Description of issue
I'm managing Chelsea, Mbappe accepted a pre-contract of £375,000 p/w, £16m sign on fee, £80k Appearance Fee bonus and Goal Bonus. He signs for Bayern for £250k, £12m sign on fee, £50k Appearance and Goal Bonus. Fine, that could happen, even if it never would. I try to negotiate new contracts for my squad. Mason Mount wants his wages more than tripled to £300k p/w, Reece James wants a 5-fold increase to £300k p/w, Conor Gallagher wants a 1000% increase to £150k p/w. Neither Mount nor Gallagher are first choice players, but are demanding at least a Regular Starter role. I could negotiate these contracts down maybe 10-15%, or delegate it to someone who will do no more than I can. Then in 12 months time, they'll all want new contracts, this time demanding £400k p/w. If I'm lucky I can get them to agree that they don't need a new contract, which buys me 4/5/6 months until they decide they actually do deserve that contract. Eventually I'm either forced to give them a new contract, or accept having a squad with 4 or 5 unhappy players because they aren't getting a new contract every year. At some point I need to give them a new contract, and they will be demanding £500k p/w. This applies to half, if not more, of my first team squad. And then the cycle repeats, 12 months later players complaining about wanting new contracts, 1 year into 5 year contracts. And pretty soon I've got 4 or 5 players earning half a million quid a week, and the rest are trying their best to catch them. Meanwhile the AI will sign whoever they want, with no significant jump in wage demand, often players joining AI teams for lower wages than they were originally earning, such as Mbappe agreeing a near 40% wage cut to join Bayern, despite better offers.
I'll upload the files Chelsea Salary Test before contract negotiations begin, and Chelsea Salary Test 1 showing the contracts negotiated by my club. I expect this will be filed under "Perfectly normal behaviour" though.
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