Offering contracts half way through season, contract length only until end of existing contract

To clarify; I'm offering this to my own players/staff. I've not tried it for anyone outside of my club

Thank you for the save game and info, we will investigate further. 

Hi @Zachary Whyte - an update on this for you.

I've just reached the end of the first year (Dec 30th) and had another news item about expiring contracts. There's less players on there now and I've tried offering to one player and I could start it in the future and offer a year.

So it's a strange one. I'll go and check the other players to see what's happened but I wonder if it's to do with me choosing to match real life signings when I started. So maybe they signed new contracts in real life.......but if so I'd expect it to tell me and I'd expect them not to be on the news item (the one earlier in the save)

 

Hope that helps!

Ok so I checked another player (Tom Smith). His contract does expire at the end of the season but he didn't show on this second news item. I'm also unable to offer him a contract starting later. I haven't gone to the next screen as don't want to annoy him if I withdraw my offer

Thanks for the added information.  

Hi @Zachary Whyte - it's now 27th February 2024 in game and I had a news item saying Smith's contract ending in 3 months, fans concerned etc.

I entered contract negotiations from that news item, couldn't put a future start date BUT I could offer a 2 year deal now! So my immediate worries have gone :). Be good if this can be checked still in case it repeats of course

But hopefully that helps the investigation

Not sure if this helps or not (it might have been chance) but on the news item which listed the expiring contracts (Which came after the above comment happened) I clicked on "offer contract" next to another players name and it only gave me a 1 year option (it was 1 year on top of the contract, not the same as the original bug).

For the rest of the expiring contracts I renewed them by going in to the player's profile to start the negotiation and it gave me the 2 year option for all of them.

Could be chance, but when I first raised this ticket it was from me clicking the "enter contract negotiations" option from the news item. Maybe that's part of it. Hope it helps!