The best right wingers to sign in Football Manager 2024

With Football Manager 2025 cancelled, 2024 is still the newest iteration of the game we all know and love. Here are the right winger wonderkids to sign on your ageing save.

At SCOUTED, we discover the future of football - turns out, that's a pretty useful skill for FM titles. So we’ve compiled a list of right wingers that can be defined as “wonderkids” in the latest game. A few of them will be familiar faces but others will, hopefully, be players you’ve never heard of.

They’re not necessarily the best; they’re players that we like in real-life that look good in FM24. If you just want the list, here you go - here are the right wingers we’re recommending you to scout and sign on your saves this year.

Who are the best Right Wingers (RWs) to sign in Football Manager 2024?

Need a game-changer off the right wing? Here's a selection of prospects that can take your attack to the next level on FM24:

• Ben Doak
• Sávio
• Matías Soulé
• Lamine Yamal

Of course, SCOUTED is all about detail. So, the team has put together some short profiles for those of you thirsting for more insight into the wingers running down the right wing on your Football Manager save.

Ben Doak

Positions: RW
Club: Liverpool (ENG)
Nation: Scotland
Transfer Value: €34-52 million

After Liverpool poached Ben Doak from Celtic in 2022, he’s been on the fast track since. He excelled at youth level in 2022/23, impressing in first-team friendlies before his senior debut. He still could be the heir to Mohamed Salah’s throne.

His FM24 skillset is a little bit of a mixed bag, with extraordinary mental attributes for a 17-year-old and solid technical qualities in all the right areas – except for finishing. He’s quick enough too, and has the potential to be a decent contributor off the bench for a decent team.

He won’t come cheap though, with a long-term contract and a high valuation meaning you’ll have to pay a handsome sum to bring him to your club.

Sávio (Savinho)

Positions: AMR, AML
Club: ESTAC Troyes (FRA)
Nation: Brazil
Transfer Value: €8-13 million

Sávio is one of the City Football Group signings that flew under the radar – mainly because he was sent to Troyes, rather than straight to Manchester City where he will be on Football Manager 2025.

In saying that, since his move to France in 2022, he’s never played for the club, with an unsuccessful loan spell at PSV Eindhoven sandwiching a 2022/23 season that also included an U-20 Sudamericano title with Brazil.

He tore up LaLiga on loan at Girona and was granted some superb stats on FM24, primarily in the dribbling column. Dribbling, first touch, flair, technique and agility, underpinned by good speed and decent finishing. That’s a solid inside forward option, and should be pretty gettable once he returns to Troyes in Ligue 2.

Matías Soulé

Positions: AMR, AMC
Club: Juventus (ITA)
Nation: Argentina
Transfer Value: €14-22 million

After extracting himself from the yoke of Max Allegri, Matías Soulé found the form he consistently showed as one of the stars of Juventus’ youth academy while on loan with Frosinone in Serie A. He hit the ground running as a consistent starter, scoring and assisting regularly, and staking a claim for a place in Italy’s squad with a possible switch from his native Argentina. In real life, AS Roma snapped him up in July 2024.

With only 9 finishing, Soulé probably presents best as a creative winger who makes use of his speed, stamina and dribbling, passing and crossing to open up defences. Like the others on this list, he has really good mental attributes too, with excellent determination, flair, vision and work rate.

Lamine Yamal

Positions: AMR, AML
Club: FC Barcelona (ESP)
Nation: Spain
Transfer Value: €121-138 million

Lamine Yamal’s ascent to superstardom has been extraordinarily rapid. He’s an otherworldly talent that’s dominated at youth and senior level: he repeated his game-breaking displays at the 2023 U-17 EURO a year later at the senior tournament.

Even before that he made the remarkable achievement of debuting for Barcelona as a 15-year-old, before making his debut for the senior Spanish side as a 16-year-old — the youngest ever player in the history of both club and country.

Starting the game at 15, Yamal’s starting attributes are already pretty outrageous. Strong dribbling, first touch and technique attributes are a given, while FM have also gifted him with really good mental attributes and the foundations of an excellent physical profile too. If you can get him, get him. He might just be the best wonderkid in FM24. When the game was first released, you could sign him for around €20 million. Now, you will have to pay a nine-figure fee. If you can, it's still worth it.

What roles can Right Wingers play in Football Manager 2024?

The Right Winger is a versatile position that can dictate the shape of your attack. From the classic Winger role to the Inside Forward that looks to score, the space exploiting Raumdeuter, and everything in between, there are plenty of options:

• Winger
• Inverted Winger
• Inside Forward
• Advanced Playmaker
• Wide Target Man
• Raumdeuter
• Trquartista

We’ll start with the Winger and Inverted Winger roles, which are very similar. The former stays wide, looking to beat his man and get crosses into the box. The Attack mentality will make him hit the byline more often.

The Inverted Winger is similar, although they look to drive inside, allowing a wing-back to overlap. On attack duty, they will look to be more aggressive attacking the defensive line, rather than look to run across it.

The Advanced Playmaker will be a creative hub from wider areas. You have the flexibility to instruct them to do different things, be it sticking wider or tucking inside to create overloads.

The Trequartista role isn’t dissimilar to the Advanced Playmaker, although they commit less effort to the defensive side of the game. They’re more like the traditional number 10, the player that the rest of the team carries out of possession.

As noted in the game, the Raumdeuter is literally the German word for ‘space investigator’. Basically, they will look to find spaces in wide areas and especially in the penalty area. Essentially they’re a wide poacher.

The Wide Target Forward is another pretty self-explanatory one. They’ll park themselves out wide on a smaller full-back and become an outlet for your defence to play out to, before controlling the ball and moving it on to the team’s other attacking players.

Lastly, there’s the ultra-attacking Inside Forward, a FM favourite. The Inside Forward isn’t dissimilar to the Inverted Winger, but they will cross much less and instead look to be really aggressive with inside runs with and without the ball.

While the Inverted Winger likes to pick up the ball out wide, the Inside Forward is happy to make runs to pick the ball up in the half-space. On the Support duty, they will look to play through balls from deep and take long shots, while on Attack duty they will be more aggressive in attacking the box.

What attributes are important for Right Wingers in Football Manager 2024?

Let’s start with the playmaking roles: Trequartista and Advanced Playmaker. At a base level, these roles require your player to have good dribbling, first touch, passing, technique, vision and decision-making, flair, composure and anticipation attributes. The Trequartista will require the same attributes, but also some acceleration and finishing for those late runs into the penalty area.

The winger roles? Winger and Inverted Winger are quite similar. They require acceleration, stamina, pace, and agility as baseline physical attributes, while crossing, dribbling, work rate, technique and off-ball movement are also important. Some flair will also be required if you are looking to play them on an Attack duty.

Lastly, there are the attacking roles: Raumdeuter, Wide Target Forward and Inside Forward. They’re all a little bit different – for example, the Wide Target Forward will require height, jumping reach, balance, stamina and strength as physical attributes. Heading is another obvious prerequisite, but they’ll also need other more standard winger attributes like crossing, first touch, off the ball movement, work rate, and so on.

The Inside Forward is not too dissimilar to the Inverted Winger, but with their added increase on attacking the penalty area, they trade the Inverted Winger’s need to be able to cross for finishing.

Finally, there’s the Raumdeuter. The headline key attributes mental ones: anticipation, concentration, off the ball movement, work rate, decision-making and composure. They’ll need these to be able to follow the play and execute runs and actions with perfect timing to be most effective. Finishing, first touch, technique, work rate, acceleration, stamina and balance are also important.

Who is the best Right Winger in Football Manager 2024?

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah is the best right winger in Football Manager 2024.

Who is the best young Right Winger in Football Manager 2024?

At just 15 years old at the start of the game, Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal is one of the best young right wingers in Football Manager 2024 already.

Which young Right Winger should I buy on Football Manager 2024?

Roony Bardghji from FC København is one of our recommendations for young right wingers to sign in Football Manager 2024.