It’s probably worth mentioning that you’re aware Iran was involved in a war a few months ago. The internet was completely shut down for three months. I only managed to regain access to my team during the very last week of Season 71, so I had no choice but to buy several players from whoever was available on the market, and I had to do it as quickly as possible. It had taken me many years to complete my team’s training, and there was a real possibility that internet access could be cut off again.
If I had had more time and the opportunity to properly evaluate the market and buy players, I probably would have looked for players with lower salaries and more optimized skills as well. I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to destroy all the money I had accumulated over an entire season.
The fact that I was paying more than 2 million in salaries last season was because I had bought players whose transfer prices were extremely low. Everyone saw the result, and despite having a team with that level of payroll, I didn’t even make it to the semifinals.
With the new changes, over the next few seasons it will no longer be possible to win B3 with just seven high-level players. If you look at the purchases made by other teams, you’ll see that several teams had multiple players who cost around 5 million each.
At best, you can train three players at B3 level. You then need another four top-level players, each of whom costs somewhere between 3 and 5 million to buy. That means even a 15-million cash cap isn’t enough to buy seven players and pay 1.5 million in salaries for two seasons.
Personally, I welcome changes that push the game toward having at least 10 quality players, including both starters and bench players. However, as a first step, the changes should have been implemented without introducing additional financial restrictions, and only after seeing their actual impact should the cash reserve cap have been reduced.
Reducing the cap at this point will only lead to even more confusion among users, while making championship runs at the higher levels increasingly dependent on luck.