This is so funny lol. Benfica e Castelo Branco were founded as an affiliate club of Benfica in the city of Castelo Branco, that's why they have similar names and badges (it's also why there are a lot of Sportings around like Sporting da Covilhã which have a very similar badge to the old Sporting CP one), and they're actually not even in the 3rd tier (the Terceira Liga), they're in the 4th tier (Campeonato de Portugal, which used to be the 3rd tier until 2 seasons ago a new professional league was established). Other fun stuff to point out you may have missed: B-SAD, which in your game is called Belenenses but they're not the true Belenenses former Portuguese champions, they are legally a club founded in 2019 after the club section broke away from the board of CF Os Belenenses (the true Belenenses are now in the 3rd tier and B-SAD in the 2nd in a relegation scrap), won a few CLs; Amora, a club from the 3rd tier with a brief stint in the top flight in the 80s won some as well; a bunch of all-Portuguese finals including Benfica vs Benfica CB on multiple occasions. I didn't see Porto, Sporting or Braga anywhere though, it would have been interesting to check the Portuguese league and see what else has changed. Also a random King's Lynn Town in a CL final once.

2:42 Nunez spent 5 years locked in Liverpool without ever playing a game.

Reputation is definately OP in the game. Only yesterday I had a situation where I've got an unexpected promotion and my entire summers transfer business was scuppered by players going to 1 of 2 higher rep teams in the division below for less playing time. Honestly, transfer windows like that make you just not load up the game for a day or two.

Wolves winning the Prem as early as 2023/24 was definitely an unmentioned shocked

Teams with formidable youth like Schalke will thrive

I think the game just doesnt have a scenario for this, in real life, a big corporation would make a move for a Dutch/Belgian/Portuguese club and turn them from selling club to buying club and would definitely have the means to buy the champions league and that'd start a cascading effect of money and success (and then reputation)

SLB Castelo Branco is a team from a smaller town in Portugal! But this is very funny!

it would be interesting a video in which you give a lot of money to the leagues participating in the Asian Champions League

Finally hoped the Dutch clubs would shine, but somehow FM holds them back in EVERY EXPERIMENT 😭

Would be interesting to see the squad makeup of the big teams in the earlier years, a few stars and a load of cheap players or more balanced?

I don't play FM but does it show the Club World Cup too? I'd be interested to see if these Middle Eastern sides can start to beat the European and South American champions with their huge payrolls.

This experiment has a massively flawed premise. Your "tiny" salary cap still leaves those teams with a higher weekly salary than all but 6 European clubs (I've found Ajax, 3 Portuguese clubs, Brugge and Olympiacos - not even moneybags RB Salzburg are over 500k/w) which means that strong players will still earn more in the EPL than in any other league. If you want the salary cap to actually be noticable, you'd have to go at the very least below 300k/w, but that would still leave only a dozen or so clubs in additional competition.

Tom you are one of the best youtubers keep up with the good work, we love to see it!

Is it possible the lower division English teams for some reason weren’t effected by the cap and that made them OP?

Of course Miguel Infantino, a descendant of Gianni Infantino, plays for Al-Gharafa in either Saudi-Arabia or Qatar...

How did transfer fees look? Did they increase, decrease, or stay much the same?

Suggestion: make very European league have x amount of salary cap but if a team in that country wins an European competition then that league the teams from gets a cost cap limit increase by x amount

My hometown team of Amora winning some champions leagues. Love to see it

As someone who has done a one club save and won a champions league with dartford i loved this.

being an american and an orlando city fan, never would I ever think that Facu would be here 10 years later, nor us even being featured in a video no matter the weird rule

Please could you share the save files, I’d love to have a look at this!!! Amazing video.

I'm not surprised Dutch clubs didn't do much. The Eredivisie always crumbles if you don't have it loaded. I'm just surprised Bulgaria didn't surpass them

I wonder where Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea are in the 2126 season in this simulation? I'm guessing they've fallen to at least League One or below.

You should do this again but maybe include Portugal, and give a tiny nation league a huge TV deal on top. See if that League can rise to the top and sign superstars.

As a Benfica fan, I've gotta say I loved this video ahahah

Could try to give the other leagues more money to see if that changes anything

did you made any non-top 5 league playable? because that plays a lot in game's evolution

6:33 Real Madrid lost the Champions League final AT HOME To Arsenal 😭😭😭

I'd like to see a similar thing done but give them a £2m per week salary cap instead to make it a little more realistic - also with the usual suspects (England, France, Germany, Spain and Italy) PLUS Portugal, Netherlands and Turkey. With the Top 5 leagues, also give a salary cap of £1m per week to their 2nd division too. I think that THAT would give a very interesting result

Good lord, even the MLS has a salary cap more than three times higher than what you gave them. I look forward to this.

3:10 Yuri Alberto, Zenit

“Another player playing in Belenenses” That’s not Belenenses. That’s B-Sad. Yes their currently name is B-sad Why? Some years ago, Belenenses went bankrupt and Went to the regionals in Portugal. While that the board SAD stayed in Primeira Liga, but without the logo and the name. A new name was created B-Sad Benfica CB and SL Benfica are different teams While one is playing in Castelo Branco the other is playing in Lisbon Benfica CB was a satellite of Benfica, we in Portugal have a lot of old satellites that still have the logo and the name of their old primary club.

0:20 how did you manage to use the old logos for 3 leagues???

I really need to know more about this Benfica situation lol, I still feel like it’s their B-team but something broke ingame lol 😂

Really underated youtuber

Would of been nice to see what happened to the international rankings

Is this database going on your patreon?

See if it evens everything out if you do it with all the leagues as well

If they are not spending money on wages how much are the transfer fees

Crystal Palace are still finishing 14th in 2072.

Sutton regularly do well on these videos. They appear to be very overpowered in FM23.

Lower league usa are making a 10 tier pro/rel database. I'd love for you to look at how that works after 5/10 year's

9:48 FC København in the CL final in 2111/'12!

As Arsenal fan this feels like a dream

Finally an experiment where Bolton do ok!

I would like to see the opposite in South America. Give the Uruguayan league a 1 billion TV Deal for each team and see if they can stop brazilian and Argentine teams

5:21 how did wolves win and aston villa get 2nd in 2023-24????

Did league prize money change? Or were the premier league clubs just holding on tons of milions without being able to spend them? Did clubs in Portugal become rich?

Never would have thought that Hiroki Ito would be the 6th highest earning player in the world

how do you see a drop down CA list in FM21? I know no such option

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Kings Lynn made a champions league Final What the hell haha

Hang on kings lynn got to the finials of the champions league :O I'm guess the lack of a good tv deal in the dutch leages has also not

I think you would see just a switch in real life. The problem is in FM the wealth of FAs is pretty static and TV money doesnt really increase very much. If all the best players went to portugal, they would have the massive tv contracts we find in the prem. Also, I think reputation is too important in this game. If an innocuous team were to offer premier league players 100 million a year to play for them, I think most would accept. The idea that players would take a 90% paycut to play for a higher rep team is unrealistic.

how did you add the column with "Curent Ability" ?

so the 2033 UEFA Champions League is hosted in Kyiv? Hmmmmmm

The "dynamic league reputation" is broken. Provenly broken.

If you'd run this simulation 5 years ago, the Chinese Super League would have absolutely dominated the spending on player wages 10, 20, or 50 years into the future. Look where they are now. These teams in the Middle East are looking good right now, especially in Saudi Arabia. But that very well may not hold up in the medium to long term. They are overspending at the moment, and it just isn't sustainable.

How to put salary caps???

what about removing all players from every club and setting a salary cap of 500k for each team/league?

Person 1: so what team do you support? Person 2: Benfica Person 1: ... which one?

anybody knows how to edit salary cap?

i'd expect the belgian league to be 5th because of beleneses (i think thats how it's spelt) carrying

Most importantly Middlesbrough has won 2 Champions League titles.

You can't make other leagues more rich actually... So there is no way the clubs in those leagues can ever afford to pay massive wages.

You should make the US have a relegation/promotion system

My biggest takeaway from this is that Leeds lost about 7 champions league finals without winning one 😭

Yes Dartford!

I think you forget signing fees. And also bonusses are in play

50 yrs in future and my club Sutton utd up in prem

As an arsenal fan, maybe there some sense to a salary cap....

I think a great experiment would be to just erase all the money from all the top leagues (including sponsorships)

Who won the World Club Championships?

Up the darts

What's funny is that I was just listening to "Pink Floyd - Money" when I got the notification 🤣 Great content as always Tom

What I took from this is that Chelsea are crap in every single experiment

Doesn't matter about the salary cap because eredivise can't spend £150000 a week on multiple players. Ain't got the money for it.

I noticed you mess up speech and it looks like you meant to edit it out but you don’t lol you’ll say the same sentence twice sometimes. Just something I noticed but dope vids around 9:20 it happens

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southhampton 31/32 champions league runners up

that data base is not done right. the salary cap was not low enough and it was only done for clubs not leagues that's why all the smaller clubs in england rose up the leagues and become power houses, also in order for this to work you'd have to change competition prize money.

Dartford winning the champions league lol

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500k TiNy CaP

why put top 5 leagues in the title if you then only talk about england? seems kinda redundant at that point

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paul

benfica is the best team itw anyways so

FM is so incredibly English biased it's sickening.

This should be done in real life to be honest maybe like a million a week