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I would assume the disparity in the net transfer spends is Agent fees, and the disparity in the wage spend is staff salary. No idea if that's the case, but it seems like the kind of thing FM would do.

Odegaard goal at 86 minutes, VAR doesn't check the clearly offside Arsenal player. Arsenal v Rangers.pkm

Managers do not decide what strip the team plays in. Managers do not decide transfer dealings. The former is not a game feature, the latter is. Your argument that strip selection shouldn't be in the game because that's not the manager's job, then SI should take away our ability to make transfers, and leave that entirely to the DoF. But that would be ridiculous, just as telling someone to go play EAFC just because they asked a question would be.

This is a discussion forum, you might be better suited to Twitter.

2 shots from outside the box, combined xG of 0.18, both straight down the middle of the goal, keeper unable to save these easy shots. I'd say about half the goals I concede are shots straight down the keepers throat, from distance, and they simply let them in.

Your double standard makes it relevant.

Why would the manager have any say on how much the club are willing to spend on a player? Or any aspect of their contract? That's the Director of Football's job, literally nothing to do with the manager.

I'm halfway through season 3, but Diomande, Coates and Goncalves signed those contracts at the end of season 1, the rest at the end of season 2.

Sporting's top earners in my current save, funny that the AI isn't given a wage cap.

Youth managers playing right wingers at left back, centre backs on the left wing and goalkeepers up top. Really fed up with that.

Player is both delighted and unhappy with his playing time, and now I have to lie to him about being sorry for not playing him enough, even though I did, and the player himself recognises this fact. What is the point of player interactions when this nonsense is ignored year after year?

Points deduction maybe? Only thing it legitimately can be.

From what I understand, it has to do with the integer max value. Basically, it's a computing problem. So, once a certain value, ie your bank balance, hits around 2 billion, it can't go any higher, and 'wraps around' to a negative value, and your balance goes from +2B to -2B. To get around this problem, the game is programmed to start removing money from your bank balance (around the £1B mark) into this investment fund. I have no idea what happens to that money, I assume it just disappears. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,147,483,647#In_video_games

Resorting to personal insults rather than engage with the topic?

No Michael Beale was. A man sacked from two different clubs in 6 months. He'll be lucky if he gets a managers job again. And he was able to avoid massive player unrest.

Rangers European squad at the start of this season excluded Jon McLaughlin, Leon Balogun, Ridvan Yilmaz and Kieran Dowell. Kemar Roofe was removed from the European squad at the start of February. I registered the same squad, minus Roofe to see his reaction for not being registered. 4 out of 5 of those players became unhappy, complained to teammates which instigated 4 player revolts, and all 4 are now publicly complaining to the press about missing out on the European squad. None of this happened in real life. But yeah, this is all perfectly normal.

Nope, that's all transfer sales from the summer. Edit: In fact, I used the IGE to remove my transfer budget, because I find it highly unrealistic to have an £800m transfer budget but only £400m in the bank. And Wesley Fofana is now wanting a new contract, exactly the same £450k p/w. Which coincidentally is how much Reece James agreed to a few weeks prior this.

Uploaded the save game "Insane contract demands" Cesare Casadei, actual playing time of fringe player, expects a Squad Player status, first season not out on loan and in the first team, earns £35k p/w. Demands Regular Starter and wants £450k p/w. Screenshot of Diogo Costa who wants £1.4m p/w. Granted he's at a Saudi club, but it's pretty stupid that a player that young and that highly rated would go to Saudi Arabia in the first place. Edit: Forgot to mention I am using the realism mod, don't know if that would make a difference. But these contract demands happen in unmodded saves too.

You're completely missing the point about Stutter, His £9m transfer fee is not what I'm complaining about. The problem is after he moves to Liverpool his valuation is £26m-£31m, two weeks later his valuation doubles to £63m-£77m. He has terrible potential ability, at best a League One player. His Liverpool contract isn't worth anywhere near that much in monetary terms. £9m is probably more than he was worth, which is an example of the AI's terrible squad building. The problem is how does his valuation double in two weeks, both valuations whilst being a Liverpool player, from ~£30m to upwards of £70m. You're talking about the real world. Football Manager is not the real world. The difference in reputation between Chelsea and Liverpool, in game, is marginal. Add to that I've won a League Cup and two FA Cup's in two seasons. And I know how the mechanics work. My first post in this thread was explaining how the AI has an artificially high transfer value, and you have to unsettle a player to get a more realistic valuation. The problem with this is it stagnates the transfer market. Many players will end up never leaving their clubs because they never become unsettled and the transfer value remains too high, so no one bids for them. I don't think I've ever seen Haaland leave Man City. In reality, he will very likely go to Real Madrid in a few years. All the while, the AI can unsettle your players very easily. And a new addition to this years game is player mutinies every 6 months, demanding you let your best player leave. When does this ever happen. I've played FM for over 20 years. It's been slowly getting worse every year as they add half baked features that don't work and never get fixed.

Same dates, Inter are interested in Nkunku before the transfer window closes. They are not interested after the window closes. His transfer value remains the same. So there goes your basic economics theory. Stutters contract at Chelsea is irrelevant, because those two screenshots are AFTER his transfer. His value doubles in a 2 week period while he's at Liverpool. Edit: Also, I would be amazed if his reputation increased significantly going from Chelsea's U21 team to Liverpools U21.

Angelo, Wesley Fofana and Reece James transfer values a few days before the transfer window shuts and 10 days after it has shut. No change. Ronnie Stutter, bought by Liverpool for £9m from me. After the transfer window shuts, his value, which was already absurdly high for a player of his reputation, potential ability and contract, increases by more than 100%. Carlos Baleba, unsettled by my attempts to sign him. Before the transfer window closes valued at £54m. After the transfer window closes, his SALES value, not his transfer value, increases by almost 50%. He's also not unhappy that the club have massively increased his SALE value, something the player cannot get away with. If I agreed a sales value with a player and then increased it for no reason, I'd have the entire squad mutinying for this. But the AI doesn't have that problem. Funny how my players values don't change at all though, right?

I have no idea why you would think any of that matters when SI staff have actually confirmed that AI teams will artificially price their players more than they are worth, because they don't want to sell them. The only way to to get a "realistic" (still not all that realistic) asking price is to unsettle the player by making bids and talking about them in the press, in the hope that one day when they 31 years old they will request a transfer. The transfer values attached to player teams is market value, and trying to artificially inflate their value in the way the AI does, will conveniently not work for the player.

Victor Osimhen rejects my contract for a much worse contract at Arsenal. Micky van de Ven wants to join Chelsea. I get quoted £180m, which I negotiate to £120m. In another save, the AI negotiates that down to £61m. How can you pretend this isn't happening?

Player's estimated values are best understood like this. The price the club will demand if the player is happy, and the price the club will demand if the player is unhappy. For example, I found a regen who looked very good at Empoli. My scouts said he was valued between £15m and £20m. And when I bid, Empoli were asking for about £20m plus a few add ons. Obviously, I'm not going to pay that, and he was 16 at the time so he wasn't interested in signing for me anyway. So I keep an eye on him, make a bid and leak my interest to the media every 3 months or so. Eventually, he becomes unhappy that he was denied a transfer to my team. I get another scout report to see what Empoli would be willing to sell now that he's unhappy, and the price has come down to £7m. £7m was his actual transfer value. But SI have purposefully doubled or even tripled the price clubs will be willing to sell happy players at to stop us hoarding wonderkids.