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The market is where seasons are won. Every player in every league is on it, and every manager is shopping. Here's how to buy, sell and protect your best men.
One marketEvery player in every league, plus one pool of free agents.
The windowAbout three days at each end of the month.
Five talksHaggle with up to five clubs at once.
A fair priceNo fee can go above twice a player's value.When the window is open
The transfer window is open for about the first three and the last three real days of every month, so roughly six days around each change of season. More → Season calendar shows the dates.
- You can start talks at any time. A deal agreed while the window is shut is binding, and the player joins the day it opens.
- Free agents can be signed at any time, window or not.
Buying a player
- Find himOpen Transfers from the club hub. Filter by Affordable, Listed, Expiring contracts or Free agents.
- Agree a fee with his clubIt's an open haggle, not a sealed bid. Make an offer, meet halfway, or make your final offer.
- Agree terms with himHis wage and how many seasons he signs for.
- SignWelcome to the club.
You can run up to five talks at once. Each talk has a deadline a few real days out, and a talk that fails closes that player to you until the next window.
When someone else wants him too
A computer club may bid against you. Agree a fee at or above its bid before its deadline and he's yours. If he belongs to another manager, you talk to that manager directly: a few typed lines each, plus quick buttons to bid, ask, meet halfway, make a final offer or say "not for sale".
Fair prices at every door
Every fee must sit between the player's minimum price and twice his value at the club selling him. That rule holds for every kind of deal, between people or computer clubs. If a fee is refused, you're told why.
Selling and protecting your players
Offers for your players arrive as letters in your inbox. Accept, reject, or haggle in the offer chat. Offers you leave unanswered lapse when the window shuts, and once ten offers are open, no new bids come in.
On any player's Contract tab you can:
- List for sale at your price. In the window, a club that needs him may buy him at that price.
- Block offers for him. Nobody can bid, talk or buy, and offers already in are withdrawn. Undo it any time.
- Set a minimum price. Your own floor, on top of the automatic one. Nothing is ever accepted for you.
Free agents
Players without a club sit in one pool for the whole game. They cost no fee, only a wage. If two managers want the same man, the first to finish the deal signs him.
Scouting
Your scouts go out looking for young talent and bring back reports: what a youngster can do now, and what he could become, as ranges. The better the scout, the tighter the ranges.
Hire your first scout in your first week (it's on your Today list). How scouting works, step by step, is in Training and the academy.
