Bidding wars anyone?

Folks,

It seems to be a pretty widespread consensus at the moment that one of the frustrations of FM2011 is being unable to get value selling players. It seems like every AI "knows" what everyone else will bid and they form a nice little cartel to force the seller to sell at an annoyingly low price. But this isn't the way it would work in real life... Does anyone think the following set-up would work, or would it be too cumbersome?

Consider the screen where we negotiate with agents. Something similar looking will be our battleground with clubs. Take a £5million player who is good but we can't afford to keep for now, offer him out for £7.5million and get 8 interested clubs. Now in the FM2011 we are currently experiencing, we'll get 8 bids of £5million. 8 nonnegotiable bids - accept or decline. The power is right in the buyers' hands. But if we look at economic theory/ supply and demand etc, we'll know that with this many buyers, the power is right in the sellers' hands. Would something like this work?

- Offer for £7.5million

- 8 offers of £5million

- Renegotiate "there are several interested parties. Would anyone be willing to pay £10million?"

- 2 clubs reject outright, 3 clubs "tentative", 3 clubs renegotiate "£7million"

- Renegotiate "there is still a lot of competition from other clubs. Anyone willing to pay £9million?"

- 2 further clubs declare themselves out of the running, 3 of the remaining 4 are "tentative", 1 bids £7.75million

- Renegotiate "we have an offer of £7.75million. To all the tentative clubs: better or match this or we'll reject your offer"

- 2 clubs declare themselves out, one club bids £8million, the £7.75million-bidding club is asked to match this and does.

- 2 clubs gain permission to speak to player

This will take place over the course of... maybe a week? Would this be too cumbersome and bulky? It just seems like something has to be done so that the AI doesn't always have the power in the market over the player...

i like it ! ..sure..maybe some tweaks to it but the ideea is great...it really is annoying that clubs offer the same price for a player. not realistic at all.

I like it also

But its not hard to change the coding in this Aspect of the game

In English the code would be like this

When Club offers out player for x amount of money.

10% chance of interested teams offer the exact x amount.

90% chance the other Interested teams offer few million less then offer.

Bids Non negotiable.

They could change it slightly so that

For example

if a player is offered out for 5m and the player is worth 3m

10 interested teams

10% chance of been offered the full 5m

then the other interested teams will offer between the 3m original value and the asking value with different clauses like sell on Etc or over a certain amount of time

so it makes the game a wee bit more random when dealing with transfers i recon this could be a good change

But of course in Coding language its like a bunch of

{

x=3

}

but i think it should be changed