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where i can i get good cheap players from

crite9

Club Supporter
hi there new to this only have about 2 mill to spend could do with someone to knock the ball in the back of the net
 

Neo20007

Youth Team
best idea would be to send scouts
i mean i have the same problem, but i wait to get enough money, then i buy someone good like podolski, klose, ronaldihno , gilardino, or ronaldo. thats how i do it. sometimes good players agree to crappy offers, but not too crappy
 

O-car

Starting XI
you can also check out the free agents. I got some pretty decent players from there, you don't spend a penny on them except for their wages
 

wanderers boy

Youth Team
O-car;2251208 said:
you can also check out the free agents. I got some pretty decent players from there, you don't spend a penny on them except for their wages

there all old there's a odd 27,28 year old
 

nebulachapin

Youth Team
Free agents demand such high wages though!

You have to use some sense and also get some luck. I have landed some
very excellent players by looking around. I have a few cases for you.

(1) A player NOT on the market. I bid for Danny Szetela in MLS who was 22
when I and at 77. I offered him a decent salary (like 4500 pounds) and bid
down, like 900k, and low and behold I got him, and his market value shot
up to 2 million right away. He was worth 3.9 by the time I moved teams, the
next season.

(2) Just signed this kid, Boussong from French Ligue 1, at 83, central defender,
only like 3000 pounds a week salary for 5 years! I bid 1.5 million pounds and
again landed him, and his value shot up by 2 right away.

So there are ways to make money and land great players for less funds.
 

Adamo

Club Supporter
I think you should always check the free agents. You can grab an older striker for pretty good money. And, no transfer fee.
 

StevePitts

Senior Squad
Adamo;2253155 said:
I think you should always check the free agents. You can grab an older striker for pretty good money
No doubt it is always worth checking to see who is available, there will often be one or two real surprises (Agbonlahor showed up at the start of my second season with Wycombe) but as someone said above, free agents always seem to be vastly more expensive than players acquired via any other route. This may not be as noticeable with a top level team, but I signed Nicola Beati to my Wycombe team at the start of season two, a 72 rated CDM, and he still earns more than the rest of the team put together.
 

nebulachapin

Youth Team
StevePitts;2253230 said:
No doubt it is always worth checking to see who is available, there will often be one or two real surprises (Agbonlahor showed up at the start of my second season with Wycombe) but as someone said above, free agents always seem to be vastly more expensive than players acquired via any other route. This may not be as noticeable with a top level team, but I signed Nicola Beati to my Wycombe team at the start of season two, a 72 rated CDM, and he still earns more than the rest of the team put together.


Uh yes, its me the "snippy guy" who said that. I feel for you and your expensive
signings. My first "big" signing for me (Yeovil Town) made 6 times as much as any
other player on my squad. But, note my signing of (actually his name is) Sebastien
Bassong (83). I am only paying him 3k a week in a 5 year contract which is less
than I paid my first big signing for Yeovil who was a 63. (I have since moved on to Everton).
 

StevePitts

Senior Squad
nebulachapin;2253631 said:
I feel for you and your expensive signings
Signing, singular, 'cos I decided after that first one that it was way too expensive to bring players onto my team that way. Heck, the guy's CS bonus was more than six times as much as anyone else was earning - I'm surprised that the rest of the team didn't go out on strike.

nebulachapin said:
My first "big" signing for me (Yeovil Town) made 6 times as much as any other player on my squad
Was that a free agent or a transfer from another team?? I get the impression from digging around during the transfer season that it is much cheaper (in terms of wages, obviously) to transfer players from another club than to sign up free agents. Either that or they are free agents because they want too much money!!

nebulachapin said:
note my signing of (actually his name is) Sebastien
Bassong (83). I am only paying him 3k a week in a 5 year contract which is less than I paid my first big signing for Yeovil who was a 63. (I have since moved on to Everton)
Negotiator level must play into this, and I'm sure that you'll have a higher level with Everton than Yeovil, but I wonder whether team prestige and manager prestige factor in too?? Either way your experience stacks up with mine, in that the system is definitely harder on the lower teams.
 

nebulachapin

Youth Team
StevePitts;2253948 said:
Signing, singular, 'cos I decided after that first one that it was way too expensive to bring players onto my team that way. Heck, the guy's CS bonus was more than six times as much as anyone else was earning - I'm surprised that the rest of the team didn't go out on strike.

In the beginning I did a combination with a much heavier weighting on youth talent and scouting prospects than actually signing players from other squads. I never got a free agent in the beginning because I simply couldnt afford their salaries.


StevePitts;2253948 said:
Was that a free agent or a transfer from another team?? I get the impression from digging around during the transfer season that it is much cheaper (in terms of wages, obviously) to transfer players from another club than to sign up free agents. Either that or they are free agents because they want too much money!!

It was from another team. I can't remember which but it was surely a League 1 or 2 team. I couldn't get the time of day from anyone else. You are spot on regarding free agents. Their free exatly because they want too much money.


StevePitts;2253948 said:
Negotiator level must play into this, and I'm sure that you'll have a higher level with Everton than Yeovil, but I wonder whether team prestige and manager prestige factor in too?? Either way your experience stacks up with mine, in that the system is definitely harder on the lower teams.

Agreed. I was at (and still am) at prestige level 6 when I signed for Everton. I found that signing players has become much easier because of the higher level of negotiator. At the same time, however, I was doing pretty well signing players at Yeovil. I just didnt have the money to get any great players! But at the end I was signing free agents and I got a few good ones who contributed very much despite their inflated salaries.

BTW, my move to Everton was prompted by the fact that I simply could not get a sponser in the premiership (in the premiership mind you!) who would not give me more than 16k a week! And I finished 2nd! Another flaw in the EA engine.
 

StevePitts

Senior Squad
nebulachapin;2254515 said:
my move to Everton was prompted by the fact that I simply could not get a sponser in the premiership (in the premiership mind you!) who would not give me more than 16k a week! And I finished 2nd! Another flaw in the EA engine.
I haven't got there yet (still mired in the middle of my third season, whilst I write some code to fix the fixture congestion, so that I can use my own career to test it) but my impression is that sponsorship is based on your team's prestige levels (there are separate levels for domestic and international prestige). My domestic prestige has risen to 6.1 from a starting point of 4, but international prestige is still stuck at 3 (not unsurprisingly). I'd be interested to know what your Yeovil prestige levels were when you switched teams, but unless you have a save from just before the end of that season we'll never know.
 

nebulachapin

Youth Team
StevePitts;2254554 said:
I haven't got there yet (still mired in the middle of my third season, whilst I write some code to fix the fixture congestion, so that I can use my own career to test it) but my impression is that sponsorship is based on your team's prestige levels (there are separate levels for domestic and international prestige). My domestic prestige has risen to 6.1 from a starting point of 4, but international prestige is still stuck at 3 (not unsurprisingly). I'd be interested to know what your Yeovil prestige levels were when you switched teams, but unless you have a save from just before the end of that season we'll never know.


I do have a save from the end of my 4 year Yeovil campaign. I always save before the beginning of the next season. Let me know how I can check these numbers.
 

KULCAT

Youth Team
Im coaching the New York Red Bulls on the MLS right now and they have a lot of high 50`s to high 60`s players that are VERY FAST and because of that good playmakers. you could check there
 


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