Selling Transfer Clauses
This is a feature I feel a lot of people do not use. I didn’t find this out myself but since then I have used it to my advantage a lot. You can find this on the Transfers screen, then click on the Clauses tab. This screen will show any transfer clauses you have going in and out of your club. The ones you should be particularly interested in are the ones with a arrow to the left, as seen below.
If you click on this clause, at the bottom of the screen you should see something similar to this:
There seems to be no logic at all in how it’s decided which you can buy out at given times, I have failed to spot any pattern occuring at all. All I have noticed is that it changes every few weeks so if, for example, you sold up every clause you could, the next day you wouldn’t have another 5 different ones up for sale, it’s not how it appears to work.
There are a number of clauses that could be sold and bought though, for example:
Good clauses to have (that can be sold):
x% of the profit made on his next transfer will go to your club (Signed for £xm)
x% of his next transfer fee will go to your club
Other team owe another £xm for the next x months.
Your team will be due another £xm after x international appearances
Bad clauses to have (that can be bought):
Other team are owed another £xm for the next x months.
You can use these to your advantage when selling youngsters. It seems quite hard to get rid of youngsters who are pretty good but you know deep down they will never push your first team, so getting rid of them with a % of the next sale is the next best thing. Now you don’t have to wait for the new club to sell the said player either, if the clause gets the little white mark next to it you can sell it there and then. It’s really invaluable when you’re in a financial crisis to rase an extra few million.
It’s also important to understand how the profits work. In my given example, he was sold for £2m and I can now accept a further £2.11m for the 30% of profit on his next sale. Looking at his value he’s only worth just over £2m now so on the face of it it’s a great deal. To work out where the you can effectively maximise profit, you should imagine that the £2.11m you are being offered is 30% of the profit.
To work this out you simply do: Profit offered divided by percentage you hold… 2.11 / 0.3 = £7.03m
From this you know where you stand really, if he sells for less than £7m in the future you’re going to be better off selling now, however if you feel he has the potential to be a £20m player then keep the clause for a few years longer and see what happens.
Big Thanks to John over at FM-View who made this artcile, I myself did not know about this so I have learnt from it as well
