How often to you break the bank to sign a player?

Just wondered, do you often overspend on players? I mean, if a player is valued at £6 million and the club he plays for want £10 million what do you normally do? Do you always give into them, never or only if the player is really worth it?

It depends on whether I think it's worth it, how much money I have and how desperate I am for a player. £10m for a £6m rated player is very reasonable - you'll almost never get a player that the club wants to keep for anywhere near their estimated value.

i dont think paying 10 million for a 6 million rated player is called breaking the bank. if you have to pay like 30+ million for the same player then thats breaking the bank.

answering your qn, i dont usually do it but if its like a worldclass player who would bring quality to my team and improve the way my team plays then why not.

OK then lets change it, if a player is valued at £9 million and his club asks for £29 million what would you do?

Yep.

Average 10 million I spend on youngsters.

OK then lets change it, if a player is valued at £9 million and his club asks for £29 million what would you do?

Depends on the player. I'd look around at other options, but if he was the best I was going to get, and I could afford it, then yeah, I'd go for it.

I don't really consider the value to be that important. What matters is: a) how good the player is, b) how much I can afford to spend, and c) how much comparable players are selling for

You buy the player best in that position regardless of price. If you get all the right players you get a winning team = success = more money = good investment.

i always get players of the transfer list unless there isnt anyone who is suitable

I usually don't do it as there is always a similar player available for cheap.. not always easy to find them though. This is of course unless you're challanging for the champions league or even only the title in one of the big 3 countries.

Highest spend 09.. €56m for Messi

On 08 I think I've once paid more than €100m for Fabregas

I've just signed joe mattox for leeds for £16 million, will be worth it eventually, and I signed a decent CB for £18 million, two sbig name signings and 1 FC, Stancu for 2.5, my july spendings.

i just won the title twice in a row with man city and lost to barcelona in the champions league final and i became a worldwide club and i signed miralem pjanic for £85million

I deal with small numbers, less then a million, and so I'm very tight with the transfer budget because usually, it's close to 0. So you can bet your bottom dollar that I negotiate till either they give in, or I move on and look at the transfer listed players.

I try to avoid spending most of my transfer budget on one player. I usually try and spread it out a lot by focussing on youth and building up my strength over time as my youth players improve.

The only time I ever spend a lot on a player is if they are a player who would be an absolute key player for me or if I was desperate for a player in that position.

Latest example of that would be in my 2nd season as sunderland, I had no right mids/right attacking mids, so I spent about £18m of my £22m budget on one player.

Very, VERY rarely.

If i spend big, I make sure that I sell big also, no matter what my transfer fund is;

Total Spent: £381,000,000

Total Received: £424,000,000

I'm very happy with my wheeling and dealing

i just won the title twice in a row with man city and lost to barcelona in the champions league final and i became a worldwide club and i signed miralem pjanic for £85million

jeez. u can get him for well cheaper. i got him for 25mil i think. and i had to think about that!

I usually don't pay much more than a player's value because I haven't yet played with a big club in FM09. In my current game I'm managing Amkar in Russia and my most expensive player cost me £2.8M and he was worth £2.7M at the time

I never overpay transfer fees and i never overpay wages.

That's how I play.

i have broken the bank 3 times. thiago silva rated at 1.5 million spennt 7.5 to get him. spent 44 million on messi and 18 million on huntelaar. and im in my second season

I'll pay 3 times the value for a potentially class youngster.

That's it.

And three times the value is usually 5 million.

I never spend so much that it'd put the club into financial difficulty. Unfortunately that meant on my latest game that after 3 seasons, my total spending with Mansfield was still 0. Same applies at a big club though,if I only want one player, I have no problem with spending my whole transfer budget to get the one I want.

I paid €18,5 million for an 18 year old valued at around 2,5.... guess I really wanted a young, explosive striker with great potential.

Im at Rangers and have a decent amount of money but no world class players want to come, i tryed riquelme and he wanted to come, valued at 3.5m i had to pay 9m and his age is 32. well worth it cos hes playing amazing and thanks to him im in quater finals of champ league and looking like mite make it further so i should get alot of that back in prize money, gate receipts.

only, and i mean ONLY if they are going to improve my team a large amount, like a position i need. If its for backup to another great player then no

I never have broken the bank to sign a player. I keep the club in my best interest and wouldn't want them in debt or anything. I usually find my gems on frees, or cheap youngsters I find on other teams.

I spent about double his worth for Martin Skrtel back in FM07. Worth every penny, IMO.

I negotiate it down,at least it works in this game(FM09)

My biggest signing yet is 4.5 million in euro's so about 3.5 million pound.

I buy young talents or transfer listed players most of the time.

My transfer budget is currently 28 million euro (20 million pound).

I nearly bought a striker for 11 million, but in the end I decided not to make a bid because my current one accepted his new contract instead of a transfer to Valencia.

I never put my club in financial problems.

If you have the money, it's not really breaking the bank.

A few seasons ago with Leeds, we desperately needed a keeper, but none better than what we had were becoming available. Then a chance for a much better one turned up. Only they wanted 3 million and I only had 2 and a bit million. No matter what I put in they wouldnt budge the price.

So I offered 2 million plus a million after 50 games. They accepted and I got the player.

Later, I got an even better keeper and this guy became 2nd choice. I needed to sell him as he didn't like it as sub. First keeper hurt his finger, was out for a week, so this guy got one last game. Guess which game it was...yep, his bloody 50th, I'd forgotten all about it

biggest signing so far is Cristiano Ronaldo for £90 million to newcastle united!! never going to spend so much on him again

my biggest transfer ion this game is Palombo / Kuzmanovic - both bought for 12m

i set myself a budget of what i want to pay and stick to it (6m for a 3rd choice DC)

Jimbokav's son here, biggest money I have ever seen someone want was 65million for when he was only valued at 2-3 million. Was on 08 so not sure of exact money that wanted and what he was vauled at( I of course did not buy him ). I think the player was Micha Richards.

I'm really bad when it comes to negotioating on transfers, I usually blow my budget without thinking.

Kaka - 90 Million

Fabregas - 67 Million

Pato - 55 Million

Only if there worth it and I they will be clear first team players rather than back-up or alternatives.

£30m on gareth barry and £34m on berbatov. neither were world class. man u came back and offerd £24m end of the season and now he's unsettled. (im spurs)