nms1987

Thanks! Off to the Prem it is!

Is there no lack of solidity with both BWM and Regista moving around?

TLDR.... Better to loan to a middling team in a top league, or a Champions Lg team in a good league. I have a promising young forward stuck behind my superstar and a wonderkid. He's only 20, and I think my superstar is going to force me to sell him to the Premier League soon, so I'd rather keep developing this kid for now than sell him. The guy is good enough that I've gotten some nice loan offers. I can either send him to a bottom half Premier League team (West Ham or Southampton), a mid tier Bundesliga team (Freiburg) or top Belgian or Scottish teams (Genk, Celtic). What's making my decision difficult is that Genk and Celtic are both in the Champions League, the others are not in any European competition. The player is most interested in Genk. Genk and Freiburg have state of the art facilities, while the UK teams have good to excellent. At all clubs he'd be a regular starter. What do we think is best for his development, both in talent and sale value if I do choose to sell him? Normally I'd be overjoyed about being able to place a guy on loan in the Premier League, I know that will juice his value and reputation. But the same could be said for playing Champions League football. And while the Scottish and Belgian leagues aren't the Prem, they're good leagues (7th and 8th in my game right now), leagues I often have success loaning players to. Bit of a dilemma. Any thoughts?

Absolutely yes. 3 Loan wishes... 1. Like you said, be able to see your last offer. So if I know last time I offered him out I tried to get 100k a month and didn't get any bites, so this time I'll offer him for 60k a month, and so on.. 2. Be able to program a default loan offer, so that when I pull up a loan screen its prepopulated. For example I'll almost always try to get Regular Starter and 100% of wages when I offer for loan, so being able to make those lines already selected when I pull up the loan screen would be nice. 3. Being able to target by country is great, but I would love if you could do by league or tier. So if I know I only want to loan a guy out to a top league, or to the 2nd tier league in my country, I could do so and avoid seeing the offers of the 3rd-4th tier leagues

Seems like in real life in Portugal it is very common for youngish guys who aren't in the plans of a larger club to be allowed, and even encouraged, to leave on free transfers to a smaller club where the larger club keeps 50% of the pass. It's not very common at all for smaller clubs to pay anything for these transfers, usually because they don't have any money haha. But in FM the AI typically would ask for some amount of money, often an amount under $100,000 that doesn't really help the budget of a big club, yet is still more than a little club can afford. The AI doesn't seem to value 50% off the sell on much, only taking a little bit off the asking price when that clause is offered I believe this is also common in Spain or, in Real Madrid's case, a very affordable buy back option is mandatory. Just an idea for more realism

Would love for this to be round figures as well. Maybe I'm just OCD but drives me crazy to pay a 475 or 525 per game bonus, instead of 500, or to pay someone 168,500 or 170,500 per year instead of 170,000

Also getting tons and tons of Spanish newgen Ivans

Sounds good, thanks. Have seen it happen many other times in other saves in Spain and England as well. In fact, I'm not sure if I have EVER seen it quote the correct table positions in the press conference or pregame speech prompts. Not a big deal obviously, unless your board or the AI's is making decisions on a misreading of the table

So, a situation I am in right now is I have a player I picked up on loan, with an option to buy for 1 million. He has done really well for me at just 18, and I believe his value is worth more than a million now. The problem is that he has no interest in signing a contract with my club if I buy that option. I'm pretty sure in real life I have seen situations of a team picking up the option of a loanee that explodes and then instantly reselling them. For example, Madrid loans a guy to Mallorca with an option to buy for 1 million. Guy does great, value is now over 1 million, Mallorca picks up the option and pays Madrid 1 million, but instead of agreeing to a contract with the guy, they almost instantly sell the guy's rights to Monaco for 3 million (and thus profit 2 million). I don't believe there is any way of doing this in FM. You have to agree to a contract immediately after paying the fee which means that 1. If he doesn't want to sign with you then you are not able to buy the option, so then he can revert to his original team who can profit from the sale 2. Even if he does want to, since you have to sign a deal with him, he probably won't want to transfer for at least another year

I've seen this too, had a bunch of random friendlies scheduled against teams in the levels below the playable leagues in my country... I'm in Portugal and have all 4 leagues set on, so this is against random 5th, 6th tier nobodies. I had already scheduled a bunch of friendlies too, so this is making my B team play 3 times a week.... and for some reason I can't cancel these friendlies?