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They are known for crazy high wages but not so much for their sign on fees. As I said, 300 mil is a lot even for a team like Manchester United, not to mention AZ.

Now, I know the Saudi league spent crazy sums on some players but it was mostly on wages, I dont think I remember such transfer fees for players like Verane. I think Neymar went for about 80 million pounds and that was the most expensive one. 225 Million pounds for a 31-year-old Verane tho??? I dont know, feels like a cheat.

I hope SI experience the same thing in their own company. Their employees sign a contract, a year later they complain about wanting a new one with huge wages or they will go moan about it to the rest of the work force and you get an unhappy company that underperform or they pay 200K to some Scott Mctominay for doing an average job.

I was right after all, it's as useless as the promise mechanic

Setting a target for a player is just a useless as the promise mechanic. Thanks SI.

It sounds nice and all but I think it's going to cause more harm than good, like the promise mechanic, which is broken and unusable to this day.

I dont think the game should reflect the real word 1 to 1 but the AI's decisions in the market right now feel like a cheat. I can give you a good example for that. I am playing as Salford now and I got promoted to the PL and after some years of buying cheap youngsters for development I got an excellent team(lost the 1st table spot by losing my last game of the season but ill be champion soon I believe). A player named Callum Morton was with me from the start(league 2) and he improved with the club as we claimed the leagues but he is not a top PL player, he is good but it was a time to replace him as he was about 28-29 YO already and I basically had 4 young strikers who was on his level and some better than him so I tried selling him. I could have got about 25 mil. Pounds for him, which is good, then comes Benfica and offer to exchange him for one of her 19 YO players who was better than Morton and had some potential left in him to develop farther so I agreed for sure. After one season they put Morton on the transfer list and got about 8-9 mil pounds for him, while the player I got from them, in 2 seasons became my best player currently and still got some development room left in him and Manchester City tried to steal him from me for about 150 mil Pounds(some of it in add-ons) a year before and I refused. So basically, Benfica gave up a player who is now worth more than 100 mil. Pounds for some player they sold for less than 10 just one season later.

I am playing with Salford now(in the Premier League) and my board built a new stadium just now, it took 3 years total. 1 year for planing and another 2 for building it. 40,000 seats stadium.

It's a nice useful feature but "Intermediaries can also work for other clubs, meaning that they will come to you directly if someone else is looking to offload a player. In these instances, you’ll receive a Scout Report that includes Agent Feedback outlining a few expected financial details were you to pursue this deal." As it is I get tons and tons of unless scout reports and suggestions, some weeks I get a 100 reports waiting for me, so if It's going to spam my scout reports even more it could be a problem. I hope there will be a way to turn these off.

So if what you say is true, this post is just a lie and the AI will remain a moron.

I really want to believe SI, I just can't after repeated broken promises about fixing the game, especially the transfer market and the AI. FM23 when it comes to transfers is probably the worst of them all, I just don't see how FM24 will magically be fixed. As of now, you can take a tiny team like Salford from League 2 and make it a Champions League team in less than 10 years, a big part of why it can happen so easily is due to the broken transfer system and moronic AI.

Hold on...We will need Netflix for the next version of the game? I guess FM2023 is my last version

I am unemployed now, but when I was working from home I was playing lots of FM while working, sometimes in the office too. Nobody gave a damn as long as I did my duties. While I play at home I always listed to music(Mostly 90s hip hop or early 2000s), watch YouTube, watch a show or a podcast and having 2 monitors help a lot with this task as I can play on 1 and watch something on the other.

A glaring issue, should be fixed by SI immediately!

In my games, the players usually come to talk to me before they decide it and I can convince(or threat) them to sign a new contract, unless they're unhappy or on the transfer list already. Was Scalvini unhappy for some reason? Maybe he just wants a new challenge or something, It's less common but it happens, some players are like that(like Zlatan bouncing from league to league).

Proof right here that the game is rigged.

It depends, it might take a year or even 5 years or so if you get the permits and such. When I was playing in the Belgian league the local government kept denying my plans for a new stadium for a few years.

We are definitely not the only once, it's basically the first rule of FM, never make a vague promise. Unless it's something like "win the league" "offer new contract" etc. it's very random.

Thats correct, the Bundesliga is weird that way,

This is a problem with this game I think, Objectives like this or promises that does not describe anything concrete, for example: Win the league. Early this year I played with AZ and promised my players to give youth a chance and played tons of young players, most of my squad in fact was on the young side and I failed, never happened to me with Manchester United for example. Why did I fail? Who knows.

So I am managing Salford and I got into the Championship and it goes well. The Board gave me a good wage budget(about 202K$) to work with so I used it and I am spending about 196K, withing the budget given to me. Now due to this fairly large budget for a club that size I am in the beginning of January and the club is in 4.2 mil $ in the red, despite me selling a few players in the summer(for about 3.5 mil). Now the board announced that doe to poor financial position the wage budget is scaled down to 163K and the took all my transfer budget away. I took a look in the board expectation from me and I found this: So, due to club's **** poor fanatical planing, I might get sacked because I worked within the budget THEY gave me in the beginning of the season? That feels a little harsh and unfair. Anybody else encountered that problem?

This is a good way to go, apart from that you can do the same with free agents. Just go to your players in range and filter by free agents, I usually sort them by reputation and offer a trial to a bunch of positions I need. I just started a save with Salford and with some good loans from big clubs and free transfers I got an ok team. If you are looking for some concrete examples here are some players I got: Danny Simpson - a 34YO DR. My only natural DR was injured for like 8 months at the start of the game, so I had to get at least one. Jerome Sinclair - a great 25YO striker for any league 2 or league 1 team. He asks for a high wage, but worth it. Dean Lyness - An ok 30YO GK

I have this guy coming from my academy and he is from Gibraltar He is never going to be part of my Man Utd team but I might get a good price for him in a few years.

I am a fan of Manchester United and even I can tell you they are overrated in the game. Martial can play 50 games per season without getting injured, Harry Maguire is actually a competent defender, Sancho will rip your defense like he is still playing for Dortmund and McTomony is just good in the midfield with no real weakness. The list goes on... The reality is a little different.

I am sorry I dont anymore