Bidding and negative balance

[Tactician]

You are right Tactician, clubs in real life do go in debt and they take loans and spend way more than they earn, but this is a game with no concept of loans or a bank from which you can take loans. You simply go into negative balance, who is club in debt to? How are clubs paying their players if there is no money? How do other clubs get their money from selling their own players if a person buying them is having a negative balance?

Anyone can do the same thing but to me it just feels like an exploit and something being used the way it was not supposed to be used.

I agree that first suggestion is a bit complex, but I dont see why it would complicate things too much to forbid to bid if you have a negative balance.

Maybe reduce time in which you can be in debt before the game starts selling your players? A week just feels too long.

Perhaps I am trying to make too much sense from a game.

The 'you have one week to settle your debts' can be said to be the loan. This system act as the bank and provide you the opportunity to buy several players when you are short on cash. You have 1 week to settle those debts. In fact, 1 week is very short because it is only 1/4 the duration of the season. In real life, clubs can stay in debt for more than 1-2 seasons. Also, in real life, when a club wants to buy the player, the club first bids (send a proposal sum of transfer money), but do not do any payment. The club can do as much as proposals like this as it wants. It is only when the transfer has been agreed and everything has been finalised that the club pays the other club.

Note that if a player already bade for a player and saw another player he wants to buy and the bidding time is ending soon, he won't have time to buy tokens and turn them to virtual cash. Also take into consideration, that once a player places a bid, he has no option to opt out. So, he might end up with unwanted players and also with a negative balance.