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Image 1 — The best kind of transfer feelings.
Image 2 — The best kind of transfer feelings.
▲ 11 r/footballmanagergames

The best kind of transfer feelings.

Picking up a player for free, that performs way beyond expectations, being offered this much after a single season is pretty much the best result you can have I feel. To me that's also one of the most fun parts of handling a smaller club.

Transfer periods in general to me are the most fun part of the game as you try to find good deals on players with expired/expiring contracts

Since I think it will be unlikely he'll perform as well next few seasons and will be asking for more salary, I think I'll just sell him and try to find some bargains again.

Aside from him I picked up Ansu Fati for free as backup for a season and just sold him for 14.25 million euro, he didn't perform that great but the money fills the coffers.

u/Veemenothz — 5 hours ago
▲ 23 r/footballmanagergames

Optional future fee

One of the most annoying transfer offers in the game must be the "Optional future fee".

The worst part about it is that you can't change the transfer request to mandatory future fee and when you suggest a regular transfer they always reject, at least I have never seen one accept thus far.

I also think the transfer discussions are far too rigid, like they go from a 30 million bid, which you then up by 5-10 million to IMMEDIATELY stop the talks instead of suggesting something different.

In reality you sometimes have transfers take weeks or months to take place because both sides are trying to get the best deal and in FM it's instant reject to the point it seems better to save scum before going into the talks to prevent a deal being blown off entirely.

How do you deal with this? Because clubs are always low-balling by bidding like 30-50% of the player's worth, leading to players becoming upset because you didn't accept but it's obvious this bid is a joke in the first place.

u/Veemenothz — 2 days ago
▲ 13 r/TraktRejects

Alternative sites all seem to have scummy practices.

Reelrifter:
Site owner keeps spamming threads and in multitude of comments to force his site into view instead of organically growing his site through word of mouth.
Had pricing page set-up since day #1.
Badmouths people that question him and his website.
Seems to be vibecoded.
Have not seen any legitimate reviews from actual users of this site.
Claims Testimonials on here are all from legit users: https://reelrifter.com/testimonials

Which is funny, because in reality people don't typically use their full names on sites like this but a nickname. None of the names are clickable either, so you can't view their profiles. Most people also keep their opinions to themselves or post it to social media. A site that I estimate has only a few hundred users tops is very unlikely to have that many testimonials from actual users.

WeTrakr:
The site was first mentioned in this sub was on the 12th of May 2026:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TraktRejects/comments/1tb1b0d/started_building_a_trakt_alternative_2_years_ago/

The Reviews page: https://wetrakr.com/discover/reviews/popular

When you do a search of May 7 and count up to May 12 you will find more than 1000 reviews has been created by the same few users. When you visit their profile, you will find they have no items added to their list except for a bunch of favorite lists.

I simply don't believe these reviews are created by real people, like just compare these reviews made by 4 different people:

https://wetrakr.com/reviews/221
https://wetrakr.com/reviews/239
https://wetrakr.com/reviews/231
https://wetrakr.com/reviews/211

What are the chances that 4 people review the same show on the 7th and 8th of May and practically say the exact same thing just worded differently?

While arguably it's not that big of a deal compared to Reelrifter and some other mostly vibecoded sites, it's still misleading people into thinking the site is far more active that it in reality is. It would have been fine if they marked them as "placeholder" or "example" accounts just to showcase how the page would look when populated and removed later on when genuine reviews were posted. But given the sheer amount of reviews added even before the date the site went live makes me believe this is done very intentionally to mislead people. Which is unfortunate because the rest of the site seems better than the typical vibecoded alternatives.

Developer responded and took down the reviews.

There are a bunch of other alternatives that don't even need to be named because they're all (obviously) vibecoded and have had pricing pages online immediately the day they released.

A good site doesn't need all this tomfoolery and a good site will grow organically via word of mouth. Misleading people from day #1 is not the way to get new users, we all walked away from Trakt because they spit on it's users and misled us... we are not looking for a similar experience waiting to happen.

The first problem with these new sites is that you never know how long they will last, then you have these scummy practices on top of that as well making them seem untrustworthy as well. If it starts out scummy, when are we going to see free features suddenly getting locked behind a premium payment plan? I have been looking for a proper alternative to Trakt for 3 months now, but personally have not found one, I did try to host a Yamtrack instance on my NAS but it was unfortunately quite slow and lacks a bunch of features to make it worth the time currently.

reddit.com
u/Veemenothz — 5 days ago