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    properdisco

    By properdisco

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    Have been noticing this a fair bit since my FM21 save. I remember I was playing as Mainz, pushing the top 3 in Germany, and had Liam Delap up front, who was a star for me but very clearly not as good as the star forwards at Dortmund just from a single glance at the attributes. Regardless, Dortmund decided to pop his £50m release clause one window and signed him. This was okay for me who had backups ready and now an extra 50m in the bank, but I was intrigued how my star would get on - they took about 9 months to debut him and he left having made about 3 appearances. Even the worst £50m signings in history would get more chances than he did. If they're not going to try him, why did they part with 50m for him? The only possible reason I could think of was that we were pushing them for the #2 reputation team in Germany and they wanted to weaken us, but spending a 50m transfer fee to do that seems excessive.

    That was definitely the most ridiculous instance of it happening, but it's still happening weirdly often in my 22 save

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    Plymouth paid 18.5k in League One for a player they used twice before moving. I did not offer him out, Plymouth came to me and the player wanted to go.

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    another lower EFL club paying a transfer fee for what seemed to be an emergency backup player for them

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    another high fee at this level for a player not getting a lot of playing time (there have been 20 games in League One thus far this season)

    image.thumb.png.f373bf0d60dc6900a354126f3e563d84.pngbit of a funny one here cos I asked for a loan back because I couldn't be bothered to sort a backup GK at that time. 17K fee and 0 apps

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    not quite value for money here either

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    and finally, this man couldn't wait to play Eredivisie football....pour one out for him.

     

    Hopefully that's enough examples. And by the way, they were all unasked for transfer offers. I did not offer to clubs or anything like that for these guys. I'm aware bad and unusual signings happen, I make a few myself but they still get more than 1-4 chances if I actually paid a fee at this level, but this seems a bit over-frequent

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    Kyle Brown

    Kyle Brown 2,411 Administrators

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    We'd need some save files prior to these players actually being signed in order to investigate this properly. If you have them, could you please upload via the link below? :)

     

     

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    properdisco

    I uploaded my save 'Tufty Gibbon - Notts Co.fm' last week or so for a different reason. That was probably before some of these transfers, Markelo was probably still at the club. I don't archive my saves that long though so I can't provide one.

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    Kyle Brown

    Kyle Brown 2,411 Administrators

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    We'll take a look into that save anyway, thank you!

    You can set autosaves to happen at more frequent interval and that way you'll always have a point of reference say every month/fortnight. :)

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