What happens to your season transfer budget when entering a new season?

[Mutumba]

So ive always had the idea that if you dont spend your transfer budget during a season (summer and winter transfer window), it doesnt add up into next seasons transfer budget. Is this true?

 

So let say im Real Madrid and have £80 m to spend first season. I dont spend anything. Next season i'll still get the same amount as ive should have gotten regardless because it is mostly dependent on your sucess in the league and in europe.

[Andros]

i would suggest that how it works is: FM looks at how much money you have a bank and calculates the transfer budget based on that.  It would ignore how much you had in the transfer budget in the previous season, but if you didn't spend much money, then that would mean your bank balance would be higher (than if you had spent the money) so you will get a higher transfer budget in the next season. 

 

EG Start of 2023 I had 100,000 in the bank, the transfer budget was 30,000.

• I spent all the transfer budget, i now have 70,000 (ignoring sales etc). so the next transfer budget (2024) would be calculated based on that 70,000.  if the transfer budget was 30% of the bank balance (it is not that number, i have made it up!) then I would have about 21,000.
• I spent nothing, I still have 100,000 in the bank.  Using the same 30%, i would have 30,000 in 2024.
• If i sold some players and had 150,000 in the bank, now in 2024 i have 45,000 to spend.

 

I have no source for this, this is just how I thought it works.

[danej]

On 08/06/2023 at 07:02, Mutumba said:

So ive always had the idea that if you dont spend your transfer budget during a season (summer and winter transfer window), it doesnt add up into next seasons transfer budget. Is this true?

 

So let say im Real Madrid and have £80 m to spend first season. I dont spend anything. Next season i'll still get the same amount as ive should have gotten regardless because it is mostly dependent on your sucess in the league and in europe.

I don't know. But in the long run you should keep the money. Money not spend is at the clubs bank account. All else being equal, if you spend little money as a manager, over time you will get a better budget and vice versa. Not necessarily from season to season but in the long run.