Get Rid of Players

Sending them to b team and never looking at them in the eye ever generally does the trick for me.

I had 35 yr old Julian Alvarez and his value was about 5 million pounds. For a whole season he would keep rejecting offers from clubs who were around his ability. Then one day I get a 400k offer from Bayern and he was begging to leave. He ended up only playing a few games for Bayern before getting released. L + ratio

Had a wonderkid that wasn't gonna make the grade on my Wonderkid Farm, and tried offering him out for months without success. Put his Asking Price to £5m, got a ton of attention. Kept rejecting an re-offering at a slightly higher price. Ended up selling him for £70m haha.

Just here to say, shout out to the editor and animators for their excellent work

This is why Luis Campos is the first staff member I target on a top-team save. Having a good Director of Football can be incredibly useful

I always struggle in WHEN to let players go. I’m talking about younger players in particular! The ones that are on the fringe of the team, but not quite there, but could be good enough with more games!

I always have the issue that players "over perform" on my team. Like I can have the top scorer in the league and top assists while both of them are what I feel like mid table players (this is for PEC Zwolle in the Dutch First Division). This leads to them wanting higher wages than their stats warrant. So then I try to sell them but because their value is so inflated because of their performances no one is willing to make an offer and if they do it's millions below their value, usually from a 2nd Division league in like Italy. And if I accept I make my board angry... Strangely enough not even one of them getting top scorer gets me good bids in, I thought surely other teams would scout on that and at least be tempted to make an offer? Or minimally show "interest" in the squad screen.

This year, at least in the main leagues, (but even in the MLS and Serie B that I've played in this year as all) I've not really struggled to sell many players, I'm almost always able to either sell or at least loan them out, and for an example, I got Greg Taylor, the left back for Celtic for free at the end of last season, but by the beginning of the next season, I had already signed a new, young left back with better stats than him as he was only a good championship backup, so I listed him up for transfer and... €15.5 million by some Greek team. And I did the same thing in the same season for Sibley for €8 million, two players that should've realistically been impossible to sell that I've been able to sell with just one offer to clubs, but overall it just hasn't been at all painful for me in letting go players for some reason, I don't believe I have any realism mods installed as I started my save without even a facepack 5 months ago

You might want to add that there are options in the unwanted list that prevent the players from being sold into your own league. That is one of the options that is very valuable if you want to 'cash in' on players that dont suck but you dont want them to play for rivals or in your own league for the competition.

One of the things I love about Football Manager is that even in June/July we are still discovering things that change the way we play. New tactics are one thing, but this is a part of the game SI have chosen to include and make more effective, that most were not really using that much, and then they don't tell us about it, so we can work together as a community to discover these things. Zealand and his stream discovered this one, and I'm so grateful, because this has helped so much on my save! My board lowered my wage budget mid-season for no reason, and it took me well under my current spend, so I had to reduce my wages by £1.1m per week. (I'm Portsmouth who I have taken to the Premier League.) I was struggling so hard to sell players as I didn't know this trick, and the board ended up getting very angry. This should now solve my problem and allow me to move on players, without 'Selling team wage contributions' and other issues! - Cheers Zealand, and his community! Also - awesome video, Zealand and his team always put out superb content, and this is another great video, well explained, easy to follow, with a bit of humour as well!

I really had no idea that this was in the game, I always saw it when clicking through the options and now I’m going to use it more often when I’m struggling to loan out players I need to develop and or sell

Thanks so much for doing this. Most useful video you have done for a while, Zealand.

I love loaning out for a mandatory fee for players I really want out. You almost always get the bid you want/are okay with, you just need to wait a bit until you get the money.

Very interesting, I’ve played with derby this year and struggle to offload my stepping stone players / under developed wonder kids. I always knew this was here but didn’t actually think it worked! I’ve a few rotation players I don’t want to be actively selling but they have a price I’d be willing to let them go for. would this also work for those players if I set them to unwanted but a fee over their value? Or does it bring their moral down?

I discovered a workaround on the asking price problem. Establish an asking price the player accepts and set it. THEN: lower the value by one click. If there is no response, your asking price is good. If the agent/player starts complaining again, lower the asking price again until they accept it. This new lower asking price will work without upsetting the player.

1:06 Some other good ones I can quickly think of: He has committed several war crimes against the bird population above the stadium. He is looking somewhere and passes the ball elsewhere... He is the heart of the dressing room. So you don't want to get him out in the pitch. He would be every team's best player. Apart from the one he plays at.

Genuinely one of your most useful videos

Oh cool going to Greenland, I am currently playing in Greenland in my FM save. I would love to see that!!

Persuade to join is sometimes useful and can make a difference.wish there was an option when selling to pay % of wages but only for the 1st year.will try going directly to interested club's to see if i can get better value

Hey Zealand I have a great idea for a series for you. You should buy a mystery football kit and based on what team you get you should do a save with them so you could have an easy team like Man City or a hard team from a Thailand called Police Tero (that was definitely not a kit I got from them) and think it would be very interesting to see how thinks would go and even if you wanted to you could do it within a season deadline where you have maybe 5 seasons to try get as much success with a team and then after those 5 seasons buy another shirt and then try get that job or something like that I don’t know it’s just an idea but whatever team you’re playing with you have to wear their kit or else there will be consequences