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55 minutes ago, Jeroen Thijssen said:

That is possible.

https://www.ajaxshowtime.com/bijzaken-en-geruchten/knvb-neemt-besluit-contracten-vanaf-15-jaar

There might be a newer (more official) article somewhere, but this covers it.

Oh wow, didn't realise this changed. Thank you very much! Another thing, players that won the Eredivisie last year don't have a mention in their profile of doing so. I added a screenshot.

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25 minutes ago, Jeroen Thijssen said:

Is this right or wrong?

But this should be possible. 

I mean they sign them immediately... So usually you would sign a pre-contract until you turn 17 years old. You keep the youth contract, but the second they turn 17 they sign their senior contract. Now I can give senior contracts to 15 year olds.

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Don't know if this is specifically a data issue, but I can give players under the age of 17 full-time contracts. As far as I have seen this only occurs in the Eredivisie.

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1 hour ago, Jeroen Thijssen said:

Kokcu will slightly increase for the full game, but I guess I won't make you happy no - but I guess he's already one of the best midfielders in the league anyway already. 

It does feel like there is a large gap towards PSV - who have been able to sign a few players earning well over 1 million. I don't really see Feyenoord doing that, although maybe generally they pay their players a little bit more than currently set. I suppose guys like Bijlow, Kokcu etc could earn - let's say 500-600000 instead of 400000.  (rounding the numbers up a little).  Someone like Timber and a few more of the recent signings are on 500000-550000 or so.

I do agree that PSV has some high earners in their squad, but again, I could link you the annual reports of the clubs and those numbers do not lie. The gap between the two clubs is not that big. Hell, Voetbal International posted the budgets of the clubs and in that overview the gap was only 5 million euros. And you say Feyenoord does not pay players over 1 million even though it is known that Berghuis earned over two million euros a year at the club in the past. The salary gap between Feyenoord and PSV is minimal and that should be represented in the game.

I get that FM does not have the most realistic financial systems and that thus the salaries are a bit scaled down, but keep the ratio of the clubs the same. So if PSV has a salary budget of 30 million a year, give Feyenoord 84% of that. There is factual proof that this is the case. 

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I do not agree with you on the Kokcu part of your story. He is easily one of the best midfielders in the league currently. If it helps I could provide prove of other people telling the same story and provide you ratings from sites. But I am not going to spend time searching those if it would not help anything.

 

The second part is the currently unrealistic gap between the salary house of PSV and Feyenoord. According to the annual report of Feyenoord and PSV, Feyenoord spent approximately 48.2 million euros on wages. PSV spent approximately 55 million euros on wages. This means that PSV has spent 14% more on wages than Feyenoord did. In FM, however, Feyenoord has a salary budget of 15.3 million euros and PSV has a salary budget of 30 million euros. In FM, PSV spends double the amount of Feyenoord on wages, which is completely unrealistic. Ajax spends 108 million euros on wages in real and 64 million in game. This means that the difference between PSV and Ajax is correct, but again, that the salary budget of Feyenoord is hugely underestimated. In my opinion, changing the salary budget of Feyenoord to around 26 million euros in game would be appropriate.