Ninian Park 1910 - 2009 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 just wondering does anyone sign players just to make cash........... what i mean is i started a new game with cardiff city, and on the free transfers i signed "geary, quashie, alialidare, sissoko, forfona, franco" to name just a few......i also keep the current transfer listed players at the club they take up around £25,000 on wages althogther. during the course of the season i loan them out that i dont need..... by the time june comes along..... i have managed to sell them off for the following geary - £325k quashie - £50k alialidare - £2.5m sissoko - £90k forfana - £120k franco - £500k i didnt really need or use the players much just loaned them out for first team football, and got big money for them. just wondering does anyone else do this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPlanet Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 "Alialidare" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin :) Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 got Suarez for free sold him for 8m Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 I only ever sign players who I intend to play some part in my squad, some of them will inevitably be sold for profit but that isn't why I buy them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slawbawn Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 If the club I'm managing is in desperate need of some cash, I'll normally get a player on a free in January and ship him out for as much as I can in the summer. Otherwise, I'll just sign players who I think are gonna enhance my team and help me push them onto promotion/league title. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popider Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Risky business that.. If you wanna do that, it might be best to take notes - include agent/signing-on fees, 12months' wages (especially if you can't loan them) bonuses (team bonuses I think are proportional to the entire wage bill) and... wait for it... tax. (Maybe someone else will tell me how FM calculates tax but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't significant). Then also include the risk of not being able to sell someone until their contract is up. Also keep in mind that individual bonuses for the players playing can be offset by the fact that their value decreases if they don't play a game for 12 months.. but that loan system you've got going could account for that. Otherwise, good work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cplpeters1900 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Didnt do it on purpose, but bought up and coming youngsters for my stoke side for about 22mil overall, and when i left they made 118mil from them, including about 54mil from me.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andysharkey21 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Since I'm a Pompey fan, when I manage them I sign as many half decent freebies I can! 1, so I can hopefully sell them for money at some point and 2, because 17 senior players just isn't enough! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 I only do this with cheap youngsters that might make it but if not will improve enough to sell for a profit a few years down the line, and very rarely with over-23's Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicz Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Got Wilshere on a free in the second season and sold him in January for £7 million Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death. Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 I absolutely do buy to make money, but more in the traditional way. Take a player who's cheap (ideally free), give him a platform to perform and then sell him for a profit. I'm managing in the Blue Square Premier and my modus operandi is to search for young (17-23ish) free agents who are talented, give them a five year contract on dirt cheap wages and then sell them on 2-3 years down the line for a profit - or at the very least to make back what i spent on them while they were at the club. As long as i judge the players well and keep their wages to a minimum it will help us move towards balancing the books in the future. Obviously the players i bring in are what i deem talented so they can aid us in our bid for promotion as well, which makes it a little different to your buying players who you don't need just to sell on for a profit. I would expect in real life clubs do this to an extent, but more so with very young players who they can develop and sell for a sizeable amount once in their 20's. PS. I would be very interested to know how much tax costs you on a player as Popider mentioned - i've made note of bonuses/signing on fees/yearly wages, but not tax. Looking at my accounts we paid £30,384 in tax which is about 3% of my far-too-large overall expenditure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontask Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 i only go for either youngsters or frees so i make profit on my players most of the time anyway Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neji Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Not directly but sometimes I buy a young player half-expecting him to fail in the long term because I know I'll be able to make a profit further down the line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jme10 Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Well I buy purely 18yr olds and lower, so inevitably depending on development of each player and the generation of players already in the squad, good younger players that have pretty much peaked but wont make squad due to the players ahead of them, they will be sold for a good profit. To summarise, I don't actively buy players to make money, but its an inevitable consequence of my buying strategy which I take advantage of. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdanio Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 If i see a top player i will get them on a free, loan them out, and often sell them on. Barca do it in real life. Saviola and now Keirrison won't have a career with them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalky1989 Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Not in the sense you're talking about, but I'll get large numbers of youth players with good-high potential very cheaply, and once it's become apparent who is going to make it into the first team and who isn't, I'll loan the ones who won't out for a season to boost their profile, then sell them for as much as I can plus a 50% of next sale clause. Which while it often doesn't earn large amounts, it has in the past rewarded me when a youth player who cost me 100k, went for 250 k, then after 6-7 years at another club playing regularly went for about 25 million, 12.5 of which came my way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart1994 Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Only wonderkids, buying them for 3-4 M then selling them for 17-20 M where clubs like Man City, Real Madrid and so on are willing to pay that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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