Negotiate The Mbappe Way

Well well well Kylian, clearly you have been reading Zealand’s Football Manager art of the deal. His contract has rocked the footballing world, but it’s come right as I was preparing a guide to negotiating contracts on Football Manager, I think that is suspicious. A wonderkid is nothing if you cannot keep them on your team for a considerable amount of time, PSG seems to know that well.

Honestly, it was time to update our negotiating tutorial. The transfer system itself is not something I feel comfortable making guides about yet because of the dramatic changes made for FM22, but I am sure that’ll come soon, for now, the contract systems have changed a good bit AND unlike the transfers, I have a good feel for how to leverage them to keep your wonderkids. I don’t know if I’ll be able to help get you ownership of the team like Mbappe, but it’s worth a shot.

Much Love,
FM Senpai

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[Avioto]

I've done over 200 negotiations in FM22, I've removed and excluded the yearly salary raise demand in every single one and it's never been an issue.

[talibrather]

Important tip- adjust down the budget to extreme right before negotiating. Players will ask for less salary when they see u have less salary budget

[garymousley]

If you have upset an agent, try to sign a few of his free players or cheapest ones he has, then the relationship swings back to friendly, get the player you actually want, then delay confirmation on the others, they will cancel the deal and your up a good relationship and got the player you wanted 👌🏻

[Funartic]

18:07 I hate having sell on fees on my contracts, the only way I have found to avoid this is in the very first step of wage negotiation (Unless the agent immediately presents a locked sell on fee) I add one myself and before I suggest the offer, I go to the drop down arrow on that clause and select "Exclude from negotiation". This makes it so that, from that moment on, that clause cannot be inserted into the negotiations by the agent, but you are still able to reintroduce it, if you change your mind.

The catch is, because of this the agent will usually demand a bigger wage or "water" in the contract, but in my case I usually prefer to pay a bit higher wages to a young player and later on cash in the totality of the sell value, because that's how I make big money. Hope it helps!

[thegreendog]

I also use the per/year format for wages. I manage in Romania, so that way at least the numbers look a bit brighter.
Also, I remember back in FM 12 I was really desperate to keep a forward in my team that I gave him a 50% yearly wage raise on a 4-5 year contract. And then, when I realized he was getting me bankrupted, I tried selling him and no team would take him. Fun memories...

[RantOfTheDay]

Usually to avoid high sell-on fees for agents that tend to do that, i lock in a 5% sell-on fee on the profits (not the overall fee) and that is the cheapest way to get around it. will always be accepted and is a good bonus in the negotiations.

[AlienFinger]

One more tip that I've found incredibly useful, especially with developing players: look ahead.

If this is a player that you are definitely going to want/need to renew contracts with at some point, and you know you want them on your team next season, it will be cheaper to negotiate right away, particularly if they're going to be a better player next year.

Get them to sign a contract starting at the end of the season, and do it early. This gives you two MAJOR benefits:
1) They will ask for a cheaper contract now than they will in 8 months.
2) When the next beginning-of-season transfer window opens, they have just signed a new contract, and won't want to move.

Re-read that second one again. You read right. Those pesky 'Wnt' conditions, where Liverpool, Man City, and PSG all want to make a move for your wonderkid just when he's starting to get good? They become irrelevant for that transfer window. You get to keep your best young players (at least until the mid-season transfer window).

Do note, however, that the 'just signed a new contract' effect doesn't start until the contract takes effect. If you're in early October, and you think big clubs will make a move for your player in January, then there's a chance you won't be able to hold on to them then. In that case, offering them an immediate contract might be the better option, even if it hurts. If you think you can dodge your way out of this transfer window (good relationship, great captain to intervene, the player is an influencial part of a social group and is happy about it - check the player's Happiness screen), the end-of-season contract might very well be your best bet.

Something that can trip you up as well is if there is significant interest from other clubs already. In this case, the player might not be interested in negotiating at all. DO NOT DESPAIR. I have yet to find in FM22 that I can't swing it at some point if I offer it often enough. If the team is playing well, and morale is high, you might be able to get it done regardless.

Dynamics, baby!

[cammy]

Always do contract start date for the start of the following season.

Delays the player getting an immediate hike in wages and you then get him for another year at his current wages 😎

Can be helpful in tight financial situations

[drsalt]

I'm still on 21, but there another good thing is that the general manager can be really good at breaking down promise barriers, and if you want to edit the length or something else in the deal, you can negoitate that without dealing with the promises.

[treasuren]

With new signings, you can lower the signing bonus by just raising the Agent's fee a little. If the agent says the player wants a 8M signing bonus, and an 800k agent's fee, you can bump up the agent's fee to 1.2M and lower the player's signing fee to something like 4.5M

You can thank me later ;)

[zacol]

One of the most OP feature in contracts options is the extension option (1, 2, 3 years). First, you get the player in your club up to 8 years maximum, but more, it will make it easier to calm him down if he wants to leave for a better club. When you activate the extension, ANY club interested won't be anymore (Even if he is a primary target of them for years), so the player will calm down and you will be able to sign him to another contract down the and apply the same trick!!!

[rayedaslam]

There's one thing that I do which I don't see a lot of people commenting about- Adding optional extension to the contract. I go for 3 years. And they accept it most of the time. So it is 5 years + 3 optional years and sometime even 1 year extension on the last year. This way I can have a player for 8-9 years on a single contract.

[suhaasbhat]

In Spain and a few other countries there's a compulsory release clause. If you want to reduce wages just reduce release clause of the player.

PS: this works only if you think the release clause already fixed by the agent is quite high. (eg - I'm okay with 130m release clause for my wonderkid instead of 150m. I'm absolutely fine with it boy)

[elloos]

Wages per year makes so much more sense! I played on weekly since FM 12 before finding your twitch channel around FM20 and when I tried it out myself it blew my mind how much better it was. Allocating money between transfer and wage, calculating how much money you will get after a player sale etc. On weekly wages you can easily get caught out paying players way too much instead of signing players on higher transfer fees but on lower wages. If you're still playing on weekly/monthly you should definitely try per year for a save. Ze you should make a video on this!

[FaraazAhmad]

Cant imagine what the FM community would be like without Zealand. Great work man!

[liviumarila]

Best tip I've got is to give 50% of next transfer to go to both club and player, for when you want a top player that you know you'll be using until they die out. I've got both Mbappe and Haaland in the 1st transfer window, paying like 13M upfront, 58M in installments and 3-5M in bonuses. I know I won't be selling them and when they are 34-35 and no longer useful, I'm happy to just get them off my wage list.

[bammbamm]

Mystery football is the best thing I’ve gotten out of this channel thank you for introducing me to them

[Murtini]

Little tip for you all - when signing a player, change the signing on fee to £1. As long as the wage is correct, they will always accept it. I've even got away with offering £0 but £1 is nailed on to work.

[smv]

I do contracts differently to a lot of people it seems.

I'd rather pay someone £85, 000 a week with no bonuses at all than pay someone £60, 000 a week with a ton of bonuses.

Because of the league I'm in (BAN save with Gibraltar) and the strength of my team, it would cripple me financially with bonuses given that my striker could easily bang in 5 goals a game or my winger could easily chip in with 4 assists. Don't wanna be paying that striker £10k per goal or that winger £8k per assist if I can help it.

[britpoint]

On the sell-on fee, I'm not sure if you can get rid of it entirely, but if you want to reduce it the same trick I use to raise minimum fee release clauses might work. So if you know the agent is going to lock a release clause: 1) Instruct DoF to negotiate 2) Go to 'Change Contract Offer' 3) You can't add/remove clauses but you can raise the release clause as high as you like, and probably lower the sell on fee too. I always add some more water in the other cups when I do this. 4) You can't lock individual clauses doing this, so set the entire contract to non-negotiable.