Transfer system, Domestic Bias.

[Birnir Snær]

Hello, I am one of the players that play for a long time in a save and it really bugs me that after 10 years or so. All the big clubs have basically no players from their home country. For example i am 10 years in and Manchester United has 5 players from the UK, for a total of 19% of their first team squad. From Wikipedia squad that number is 42%. For Juventus in a league with strict rules about foreign players, 29% domestic players in the game while Wikipedia squad was 44%. On average in the Prem in the game there are about 4-6 players from the UK on each team. The premier league and Bundesliga are the worst, Seria A and Ligue 1 are slightly better with an average of 7-8. While LaLiga actually had an ok average of ca 10-12 players of Spanish nationality. Now in each league there are of course outliers like Liverpool and Gladbach with only 3 domestic players and Villarreal with 16. But i think there is very much needed to implement some kind of Domestic bias in to the reasoning for transfer targets for teams. How i dont know, maybe make teams value domestic players as +20 CA or something and only if you have max reputation you ignore this domestic bias and try to create your own Galactico.

[Mars_Blackmon]

There is a transfer preference file that solves this but it would be great if that info was already in the game data by default.

 

The data for transfer Preferences is very vanilla in the original database.

[Kyle Brown]

I think something like this would have to be raised as a bug, and then we can investigate a wider range of saves and see how the Home Grown % compares over a longer period of time with more examples.

https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/football-manager-2022-bugs-forum/570_all-other-gameplay/