Football Transfers
You can place any of your players on the transfer market. When you do this, you must input the lowest amount of money you will accept for the player (called your reserve). A player’s value is measured in thousands of pounds, so a reserve of £100,000 is written as 100. The reserve can be any value from £20,000 up to £10,000,000.

The week you issue the order, the player with his statistics and your reserve figure, will be circulated around all the other clubs in the League. He can still play for your club while transfer listed. The footballer will be given a number between 100 and 999. This is called his Transfer Number.

On the next turn other managers can if they wish make a bid for him. The minimum price you may bid is £20,000, the maximum £10,000,000.

To indicate the player you are bidding for, you use the player’s Transfer Number. If a bid is received for a transfer listed player, at or above the reserve figure, the player will be transferred. In the case of two or more clubs bidding for the same player, the one which bids the most will be successful (in the case of exactly the same bid, further offers will be necessary).

Each turn, you may bid for as many players as you wish. Your highest offer is considered your priority bid and if successful goes ahead. The relevant funds will be deducted immediately from your bank account and credited to the sellers. The your second highest bid is considered, and so on until all your bids have been accepted or rejected.

You will be told on your turn if your bid was successful or not. If it was, you take over the player’s contract and he joins your squad, ready for immediate selection. Your club’s bank account will be debited and the selling club credited with the full purchase price.

If a player has been on the transfer list and remains unsold after three weeks, he will automatically be withdrawn from sale. You can if you wish place him back on the transfer list, perhaps at a lower price. However, if a player is out of contract and placed on the transfer list with a reserve value of £20,000, he will be bought for this amount by a non-world league club.

There are two Club Orders used in the transfer of players. The first is the Transfer order which places a player onto the transfer market. The second is the Bid order which lets you submit a bid for a player. The format in which they should be submitted is shown below.
 

Loan Transfers
Besides permanent transfers, you can also send and obtain players on loan. To offer a footballer for loan, you must give the minimum weekly amount you are prepared to accept in any deal. As you footballer will not agree to go unless his current wages are paid, this is the lowest amount you can offer. Anything in excess of this is split 50/50 between the club and the footballer. In addition to the money, loaning clubs also benefit because their footballer is taking part in competitive matches gaining extra experience and hopefully skill.

Loans work in a similar way to player transfers, with the footballer's statistics and your weekly fee circulated to all other clubs but this time for just one week. Your footballer wil have a number between 1000 and 1999, called his Loan Number. On the following turn, interested managers can make a bid using the player's Loan Number, offering the amount they are prepared to pay each week for the player's services. The maximum weekly wage is £50,000.

If a successful bid is received, the footballer will begin his loan period the following week. In the case of two offers for the same amount, the loaning manager will pick a club which is from a different World Division and /or the lowest position in the League.

A loan is always for a three week period (six league matches plus any cup and friendlies). Once a deal has been agreed, it is not possible to extend or recall a player early. The only exception to this is when the manager from either team retires, when the footballer is automatically recalled to his original club.

A club may take up to six loan players per season, and to stop cheating, they must all be from different clubs. While there is no limit to the number of players a club can send on loan, to ensure a team is able to fulfil their own fixtures, clubs cannot loan out their  best keeper or best two defenders, midfielders or attackers and must keep an overall minimum squad of at least two keepers and four footballers for each other position.
 

Remove a Footballer from the Transfer/Loan Market
If you place a footballer onto the Player Transfer or Loan Market and then change your mind and decide that you do not wish to lose your footballer, you can remove him from the list by issuing a Take Off Transfer/Loan Listed Player order. Instead of using the footballer's squad number you should use the footballer's transfer or loan number. He will immediately return to your squad before other teams get a chance to bid for him.

The World League imposes a fine of £50,000 on any manager prematurely removing footballers from the transfer market and a £10,000 fine for removing a player from the loan list. This is divided between all managers who would otherwise have successfully bid for that player as compensation for their time and orders being wasted.
 
 

Retire Player
If you wish, you can cancel a footballers contract and permanently remove him from your squad list. As compensation, for every year or part of a year his contract has left to run, you have to pay the footballer twenty times his weekly salary. In addition, for this order to be successful, the footballer must still be in contract and cannot be transfer listed or out on load.

Retired players will place themselves on the Free Agent Market in an attempt to find a new club.
 

Free Agents
When a footballer no longer has a contact with a club, he is able to join any team who wants him, picking the one which offers him the best deal. On your turn a separate list shows players available on free transfer along with their skill ratings. If you are interested in one of these footballers, you need to offer the amount of wages you are prepared to pay him each week. The highest offer, at or above his minimum acceptable wage, wil secure the player's services. If successful, he will join your club on a two year contract and at the agree wage level. In addition, you must immediately pay the player ten weeks wages as a signing on fee. The maximum wage allowed is £30,000.
 
 

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