We may moan that Chelsea, in real life, seem to Loan out more players than you can care to imagine, but has any one ever thought of doing it on this game?
I am in my third season now and got promoted with Macclesfield to League One. I got a wage budget of £10k to purchase 5 new staff members and players and a nice budget of £700,000 in the available funds.
Changed that to a bit more wage budget and started my rebuild (got rid of players that wouldn't cut it for me in this new division and obviously out of contract players too).
After rebuilding a decent squad to at least help avoid relegation, my target for this season, I had a couple grand left over in wagea and started to acquire 20 and under players. All just short of 1st team material but plenty of time to grow. All my signings, included the rebuilt squad, are free transfers by the way.
Now I have a squad of 22 players, I still kept thinking of the others I "rejected" for the ones I got.
So went back and acquired them too. But the same day they signed, I loaned them out for the exact same wage I bought them on.
This means I have a teenager, or 20 year old, signed to me, that can either grow and be in my team next season or be sold in a year's time for a profit. I've not spent anything on wages. Even if I sell for £50,000, I've spent nothing on wages. So far, I've got 11 players on loan. If I sold each for £50,000, thatll be a profit of £550,000. Do that, hopefully staying in League One if I've not considered promotion a possibility, and I'll be able to invest to a point I can push for promotion.
This, to me, is not cheating. It's investing. It's finance. It's management.
Good luck guys.
Yeah that’s shrewd management well done
I must be missing something when it comes to actually getting the decent end of a deal when it comes to transfers or loans. The best offers that come in for loaning my players are about 10% of their wages. Same with transfers, star keeper with years left on his contract is worth £5m, hes not for sale. I'm getting offers of a million to try and woo me into selling. I think I've only once got higher than a value offer.
I get a lot of offers for players under value but I do generally accept them if I've listed them as clearly I want out. I won't accept if they're ridiculously low as sometimes a squad player is better than none unless wages are average or more to what I'm paying if in last year of contract. Replace hopefully with better on longer deals.
The update showing us the offer before taking the call for the offer of a loan player is great. I tend to get good loan offer deals and some poor. If you don't like them, reject and wait until a good one comes in.
I have waited for someone to offer 100%, even more, before loaning out.
Only issue is they come back to you 1st June so you have to pay them all for a month. This will affect your wage budget obviously and probably put into negative.
I've managed to get my teams finances to the 2m mark doing this for a couple seasons in League One Having been bordering bankruptcy.