Football Manager 2024: best team you can build from free agents

You can form a star-powered squad from free agents alone

Contents

1. Best free agent starting eleven in Football Manager 2024
2. Best free agent reserves in Football Manager 2024

In Football Manager 2024, the most expensive team does not always win – and winning won’t be of any great help if your club goes insolvent because you drained it of cash with your expensive transfers. Fortunately, you can get your hands on some pretty strong players without losing much of your precious budget to transfer fees by going after the best Football Manager 2024 free agents. This will save you a bunch of money and give you greater opportunities in the future.

That’s still quite an extensive list, though, and you’ll need to do a lot of research and scouting if you want to put together the right squad. That’s why we’ve done all that work for you, building up the best Football Manager 2024 free agent team for you to use.

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We’ve chosen a well-balanced 4-2-3-1 formation for this top free agent team, since it’s versatile and can be amended according to your needs and preferences.

Best free agent starting eleven in Football Manager 2024

• David De Gea - GK
• Sime Vrsaljko - D/WB R
• Ryan Bertrand - D/WB L
• Jerome Boateng - D C
• Shkodran Mustafi - D C
• Fabian Delph - DM
• Yann M'Vila - DM
• Karim Bellarabi - AMR
• Jesse Lingard - AML
• Roberto Soriano - AMC
• Felipe Caicedo - ST

Best free agent reserves in Football Manager 2024

• Timo Horn - GK
• Renan Ribeiro - GK
• Phil Jones - D C
• Eduardo Bauermann - D C
• Molla Wague - D RC
• André Almeida - D RL, DM
• Adrien Silva - DM
• Xeka - DM
• Luiz Gustavo - DM
• André Ayew - AM RL, ST
• Javier Pastore - AM LC
• Diego Perotti - AM RLC
• Marvin Zeegelaar - D LC
• Andros Townsend - AM RL
• Nicola Kalinic - ST

The most valuable pieces on the board are undoubtedly De Gea between the posts and Boateng in defense, and for these you are likely to have to shell out significant sums. You may not be able to afford them unless you have one of the Football Manager 2024 clubs with the highest transfer budgets, so consider the alternatives – of which, as you can see, there is no shortage of.

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