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Even when offering my players around at ridiculously low prices there's no takers for them. It's absolutely ridiculous how hard it is to sell players and raise funds on this game!!
I agrre it is quite hard but there are ways to sell players once you get used to the system. Try lowering their squad status to not needed or backup, that will get more lower rep clubs interested. You could also try offering whatever you want over 24 months.
I tend to find it much harder to sell or buy at decent prices during the first window. From January 2008 onwards I think its much easier as more teams tend to have higher budgets and the AI managers are more on the lookout to sell and buy.
The first summer(2007) window doesn't give a true reflection of the transfer system in the game imo.
I tend to find it much harder to sell or buy at decent prices during the first window. From January 2008 onwards I think its much easier as more teams tend to have higher budgets and the AI managers are more on the lookout to sell and buy.
The first summer(2007) window doesn't give a true reflection of the transfer system in the game imo.
I've noticed this as well. First season Milan enquired into Robinho. I said somewhere around 50M in bits. They say no, but then return two seasons later making a 70M bid.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by DiscoStu94:
I agrre it is quite hard but there are ways to sell players once you get used to the system. Try lowering their squad status to not needed or backup, that will get more lower rep clubs interested.QUOTE]
This is stupid; you should not have to do this to sell players. Sometimes I like to offer a first team player to clubs just to see if someone makes a big bid which will be better for my team than actually keeping the player.
I agree it is still far too hard, as a manager you should be getting bids for for all your players very regularly, especially when playing at the top level. Example, Wes Brown at Man Utd, although not (normally) a first team player, if offered to clubs, I am sure many clubs outside the top four (and possibly even abroad) would be making bids. In FM08 this is not the case.
I agree that it's hard to sell your reserve players. You offer your reserve players for great deals, but the AI enquires about your first team players.
The best strategy is not to sign players to long-term contracts. Only if you are 99% sure a player will improve should you sign him long-term.
I think that SI needs to make each player more "self-conscious" so that a player can see they are not wanted and that they don't make the grade. This way the player himself will accept lower wages and thus would be able to go to worse clubs, rather than rotting away in the reserves and complaining every now and then because of "lack of first team football."
If you can't get an offer of even zero, or if a player won't go to the club bidding, I find loaning them out is a good altrnative.
You can't always get the interested parties to take over 100% of the wages, but it does save your club some money and puts the player in the shop window as they are playing more often.
Selling over 24 months is another good way,but only,of course, if there are any interested clubs
In real life, loads of players get sold quickly, but in FM it can almost be impossible, I have played for many years with many different teams and more often than not, you end up having to wait until a players contract runs out, rather than sell him, even on the cheap!
Still far too hard to sell players 
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