9. Financial Detail
The next improvement Im going to discuss is a very small and subtle one, but something I think will have a long lasting impact on the genre. FM 2013 features tax rates in each country across the world, which doesnt at first sight seem like much but consider the following scenario. Man City have bid £40 million for the next bright starlet whos appeared out of Belgium, AC Milan then go and match this bid. Now ignoring all the various footballing reason a player may chose one or the other, the size of his pay packet will have some level of influence on the poor boy. Just giving you an example, Lukas Podolski is currently on £100k a week (take home wage after tax is £48.5k), Riccardo Montolivo is currently earning more than him with £105k a week, but his take home wage is only £40.5k a week. So if both clubs end up offering the same wage then the kid will be earning more at City, meaning AC would need to offer over the odds wages to ensure he joins them. As I stated, this is a small feature of the game but something which does impact on the transfer market significantly, and it does again set FM 2013 apart from its competitors when it comes to realism.