BUY! SELL!
27.
Welcome to the transfer market. As with any transfer
market, there are basically two things you can do here - buy
players, and raise a small family of giraffes. Only joking. Ha. To
buy a player, first click the 'Buy Player' button. Now you can
choose whether to only look at players in your own country or view
those for sale in the entire world, or even bypass the market
completely and try to buy a player who isn't, technically, up for
grabs at all. (But hey, every chairman has his price, right?) So
make a decision, man
Are you trying to buy
players who are actually on the transfer market?
If 'Yes', go to 28. If 'No', go to 29.
28.
Click on the appropriate box. You can look specifically for
Goalkeepers, Defenders, Midfielders or Attackers, and even seek out
players with particular abilities in Passing, Shooting, Heading,
Tackling, Ball Control, Speed or Finishing, by clicking on the blue
boxes to cycle through the options. Choose your approximate maximum
amount of spending with the other box (or leave both boxes at 'Any'
to view the entire current list of available players), and hit
'List' to see the names (if there are more than the screen can
display at one time, clicking on 'More' will cycle through the
list). If anyone takes your fancy, click on their name to make an
offer.
The offer screen lists the
player's name and value, and your current offer. To increase or
decrease your offer, move the cursor over the value, hold down the
fire button, and move the joystick left and right until you're happy
with the value. If you want to offer a part-exchange deal, click on
the green '+' box immediately to the right, and a list of your squad
will come up. Click on the name of the player you want to swap and
the transfer screen will come back with his name listed underneath
your offer. If you want to add another of your players to the deal,
click on the green '+' box which will have appeared under the name
of your player. You can offer a maximum of two of your players as
part of the deal. To remove players, click on the '-' box beside
your cash offer, and to add another player from the team you're
buying from to the deal, click on the green '+' box underneath your
target player's name. The target team will either agree to the deal,
refuse and give you a chance to make a better offer, or just plain
refuse and tell you to get knotted
Clear?
If 'Yes', write and explain
it to me, then go to 26. If 'No',
go to 28, and for Heaven's sake concentrate this time.
29. This works in much the same way as buying players
normally (see 28), except that you have to go directly to the team
you want to buy from (which means you have to know who your target
actually plays for), and that they're much less likely to actually
sell you the player concerned unless you bid about 4 million quid
more than he's actually worth. A bit like Chris Waddle. Now
go back
to 26.
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