Just installed the game to try it. Created a West Ham save and sold Ryan Fredericks for 300mil to Burnley and Lanzini for the same to some Chinese no marks.
Fucking SI are a joke.
I'm guessing if you did it to a smaller club you'll cripple them financially? Or does the money not actually come out of their account?
I imagine they request a delay or cancel the transfer in that case. EDIT: If DS can swindle Burnley out of £300m, it's knackered.
Nope it just goes through. Burnley had 40mil in the bank and theyre now 260mil in debit.
You can also make clubs pay a 5mil a month loan fee, fuck me lol
I once used the editor to bankrupt a club to see what happened. I ended all Arsenal players contracts, put -£500,000,000 in the bank and holidayed a few years.
They got relegated but their finances were roughly back to normal. It must refresh finances in line with club stature at the end of the season or something. There's no clubs going into administration or anything like that.
You negotiate a bid then when the other team accepts you right click the price and you can select any value in the drop down menu.
Because it was already accepted it goes through.
Yeah, ever since the CM days, they've tried to ensure clubs don't go to the wall like that. If a club goes bankrupt, it just means a new board will bail them out. If they allowed that, they'd need a regen system for clubs, as well as players. And they'd have to factor in any league structure changes a defunct club would pose. Rather than figure it out, it's easier to give the clubs a parachute in terms of takeovers.
It's all in the video DS posted.
As it doesn't work with buying players I can't see why it's not an easy patch. Incredible it took this long to be noticed though.
Made a new save to test the exploit and it does indeed work and it's simple as fuck.
You could just disable right clicking on that screen, no?
Oh I'd imagine it would be a fairly easy fix by SI.
I have a new job:
Currently halfway through the season and this is the current league standings:
Our first game is in 3 days against the current leaders.
Squad:
Key player:
Our transfer budget is £50k and we currently have around £3k left in the wage budget. Transfer window opens in a month.
Yeah, I don't think it's a big deal but people seem to be going on about as it breaks the whole game.
And someone said they won't fix it because it'd be too much effort, I was just pointing out it really wouldn't be much effort. I don't know if they still patch the game this late, probably not.
He went to Sochi. £5.25k per week with £1k appearance bonus and £775 goal bonus.
No chance I would be able to get anywhere near that.
At Gvardiets he was on £0 p/w with a £275 appearance and goal bonus so he's done well.
Assuming Covid hasn't fucked it, the new game's out in 4 months anyway.
Decided to look at the leading transfers:
Lukaku going back to Chelsea for £86m
Hermanos Colmenarez Season 2020/21:
So I came into the job at the exact halfway point and these are my results:
Some great results but ULA having our number was annoying.
It left the league looking like this:
We managed to sneak into third which got us into the play-offs. There are 3 groups in the division with 3 teams in each division going into the playoffs. Two of the teams (third placed in two of the divisions, I don't know why the two other teams were chosen) faced off first to cut the field to 8 with 2 winners gaining promotion. As you can see we gained promotion.
The other team to gain promotion were the champions in our league.
Squad:
Quilaleo was pretty big for us after he came in as were Giampaoli and Stancato.
In terms of the future I'm not sure what to do. I'd like a crack at the top division and the Libertadores but the club is pissing money. As you can see I've let a lot of players run down their contracts and find employment elsewhere which will help but we need an injection of cash.
Edit: I think I know why the other two teams were picked.
This group only has 6 teams so you'd assume the third placed team always has to play an extra play-off game as they play 4 games less in the season.
In this group the third placed team had 1 less point than me.
Also, in the 6 man league I saw this:
Looking in the rules there are no deciders listed should teams have an equal amount of points. Yaracuy deserved second but that system, if real, can really fuck a team over.
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2026 and having had another slog in a relegation fighting championship campaign with Oldham I was offered a job by Leicester in the Prem with £40m to spend. I have been offered a lot of jobs in the save but that is definitely the best offer so far so I have split the save as I have definitely been feeling like I may have taken Oldham as far as I can. I still want to see if I could keep Oldham up and push on but honestly feel like it's nearly Christmas and despite us winning a few games and drawing a lot more we're still 23rd in the table. I have been changing up tactics to not much avail, though I do want to see what my right wing wonder kid does for Oldham this season so might go full Smiff and instant result to the end of the season
I’ve loaded Ireland, England, Germany, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Croatia, and the US and am holidaying unemployed for 2 years. I’ll add a manager and choose when it’s done.
I've decided to stay on at Hermanos but the finances really are shocking. I really need a takeover to happen otherwise we're going to be in the shit.
Stopped holidaying in January 2023 and took over Burnley (17th in Prem). How does a PL team only have one coach?
That transfer exploit is mad, of course now I want to try it I'm getting only non-negotiable bids. My brother was a tester on the last 3-4 games so I'll see if he was aware of it
Signed this guy at the start of the season on a free and he's become my best player. Getting regular updates about his positive development too.
So we made profit this month (second month running) because we took in £58k in gate receipts, over the course of the season we've only taken £90k so £33k for the other months combined. It's all down to one game:
I have all those away fans to thank.
So halfway through season 4 with Slough Town, and our first in the National League, and we're actually performing pretty well. We sit in 8th spot as we go into the Boxing Day games, and considering the board expected a brave fight against relegation, the season has been a pretty big success so far. We started off with some inconsistent form, with 4 wins in our first 6 games, including wins over both Stockport County and Sutton United. This was followed by just 1 win in the next 8 games, with some really poor results in there - getting pumped 5-1 at home by Harrogate Town the low point.
We've since recovered well, with an 11 game unbeaten streak, albeit with a lot of draws, and I'm now aiming for a solid mid-table finish - anything more than that is a bonus.
A lot of the old guard has been replaced - star performers from last season are largely sitting on the bench or playing for the Under 23s as the step up in quality has been quite sizeable. I've made 12 signings in all so far, but I'm still on the lookout for a top quality striker as that is definitely holding us back. Our top scorers are in midfield or on the wing. One of my best signings has to be Dean Wilkinson, snapped up on a free from Arsenal. He lacks a lot, but good physicals, teamwork and work rate is so important at this level, and once we (hopefully) go pro, he will develop a fair bit I'm sure.
For comparison, here is Ryan Manning, first team regular at Stockport. I've never seen someone valued so highly in the National League, and it baffles me how I managed to beat Stockport on the opening day when I look at their squad and wage bill. Interestingly, bottom of the table Dagenham and Redbridge are spending the most on wages, at over £2m per annum, whereas I'm spending £293k pa, the second lowest of the division.
No way is Dean Wilkinson 19, he's lived a life that boy.
Signed this guy on a free from Liverpool
He would score 15-18 goals in the Hungarian Prem. Aim higher
I do love a complete forward, mind.
It's going to be a long season I think
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Not sure whats worse. The ME producing that goal or the transfer/game engine making United sign Troy Parrott
Troy Parrott is an absolute weapon on my save (FM19). 50 caps/50 goals for Ireland.
Hes absolutely fucking mental on 20 too. If he gets the right PA he becomes one of the best players in the world.
On one of my saves PSG bought him for about 140mil
He must have stopped hanging around organised crime in the grand.
I've just splashed the cash and have just made a record signing.
A whopping £375 and the first player I've signed that wasn't available on a free.
106 goals in 115 caps on mine, I could have got him for £30m before he went to Man Utd but I thought Aaron Connolly was the better option. It wasn't
Here is the league table halfway through season 8 at Ferencvaros:
What I find frustrating is that our seemingly dominant GD of +21 has been produced with a record of F27 A6. In this league, no matter how superior you are, no matter how much you dominate and how many shots you have, you simply do not and will not ever score a significant number of goals. The GPG in the whole league is 2.35 and ours with a dominant unbeaten lead (literally no chance Diosgyor are coming after us) is only 2.06. I don't know if it's hard programmed into the league, or a result of the way that all 11 other teams play (all 11 camped behind the ball for 90), or what it is.
I don't think we've been in behind a defence for about 4 years, except in Europe when the teams come out and play. The league is just horrible tedium passing it about in front and hoping for a long ranger to pop in.
Possession football has brought me unparalleled success for 7+ seasons and twice taken us to Champions League last 16, but I'm starting to think I have to rip it up and play direct with wingers again to actually improve any further.
I thought Libertadores qualification was decided in the play-offs (it's on the championship) so I'm glad I didn't fuck it up as I've eased up in the last month or so.
Hermanos Colmenarez Season 2021/22:
Results:
Table:
Think I could have nabbed second (and thus a Copa Libertadores group stage place) but I was using a lot of rotation in the last couple of months when we sealed top 8.
Play-offs:
Simple in the quarters. We have drawn both games in the regular season to Monagas but our team was stronger and we dispatched them fairly easily.
Felt confident going into this as had beaten Lara 4-3 and 4-0 and they took out Tachira who we struggled massively against in the regular season. First leg ended a little hairy as our right midfielder was sent off after 72 minutes and our left back went off injured with a few minutes remaining after we had made 3 subs. We were unlucky in the second leg and should have won but it didn't matter.
Final first leg:
We lost both games against Merida in the regular season but really should have won them both (first game a few posts above) but we came out on top in a fairly routine win.
Second leg:
I think their penalty miss was massive and had they scored that it would have been very close but we held out and were declared the Champions of Venezuela.
Carlos Vera scored 4 over both legs against Lara and 2 against Merida which was massive. He was a loan signing (there were a lot in the second transfer window) who was there to provide backup. He had barely started a game for us until we were assured a top 8 place but got starts and impressed me when I was rotating to keep everyone fresh.
Squad:
A couple of others also had some game time but we sold a couple and a couple of the loan signings got bad injuries so went back to their parent clubs.
Finances:
We were massively in the shit and at our worst we were around £200k in the negative. The club injected funds twice though and we're finally in the positive thanks to sponsorship money coming in, £90k for winning the league and we sold 3 players for a total of £105k and only one of those players was getting regular games for us.
Plan is to stay here and win the Libertadores then move to another club in a different continent as I'd love to finally do the pentagon.
Oxford City - First Half 2042/43
Summary
Aiming for a fifth successive Premier League title, and what we hope will be our 8th overall, we've done our chances no harm whatsoever by storming into the lead once again. Getting smashed at Craven Cottage against Fulham was odd one, mind. 4-1.
In the cup competitions we've got a chance to clean up all before us.
We sailed through our Champions League group stage winning five and drawing against second place Sevilla. Red Bull Salzburg took third and Benfica dead last in an attack minded group. Schalke await us in the knockout round. Usual suspects with the exception of Hoffenheim. We've won it six times but a win this season would be a 5th successive European title.
We've got Tottenham in the EFL Cup semi final, the winners facing either Chelsea or Newcastle whilst Southampton will fight for the chance of progress to the FA Cup fourth round in the next week or so.
Charity Shield and Super Cup both claimed.
Diguinho fresh off beating Alan Shearer's long standing most goals in a league season has started where he left off.
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Whilst old timer Yan Canti can't help himself either.
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This season I'm trying to blood in:
And
'We' whomever we are, made the decision not to bring in anyone during the transfer window as it was high time we used what was by all accounts wasting away in the reserves so we're switching game plan and going with home grown for a couple of seasons. Hopefully whilst still winning as we bid to become the most successful side period.
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Tried that transfer thing and the mind boggles as to how they got away with that. But as it happens, bye bye Maxwell. On his way to PSG for £150M at the age of 33. Double bonus.
Turns out that the Libertadores places were indeed decided by the play-offs and not the regular league positions so I went straight into the group stage.
Shit group for us but oh well.
Also, despite getting a handy £2.3m the board refused to nudge the transfer revenue % up and will not give me the option to ask for a larger transfer/wage budget so we've got fuck all there to really make some moves.
Just found this guy:
I want to manage him at some point during this save.
Edit: Just played a match where my RM fouls an opponent and picks up a yellow card. The opposing team then take a short free kick and he decides to foul the recipient of the pass and pick up a second yellow
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