*Valued at 71K* “We would like 67 million plus 40% on a percentage of the next sale”. Cool

When offering your player a new contract, always change the contract start date to end of season to save money. Quick tip.

Ah yes, the negotiator

Pro tip: Use a £0 relegation release clause when in the top flight and strong enough for it not to be realistic, to drive down wage demands.

On contract renewals, especially with your top stars, on the first page you can select for their contract to start at the end of the season. Most players are normally happy with this and it means you've saved a decent chunk of money as you don't have to pay their new wage until the end of the season.

Zealand I absolutely love the videos. I started watching a few weeks ago to get away from how bad FIFA is and just wanted tips on how to get better youth players. Now I've watched every video on this channel and feel much better about taking on my West Ham save. ❤

I would say another huge tip would be to hover over the little information icon next to the agents name when negotiating a contract. It will tell you what kind of agent he is and whether he looks for a good deal for him or for the client and if he’s patient or not. Good info to know when adjusting wages and bonuses

Useful tip: when negotiating a contract and its gets to orange, try to put your offer on 'non negotiable' and the player/agent will more likely accept your offer. Its not 100% but it does help a lot. Sorry for my shit english i hope you all understand

One feature I find very useful when negotiating contracts with players from my club is clicking the "use current contract" button which will set everything to what it is at the moment so you can then kinda try to meet in the middle with your player and also make sure you are not increasing anything wildly. Also, keep in mind that if you're talking to an agent, they definitely care more about their fee than the player's loyalty bonus or sometimes even their wage, that's probably why he accepted Valentini's offer that easily haha

Finally a video about this topic!! Thank you very much!

I really enjoy your videos, they are well made/explained and i learned a lot thanks to them. All the best.

My favourite FM guy...rewatching videos to brush up on spots. I did notice when you wanted to check out your captains current wage while negotiating his contract you went to his main page, you don't need to do this while on a new contract, there is a drop down at the top next to current contract next to promises and it will show what he is currently already on.

chest reveal at 50k

Stoke City - “ahhh I see you want my 4* English HGN regen striker, that will be £180,000,000, 50% sell on fee, your first new born son and a handle full of Drachma from the year 1763..” Me - o_O

That opening gave me all sorts of feelings!

Great video today keep it up your doing amazing job 👊🏻👊🏻🎉🎉👊🏻

I was after Jonas Wind in my Ajax save. FCK wanted £195 mil... Yeah right. So I praised him in the media, declared my interest, intentionally bid way too low... And a year later, they agreed to let him go for £5 mil, 'cause I had unsettled him. It might have taken a year, but it was worth it.

just a little amendment which is worth mentioning: the player contract clauses do come out of your wage budget in a way. You can see when offering the contract what the 'wage budget contribution' is. It changes slightly depending on how high the bonuses/clauses are. I only know this because I was doing a lower league save where I needed to make use of every penny in my budget. I worked out the basic salary in my head for my transfers but it backfired because I hadn't counted in the bonuses which can add potentially 1k a week extra onto the wage budget contribution (a small figure to most clubs but it's a big deal when you're dealing with players on like 1.5k a week)

lmao the intro music fits literally perfectly it reminds me of a medieval middle eastern market

I have a random tip, if you make a counter offer and they aren't playing ball, look at the text top left, it's happened before that the agent says "things will go a lot smoother if you give my client such and such." Basically, they seem to sometimes prioritize one or two aspects of the contract and it can be easy to miss and overpay.

Ran into your channel and love it. The knowledge that you imparted on me has been incredible. Do I need to say that I did subscribe? Through all of the videos, one thing I have been looking for and have yet to find is some wisdom about Amateur clubs. I love taking a team from the lowest depths and seeing how far we can go. I don't know why but I feel a greater sense of accomplishment when we finally arrive to the highest tier than taking on a team already there. My question to you is do you see yourself ever creating a video on amateur clubs or maybe creating an amateur save? I would love to see this. Thanks for the awesome videos and great information. This game has quickly become my favorite now and your videos have helped immensely. Appreciate the time. Thanks!

Great vid! One note though, when negotiating contracts the bonuses do come out of your wage budget, sort of. Depending on promised playing time and position a percentage of things like appearance fee, goal bonus and clean sheet bonus will be added to the wage budget cost of the player. So a Star Player forward with a wage of 10k per week, a goal bonus of 1k and an appearance fee of 2k would come with a wage budget cost of something like 12k per week. A squad player Defender with a wage of 10k per week, a goal bonus of 1k and an appearance fee of 2k on the other hand would come with a wage budget cost of only just over 10k per week.

don´t know if you mentioned it yet, but a "direct loan back" for a player decreases the price they want significantly. got Livakovic the goaly from dinamo zagreb for 3 million estimated price was 9-12 million.

I feel like u missed some things. Always, when you try to buy a player first offer should be 0$, when they counter just counter offer*0,498. Works 100%, but if they don't want to make a counter offer it means that they will only sell on 50-100% sell on fee, then offer like 60% and wait for counter offer if they still refuse to counter it means that they will probably only sell on sell on fee. Then you can try to unsettle the player. Also while loaning out you can make some extra $ by monthly fee. I've managed to get even up to 10 mln from loans, then after season you can sell that player for even more. When negotiating contracts you can offer rise after 1 international cup and you can save about 30% of diffrence between original wage and rise, but I would say that this one is an exploit.

20:29 cancelling previous lower offers for Stroud is fine but you also need to be aware of what he thinks. On his transfer page, it'll tell you who he prefers to join if any. Leaving him just the option to join Minsk will only work if he's open to the move or you go into the 'convince him to join' option (which is sketchy at best).

Man I just found your Channel . Damn . You're funny . Keep on with good content 🙏

I always remove unused sub fees, lock in promotion wage rise at a limit of 10 or 15%, no more than 10% yearly wages rise for younger players. When selling players (younger), 50% of profit on next transfer is locked in from the first negotiation. Over a 5 year period, I might have one year where I spend more on transfers than I make, but I'll generally only make a signing if I don't already have a kid coming through who I think could step-up, or I'm buying the finished article to move up that next level once I'm already in the top flight (otherwise it's free agents and experienced cast-offs from bigger clubs).

Hie Zealand love your videos man keep up the good work. Just a suggestion can you make a video about preparing for a big away game.

Hey man, loving the videos! Any tips on preparing for a big game (e.g. cup final).

19:22 setting a player as unavailable for loan doesn't stop clubs asking to take him on loan, it just reduces it a little. You have to also set it to 'reject all loan offers' for some stupid reason

i have a good tip to manage money more effectivly, at the cost of wage budget, i dont pay any tipe of bonus to my players, and usually even totally remove loyalty and signment prizes, and i try to compensate in the base wage, it costs a bit more on the wage budget, but you have much more control of the money money you are spending on your players :) just go to salary compromise on finances and see what each one is taking you, although bonus do not add up in that page, so it is harder

Good relations with some agents also lead to them accepting favourable terms in contract negotiations. If it’s the first time I’m negotiating with a particular agent I tend to offer a favourable agent fee to get them on my side

i also set the 'contract start date' always at the end of the season so that i can save more money

"All of these other bonuses are not counted in your wage budget" I used to think this but I don't think it's true. If you adjust the bonuses, you'll see the "Payroll Budget Cost" change. It even takes into account the playing time agreement, so a Star Player will see greater impact in the payroll budget for appearance fee compared to unused sub fee. This is opposite for an impact sub or fringe player. I have found this useful for knowing how much I need to adjust the appearance fee bonus to make up for a reduction in the guaranteed contract for players that I maybe don't want to pay as much if they're not playing (often injury prone ones!). Of course, because the bonuses aren't guaranteed, they are less persuasive and I often need to "over spend." But the wage budget does seem to take the player game bonuses into account from my experience. I haven't noticed any shifts for things like milestone goals or end of season achievements however.

Good informative videos, wondering if theres any faster way to increase fanbase on the game? Other than the obvious solution... win. Got promoted from the North Conference to League One but still only seem to get 30-100 people turning up for away games?

Bro u are awesome

“I want the money now or I don’t want it at all” 😂

Are you taking the piss out of 'pick up artists'? I very much approve!

Great slice Zealand, good work. What I would like to know is why wont my coaches take their last couple of courses to make them truely awesome?

Can you make a video about how making loans work, with those percentages and stuff, I don't really get them? Thanks if you do!

Another class video lad! Keep it up 👍🏾

Do you have any tips for pulling off loan deals for players that are not listed for loan by their club, ie. fringe players/squad players that aren't getting the game time they want. Lots of players are reportedly 'very interested' in joining the club on loan but the club most of the time seems to automatically reject bids if the player is not a youth player. Is there anyway to convince clubs to loan you a player and is there anyway you can tell if the player would be allowed to go on loan before you make an offer?

Once you decide to sell a player, and they don't want to leave, do you do something different or are you unafraid that it might torpedo your morale?

"The Art of a deal v.2" - Zealand Florida residence - Zealand You're bound to become a president

For selling players, i always go with the percentage of next sale option rather than percentage of profit from next sale. Guess you won‘t get anything in return if the new club won‘t sell the player for profit

I dont even own this game anymore and still watch this videos

great tip about remove and exclude. I always forget about that. You could add info about targetting the offers e.g. I am sending my south american players for loan to spain to gain nationality in 2 years and only there

Can you make a video about how to play entertaining technical football ?

You have some great advice in this video but I will say that the optional future fees are very stupid to put in. It basically just scares away some clubs so you get fewer bidders and you have ZERO gain from putting it in. If he plays great and his value goes sky high then it’s much better to just sell him after his loan is over to the highest bidder.

How do you negotiate contract renewals when they are asking x4 the original? Happens with all my players. They're around 30k p/w now they are asking +100k p/w

Any tip for increasing or decreasing the hierarchy level of a player?? Playtime aint helping it in my save... :/

Is the playing monthly fee and unused monthly fee paid to the club that has the player?

Sometimes I've tried increasing the agent fee without any others, wondering if the agent's self-interest will make them influence the player signing but as I can tell, it makes no difference.

I can’t find the Lázaro Brazilian striker on my Watford save even though I have Brazilian league and flamingo in my save

As an aside, I'd say don't be too trigger happy with who you choose to Offer to Clubs! Some of your players aren't going to react well to being pimped out - you can persuade them to leave but it's hit or miss and might backfire if they decide to complain to the rest of the squad and implode the dressing room

i sometimes forget when im signing someone that there are promises that have to be kept and then they end up wanting to leave after a month because k broke their trust

I laughed so hard at the 50% example

I always include 5% of future profit just to support the club that prepared that player for me :D )) some times even 10-20% for poor clubs from my own nation)

Players also show what they think of their potential next club. So I get offers in for a player and I accept those offers but my player is like I want to go to team X. Now specially if that player your selling had a good contribution but he does not fit the standard anymore I do look at it and even be willing to accept a lower offer. I had this on my Nottingham Forrest save. I had a player played 2 good years for us but did not meet the standard anymore so I sold him. I had two offers, one from Blackburn and one from Bristol City. He told me he was very interested in going to Bristol City. They offered a half mil less then Blackburn but he had been a good servant to the team so accepted it. Another thing is I get a loan offer in I accept and two other teams do a loan offer for the same player. I accept the one I think is best but I stall the other two. In case the first deal fails you still have the other two to fall back on.

Hi, great vid. Question off topic.... how do you add pics of actual people onto newgens?

When you negotiate a contract you can lock the signing fee and agent fee all the way to zero and the won’t just reject your offer.Btw zeland when I make an offer to get a loan player the other team is never willing to negotiate the percentage of the player fee I have to pay , does tho generally happen to the game or am I doing something wrong?

Hi Zealand, got a question: How do you get to sell a player for the amount you want? Everytime I wanto to sell a player that I want and that is good, I never get to sell him not even for the value that he is valued for.... The offers are always shorter... Thanks

Can you please make a video about your leagues set up?

Oh my god thank you I am terrible in deals personally.

Please make a video about wage structure!

Hey I'm really struggling trying to find fullbacks that can grow to be over 4 stars. A lot of your wonderkids I see are wingers and strikers, can you make a video about full backs? Thanks!

I just started watching this .. but if you talk about loans .. I'll take it as i was the inspiration 4 dat part of d video 😎🙄😅😅

Just realised we have the same dof Eugene Krasnikov

You live in Tampa, right? Is this upload super late or super early? Either way thanks for the info

Great tips. I hate the appearance and unused sub fees and want to forever exclude them. Do you know if that's an option at all?

Ok but ríos was valued at 1.5M and you said he could go for 20M. How do you evaluate your players? I mean I know if the player is not playing or not playing well enough his value is going to go down, but what is the process you went through and that made you evaluate him at 20M?Im wondering how can I do that with my own players

12:40 some things - you should always shave off a bit from agent's fee and lock it. Here the agent should gladly accept 40K instead of 46.5K, probably you could take it a bit further (and often it will be more impactful that measly 6.5K). As long as you are not pushing it too far, this should not affect your relation with the agent negatively. When it comes to appearance fees and other bonuses, they are in a certain ratio to the base salary, based on the playing time and differing from league to league (though I'm not certain about the latter). I think it's a good practice to calculate these ratios and stick to them to have a better framework for the wage structure that you want to put in place. 15:40 You mostly don't want to sign youngsters to one-year deals, especially the ones with no reputation, like this guy (mostly guys that expect one-year deals have no reputation whatsoever). After going to your team, their reputation rises, and the next deal you will have to offer them may be significantly more costly. On top of that you have zero control over their future, which is never a nice thing. One weird thing you may come across is when you suggest a different playing time is that for some players this will mean demanding more money and for some this will mean taking less or forgoing (not demanding) some of the bonuses (like the 20-goal-a-season bonus for the striker if he is a regular starter instead of important player). I guess this is based on the reputation, the players with a high reputation won't want to ride the bench and will demand more money for that and the players with lower reputation will accept the fact that their new, bigger club sees them differently and modify their expectations accordingly.

It hurts when you see your offer gets accepted immediately. It makes me wish if I could have lowered the cost a little further.

song on intro?

I play fm19 so i don't know will it works on FM20. You can actually trick the player's agent to make him respectful of you and get like the best deal ever right from the start. Find other players that the agent has ( really low value unknown players) buy them or approach to sign and accept the contract IMMEDIATELY( he will think working with you is easy and build up the relationship ) around 6-7 players like that and you will hit the maximum relationship. ( he is respectful of you or s.th) then offer the main target for contract, after you are done you can cancel all of the others 6-7 shitty decoy. The agent will hate you alright but the deal is already done and you lose nothing , you can even try to rebuild the relationship next time by doing the same thing but with like 13-14 players to make him from hate you to respect you . It can potentially save up like 50% all across the board.

Can anyone give any advise?! So I'm trying too sell Yanga-Mbiwa in my Lyon save. 30 years old, last year of contract, 55k per week, 5th choice CB. I have control of all outgoing transfers, hes not on the unwanted list so it's not down to the board to sell him. I'm getting bids that match his value but they are being rejected by the board. Anyone know why?

LOL, dafuk is up with that intro :)

Dude you're funny as hell...

i want javairo dilrosun in my second season w/ milan. when i suggest offer they want crazy money for him like >100million euro. even after i unssettle him and what not, the price wont go down. eventually i just gave up and sign transfer listed chiesa for 50 million instead. the season after, dilrosun is offerd at 16 million euro i'm like wtf???

great but what if my top player dont want to negotiate? He plays every game and he feels bad in the club, 15 months to end his contract.

Those kids who I have developed into world class players and won 5 UCL over 10 seasons are asking me for 400+k a week though they appear in less than 50% of my games. Even Erling Haaland isn't getting this much despite winning 3 Ballon D'ors

Yeah the offer to clubs sounds good but never works for me. I get zero interest all the time. Even if I offer the player for $0. It's ridiculous.

Hello, Can I request a challenge? When you have a solid team, hire a "10 or less rated player " for free, train him and play with him on your starting eleven to see for how much can you sell him! Good luck :)

I got a really good newgen after first season. Good enough to someday win the premier league. I had just promoted to league two in england. Watford came around to buy him. Got 3 mil dollars for him. Which isnt that much. However... I also got a buy back option for the same amount and a 50% of next sale clause. So in a couple of years when he is better and im better than watford i can buy him back for half the price i got for him. Some might call it a cheat. I call it bad AI.

The thing is that i find hard as FUNK this year is getting free players . They all vant 30K or 45K a month while they have 2stars or 3 stars. Yeah im a club that has 50K in salary budget a year. But i cant find good players.

Locking the wage contribution in loan offers feels limiting to me. I often get loan offers where clubs won't go over 20% of the wages, but happily agree to monthly fees of 20 times the wage total. Why take 100% wages if you can get much more than that on a monthly basis?

Anyone had any experience of the "improve coaching team" promise in a contract? Used it to get Haaland to sign a new deal and no matter what I do it doesn't satisfy him! Got the best coaches in the league in every department, session are all 4.5* minimum and I even asked him to recommend a coach and hired him. He still became unhappy at the end of the season and I sold him to United to prevent it effecting squad morale (and I hate strengthening United).

is there a way to change a regens face ? I have a lot of Colombians with East Asian faces and it's kinda annoying. Thanks for the vid Zealand!

Ed woodward should view this video

More like the art of growing a beard 👌

This is like the one area of FM that I’m naturally good at - I got Johannes Geis and Birger Meling at Crystal Palace for £750K and £975K respectively, now they’re both worth £20M after two and a half years.

negotiat with high value player from big club pls go go go and do the work permit video about youngster from another country

As a Benfica supporter, I'm offended that you're offended

Vid starts at 2:25

Great video! But you forgot the trick how to get a youngster to sign a smaller contract and less wage % increase! If you know the player wont feature in your first team, just tell him that he can have a lot of money if he plays x amount of first team games. If he gets closer to the first team, offer him a new contract instead. This is very useful if you have a lot of youngsters and trying to keep their upkeep down!

what time does zealand stream

Art of negotiating - "heads back to player profile to see current wage". Seems to forget the existing deal option in the contract renewal screen

11:07 "His loyalty bonus is how much he gets for not leaving." Not strictly true, it's what he gets if YOU decide to sell him. If he's the one who demands the move, he gets nothing

Yo, you're so hariy 😂

I'm not shown all the stuff you are (like how many players I have at each playing time level)