[Suggestion] Line up real life transfers from July

[i Love United]

If you start an FM save in England then you start from July  and play from there. However, all of the transfers the club has made in the whole transfer window would have been made already. e.g If I play with United from the start of July then Pogba will already be in the United squad despite his transfer going through on the 8th August and him missing pre season. 

What I'd like to see is an option where you can start with the squads as they were in real life in July with the board recommending the targets that actually moved after July 2016 in real life. These signings would all be pre programmed into the game as very likely to happen so come August in FM, all the squads resemble the actual real life squads. 

By having the transfers set up as very likely to happen, it still gives the Manager a chance to scupper deals that didn't go the club's way in real life. e.g. in FM starting with July squads in July, I could still attempt to sign Kante for United rather than him go to Chelsea. 

Then the first FM style transfers will start to appear from January 2017.

[Maaka]

While I'd like for the transfers that happened IRL after the date you start the game to be fully excluded from your game, I don't see that (or what you suggest) happening in any foreseeable future, ufortunately. It would probably be to much to implement, and (also unfortunately) it's probably not what most players would prefer (my guess).

[i Love United]

I head Miles answer a question on this exact topic in the Q&A part of the FM17 launch. He said that they had tried to do this and there were laws against it which is frustrating. 

However, would it not be possible to build an option into the editor that allowed us (i.e not SI) to programme in the likelihood of transfers happening on certain dates to get around this? E.g using the editor we could put Pogba back at Juventus as he was there on July 1st 2016, then say he has a 99% chance of signing for United by the 8th August - and the game will then build the the transfer back from this date and limit the amount of AI transfers for the first window. 

[Weston]

As much of a stickler for realism as I am I find just turning off the opening transfer window and using the current squad as is a suitably honest attempt to recreate the most accurate conditions for kicking off a new save.

[Neil Brock]

Reviewed so locked.