Heidstra said:
Hey forum,

Last season we ran into the "free player" problem. It seemed quite unanimous that this was something we disagreed with, and that we were hoping to avoid in the future. As this season starts, thankfully there don't seem to be any more of these players (thanks Admins!). However, there are still a plethora of players at ridiculous prices. It seems teams had resigned juniors to protect them last season, and then become inactive as seasons changed. I've since witnessed 74/17 RMs go for around 4M, 60+ GKs go for 3M and even a couple 57/17 CFs go for under 2M. I know these aren't players whose contract expired, and it's the manager's responsibility to monitor their players, but that doesn't hide the fact that we're still taking advantage of a loophole in the system. Clearly, no active manager would leave a 74/17 RM at 4M, so does that make it right to take advantage of it? Personally, I don't think so. To me it undermines the whole game. Whats the point of training a team and managing finances when you can just wait and buy a bunch or amazing players like this?

This being said, I'm wondering how everyone else feels about this (especially Admins). If this isn't a problem for anyone, or isn't illegal/punishable upon report, then one can't afford not to take advantage of it without falling far far behind. On the other hand, if we do think this is a problem, how should we deal with it? Who should monitor them -is it purely on our repo

Cheers,
Heidstra

Heidstra said:



Speak for yourself. I've had more than fifty of these players come through each of my Coach Secretary and Scout over the past week, and I haven't even considered purchasing any without running it by the forum/admins first. To me, taking these handouts makes the game less fun -and their certainly not worth having your team retained or getting a huge monetary fine.