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How about a system like this. You can sign a player for 2-4 seasons. Each extra season gets you a discount on whatever the salary might have been. So:

2 seasons = 5% discount
3 seasons = 10% discount
4 seasons = 15% discount

So if you sign a player for three seasons and thier salary would have been $20,000, $40,000, and $70,000, then the new salaries would be $18,000, $36,000, and $63,000. The catch of course being that you cannot transfer or fire them. You're stuck with them.

Or maybe you could allow a contract breakage but you'd have to pay double whatever money you saved plus a fee for every week remaining on the contract before making them available to transfer or fire. The penalty should be harsh.

I really like this suggestion! There should definitely be a penalty when you put them on the TL and they get sold. But I guess it should be allowed. So for example: you sign a player for 4 seasons, he stays with your team 2 seasons, you decide to sell him. You‘ll be able to get a nice price for him. Let‘s say you saved around 500k in salary during those 2 seasons. You‘d have to pay those 500k back + maybe 250k penalty. You‘d have to decide if transfering him would still be worthwhile. Could be if you bought that player for 200k and could sell him for 1.8-2 Mio. Would probably increase prices on the TL, which would be finde with me. And definitely lead to less players being bought and fired without paying salary once…


So yes, please implement something like this!

I like the idea with contract lenght. Don't like the salary discount but I would be in favor of it impacting the mechandise revenue. I also dislike the idea for penalty for contract breakage because I have complementary idea to enrich the contract system. This idea will try to utilize the player role ratings. We already have a player role rating in the roster page so lets expand it. Here is the idea:
- when you sign a player to a contract it should be mandatory to assign a role they would have in your team
- at the start of the season (each season) you need to revisit the role of each player
- during a season you will have an one-time opportunity to change the role of your players (to each of your players)
- players will react to the roles they are given (satisfaction from 1 to 5, orange balls) during a season (weekly Player survey)
- other managers can see players roles and their satisfaction from any team
- other managers can approach any player under contract - offering them bigger role
- players who are approached by other teams can refuse to play and demand to be added to the TL if a manager can't meet their demand for a bigger role
- players can break a contract and become free agents
- rookies are immune to this, but sophomores aren't

... so my idea isn't comlementary with a penalty system, but adds more dynamic and tries to put the player role ratings into practical use

Last edited by LynxBK at 11/6/2025 11:05:30 PM