u/SaltAlps992

Hey guys,

I’m planning to start a youth-to-gold type of save and try to turn a small club into the No. 1 club in the world (win league, cup, Champions League...). I still haven’t decided on the league or club yet — maybe a non-league to top-tier challenge. I’d like to commit to at least 10 seasons.

I’ve watched quite a few YouTube videos about this kind of save, but I’m still not fully sure how everything works. For example, I’ve seen some people completely get rid of players older than 29 and focus almost entirely on wonderkids, so not sure how to go through it within the first few seasons. I’m not super experienced in FM — I played FM24 a lot with some top-tier clubs, but that’s about it.

What I really want is to learn scouting, understand player roles better, and figure out how to judge whether a young player will actually become good enough to keep, or if it makes more sense to develop, how to develop, and/or sell him for profit.

I also love the idea of scouting obscure nations to find unique wonderkids/regens instead of relying on the usual countries like England, Spain, France, etc.

So yeah — any tips on how to approach this? How do you pick an “ideal club” for this type of save? Any good guides (in other words, super simple) for scouting wonderkids, understanding attributes/numbers, judging potential, and developing young players?

Hi there,

As I said I got bored playing with top teams, for example, I had one save with Barca, and won all the trophies, 3 seasons in a row.

Then, I tried something else, tried to get more into it, and started a save with Osijek in Croatian league, played 3 or 4 seasons as well, won the league title, cup title, and conference league, got bored, Juventus offered me an offer, I signed, played 3-4 matches and got bored again.

Looking for some kind of save where I can develop wonderkids, where I can build the clubs reputation (from top leagues or bottom), so the goal would be to build players around academy, even though I'm not sure how to develop those players, I have never been good at it, and also I have never been good at judging who's good enough as a wonderkid, just in the obvious cases. This sounds like something thay would be interesting to me, and something I can enjoy for 10 seasons or whatever.

So any recommendations, any tips.

Thanks!

I'm 23M, and I don't really have great experience with women or relationships, so maybe I'm overthinking this, but pretty sure my sister's best friend (21F) is flirting with me. At the same time, I genuinely can't tell if I'm reading it right or if she's just naturally attention-seeking/flirty.

We're not close at all. We don't hang out, we don't chat through apps, we don't share the same friend group, and outside of occasionally seeing each other, we basically have no relationship. The only times we interact are when she comes over to drink coffee with my sister a few times a year, or when I drive them to the train station once a week because they go to university together.

But every single time she comes over, she comes into my room to "Say hi." She'll sit on the bed, start random conversations, ask me a million questions (sometimes dumb ones just to keep the conversation), drag out my name while talking like "Answeeeer meeee," and keep trying to get reactions out of me if I'm being quiet.

She also randomly gossips to me about my ex-best friend, who goes to the same university as her, saying he messages her, that he's weird/stupid, etc. Which honestly feels strange because most of our conversations somehow turn into gossip about other people. Or I get "fake-angry" and start asking her why she always gossips about other people she's hanging out with every weekend, and other stuff. We're arguing here, but it's completely fake on my part, I'm just triggering her to get a little annoyed.

There were also multiple situations where she said stuff in front of my sister like:

"You're sooo sweet."
"I like your haircut, it fits you nicely."
"Oh, new hoodie, I like it."

Or joking around with stuff like "me and you are gonna end up together", or stuff like "When I move to your family house..."

One time, I wasn't going out much, and she literally said:

"You're a good-looking guy, it's a shame you just sit at home. Go and socialize a bit with people..."

Another situation was when I only had to drive my sister to the train station, and she randomly insisted on coming too just so I could drive her back home after (We were going to another nearby city, and then came back to our place). On the way back, we talked normally for like 30 minutes about life, plans, people we know, random jokes, etc.

The thing is, I think part of why she's attracted to me is that I don't really react much. I kind of do my own thing, don't chase validation, and stay calm even when she's obviously trying to get attention out of me. I'm not trying to act like someone mysterious "sigma" guy or anything, that's just naturally how I am.

At the same time, I'm conflicted because:

1. I do think the signals are pretty obvious.
2. I'm somewhat attracted to her physically.
3. But I honestly don't think I like her personality that much

She talks a lot, gossips constantly, and seems very caught up in other people's business. She's cute, but not 1/1 my type.

Also, I once overheard her talking very openly about her sex life and relationship drama with her boyfriend/ex, and the whole thing gave me a weird impression. From the way she talked about it, it sounded like they had this toxic situation where he’d spend weekends around other girls, post stories with them, flirt around, etc., while at the same time still hooking up with her regularly.

Maybe I misunderstood it, but the vibe I got from that conversation was almost like she treats relationships very casually, and it made me feel like if I actually tried, I could probably end up having that same kind of situation with her. I know that probably sounds a bit egotistical, but that’s genuinely the impression she gave me, and honestly, it kind of turned me off even more.

So now I’m wondering what the smartest move even is here.

Do I:

• leave it alone completely,
• keep it friendly/flirty but casual,
• or be fully honest that I’m not looking for anything serious at all if something ever happened between us?

Because I genuinely don’t want to lead someone on or create unnecessary drama with my sister either.