Transfers between clubs

Every other recruitment channel takes athletes from the world and gives them to you. The transfer market is the one place where an athlete comes from — and goes to — another manager’s club. It’s the only channel where the other side of the deal is a person with their own plans for that athlete.

Find it under Scouting → Transfer Market.

How a deal works

There is no negotiation, no bidding and no deadline. The selling club sets a price; any other club that can pay it takes the athlete on the spot. That’s the whole mechanic — the skill is in the pricing and in knowing what you’re buying.

A club lists one of its athletes with an asking price.
The listing appears on every other club’s transfer market, tagged with the seller’s name.
Another club scouts the athlete if it wants a closer look, then signs them at the asking price.
Credits move, the athlete moves, and the listing disappears.

Selling an athlete

Open the athlete, choose Place on transfers list, and set an asking price between 0 and 20,000 credits. Listing is free.

While an athlete is listed:

They’re still yours. They keep training, keep competing, and keep scoring for your club until the moment someone buys them. Listing costs you nothing in performance.
Everyone sees the listing, including your club’s name as the seller — but not your own transfer market page, which hides your listings from the browse table and shows them in a separate My Listings section above it.
Nothing expires. A listing stays up across days and across seasons until it’s bought or you pull it.

You can remove a listing at any time from the same athlete page. Selling pays you the full asking price — there’s no commission and no transfer levy.

Selling vs releasing

Releasing an athlete (also on the athlete page) drops them straight into the free market as a free agent, where any club can sign them without paying you a thing. Releasing is free and instant; selling is slower but pays. If an athlete has any value at all to another manager, list them first — you can always release later.

Buying an athlete

The transfer market table shows every listed athlete with their price, seller, age, discipline and attribute ranges. Filter by gender and discipline, and sort by any column — including price and all-time rank.

What you see for free is the same scout-report-grade view every club gets: attribute ranges rather than exact values, plus a star rating derived from them. Those ranges are fixed per athlete, so nobody has better free information than you.

A full scout costs 1,000 credits and tightens those ranges considerably. It’s the same scouting record used by the free market, so if you already paid to scout this athlete elsewhere, you keep it — you never pay twice for the same athlete.

Signing charges you the asking price, which is credited to the selling club immediately.

Roster fees still apply

The transfer market doesn’t dodge your roster costs. If your club is already at or above 20 athletes, buying charges the extended-roster fee on top of the asking price — 2,000 credits for athlete #21, 4,000 for #22, and so on. A slot held for a pending draft pick counts toward that size too. The confirmation dialog shows the fee before you commit, and the buy is rejected only if you can’t cover price plus fee.

You can’t buy your own athlete, and you can’t buy an athlete whose listing was taken while you were looking — the deal is checked again at the moment you confirm.

What happens the moment a transfer goes through

The athlete changes hands instantly. Both clubs get an inbox item — a sold notice for the seller, an arrival for the buyer — and the seller also gets an email, unless they’ve turned that notification off.

The athlete keeps everything that makes them who they are: age, attributes, potential, form, condition and fatigue, personal bests, season bests and every record they hold.

The athlete loses their old club’s plans:

Training — their schedule is wiped and replaced with a default plan for their discipline. The current season’s training log from their old club is cleared too, so the buyer can’t read the seller’s development notes.
Competitions — every pending entry made by the old club is withdrawn, and their standing plan is reset: the default sign-up for their discipline, on the default opening tour days. Completed results stay in the books untouched.
Quick meets — any queue entry is cancelled and the fee refunded to the selling club, which is the one that paid it.

So the first thing to do after buying is open the athlete’s Schedule tab and set training and competitions the way you actually want them. The defaults are a safety net, not a plan.

Transfer logs

Every completed move is public. Scouting → Transfer Logs lists all transfers with season, day, price and type, filterable by season, gender and channel — and transfer-market deals between two clubs are labelled Transfer Market, as distinct from Free Market, Field Report, Academy and Draft signings. An individual athlete’s full move history is on their Transfers tab.

That means pricing is readable. If you want to know what a 4-star sprinter goes for, the logs will tell you what one actually sold for.

Reading the market

Price against the alternatives. A buyer weighing your athlete can instead scout the free market, wait for a report, or develop an academy prospect. Your price has to beat that, not just feel fair.
Sell before the decline. Athletes peak and fade. The last season an athlete is still visibly excellent is usually the best season to sell them.
Depth has a price tag. With best-12 scoring and escalating roster fees, a squad player who never makes your scoring twelve is worth more as credits than as depth.
Scout before you buy. 1,000 credits is cheap next to a five-figure mistake — especially since the seller almost certainly knows exactly what they’re selling.

Next: once they’re yours, make them better — see Training.