Football Manager 2024 isn’t all penny pinching economics—there’s formations to tweak and shout at, heatmaps and data analysis to pretend to understand, and much more. But good footballers are the most expensive commodity in the world, and if you want to win games, you’re going to need some of them. Ideally, at least eleven.
The best way to navigate that hurdle is scouring the free transfer market. These are players whose contracts have expired for various reasons—often they’re established players of advancing years at clubs who’d rather be spending their wages on youth. There might also be simulated disputes between agents and clubs leading to free agency, or the player may have fallen out with the rest of the dressing room and simply doesn’t want to agree new terms.
