I agree that having invested in the training facility and in theory developing the players, having to pay tokens to keep them is perverse.

If you were in an auction and bid 18 tokens though monetarily costly, you would have one hell of a player.

If the parent club does not wish to sign this player why can he not be loaned out for a season to another club?

If Nordeus insist on charging such an unrealistic amount why can we not encourage the development of players , i.e. if you are short of a DC you should be able to develop a DC etc.