retired_hmknight

As a lower league manager, I frequently find myself having to make the difficult choice of selling my best players off because I can't afford their salaries/bonuses anymore.

I've tried offering longer contracts, but some of them refuse to sign a 3-5 year contract.

Also, when clubs offer me 10X their value, it's really tempting to sell them off, even if they are a club favorite, and especially if they are at the top of my wage list and the team is running in the red.

Do any of you have personal standards by which you will sell players even if they are good players?

I'm interested to find out what they might be for an informal, non-scientific survey.

retired_marion ramirez

I just weigh it up on value really, how important is that player to the team compared to what I could get for selling him.

If I get a bid for a top player then I start looking around and bidding for players as possible replacements.

There is no point me selling my star striker for £1 million if the next best striker is going to cost me £950,000

If however I can get another striker who is just as good or almost as good for say half that amount then its probably a good bit of business and what is best for the club.

Another major factor is age and how well I'm doing, if this is a young player for the future and I'm doing well with him then its probably worth hanging on to him, getting promotion with him and then I'll have more money for players anyways.

Another option might be that this good youngster is good enough for league 1 but not good enough for the championship, if I'm almost guaranteed promotion then I'll sell him on while I have the chance.

Another thing obviously is older players, if someone is 30+ and I get a good offer then sometimes I feel I have to cash in before he gets a bit older and his value drops a lot.

retired_macca1875

I'm always willing to sell my best players, provided the price is right.

Failing that, my chairman likes to sell them for me at a fraction of the price.

retired_Cliffc

All the time.

I make about £50m a year on sales, and replace them with youngsters on low wages.

As soon as they demand higher wages, I accept, and start looking for buyers.

retired_junvan

Sometimes I have to for financial reasons. If I don't have to, then I try and hold on to them if I need them, but it usually ends up with the board going over my head and selling them anyways.

retired_w0lfpack1

At the lower leagues, I'm always willing to sell for the right price.

If I can reach the Premiership, I like to hang on to my best players until they retire. I'm sentimental that way.

retired_veev

I'm a bit strange. (all of this is from FM07, I only buy sports games every other year).

I'm a lower league manager (sixth year with Montrose), and I find that when other teams from, say, League 1 ask about players, I feel somewhat obligated to sell them.

I mean, if the max I can really afford to pay some 20 year old DC is £10,000 a year, and he's in great form and has potential, and I know that some L1 team can pay him over £30k a year, I feel that it would be wrong of me to stifle his standard of living, as I probably would in real life.

I still do okay though, I brought Montrose from the financial pits in Scottish 3rd division to a respectable 2nd place in Scottish 1st division (only a bad run of 11 losses in my last 14 games kept me out of the Scottish Premier League by 7 points), with about £3 mil in the bank.

But my tactic relies heavily on aerial domination by my DC's, so my DC's tend to get lots of good performances (7's and 8's) and they tend to get lots of MoM awards, so various other teams come knocking on the door.

retired_iNFAMOUS

I do if it will ease any financial problems, or if it is vastly over his value, and an asking price I have set. I like to sell players off for £250k here, £100k there to boost my 'Total players sold value' in my profile - alongside usually a 'Total players bought value' of £0.