Okay, after several hours of researching and playing around with the .edt files for FM20, I think I've finally figured out how to properly arrange future transfers yourselves. This is a great way of moving players between clubs on a scheduled basis since you can't seem to do this using the in-game editor.
You'll have to create a .edt file and place it in the proper folder which is in: Football Manager 2020 > data > database > db > 2040 > edt > permanent
(Note: directory is probs different on different versions but it's easy enough to find).
Here's the code:
"FUTURE_TRANSFER" "First Name" "Common Name" "Surname" "Current Club" "New Club" "day" "month" "year" "transfer fee" "weekly wage" "contract length (in years)"
Example: (used this code to schedule transfers to a Chelsea save just to test it and it works)
"FUTURE_TRANSFER" "Thiago Emiliano" "Thiago Silva" "da Silva" "Paris Saint-Germain" "Chelsea" "01" "07" "2020" "" "115000" "1"
"FUTURE_TRANSFER" "Ben" "" "Chilwell" "Leicester" "Chelsea" "01" "07" "2020" "50200000" "210000" "5"
Also tried transferring Timo Werner to Chelsea at an earlier date to verify that the contract length and wages were correct when he actually joins the club. And it worked!
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His contract length and wages were the same as the one I input in the code. However, the drawback to this is that despite signing the player, Chelsea's starting transfer budget of 126M Pounds wasn't affected. This means that even with the incoming transfers you'll still have the same amount to spend. This kinda ruins the balance a bit. The purpose of setting up these transfers for me was to try and make the game reflect real life. However, if you are willing, you can still change the transfer budget for your team for the next window using the in-game editor.
So yeah, I hope you have fun with this! I haven't figured out how to schedule transfers of players from reserves and youth teams as it seems that just using "Barcelona" for scheduling a transfer of one of their youth players doesn't seem to work. So if any of you figure that out, please do let me know. I'm not sure if this would work for FM21 but it's worth trying out. Thanks!
You'll have to create a .edt file and place it in the proper folder which is in: Football Manager 2020 > data > database > db > 2040 > edt > permanent
(Note: directory is probs different on different versions but it's easy enough to find).
Here's the code:
"FUTURE_TRANSFER" "First Name" "Common Name" "Surname" "Current Club" "New Club" "day" "month" "year" "transfer fee" "weekly wage" "contract length (in years)"
Example: (used this code to schedule transfers to a Chelsea save just to test it and it works)
"FUTURE_TRANSFER" "Thiago Emiliano" "Thiago Silva" "da Silva" "Paris Saint-Germain" "Chelsea" "01" "07" "2020" "" "115000" "1"
"FUTURE_TRANSFER" "Ben" "" "Chilwell" "Leicester" "Chelsea" "01" "07" "2020" "50200000" "210000" "5"
Also tried transferring Timo Werner to Chelsea at an earlier date to verify that the contract length and wages were correct when he actually joins the club. And it worked!
His contract length and wages were the same as the one I input in the code. However, the drawback to this is that despite signing the player, Chelsea's starting transfer budget of 126M Pounds wasn't affected. This means that even with the incoming transfers you'll still have the same amount to spend. This kinda ruins the balance a bit. The purpose of setting up these transfers for me was to try and make the game reflect real life. However, if you are willing, you can still change the transfer budget for your team for the next window using the in-game editor.
So yeah, I hope you have fun with this! I haven't figured out how to schedule transfers of players from reserves and youth teams as it seems that just using "Barcelona" for scheduling a transfer of one of their youth players doesn't seem to work. So if any of you figure that out, please do let me know. I'm not sure if this would work for FM21 but it's worth trying out. Thanks!
