Engbob123 said:
My opinion is there are some managers in the game who want to get rich quick and they inflate their prices. This however affects the new managers who struggle to afford an average skill player (prices have increased since i first started playing).

@GunnerNic said:
I appreciate you starting this thread - its a great thread to help users understand whats happening in the game in this area.



What I'm trying to explain is how it works, based on facts, not opinions and maybe I'm not doing it clearly.

Lets define two phrases quickly for clarification:

Inflated offers: These are offers either on auction or market forum or private message demands by a manager who values his player higher than it should be. These can be ignored for this topic because they have no bearing on actual purchase prices. Do not be led astray by some ridiculous amounts wanted for players by some managers, these players do NOT get sold. I saw recently an extreme example of this, an 80 something CDF I think it was on auction for 3 billion.
Now dont get confused by very high ACTUAL purchase prices made, thats different and I'll get to that later.

Inflated prices: Actual purchase prices that a buyer has paid that is way to high for that players value. These are not tolerated in Striker Manager and the Seller will be fined substantially with an extra penalty added to that. We now have an excellent group of fiscal @ who will deal with those cases.

So what are we left with:

All the players that do get sold (actual sales) that are paid for according to current market demand on auction/direct purchase, transfer agreement and hostile clause. So lets take a look at each of them in the context of our topic:

Auction/ Direct Purchase.
I'll use the CF in my previous post as an excellent example:
http://uk.strikermanager.com/inicio.php?accion=/historial.php%3Fid_jugador%3D8032372
Sold on auction for 78M, a 20/15 CF with a shown forecast of 93, the seller started the auction at zero.
A totally legitimate sale, everyone can bid, not an inflated offer in other words.

Now, how many 93+ CF's juniors are out there in our Striker world, maybe 20. I've been keeping track as I train CF junior and its about that number. So that would satisfy 20 Div 1 managers, what about the rest of us? Where are those 20 CF's - mostly in Div 1, a few dotted around in the higher leagues.
I have tons of CF's but the best I have is 92 forecast and I would have loved to have won that auction but it was too expensive for me. And this brings me to an important point - if the auction was totally fair and open, why are the sellers being blamed for the price?
Should the buyer be blamed? Of course not, he's just bidding with his budget and wants to win the auction at whatever his budget limit is. If not, too bad, somebody else wins it. The fact that Div 1 managers have more money is a part of the game and correctly so I think, one should be rewarded for making it to that level.

Transfer Agreement.
Based on auction prices with high forecast player transactions carefully looked at by fiscal@ to ensure they stay in line.

Hostile clause.
Not really pertinent to this topic as high value juniors are normally resigned

Lets also not forget that it was much easier in the early days to have a whole squad of excellent seniors an juniors relatively quickly as there were fewer managers (lower demand) and more than enough players (over supply)
Now that we have our first season of Div 1, I have a feeling there will be a lot of evening out as the seasons go on and the top guys start getting relegated (earning less) etc.

Rest assured
The game will find its balance.