Why choose Newcastle and Chelsea over Barcelona?

[coppicat]

I just won the Champions League and La Liga with Barcelona but players find it more appealing to  play for English teams playing in the Conference and Europa league. Is this normal? Is the premier league rated that much over La Liga?

[NineCloudNine]

The Premier League has a higher reputation than La Liga. The two clubs you mention have a lot more money than Barcelona at the moment. The players concerned might think they can get more game time than they do now. These are some reasons why a player might be interested in a move.

If the interested club is sending scouts and getting their top players to tell the press your player should move, then the news item will include an indication of why your player likes the idea or not.

Edited December 19, 2023 by NineCloudNine

[XaW]

There could be many different things. Playing time, wage, bonus, reputation, agent preference, player preference, hell, even tax rates impact things at times. So it's on a case to case basis, but looking at things in general, players moving to middle of the pack teams in England from big teams in other big leagues happen quite a bit recently, so it's not unheard of.

[Domathon]

45 minutes ago, XaW said:

There could be many different things. Playing time, wage, bonus, reputation, agent preference, player preference, hell, even tax rates impact things at times. So it's on a case to case basis, but looking at things in general, players moving to middle of the pack teams in England from big teams in other big leagues happen quite a bit recently, so it's not unheard of.

You’re so trusting in the development this could be a bug also?

[XaW]

2 minutes ago, Domathon said:

You’re so trusting in the development this could be a bug also?

Yes, it could be a bug, but it's way too little info to go there from what is written in here. If the user who posted it think so, they should post in the bug tracker.

[phnompenhandy]

Players joining rich English clubs know they'll get paid. Barca have a habit of pulling levers and cutting players' salaries by 50%

[coppicat]

It was regarding signing a player from Germany and I tried everything out of interest as to why he would sign for Chelsea who have not been in the top 4 in ages and is in the Europa League. In the end I offered same conditions and a higher salary but he still chose Chelsea. Also happened with another player from Mexico who chose Newcastle (Conference League) over Barcelona. It actually seems like many players are not interested here just a few months after Barcelona won the Champions League. Maybe because the salary cap just got lowered from 5.5M to 3.9M p/w?

Anyway I am quitting the save. I cant register the newly promoted B team as the salary cap is 91.000 p/w in the 2nd division. Yes thats 91.000 for the entire squad. 

[Freakiie]

Just because you're Barcelona and won the Champions League doesn't mean every player will automatically prefer you to any other club out there. Obviously they're all more than willing to join you, but that doesn't mean you're their preferred choice. The player will even tell you why they chose a different club over yours. Whether that always makes sense is a different story, but in the end not every player will be desperate to play for Barcelona regardless of how often you win the CL.