Auction/Negotiation/Scout

[Tornado88]

Not too bothered about the money. Its the oh so precious tokens, just don't want to waste them!

[dv8r]

Scouts, if they are within 10 skill points of world class quality and are aged 22 and are versatile with a good SA then it's definitely worth investing in them. I bought a scout last season, 22y/o -AMC/AMR -Corner Specialist, he was 6*(34) and at the end of the season was an 8*(40) player. Now he's 7*(41) and will probably be 6*(44) in the 3rd season, 6*(46) in the 4th season, 5*(47) in the 5th season. In the sixth season since buying him, he will still be in my squad but as a 4* reserve player (and in my hall of fame because he's amazing). So investing in a good, young scout who is close to world class quality is definitely worth the 50 tokens as you can keep him for many seasons!

Now, as for auctions. It really depends how much you are willing to go for some players. I tend to buy 5* youngsters from the auction list as they train fast and will be 6* players within a few days. If I wanted a 5* 30+ year old player who I'm going to ditch at the end of the season, I'll probably only be prepared to buy him for 2-3 tokens. Buying players who are close to scout quality is definitely what you're aiming for. You can also use their ages as a guide for how much to spend on them. Personally, I'd only bid over 15 tokens on a player if he's 18-21, a fast trainer and very close to the next star quality (SA helps too). Through natural growth and training, he could stay for 2-3 seasons. But for a lot of players, I would not spend more than 7 tokens on a player that you're only going to keep for one season and then end up benching him next season, it's a waste and you can invest in players who can stay for longer. If you're really lucky you can get players for 1 or 2 tokens, depending on the time of day... Do this and you've found yourself a bargain.

And I know nothing about negotiations so I can't help there, sorry!

[July Fourth]

Auction vs Scouts....

Hmmm.... I'm a scout buyer normally, mainly because I like a high quality side and normally get to work with a lot of tokens from videos in the past historically, Theres been seasons where I have earned 400 tokens which means in turn I can buy quite a lot of scouts, Until recently, I had a squad rota and normally would replace my 4 worst players which would be around 4* with 4 youngish scouts 22-24 years old with ratings that end in 4 or 9 if I can. A scout player on the younger 22-24 and qualitys that end in 4 or 9, would get at least 4 seasons at my club, when you do the maths, it works out at 12.5T per season, which isn't bad when you buy 5* for auctions for around that cost and they would of got 1-2 seasons before being replaced by better players, which in turn given the starting quality of scouts it makes them slightly better value than buying 5* players from the market and it knocks out the uncertainty of getting involved in an unwanted bidding war which could drain your tokens and money.

As for negotations, well most bids would get rejected from managers since they are most likely to be players that managers don't want to sell and if you do get a bid accepted, you probably could buy a scout player for just a dozen more tokens or so.

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

The best is auction but depend now, it can be the worst too, you can lose everything but you can get 10 good players for 20-30 tokens.

[jtcfmb]

depends on the server. my server is always busy any time of the day. i know this because when i was addicted to this game some seasons earlier, i would check auction in the morning, afternoon, evening and sometimes even past midnight if i suddenly wake up in the middle of the night. you can also get lucky. auction is very unpredictable in my server. a few times, auction ends after ko rounds 1 - 5 only. sometimes, it can reach more than 50 rounds. the players need not even be high end to start a bidding war. just have 2 managers who do not want to throw tokens away for nothing. normal is around 10-20 tokens. but for high end 5 star, normal is 15-30 tokens. so i agree with accyrover, high end 6 star scout is good value for your tokens. but i also don't disagree with potemy. if you can get a full squad for 35 tokens, i would go for it.