["The board will not deal with any budget related requests at this time"]

The way i see it is you decide what you want for the period, either transfer funds or wages, if you decide you want a bigger wage budget, then your stuck with it, if you want more for transfers then you deal with that instead.

You could always log it as a bug if you dont think its working right.

The reason its not working right is because you can move your budget around as much as you want aslong as you dont end up with a deficit in the transfer budget.

["The board will not deal with any budget related requests at this time"]

I don't like using editors, but I had to use it to reset my transfer budget from -12k to 0 just so I could use the damn thing again.

["The board will not deal with any budget related requests at this time"]

this is different, you're talking about when contract negotiations are open, and thats fair enough.

This is a case of the transfer budget being closed for literally THE WHOLE SEASON

["The board will not deal with any budget related requests at this time"]

How is that exploiting the finances? You can do the exact same thing by just moving it one notch to the right. its just using the budget the board gave you.

And it's arbitrary and gamey of SI to just freeze your budget for the remainder of the season if you sign a player on a free transfer.....

["The board will not deal with any budget related requests at this time"]

The issue is stated in the thread title.

This bug has happened to me virtually every season, I can't believe it still hasn't been reported/fixed.

Basically what happens, if my slider is set to max my wage budget and the transfer budget is set at 0, if I sign a player and then adjust the budget, this message appears on my budget screen.

It never goes away, ever, until the end of the season and the board set new budgets. This means I can't sign free transfers in January because I can't pay the bloody agents fee!!

And before you say it, yes I have plenty of wage budget available, my team spends $300k/week on wage and has a budget of $450k/week! Problem is, I can't adjust the budget to free up money for the sign on fees which is ridiculous.

And there are no contract negotiations open.

The ONLY time I got out of it was when I convinced the board to "increase" my transfer budget. Amazingly, they set my transfer budget to "0", but atleast it allowed me to move the slider again.

When I go to the finance screen, it says my transfer budget is $45k in the red, I guess this is the problem.

Does anyone have any suggestion on how to fix this? I guess I'm going to have to sell a player to get a transfer budget to my my slider again, which is ridiculous.