Originally Posted by
Bluebird Hewitt
Pretty much, yes.
As for the rip off part, I have started to think about this a little when compared to scout players and think that Negotiations get a bit of harsh treatment. Let me explain my thoughts.
Pretty much everyone mentions that Tokens are the most important thing you need for your club, as you need them for pretty much anything within the game (buying players via any means necessary, getting extra booster packs, etc.). Money, by comparison and depending on your success as a club, can be relatively easy to get via progression in the CL and Cup, as well as via facebook videos, selling of players, etc.
For a scout player, you will pay the market value for that player, they are the highest rated player available to you, you get them instantly, all come with an SA and, depending on the rating of the player, can easily reach 7* during the season. However, the kicker is that it will cost you 50T on top of the money for one player off the list and the youngest you will see is a 22yo (so will be difficult to train from the off).
For the negotiations, you will most likely need to pay a fair bit more than the market value for a player, they are usually 5* at the most (though verging close to a 6* for a good amount of them), you need to wait for the other manager to accept or reject (annoying if you find out they are inactive due to the 24 hour limit) and the vast majority have an SA of some kind. However, there is no risk token's wise as you spend less tokens for that player (which you get back if the bid is rejected or expired, something which you can't get back in a failed auction) and there are players that are younger than the 22yo's you see on the scout list (some even at 18yo from time to time, which can easily give you a long serving player if trained right).
I expect this argument to be shot down the moment I post this, and this is not a dig at scouts in anyway possible, but to give a reason that negotiations are not quite as bad as some people think overall.