Weston Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 I've included this point in a larger post about overall improvements needed to in the area of transfers, but I want to highlight it here as this is the #1 issue I have with Football Manager and, though this has been an unrealistic and frustrating sticking point for years, it seems it STILL has not been addressed in FM19 despite being very simple and straightforward. You have always been able to agree to transfers outside of the transfer window, and they are simply implemented on the first day it opens again. However, for some reason you aren't able to preemptively arrange loan deals the same way. There doesn't seem to be any reasoning behind this, and it's incredibly restrictive of your transfer strategy, especially as a smaller club that relies heavily on loans. I often have to decide between signing outright a mediocre player or loaning a younger kid at a comparable level from a larger club, but that leaves me with the choice of either securing the older guy now or having to just sit around riskily waiting and hoping a loan could materialize later because it cannot be preplanned for. This causes me to miss out on a lot of business for no real reason. As far as I can tell, the top leagues had the below number of loan deals prearranged on or before the day the window opened. Note this does not include smaller leagues where loaning is far more common and crucial: England, 39: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_football_transfers_summer_2018 Italy, 16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_football_transfers_summer_2018 Spain, 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_football_transfers_summer_2018 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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