeps coming up invalid any help?

[@franciscomarcelino1251]

same was the channell deleted?

[@ReeceTheEditor]

Try again now! :)

[@alexIVMKD]

TOTALLY AGREED

[@antoniogramsci365]

Why have views been going down the last days?

[@ZealandonYT]

We actually just had our first 1 million view month, they're fluctuating more because I'm trying a bunch of different fun vids too

[@antoniogramsci365]

@@ZealandonYT I see, hope for the best Zealand!

[@ggoof9597]

Love the content but please don't go down the clickbait title road but you addressed that yourself LOL. The pressure vs confindence is so simple but i never thought of it

[@ZealandonYT]

I just couldn't bring myself to say 'yo morale and stuff' instead, be sure I'm not that dude

[@o.shea_]

ZeaIand, I love you xox

[@hanwenyap]

So would morale in a way be a multiplier of sorts? So let's say that a striker has 20 Composure, Finishing and etc. but terrible morale, would the probability of him scoring reduce despite his attributes? I.e. Perfect morale will make him way more likely to score, Abysmal morale will make him much less likely to score

[@Veaseify]

Morale is more of a cumulative, team thing. If your team goes a goal behind and has abysmal morale you aren't coming back, no matter how much 'better' your players might be supposed to be. The players put in less effort so you create less chances, the ones that hate each other will never pass the ball to each other ( a problem if one is a winger and the other your lone striker). At a macro level get ready for a load of transfer requests and people missing training..it's just bad.

[@hanwenyap]

@@Veaseify Yeah, I once went on a 3 game losing streak as Barcelona and almost all my players' morale went down the toilet

[@llSuperSnivyll]

Low morale makes players much more likely to get negative body languages during a match. Don't think of it on numbers alone.

[@hanwenyap]

@@llSuperSnivyll One think that I hate the most is Apprehensive & Nervous, especially when the team's winning. We're 3-0 up, chill the hell up. No team talk can get them fired up/inspired

[@langletprolet8378]

@@hanwenyap The best thing to do in that situation I think is to just tell them to calm down, or like you said "chill the hell up". They'll be calm for 10 minutes, and then after that you hit'em with the Show some passion!

[@milosristic9810]

yes but IA dont care about morale

[@danieliwu4114]

Zealand can you make the vids longer. I feel like I watch it and it’s over straight away?😭😢

[@Roscododger]

Just watch his older videos. I used to feel like i watched it and it never ended.

[@BlueWoWTaylan]

Well, I went to check on my happiness graph. After all, we are winning the league and actually competing in CL as a Turkish team! Lets see how those green morales are going... Oh...top 3 of my star players are dissatisfied with the club...Fuck.

[@roxe-8753]

Zealand i heard fm mobile is another diferent fm⚽️

[@RedScareClair]

Stealing the last nacho is a big deal

[@bagehi]

Just one star? SELL.

[@jose13neo]

Determination. Next. xD

[@pegasusgamma3304]

You are FM God. But, I am wondering, who tea ched you. Is there a FMGod who teached FM God I wonder.

[@targetthyself]

The spitball formula I go by, Success in FM is 10% players, 30% tactics, 10% youth development, 10% club reputation, and 40% morale. Morale is the easiest thing to keep up, but also the easiest thing to screw yourself with, as anyone who's attempted the bottom at Christmas challenge can attest. Turning it around after it goes red is one of the hardest things in the game. And if you've ever seen Man United go down in your save, you know the power of morale.

[@hilarytinomiti]

Oh, morale

[@psosilo]

zealand everything effects everything else. So we can logically say that everything is important but when everything is important then nothing is important. What I am trying to say is this game cheats.

[@langletprolet8378]

The everything is important part is just an exaggeration for purposes... obviously not everything is that important. Like for example, deciding the numbers on the back of your players shirt isnt that important.

[@ashtonbenz]

these thumbnails are just weird..

[@ZealandonYT]

Just trying to stare into your soul

[@billsardelis9899]

You need to go back to,having facial hair 👍

[@Aidan97]

First here 😀

[@hilarytinomiti]

I can vouch for you.

[@hilarytinomiti]

Luck??

[@marcnoone7719]

whats the point of this video maaannn

[@OuvinteAmigao]

I hate these "Dialogues features" of the game... I really dont want to talk to press/players/clubowners its too much boring and repetitive. :/

[@langletprolet8378]

Just send an assistant manager to do that for you. Well, at least the press conferences. I still think talking to club owners and players are pretty necessary feature for just that little bit of immersion, it doesnt happen that often anyway, unlike the press conferences.

[@OuvinteAmigao]

@@langletprolet8378 - I always send Assist Manager, but theres still plenty of dialogues that you just cant avoid... :'(