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I had an offer from Aston Villa in my Hillerød career for youth player Carsten Kjær. The offer was the usual non-negotiable, lowball junk, which meant that I naturally rejected it. As the screenshots show, the player is unhappy because he wants to leave for a stronger club. As the screenshots also show, my Hillerød has higher reputation, higher in the UEFA coefficient rankings, and (not shown in screenshots) literally won the Champions League 25 days prior to the offer. No sane person would claim that Aston Villa is the strongest team under those circumstances. Rather than making vague appeals to how he'd play less (which would implicitly mean accepting the utterly incorrect claim that Villa are stronger), the social group and atmosphere (which are close to being the same thing), promising a squad that's as strong as Villa (which again means accepting the incorrect claim) or dismissing it. Rather than having separate social group and atmosphere appeals, I would like to propose an option to challenge the player's perception, appealing to a metric where the current club is ahead of the buying club. How successful it would be should depend on player/manager relationship, how many metrics where the current club is actually ahead and other factors such as playing time and salary.

I've finally managed to reach the Champions League final with my Hillerød team, and the final few weeks of my season look as shown in the screenshot. The final week in particular is insane, with four games in six days (or six in thirteen, assuming that I don't intentionally lose against Aalborg in the cup), ending on a Champions League final. I do not believe this is realistic by any stretch of imagination. The Danish FA would not allow a team to come to a European final, being that exhausted. Proposed fix: End the winter break a week earlier, and start the winter break a week later. The schedule around late November and early December (assuming European play) has a cup match, followed by a free weekend, then followed by the European game. Unless there's a Club World Cup, which is a separate issue that you also need to address, this will still match up well with Danish law, which stipulates five weeks of paid holiday. In case there *is* a Club World Cup, I'd rather have the challenge of scheduling extra holidays for my player to comply with the law than dealing with that kind of scheduling.