retired_morgan17

I was rebuilding the squad with him as one of the few starting players on my team. The transfer period just started and I had already made a couple of contract offers (teams accepted transfer bids). I understand the economic standpoint that Breckenbauer is coming from, but it's still annoying when the Board has promised that it won't interfere and when they've consistently applauded my manager for his wins.

I also have to point out that I received five enquiries and two transfer bids prior with me rejecting them all. I specifically changed his status to "Unavailable for Loan" and "Reject All Offers" before Breckenbauer accepted that offer.

retired_w0lfpack1

ZeroCrusade:

"Reject All Offers" only impacts the offers which you personally are in control of.

You don't control your chairman - you work for him. So, you don't get to dictate what actions he will take.

I've never seen a board "promise that it won't interfere", either.

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That said, I do think that there's an issue here:

I think the club's decisions about assets needs to have a much stronger tie to the current financial situation.

For example, if we've been massively profitable the past three years, I'd like to see even a hands-on chairman back off and let the manager run the club the (clearly successful!) way he has been.

Further, if he's already sold 4 players for 60M, he should be looking at that: the club has already made a huge profit this transfer season, and should probably be a buyer, not a seller, at that point.

On the other hand, if the club was steadily losing money, or had a huge debt, or had lost a bunch of money this season - yeah, cashing in on a player for 45M makes very good sense: take the money, because IRL the player always could blow out a knee and never be the same.

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Pursuant to the "Considering the bid in context" aspect, with the 45% sell-on clause, I think your chairman should be considering that. For the purposes of his "interfering chairman" decision to sell, he should be looking at the 45M bid as 45M * 0.55 = 24.75M ... and realizing that what profit he's going to see from it really isn't as jaw-dropping as the bid sounds.

(Of course, then we protect all of our best assets by offering 50% sell-on clauses to keep our chairmen's mitts off.. ... so maybe interfering chairmen would have to refuse to agree to that clause for high-value players.)

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I'd also like to see a way to impact the chairman at this point.

For example, this seems a perfect example of a time when we should be able to issue an Ultimatum. (As cooLLedge said)

"No, listen, if you sell Chun Li out from under me, you'll have my resignation on your desk by the end of the day."

Results: either the chairman cancels the proposed transfer, or he fires you. Ideally, if he cancels the transfer, he backs off of his "interfering" nature a bit as well.

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Finally, there still is something you can do. When the club comes in with a bid, offer a new contract to the player. If he accepts your contract, he will reject the bidding player .. and that at least buys you some more time with him.

retired_amorales10

bit of a bummer though if ur low league and high league offers! hes like WOO big club im gone! lol. but nice points amaroq hopefully something in 2009 like this.

retired_easting

just because your chairman accepts doesnt mean you have lost the player.

Tottenham offered me 8 million for Allan Hutton and my Chairman accepted, so i offered him a bigger wage and he accepted.

Though he still started to moan about a year later and ended up being sold anyway.

Though after a year he didnt get played a whole lot and i was able to buy him back and now hes my vice captain and im training him up to take over as captain when Barry Fergusson retires.

retired_landy

Minimum Fee Release Clause - I find this always keeps clubs away unless they desperately want the player, at a massively inflated price you can deal with. Also helps by telling the chairman that is the only price you will accept, and even if a very good offer comes in under the Clause, you can deal with it the way you want.

At least thats what happens to me