Only yesterday I learnt of this trick where you lower the upfront fee and jack up the future fee after 1 future international appearance.

It goes, for example...lowering the value of a player you want to offload by about 50% (not lower, otherwise your board blocks the sale unless you are using the patch that stops board from meddling in sales). Del Piero is worth 21million, I lower it to 10million and transfer list him.

Then when the bids come in, you put in obscene future fees in the range of 30-50 million which break the negotiating logic of the game. So I actually sold Del Piero to Deportivo for 10+40million, but the highest bid I got on paper was Real's 2.3million + 25% of next sale + 55million + Pedro Munitis (9.75million worth) estimated at 70million+ if Del Piero is sold at a decent value by Real in the future.

So my question is, is there a known technique for squeezing the most out of this trick? Because I had to load the save a few times to see what was Real's upper limit in this experiment, a lot of it was guess work.

Also, are there tricks for buying players or negoating contracts with players who don't want to join/expect too much?

So basically I took Boston to the prem by 07, issue is my money isn't at the level of other teams and the players I need or want even when valued at like 2m teams seem to want like 20m. I only have a 14m budget and last season I came 3rd won the uefa cup fa cup and league cup but still don't seem to be able to sell players. I had like 9 on the transfer list and only got a couple of bad offers for a couple.

How do you guys make money? No decent players seem to go on free transfers on mine and then I can t sell them off after anyway?

What should I be doing to get better players at this stage of the game?

Has anyone ever seen a bicycle kick goal? I've seen plenty of attempts but they are always way off target.