Annoying Issue

I am trying to sign a player, I put all the correct salary and things I want, but the game will not let me choose a contract length. When I press current contract on the negotiaton screen, it says January 1900.

Possible bug?

Have you applied the new hotfix? I believe it fixed an issue like yours.

I have it downloaded, does it apply to my save? I am not starting a new save, I have Blyth Spartans in the Championship, and with a 3M budget, this could be the year to go up.

I had this problem in a network save, ended up losing about 10 members of staff and Mirko Vucinic on a free, easily the worst bug I've encountered in an FM game, a complete gamebreaker.

Select the squad status first

I have done.

Or, as a temporary work around fire up fmrte and simply modify his contract accordingly. If you are seriously concerned it is cheating, simply modify your clubs balance to account for the signing on fee.

I do realise this is not how it should be done and the game should work properly, but I'm inclined to enjoymy game as apposed to letting it fall appart because of a bug.