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26 minutes ago, Fire_03 said:

Tbh, i don´t have any idea what you like to tell me here.

There is no max salary set in the database for Türkgücü.

Kusic has no wage set in the db 
Erhardt - he come from Austrian Bundesliga club SV Mattersburg - there he earned this 250K , but he is playing now in the German 3.Liga, and the wages should be lower than in Austria Bundesliga-
Tom Boere - he has 125K set - correct

 

But i am open to change this if you will provide me your thoughts or information on this. No problem

 

With the max salary I meant that in FM21 there is no player with a salary above 125k at Türkgücü, although I think there are quite a few players with a higher salary in reality.

I wanted to provide some examples of players that I think definitly have a higher salary, although I obviously don't know the specific salaries but their salaries at their old clubs and the salary level at their old clubs are a good reference point. My post was not just about the salary of these 3 players but in general the salaries at Türkgücü as basically their whole squad consists of new players, which they attracted with well paying contracts.

To clarify the Philipp Erhardt example: he was a regular starter (30/32 games) last year at SV Mattersburg in the Austrian Bundesliga, so I don't see any reason why he should this season sign a contract that only provides him with half of his previous 250k salary at a club that neither has the highest reputation nor plays at a very high level. Yes, in general wages in the Austrian Bundesliga are higher than in the 3. Bundesliga but this isn't the case for some of the richer clubs in the 3. Bundesliga like Türkgücü München.

 

I don't know how you set the wages in FM but I just wanted to point out some in my opinion unrealistic numbers. Just let me know if it isn't clear what I meant

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Thanks for taking some of my points into account. I have a few more things I would like to point out.

Türkgücü München:

I noticed that the Türkgücü München salaries are quite low compared to other 3. Bundesliga teams. They are not a normal promoted 3. Bundesliga side but they have quite a strong financial support by their president.

The maximum salary at the moment is € 125k/year, this seems not only a bit low compared to other 3. Bundesliga clubs but for some of their new players as well. I had a look at the salaries of some of their new players at their former club in FM 2020.

Filip Kusic before 260k now 125k

Philipp Erhardt before 250k now 125k

Tom Boere before 233k now 125k

I find it hard to believe that these players now earn so much less especially as Türkgücü is known for paying their players well and attracting them mainly with money (this was similar before in the Regionalliga). I know it's difficult to get real numbers for salaries, but in my opinion the salaries for the star players and regular starters should be increased by a lot.

Their training facilities are listed as Excellent training facilities as in reality they probably have the worst training facilities in professional german football. I think their facilities are probably closer to a 1/10 or 2/10. (https://www.merkur.de/sport/amateur-fussball/landkreis-muenchen-stadt/patrick-hasenhuettl-von-tuerkguecue-muenchen-ueber-seinen-verein-12980106.html; https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.erster-migrantenverein-in-profiliga-tuerkguecue-muenchen-der-aufstieg-schafft-probleme.8c3bdee0-5e48-42eb-836b-084eeb1dd9ce.html)

 

Schalke:

I think the financials and expectations are a bit too high. Their goal for the season is set as Qualification for the EURO Cup although the season goal is probably closer to avoiding relegation and securing a mid-table position. Their transfer budget and wage budget are too high in my opinion as their financials and their debt looks very bad as mentioned by someone earlier. They basically weren't able to spend any money for transfers this year and the situation is likely not going to change in the near future. (https://www.sport1.de/fussball/bundesliga/2020/07/fc-schalke-04-vorstand-verkuendet-sparkurs-europa-nicht-mehr-das-ziel; sorry I wasn't able to find better sources for this)

 

Other players:

There are a few players I found the salaries a bit implausible.

Ridle Baku only has a 440 k/year contract which is very low compared to the rest of the squad although he was €10 mio signing. (https://www.transfermarkt.de/baku-wechselt-zum-vfl-wolfsburg-bdquo-habe-mainz-05-alles-zu-verdanken-ldquo-/view/news/371785)

In the game Freiburg pays 0% of Guus Til salary during the loan, which I find hard to believe as he was Spartak Moskaus record signing just last year and Freiburg has the money after selling their key players Waldschmidt and Koch.

In the game Leipzig pays 0% of Benjamin Henrichs salary during the loan contract. I don't find it believable that Leipzig will have a player like Henrichs for free for the season.

 

The attriubtes of the free agent Kevin Großkreutz look a lot too high for a player that played the last 2 years in the third divison (didn't even fully convince there) and the 2 years before that in the second division.

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There was already a lot of good information provided regarding VfB Stuttgart here. There are just a few points I wanted to add.

 

Positions:

Most players that are playing the Wingback Positions in the 3-4-2-1 formation VfB is playing in since the beginning of the second half of last years season are not suited (or badly suited) to play them in Football manager.

Coulibaly plays as a left Wingback this season

Wamangituka plays both the left as well as the right Wingback position

Thommy has played most games as a left Wingback last year while on loan at Düsseldorf

Similar problems arise with the back-three. Karazor as well as Stenzel played almost exclusivley as Centre-backs this and last season but their positions in the game don't quite reflect that.

 

Playing time/Ability:

Ailton's playing time is set to regular starter although he is not even part of the first team squad (not even part of the squad on the official vfb.de website) as they tried to sell him without success and now he is in the 2nd team squad.

Förster is set as a regular starter although he has only played one minute this season and likely won't play much this season. I think ranking him down to a Squad player would make sense.

Philipp Klement is set as a regular starter but is only subbed in this season and has similar playing time last season (19 games, 1077 minutes), I think a squad player status would make more sense.

Kaminski is set as a regular starter but didn't play much last season (he was injured a lot though) nor this season. He is basically centre-back number 6 as he didn't start as one of the back three even though 2 centre-backs were injured. I think a squad player status would make more sense.

For all those players I think it would make sense to downgrade their current ability as it is too high compared to the rest of the squad.

 

As pointed out Coulibaly and Klimowicz are not part of the second team but are regular starters in the first and team and thus should be set more playing time and a higher ranking.

In my opinion, the importance of Wamangituka and Gonzalez isn't quite well reflected in their ability in the game. They were Stuttgarts topscorers last season and are on track to be them again this season. In the game though there ability is below average of the squad.

 

Contracts:

There is an clause in Daniel Didavis contract for a 1-year extension dependent on the number of games in the last year of the contract. (https://www.kicker.de/mislintat-ueber-didavi-die-klausel-gibt-es-789490/artikel)

The loan contract of Maffeo includes a buy option. (https://www.transfermarkt.de/vfb-verleiht-maffeo-an-sd-huesca-bdquo-unter-rahmenbedingungen-eine-sinnvolle-losung-ldquo-/view/news/370138). There is no information about exact terms of the buy option but I suspect it to be a bit below €4 mio. I think the player is rated a bit too high in the game as he has played in LaLiga2 last season and did play almost no games the season before but didn't really get downgraded in the meantime.