Transfers & contracts

Using the player search

The player search opens the wider football world. The main list shows name, position, age, rating history, appearances, goals, club or free-agent status and value. Select a player to open the full profile and, when your role permits, begin a transfer assessment.

The quick filters limit which players appear in the list:

Only interested

Shows players for whom a move to your club is currently plausible. Interest can change as clubs, contracts and careers change.

Only affordable

Removes players whose expected fee is beyond the club’s available transfer resources.

Only scouted

Limits the view to players your club has already observed and retained in its recruitment picture.

Only human players

Shows footballers attached to human career profiles, useful in a shared career.

Former players

Helps a human participant follow footballers previously connected to his career.

The detailed filter can narrow by name, position, preferred side, age and ranges of football or career information. Several filters can be active together, so the list can represent a specific position, age range, side and financial range. Hold one of the filter’s arrow buttons to move repeatedly through a long range instead of clicking once for every step.

How scouting works in the football world

Clubs continuously observe possible recruits. Their recruitment activity reflects club stature, league context, the strength of the current first eleven and the time of the season. The opening and closing weeks of a campaign are naturally more active, while a club outside normal league competition behaves more cautiously.

A club’s shortlist is not random storage. Players are assessed, compared with current options and watched again before a move. Domestic and locally based players are easier to encounter, free agents attract attention, previous opponents can be noticed, and a club may also explore unfamiliar parts of the market.

Repeated observation can turn a possible name into a genuine offer. A poor fit can be removed from the shortlist, while a player who fills a positional weakness, improves the first team and remains affordable is more likely to progress. Computer clubs use this process too, which is why the market changes even when you do not initiate a transfer.

How a club evaluates a target

When a player is analysed, the buying club considers what its squad would look like with him included. It asks whether he would enter the first eleven, strengthen the substitutes, provide rotation or remain too far from the team. Natural position and side matter because the player has to displace or support someone in a real role.

The transfer screen translates that judgement into clear football language: a top transfer, a potentially valuable player, a useful addition, a realistic move or a proposal with doubts. This is not a guarantee of success; it is the club’s view of the sporting fit before wages and the player’s own decision are settled.

A footballer can also be too strong for the proposed context. A star may see no suitable sporting step in joining a far smaller club, even when the money exists. Conversely, a lower-league side can offer a young or unattached human player an important first route into senior football.

What shapes player value

Value combines current football level, potential and the context in which the player is owned. A talented young player can be valuable before he becomes a regular because the future is part of what the buying club receives. An established performer at a strong club and league carries a different market standing from an equally skilled free agent.

Age matters increasingly after a player moves beyond his prime development years. This does not make an older player ineffective; it recognises that the buying club is purchasing fewer future seasons and a greater risk of decline. Contract situation also changes the practical price: an out-of-contract footballer can move without a transfer fee, though wages and interest still need agreement.

For a human-controlled footballer, sustained match performance contributes to the market’s judgement. A player who repeatedly performs above the level suggested by his original profile can build a stronger career value and attract clubs that would not have considered him at the start.

Why a player is — or is not — interested

A player weighs the new club against his present situation. Club and league reputation describe the sporting level. The expected place in the squad determines whether he sees first-team football, rotation or the edge of the group. The wage must reflect his quality, ambition and the step being requested.

An overseas move adds another question. Adaptable players are more comfortable changing football cultures; others may require a stronger financial reason to leave familiar surroundings. Loyalty can encourage a longer commitment, while financial ambition raises wage expectations. Older players may value contract security differently from players entering their peak years.

Interest is therefore allowed to change. Promotion, relegation, a run of strong results, an expiring contract, a crowded position or the player’s own improved standing can make a previously impossible move realistic — or close a route that once looked open.

Completing a transfer

1. Open the player profile. Confirm position, side, age, form, ability, potential, contract and current club.
2. Review the club’s assessment. Check whether the player is seen as a starter, depth option or doubtful fit.
3. Check the fee. A contracted player requires the selling club’s price; a free agent has no transfer fee.
4. Check wage and length. The proposed monthly wage and contract term must make sense to both player and club.
5. Complete the move. The transfer proceeds only when there is room in the squad, the club can finance it and the player accepts.

The fee leaves the buying club and becomes transfer income for the seller. Wages become a recurring monthly commitment, so a cheap fee can still create an expensive long-term signing. The player’s previous club, arrival season and career statistics remain part of his history after the move.

Contracts, wages and renewals

The contract view shows monthly wage and remaining seasons. Contracts shorten at the end of each campaign. A ctr marker warns that the agreement is close to expiry or has ended.

Choose Extend contract to ask what the player wants. He may accept his current wage, request a raise, want a particular length or decline to renew. The preferred term reflects his place in the squad, loyalty, age, current agreement and the financial improvement being offered. A player whose contract has just expired may take time early in the season to consider the wider market.

Wage expectations compare the player’s level with the club’s level and resources. A star relative to the squad expects to be paid accordingly. A player moving to a less attractive club may require greater compensation, and an overseas move can increase the request for someone who is less adaptable.

Clubs also review contracts themselves. Computer teams extend players they want to retain, improve wages when appropriate and release footballers they cannot justify. Human-controlled players receive these proposals as decisions rather than having their future settled silently.

Incoming offers, selling and releasing players

An incoming offer appears in the news and offers screen with a remaining number of days. You can inspect the squad and player profile before accepting or declining. If the player is under contract, the proposal includes a transfer fee; if the contract has expired, the move is a free transfer and the club’s power to prevent it is limited.

Accepting transfers the player, frees a squad place and records the fee as income. Declining keeps the player for now, but does not remove the reasons that created interest. A highly rated, unhappy or out-of-contract footballer may attract further approaches.

Sack releases a player from the club. A contracted player normally receives compensation for the remaining months; an expired contract can be ended without that compensation. Releasing a player can solve a squad or wage problem, but the footballer becomes available to competitors and the decision cannot be treated like a temporary loan.

Understanding player happiness

Happiness explains the relationship between player and club. Positive reasons include belonging to a top or improving team and enjoying good results. Negative reasons include lost self-confidence, frustration with team-mates, concern that the squad lacks quality, limited first-team opportunities or wages that no longer match status.

A player outside the eleven may accept the fight for his place, become disappointed, or eventually fail to understand why he is not a regular. The response depends on his level relative to the squad and how long the situation lasts. Playing time, team results, wages, team-mates and squad strength can all change the reason shown in his profile.

Contract length determines how soon unhappiness becomes part of a renewal or free-transfer decision. The squad screen shows unh specifically when the player believes his wage no longer matches his status; the detailed profile can reveal other causes.

Offers in an individual player career

Clubs assess a human-controlled player through his match performances, established football level, position, nationality and likely place in their team. Offers can arrive from the current club as a contract extension or wage increase, and from other clubs as a proposed transfer or free-agent move.

Each offer has a deadline and identifies the offering club, country, league, wage and contract length. The destination’s squad determines the player’s likely place in the team, while the club and league standing describe the level of the proposed move.

If your contract has expired, the player information screen allows you to Leave club as a free agent. This creates freedom to accept a new opportunity without a fee, but also removes the security and selection route of the present team. Former clubs and players remain visible through career history and the former-player search.