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If your FM24 saves are starting to get a bit stale, you’re looking for a new challenge or just short on time and need a simpler way to play Football Manager, why not try a Rebuild Save?
 

You may have already seen lots of people doing rebuilds on YouTube, if you haven’t, then the basic idea is that you setup a team during preseason, setting up the tactics , doing some transfers etc and then going on holiday and leaving the rest up to your backroom staff. This allows you to blast through multiple seasons much quicker than if you played each match normally. The concept of a “rebuild” then comes from the idea that you can use FM24 to realistically play out how a team who drastically needs a major, multi year rebuild (or “open heart surgery” as Ralf Rangnick might say) could actually do one.
 

But before you get started you need to know there are a few things you need to remember to do to get setup and make sure your backroom staff are going to cover everything while you’re away. Forgetting any of them might ruin your rebuild so follow the instructions closely.
 

And if there’s anything else you think think we’ve forgotten drop a comment below.

 

How to Setup a Rebuild Save

 

Start by setting up a new Career game > Original Mode

 

Choose the League or Leagues you are interested in, in this example we gonna set a Valencia Rebuild so I’ve chosen only La Liga to make things faster

Customize database setup, I like to choose custom large database and add Player from top division clubs and Players with national reputation from all continents to have a interesting player pool

 

After adding you manager to the team of your choice:

  • Navigate to the Staff tab from the sidebar.
  • Locate the Responsibilities sub-tab within the Staff menu.
  • Choose Transfers and Contracts
  • Set your Director of Football responsible for everything under Transfers and Contracts tabs

 

 

Repeat the delegation process under Staff:

  • Navigate to the Staff tab from the sidebar.
  • Locate the Responsibilities sub-tab within the Staff menu.
  • Choose Staff
  • Set your Technical Director (if you don’t have one use Director of Football) responsible for everything under General and Contracts tabs

 

 

Once you’ve got all that setup you’re good to start your rebuild. You can pick and choose how you want to micromanage:

 

  • Setup tactics
  • Buy and sell players
  • Setup shortlist for the director of football
  • Setup training
  • Setup recruitment focuses

 

Generally setting up tactics and buying and selling players is enough for most people in a rebuild, but it’s really up to you what you want to get stuck into or not.

 

How to go on Holiday in FM24

 

Now you are ready to go on holiday and see how things are going after a year:

 

  • Navigate to the Home tab from the sidebar.
  • Locate the My Profile sub-tab within the Tactics menu.
  • Choose Go On Holiday
  • Set Use Current Match Tactics and Use Current Team selection when possible
  • Set return from Holiday on date: 31/05/2024

 

 

After the holiday take a look around and evaluate if things are on the level of challenge you were expecting, you can at this point if you are not satisfied, holiday for a further year or for 5 or 10 years if you want things to get really extreme.

Comments
Footygamer
18 years ago
3 minutes ago
480,080

@The Flying Scotsman FM also did a video about this

 

 

bigmattb28
11 years ago
2 days ago
1,674

I don't understand these people that do saves like this on youtube and just holiday through, why buy the game if you're not going to play the game

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