The Football Manager 2024 is a hit on Steam and has been for decades. It is appreciated for its realism and complexity, but now artificial intelligence reveals a major weakness. With a trick in contract negotiations, you can buy even priceless football stars like Erling Haaland for almost free.
What is the game?
- The Football Manager is a huge game in Europe: especially in England, it has been an institution since 2004. The series simulates football matches and is cultishly revered. Some players spend thousands of hours on the games in the series.
- In principle, you manage a football team in every detail, buying and selling players, setting the tactics, training your team, and you can even lead the local team to the Champions League. Football Manager is actually appreciated for its realism, especially for the licenses: you train and buy real players.
- The current installment, Football Manager 2024, was released on November 6, 2023, and currently has about 64,000 players online.
Player valued at 350 million euros, but the AI can be tricked
What is the problem now: Players on reddit have discovered that you only need to make clubs a very specific, very particular transfer offer, and they will let world-class players like Erling Haaland go, who would be unsellable in real life – unless a Sheikh entices with oil billions.
The trick involves,
- not offering a transfer fee
- transferring 200 € monthly for 6 months
- and guaranteeing 2.5 million € after 50 league matches
Additionally, you grant 10% of the next sale.
In reality, such an offer would be absolutely ridiculous, and the manager of the team would call all employees together to have a good laugh at what the fool must be thinking, believing he can get a 350-million-euro player for less than 1% of market value.
In FIFA Manager 2024, however, the deal is valid and can be made.
How is this discussed on reddit? They are already mocking that with the trick you can lure even superstars like Mbappe to the province, only to then realize that the Frenchman wants to earn a few million a week.
The exploit is certainly a hot topic there and brings some laughs.
What lies behind this: Anyone doing this could just use an editor to transfer Haaland for free. This is, of course, nonsense and actually ruins the fun of the game.
But it would be interesting to see how someone has figured out the exact conditions for this ridiculous deal.
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