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

What the **** it's happening to me too! My club couldn't be more financially secure. 

They were offering me a new contract and I decided to talk about other issues (Transfer Budget) and yay I got 28M extra just to find out I can't even offer my own players new contracts (who've been crying about them for ages now). After that I still had my own managerial contract offer available in the dialogues so I got both money and the contract (but you don't do jacks*it with the transfer money if your max player wage is 600£/week, especially when playing @ premier). Ok so then just to confirm this isn't just a bad fluke I decide to test and fast-forward two weeks by going on a holiday. Surprise surprise, the BUG is still there when I get back. How awesome! You're supposed to play/win cups/season without being able to offer anyone contracts? Wow, did SI secretly apply some more difficulty levels? I've quit games for lesser reasons, but now it feels like I've thrown my money down the toilet, ya know, IRL cash while buying the game.

How can this bug still exist in FM2020 after 7 years is just beyond me - what a joke really and speaks volumes about the creators. I've played these games for who knows how long (although skipped most of the versions from this decade but before that), spending hundreds after hundreds of hours pretending to occupy one the best jobs on the planet, while of course encountering all kinds of bugs on the way, but this one really sweeps the floor under the feet and the fact that it actually still exists is frankly, well lets just say borderline hilarious. I've wasted another 100+ hours (likely more like 200-300h) on FM2020 as well (probably) more but don't know where to get accurate number in game cause I had my steam run/installing another game so can't check there atm (hopefully with less bug holes).  Anyway as far as I'm concerned to have all this time go down the toilet? You can bet your arse it's the last FM I spend any $ on. F*i* hate games and studios that release their products unfinished and tarnished just to ruin the gaming experience for the end users and players. Heck nevermind fixing a serious problem that's been around for a near decade, lol (I don't use that word too often).

Someone (or the entire team) has been hibernating for nearly a decade @ SI HQ?! Thanks a ton.

Br,

A "caring" customer

[Buying U18 kids from non-domestic leagues with looooooooooong wait!]

Hi, first of all apologies if you've gone through the topic. So first of all I'm managing Coventy and we just got promoted to Skybet Champions league.

I've been keeping up a really close eye on the regens even though not really having much of a scouting rink in place (been doing trials the  entire season).

Ok so I found this extremely promising 16yo DC from  Toulouse and i just confirmed everything, signed the contract and so. I though this was going to straight up/simple join the team ans start playing, but no, and then I went digging. It says "The transfer will go through on Sunday 1st January 2 023 as under-18 players playing in French are not allowed to sign for teams abroad.". Jeez, like for real? I'm at the moment at 28th January 2021. So basically I'm leaving the development into the hands of strangers. This is a  potential superstar / wonder kid and it pisses me off. 

 At this point i was like wtf, I had just signed 3 other players from the same nation than were around the same age and highly regarded. So how is it possible that some U18 players can join ASAP and others once they reach their adulthood. 

Oh well, if there's no way around this madness at least a simple explanation would be find and maybe even a tip if there¨'s any point wasting cash on youngsters who's join date is years away.

 

-M