So I've just realised something now that's actually put me off this chairman game a bit. I'm hoping to make a few transfers this window, bring in a few good players. As I imagine everyone else is.
However, erm at the end of this season comes the draft... Now, no doubt by that time if I get all my transfers I will have quite a few players who I want to protect, more than the allotted five for sure. Then I could lose up to three players who I really want to keep at the club. On top of that, provided I do as well as Barca should be doing, I'm going to be one of the last people to pick my drafts. Leaving me with pretty poor choices (as was the case in this draft).
So now I've lost three players. Who I paid for. Who now three other teams have just got for free. And I am only able to replace these players with second rate players from the bottom teams, no doubt from the teams who just got promoted. Who will have worse players to begin with, and won't have taken anyone from the draft or really bought anyone to compete in the platinum league.
Now, this leaves me at a disadvantage. I've just lost three quality players and had to replace them with three average players. Now, sure. In the transfer window I can replace these players. However, when we get to the next draft I will lose yet more quality players and only get second rate players in the draft, no doubt from the newly promoted teams again.
To me, this is very annoying. And from the posts of transfer lists I've seen people are more than willing to negotiate on their best players, apart from their very very best ones (which is the case in any chairman game).
So, after thinking about this, I would very very much like the draft to be scrapped for the second season. Perhaps replace it with a system someone mentioned earlier on where, if someone bids 3x the amount of a players value, the chairman of the other team has to sell them.
Any questions on my thinking, please ask. Other people might not share my views, but on FM I very much enjoy buying young, high potential players and watching them grow. This is the case for both playing by myself and chairman games. With the current system I'll be losing three of those players every season, and on,go able to replace them with mediocre players (as I had to do this season. I lost Ter Stegen, Pique and Iniesta and the best I got was Juan Jesus, Origi and Niang).
