retired_msfine

So here's the situation:
I'm Man Utd manager and having already spent most of my budget, Other clubs start putting in bids for Vincent Kompany of £10million or thereabouts and these bids are accepted. I think: "That's good value, but I don't need an extra CB right now". Plus I can't afford him and thats that. I don't want to miss out plus I certainly don't want him to go and strengthen my rivals. So what do I do? I put in a bid of £30million, with no intention to buy whatsoever,and negotiate the contract & sit back and wait for the "Manchester United currently do not have enough funds etc" By which point Chelsea,Milan, Real Madrid, Barcelona's interest has disappeared, and he's still going to be affordable in a season or two.

Consider the real life situation: Would the selling club really neglect to contact Mr Kenyon and the other chairmen if the more profitable deal fell through and just hold onto a player they were prepared to sell 2 days ago.

This annoys me because it makes signing quality players and building a quality team much easier than in real life. Furthermore you can prevent your rivals strengthening their squads unfairly.

To remedy this why not have a transfer system where the selling club ranks the offers by attractiveness to them and when the top one falls through, the second one is pursued.

bjblackmore

Simply avoid to do this and the game will be more realistic...

retired_skvittem2

its been a bit of a flaw for years. my friends affectionately named this the notorious "blocker bid". Its cheating plain and simple and i assume its hard to combat because its been on every cm/fm ive ever known. It is often used to get players for free waiting for the bosman time, by bidding real cash drawing out the deal till you can "approach to sign".

In my book ranks with ctrl alt deleting the game or hitting the power rather than saving when you lose the cup final.

retired_coffeebabe

What he said, only worded better perhaps. I did like to just sign every decent looking bosman going and then cancel them in past versions though, sadly you can't get away with that now (as far as I'm aware).

retired_angeliayoung

I bid for a player who no one else seems to want, and all of a sudden he is the most wanted player on FM. Everyone puts a bid in, Why?.

hdsegal

If the user or AI (insufficient funds) cancels a deal, the player should automatically sign with his second choice, then if that doesn't pan out his 3rd choice, etc etc.

train

Unless of course the player does not wish to sign for any of the availiable clubs

But yes, i have used this tactic myself before i because a LLM only kinda guy.

I too hate the 'This obscure player is worth £5,000 but is really decent, no one is interested, ill bid' >> 'This obscure player is now the most touted player in the world...'

retired_ellebee

also very annoying when you get large bids on your players and the chairman steps in and accepts. Then when the contract is agreed the club can't afford the transfer fee, the transfer is cancelled. Then when offering him to clubs again you get the same amount accepted and yet again the chairman accepts an offer (same as before) from the club that still can't afford and your player agrees a contract with them again and the deal is yet again cancelled.