Football Manager 2015: 20 Ultimate Wishlist Features It Must Include

3. Negotiate Third-Party Fees

The scourge of transfer dealings at the moment is undoubtedly the purchase of players rights by either agents or the player's relatives, placing another stumbling block in the way of pushing through a signing. Especially common in South America and creeping into the game in Portugal and Spain to a degree, the involvement of agents isn't something wholly interactive in Football Manager. In FM14, when purchasing the entirety of a player's rights, there is a non-negotiable flat fee. While it's realistic for the agent to ask for a generous sum of money for the value of his share, there should be an element of negotiation involved. Whether you could barter down the overall total or even split it into clauses based on international appearances or goals scored, the agent's need to be meddled with in some fashion. We can't just let them win.
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