retired_steph0688

I, perhaps, had something similar with my current game. I was manager of Hull. They had recently been relegated to League 1 but were still paying huge wages to a lot of the players and were in a money mess. The Chairman accepted bids over my head to get us out of the red and continued for sometime after we were in the black. The very last one occured when we were about 2m in the black and a bid came in for our top striker. The bid was only 1.1m, a little under his real value, and it was accepted. I was a little shocked at the time but thinking about it now it makes some sense.

The board, in my opinion, were simply putting the short term financial rewards of the sale (1.1m cash, and 10k per week less on wages) over the long term, possible, reward that promotion would bring if he helped us to it.

I'm guessing that letting players go to another club on a free is a desperate money saving tactic. You don't have to pay the release fee or come to an agreement over compensation. It's quicker then waiting for people to come in at full price as well. Still, for quality players it seems a little daft not to squeeze some money out of the transfer. Maybe a sell on fee was stuck in?

Anyway, what's wrong with a star trek convention? Geeks, dorks, nerds whatever you want to call 'em...us even...are pretty much all the same. We're all fanatics or obsessives over something, all the differs is the specific subject matter. To a non-footie follower the standard football fan is just as geeky as a Trekkie!

retired_ericahutch

Thanks for the post.

The club I am managing is in debt by like 20 million euros but they are star players that I payed over 70 million, just so the chairman can allow them to leave by accepting $0.00 offers.

Makes no sense and the game should be programed to be a little bit more cognizant than that </BLOCKQUOTE>

I think if its a choice of that or a ten point deduction for going into administration then its a sensible choice.

When it happened to me it was a highly paid player and if you think about it if you want to stop losing money selling a player or two on big wages is the quickest way. There'll always be a team making a cheeky bid.

retired_debrw1964

But I am a rich club, I am UNDEr the weekly wage bill, I sold 40 mill worth of players, and THIS STILL OCCURS.


Sorry bout the star trek comment... it was just a convention(pun intented :p ) of speech.

retired_steph0688

Sorry if this a double post but...

Maybe it was that? As far as the chairman was concerned you appeared willing to sell them for nothing so a) he could sell them for that and not upset you and b) any offer bigger, or indeed any with a clause, would be better than having you sell them for 0 so he jumped in? I may be reading too much into the Chairman programming though

retired_ericahutch

What klingon for 4 2 4 ?

retired_debrw1964

But not even the poorest team would give players like Nihat and Ochoa for free. It is seriously a game-ruiner.

retired_steph0688

No worries Glad this thread is all super calm now. If your finances, wage budget etc are all fine then I'm thinking maybe it was the set value. Either that or an odd bug.

retired_debrw1964

But why should I be in debt to the point where my star players are being sold for free? I am always UNDER the weekly wage bill, I DID NOT ask the chairman for more money, and I sold players for a high amount of money.

The system is clearly flawed.

retired_madameb

Could be an odd bug. Very peculiar.

retired_steph0688

Hehehe...could be... 'Ios t'ja Ios'
:: Pins 'I'm a Geek and Proud' badge to his chest ::


Ahem Certainly is flawed if the Chairman has sold at 0 because the value was set that way, indeed it'd be a bug if they've sold at 0 and then's no finanicial needs. Don't suppose you have a horrific loan or anything? Even then 0 for star players is daft. If the Chairman has an upper limit that he's willing to sell for then there should be a lower limit too.