Negotiate The Mbappe Way 

I've done over 200 negotiations in FM22, I've removed and excluded the yearly salary raise demand in every single one and it's never been an issue.

The greatest negotiation trick was signing Alan Shearer from Newcastle in CM01/02 by offering them tens of millions after he got 1 international cap. Which he was of course never going to do since he was retired. Still, it always had me in fear of seeing an inbox message one day of 'Shearer comes out of retirement'.

Oof that player interest when suggesting Regular Starter...

If you have upset an agent, try to sign a few of his free players or cheapest ones he has, then the relationship swings back to friendly, get the player you actually want, then delay confirmation on the others, they will cancel the deal and your up a good relationship and got the player you wanted 👌🏻

Important tip- adjust down the budget to extreme right before negotiating. Players will ask for less salary when they see u have less salary budget

18:07 I hate having sell on fees on my contracts, the only way I have found to avoid this is in the very first step of wage negotiation (Unless the agent immediately presents a locked sell on fee) I add one myself and before I suggest the offer, I go to the drop down arrow on that clause and select "Exclude from negotiation". This makes it so that, from that moment on, that clause cannot be inserted into the negotiations by the agent, but you are still able to reintroduce it, if you change your mind. The catch is, because of this the agent will usually demand a bigger wage or "water" in the contract, but in my case I usually prefer to pay a bit higher wages to a young player and later on cash in the totality of the sell value, because that's how I make big money. Hope it helps!

I also use the per/year format for wages. I manage in Romania, so that way at least the numbers look a bit brighter. Also, I remember back in FM 12 I was really desperate to keep a forward in my team that I gave him a 50% yearly wage raise on a 4-5 year contract. And then, when I realized he was getting me bankrupted, I tried selling him and no team would take him. Fun memories...

One more tip that I've found incredibly useful, especially with developing players: look ahead. If this is a player that you are definitely going to want/need to renew contracts with at some point, and you know you want them on your team next season, it will be cheaper to negotiate right away, particularly if they're going to be a better player next year. Get them to sign a contract starting at the end of the season, and do it early. This gives you two MAJOR benefits: 1) They will ask for a cheaper contract now than they will in 8 months. 2) When the next beginning-of-season transfer window opens, they have just signed a new contract, and won't want to move. Re-read that second one again. You read right. Those pesky 'Wnt' conditions, where Liverpool, Man City, and PSG all want to make a move for your wonderkid just when he's starting to get good? They become irrelevant for that transfer window. You get to keep your best young players (at least until the mid-season transfer window). Do note, however, that the 'just signed a new contract' effect doesn't start until the contract takes effect. If you're in early October, and you think big clubs will make a move for your player in January, then there's a chance you won't be able to hold on to them then. In that case, offering them an immediate contract might be the better option, even if it hurts. If you think you can dodge your way out of this transfer window (good relationship, great captain to intervene, the player is an influencial part of a social group and is happy about it - check the player's Happiness screen), the end-of-season contract might very well be your best bet. Something that can trip you up as well is if there is significant interest from other clubs already. In this case, the player might not be interested in negotiating at all. DO NOT DESPAIR. I have yet to find in FM22 that I can't swing it at some point if I offer it often enough. If the team is playing well, and morale is high, you might be able to get it done regardless. Dynamics, baby!

Usually to avoid high sell-on fees for agents that tend to do that, i lock in a 5% sell-on fee on the profits (not the overall fee) and that is the cheapest way to get around it. will always be accepted and is a good bonus in the negotiations.

With new signings, you can lower the signing bonus by just raising the Agent's fee a little. If the agent says the player wants a 8M signing bonus, and an 800k agent's fee, you can bump up the agent's fee to 1.2M and lower the player's signing fee to something like 4.5M You can thank me later ;)

Always do contract start date for the start of the following season. Delays the player getting an immediate hike in wages and you then get him for another year at his current wages 😎 Can be helpful in tight financial situations

What are you talking about, people? Wage per year is miles better at finance management than it is weekly or monthly.

I do contracts differently to a lot of people it seems. I'd rather pay someone £85,000 a week with no bonuses at all than pay someone £60,000 a week with a ton of bonuses. Because of the league I'm in (BAN save with Gibraltar) and the strength of my team, it would cripple me financially with bonuses given that my striker could easily bang in 5 goals a game or my winger could easily chip in with 4 assists. Don't wanna be paying that striker £10k per goal or that winger £8k per assist if I can help it.

I'm still on 21, but there another good thing is that the general manager can be really good at breaking down promise barriers, and if you want to edit the length or something else in the deal, you can negoitate that without dealing with the promises.

Me as PSG manager in 2027 signing a new striker: Look, Haaland is my first choice so I’ll make you an impact sub but give you £400k a week, okay?

There's one thing that I do which I don't see a lot of people commenting about- Adding optional extension to the contract. I go for 3 years. And they accept it most of the time. So it is 5 years + 3 optional years and sometime even 1 year extension on the last year. This way I can have a player for 8-9 years on a single contract.

Little tip for you all - when signing a player, change the signing on fee to £1. As long as the wage is correct, they will always accept it. I've even got away with offering £0 but £1 is nailed on to work.

Best tip I've got is to give 50% of next transfer to go to both club and player, for when you want a top player that you know you'll be using until they die out. I've got both Mbappe and Haaland in the 1st transfer window, paying like 13M upfront, 58M in installments and 3-5M in bonuses. I know I won't be selling them and when they are 34-35 and no longer useful, I'm happy to just get them off my wage list.

One of the most OP feature in contracts options is the extension option (1, 2, 3 years). First, you get the player in your club up to 8 years maximum, but more, it will make it easier to calm him down if he wants to leave for a better club. When you activate the extension, ANY club interested won't be anymore (Even if he is a primary target of them for years), so the player will calm down and you will be able to sign him to another contract down the line..... and apply the same trick!!!

In Spain and a few other countries there's a compulsory release clause. If you want to reduce wages just reduce release clause of the player. PS: this works only if you think the release clause already fixed by the agent is quite high. (eg - I'm okay with 130m release clause for my wonderkid instead of 150m. I'm absolutely fine with it boy)

9:44 My biggest issue is with staff not accepting second roles as well.

At least in the lower leagues, I've noticed that if I drop a player's wages dramatically below what they want, whilst also removing a bunch of other stuff, when the agent adds it all back with another comment that "offering the suggested wages will go a long way..." I can then leave them the wages they want, and remove a load of other stuff. In 3 seasons and two promotions, I have rarely paid agent fees, signing on fees or loyalty bonuses, as well as unused sub fee.

Per year > any others. It's so much more easy to make sense about what you're spending

I hate to admit it as a Union Omaha fan but Forward Madison always have very nice kits.

im european and use yearly wage, its just easier to keep the book under control

Cant imagine what the FM community would be like without Zealand. Great work man!

OMG MY LOCAL CLUB! MYSTERY FOOTBALL NAILED IT

Forget negotiations. Wth is this shit in fm nowadays that you get multiple players asking for improved contracts almost every season. You would even see players that you renewed their contracts the year before doing that shit. Like wtfff!. I doubt it is that bad in real life

Wages per year makes so much more sense! I played on weekly since FM 12 before finding your twitch channel around FM20 and when I tried it out myself it blew my mind how much better it was. Allocating money between transfer and wage, calculating how much money you will get after a player sale etc. On weekly wages you can easily get caught out paying players way too much instead of signing players on higher transfer fees but on lower wages. If you're still playing on weekly/monthly you should definitely try per year for a save. Ze you should make a video on this!

That thumbnail is nice

Please, Z, more of those "Watching you play FM"

Signed Messi back fom PSG....couldn't afford to register him because of the salary cap

On the sell-on fee, I'm not sure if you can get rid of it entirely, but if you want to reduce it the same trick I use to raise minimum fee release clauses might work. So if you know the agent is going to lock a release clause: 1) Instruct DoF to negotiate 2) Go to 'Change Contract Offer' 3) You can't add/remove clauses but you can raise the release clause as high as you like, and probably lower the sell on fee too. I always add some more water in the other cups when I do this. 4) You can't lock individual clauses doing this, so set the entire contract to non-negotiable.

zeroing on the relegation release clause was one of my best kept secret in the hope that SI won;t caught on lol. I don't think the assist and goal bonus clause work on every player though. This can be proven by taking it out from a contract offer that has been accepted. The player will usually reject any changes in the contract that will negatively affect their position in said contract, no matter how little the changes are. In case of a forward or offensive minded mf, taking out an assist clause after the whole contract is accepted will result in said changes being refused. Whereas if the same is being done to a df contract, they will still gladly accept it. Done some test on this but please correct me if anyone get diff result

I enjoyed watching Zealand get excited about a USL1 shirt! I've got every shirt (except the 2 that released when I was a broke college student) from my local USL1 club!

I just throw a free relegation release clause in and they take pretty much whatever I offer

I always find if you set the agent fee to £0 and make nonnegotiable they don’t argue with it

I moved to annual salary after watching your streams, much easier to plan around wages and transfer budget.

Clicked on the subscribe. I couldn't sign Mbappe to CD Nacional (Portuguese 2nd division)

Im european and play with yearly wages. Weekly doesnt make sense to me. Monthly, sure, but weekly??? Yearly is best

Being British I get triggered in us version for wages by year per annum and instead of DOF director of football it's a GM

in lower leagues put in max Salary for earning a Int. cap. if you know the player is never gonna get that cap. Eg. League 2 english players. after that you can almost lower the normal wage to nothing.

Old comment but using DoF to start negotiations and insta changing offer kinda makes those annoying release clauses etc become soft ones and not locked ones, but than youre on mercy of what already been offered.

I tend to pay the player a little more and massively drop the agents fee I hate paying agents when they don’t do nothing for my team… I had 1 agent who wanted a million pounds by the time the deal was done he left with just 100k teach those greedy agents haha

Tottenham players dont need water because they dont have cups

get a dof with 20 in the stat the go on holiday for the next 10 years

WHAT THATS MY HOMETOWN CLUBS KIT OMG

ayyy madison forwards is my hometown team

Offer new contract > suggest terms > accept

pause at 58 seconds and thank me later

Buy high Sell low 😎😎😎

These are tough negociations.

ohhhh god i had migrane watching this

So it's settled then. Size matters

Cuz of the beginning about yearly wage: Isnt the UK / Premier League the only ones that rly talk about weekly? Everyone i know from other Countrys (know people in sweden, poland, netherlands, portugal and mexico, myself im from germany) and what u read about transfers is like 90% in yearly wages (LaLiga, Serie A, Bundesliga, whatever) and everytime i see a transfer from e.g. Bundesliga to Premier the wage is suddenly shown as weekly. What I see more and more getting closer to a "even devivide" is transfernews etc. talking about wages only in before or after tax sums, where i personally think after tax is useless (beside for the player himself ofcourse) because I as fan want to see what the club is paying not what the player gets.

Ah yes, teach us in the way of negoZiations mastah!

Hey Zealand, thx for your quality videos! In FM 23 they changed a thing I absolutely hate. When I signed a new starter, like a top striker, i always removed as much bonus payments as possible. No appearance fee, nothing for scoring goals and so on because when you know he will play 30-40 games and will score most of your goals its so much cheaper to give him a bit more salary. In FM 23 I often had the issue that they were fine with a contract but cancelled it some time after because a special fee was missing. Hate it.

I forget the exact breakdown of "per game" bonuses but I think it works out to being 20-25% of the total weekly salary. The goal or assist bonus can run anywhere between 75-110% of the "per game" bonus and the amount you pay for them to sit out a game is exactly 25% of their "per game" average. That's usually how the computer breaks down these bonuses for players but Ive found that you can have a player agree to a lower per week salary if you give them more money per game just to show up and play. I could be wrong but I dont think the per game bonus counts towards your overall team salary. So if youre stuck in a rut with a player that will bring you above that weekly salary cap your club gives you then you can get them more money per game. Agents seem to have no problem with this either.

Why do I only can set the "release clause in case of relegation"? Theres no regular release clause anymore :D Only in case of relegation...So wack!

Speaking of USL2, I have a jersey from newly formed Fort Wayne FC!

Zeeland.. how do u change shirt numbers of existing players?

who are you kidding, you will forget about his release clause for the next contract also 😀😀😀

adding a bonus for reaching something like the ucl as a small club actually works super well as a small and poor club too. playing as le havre im lucky to finish midtable, but whats an extra 300k on a transfer if i get ucl football you know?

Always, always, always remove and exclude yearly wage rise percentages. Rather give them a bit more base salary then have people on year over year crazy wage rises.

I need tips on buying defensive players(Center banks and Defensive midfielders). Do I prioritise mental attributes or pace?

Zealand I watched your beginner videos and now with 4 seasons in I'm winning too much. help me

Signed Mbappe for free to Inter without breaking my wage structure 🤣😂

Annual wages when working on a small team where I want to be able to map out the finances of the season so we don't get mega debt. Per week when you're comfortable financially so it's easier to distinguish the actual value of the player. That's just my preference.

haven't had to use it as much, but a nice (but sometimes expensive) trick to get a really good deal on the table and have it accepted is to pay the agent a lot more than they would expect. This obviously depends on their own personality, but more often than not more money for them "suddenly" makes them like your offer more.

I'm still astonished by how awful the Puma kits actually are.

I'm pretty sure that is the most everyones ever been excited in relation to anything about Forward Madison

Bro, somebody get this man a Union Omaha jersey. You never want to go full mingo!

do different nationalities develop different kinds of players more often? like will brazil produce more wingers with flair compared to england

You don't need to lock each option. Just click the "Negotiable" option above and make it Non-negotiable. This trick that Zealand found out, works for years. As Zee said, in the last negotiation offer, make it "non-negotiable" and boom: SUCCESS!

I have a salary scale depending ln their role in the team. I have a limit and that way im never overpaying anyone, if they dont accept and it is impossible for me to give them that contract I analyze if it is better to sell or let their contract run out and see if he lowers his demands.

I have started doing the bloated contracts myself to get people to sign with me

Forward Madison kits are great. Check out their drip kit. I have one.

The sunglasses reminded me of that intro where all we did was vibe to a tune for 3 minutes. Can someone please remind me the title

Mystery football is the best thing I’ve gotten out of this channel thank you for introducing me to them

is it possible to make one of my active players as a technical director, Z?

The clauses are like NFL contracts where bonuses are BLTBE or BNLTBE (likely to be earned or not likely to be earned)

A great trick is to set an insanely high wage after 1 international appearance for players who will never get that. Which usually means lower leagues and players of BIG nations. Don't do this with players from small nations because a Thai player in the French 3rd division is is still very likely to get a callup as opposed to a French guy in the 2nd league.

I'd love to get mystery football kits but they don't do fatman sizes 😭

Bro i'm a Madrid fan, don't laugh at me like this man😭😔

per year my ASS!!

U can remove the sell on fee if u let the GM negotiate the contract and if the player accept. Then u just go change the contract and most of the time u can remove the sell on fee but u must up the wage a little bit.

All of players wages let to $0 I put all of my “water” towards incentives and bonuses so that it equals to $100m, which I doubt this player is going to achieve that. Whatever he achieves is not going to exceed $1m. So every player is actually making $1m a year.

People say the length doesn’t matter……… 😂

Great explanation with the water cup example

Imagine playing fm23 and the players would have impact to the decision on signing players like Mbappe have it's so fed up

Great video Zea! Question for you, have you ever signed players for a team for them to go on and sign them in real life? On my Aston Villa saves the last couple of years I've signed Boubacar Kamara and now we've signed him 😂

Forward Madison!!! LETS GOOOOOOO!!!!!!

There are so many double entendres in this video

Hey, have you ever done a video about long term scout improvement? For example: I hired a spanish scout with adaptability 18, judging 18/18, but he only has knowledge of spain. So I though, this could be a potential good scout for south america and send him to scout there via region. 3 seasons later and that guy hasn't improved his knowledge notably... yeah! On the other hand it is really hard to find scouts with decent knowledge AND good stats in the game... So any long term advice for scout improvement? =) Thanks. mate

the extra bonuses work with staff as well

Up with the Mingos

Love that title man hahaha

I don't use many clauses Main 2 are goal bonus and clean sheet bonus

Love your content Zealand !

GO MINGOS !