If you want to buy a player, but the club are not selling him (for example, Cristiano Ronaldo), you can buy him for free. To do this, go to "Options" in the taskbar, then select "New User"". Name your manager, select the club that the player you want plays for, submit the new user, read all messages in your inbox as usual. You must select the transfer budget for the season. Change back to your main user (go to "Manager" in the taskbar, change user, then choose your main user), then place a bid on the player that you want for £0, press "Continue", and it should display a message in your inbox stating that the player you want has been offered for by your club. Accept this. Note: If this has been rejected, offer the player that you want to buy to clubs for £100 million and make sure you include all human clubs. After you have offered him to clubs, bid for the player again and it should say that a player has been offered for rather than automatically rejecting the offer. Then, press "Continue" again and it should give you permission to offer a contract to the player that you want. Note: He may not want to come if it is someone like Lionel Messi. After you have completed the offer and the player you want is playing for your club, retire from football on your other user (select "Manger" in the taskbar, choose "Options" and then retire).
Easy money
As Manchester City, go to your club's reserve team and make a bid to loan a player. However, pay them all of your transfer budget. If they are a fringe player or you are a small club, they will accept and you will get the money. Then as Manchester City, immediately terminate the player's loan. If you want to get rid of a player instead, just buy the player rather than loaning them. However the money will not return instantly if you are not in a transfer window.
Use the following trick to make money as well as develop players. First, put a player on the Transfer List that CPU's teams are interested in. When they make an offer, reduce it to £0, then put a buy back clause of £1,000. Scroll down and enter a clause "After League Appearance - 1" then increase that to the amount that they offered. Once the player makes his debut for the team, you will get the money and can then buy him back for £1,000. Note: This is especially useful for youth players, as it allows you to earn money from them while being able to get them when they develop for almost nothing and also saves the wages.
When starting with Manchester United, you can get easy money by offering Darren Fletcher to all clubs. Manchester City will usually come back with a bid of about £40 to £50 million.
Recommended players
The following are extremely talented players that can be brought on your team.
Acosta (Sevilla)
Adams (Atletico B)
Adan (Castilla)
Adrian (Deportivo)
Adrien (Sporting CP)
Alamo (Tapachula)
Alex Teixeira (Vasco)
Altidore (Villareal)
Andrade (Cruz Azul)
Ansaldi (Rubin)
Appiah (AS Monaco FC)
Araujo (Chivas)
Arias (Chivas)
Arshavin (Zenit St. Petersburg)
Asenjo (Valladolid)
Ayew (Olympique de Marseille)
Bale (Tottenham)
Balotelli (Inter Milan)
Banega (Valencia)
Barazite (Arsenal)
Barboiana
Barreto (Danubio)
Baxter (Everton)
Beevers (Sheff Wed)
Begovic (Portsmouth)
Bender (1860 Munchen)
Ben-Hatira (HSV)
Benzergo (LOSC Lille Metropole)
Bernardo (Cruzeiro)
Blanco (Lanus)
Blanco (Pachuca)
Boeteng (HSV)
Bojan (Barcelona)
Borges (Saprissa)
Bostock (Tottenham)
Boucher (Havre Athletic Club)
Boudebouz (FC Sochaux-Montbeliard)
Brahimi (Stade Rennais F.C.)
Brosco (Roma)
Bruins (Holland)
Bruna (Liverpool)
Buonanotte (River)
Caicedo (Manchester City)
Cala (Sevilla Atletico)
Camacho (At. Madrid)
Campoli (Lazio)
Candeias (Porto)
Carrico (Sporting CP)
Cassio (PSV)
Castillo (Santos Laguna)
Choco (Atletico Paranaense)
Choupo-Moting (HSV)
Coeff (Racing Club de Lens)
Coutinho (Vasco)
Crisantus (HSV)
Cristaldo (Velez)
Dalla Valle (Liverpool)
David Rochela (Deportivo B)
Davila (Chivas)
De Gea (Atletico B)
Delfouneso (Aston Villa)
Delle (FC Metz)
Denis Alibec
Di Maria (Benfica)
Diarra (Portsmouth)
Diaz (River)
Dimitar Makriev
Douglas Costa (Gremio)
Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow)
Ekdal (Juventus)
Ekici (FC Bayern)
Enoh (Ajax)
Eramus (Feyenoord)
Erick Flores (Flamengo)
Escudero (Villareal)
Esparza (Chivas)
Evans (Man Utd)
Evseev (Hannover)
Fabio (Man Utd)
Faccioli (Lanus)
Faraoni (Lazio)
Fazio (Sevilla)
Feghouli (Grenoble Foot 38)
Felipe (Palmeiras)
Felipe Monteiro (Udinese)
Fenin (Frankfurt)
Fernandinho (Shakter)
Fiorrilo (Sampdoria)
Fischer (Stuttgart)
Fitzgerald (USA under 21s)
Fleck (Rangers)
Forestieri (Genoa)
Fossati (Inter)
Fraga (Morelia)
Gerson (Gremio)
Gioda
Glen (Hearts)
Gomez (Arsenal de Sarandi)
Grenier (Olympique Lyonnais)
Guilherme (Almeria)
Guzman (Morelia)
Haruna (AS Monaco FC)
Hazard (LOSC Lille Metropole)
Helan (Stade Rennais F.C.)
Helder Barbosa (Porto)
Hobbit Bermudez (Atlante)
Holtby (Aachen)
Howedes (Schalke)
Hummels (FC Bayern)
Iago (Juventus)
Ibrahim (Sporting CP)
Ismael Miller (West Brom)
Jibril (Hearts of Oak)
Joas Carlos (Atletico Paranaense)
Jovetic (Fiorentina)
Juan Manuel Torres
Kadar (Newcastle)
Kadlec (Sparta Prague)
Kakuta (Chelsea)
Kalouda (CSKA Moscow)
Karadeniz (Besiktas)
Kenia (Schalke)
Khedira (Stuttgart)
Kolodziecziak (Racing Club de Lens)
Kroos (FC Bayern)
Kroos (Rostock)
Lallana (Southampton)
Lambo (FC Dallas)
Lansbury (Arsenal)
Laurito (Udinese)
Le Tallec (Stade Rennais F.C.)
Leonardo (Ajax)
Lewandowski (Lech)
Maidana (Spartak Moscow)
Makaridze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
Manco (PSV)
Manon (Pachuca)
Mantsur (R. Madrid C)
Manuel Vargas
Marek Matejovsky
Marquinhos
Mattock (Leicester)
Mauricio (None)
Mazzola (Independiente)
Merida (Arsenal)
Mihelic
Millan (Colo Colo)
Molinaro
Monzon (Boca)
Moralez (FC Moscow)
Moreno (Almeria B)
Musacchio (Castilla)
Nainggolan (Piacenza)
Naki (Leverkusen)
Necid (Slavia Prague)
Nemeth (Liverpool)
Neymar (Santos)
N'Gog (Liverpool)
N'Gossan (ASEC)
Ninis (Panathinaikos)
N'Koulou (AS Monaco FC)
Noir (Boca)
Nordtveit (Arsenal)
Nsue (Mallorca B)
Ochirosii (Steaua)
Oliva (River)
Opare (Castilla)
Oscar (Sao Paulo)
Osei (Kessben)
Ozil (Werder Bremen)
Pacheco (Liverpool)
Paloschi (Parma)
Papadopoulos (Olympiakos)
Parejo (Castilla)
Paulo Henrique (Santos)
Perez (Chico FC)
Perez Tariffa (Argentinos)
Petrucci (Man Utd)
Piatti (Almeria)
Pichu Atienza (Atletico B)
Polenta (Genoa)
Poli (Sampdoria)
Prudnikov (Spartak Moscow)
Rafael Carioca (Gremio)
Rafael Forster (Internacional)
Rafhael (Figueirense)
Raggio Garibaldi (Genoa)
Rajtoral
Ramsay (Arsenal)
Rapnik (Hearts)
Rausch (Hannover)
Risse (Leverkusen)
Rodriquez (Boca)
Rodriquez (Independiente)
Rose (Tottenham)
Rossi (Juventus)
Ruben Ramos (Atletico B)
Salazar (Chivas)
Sankhare (Paris Saint-Germain)
Santon (Inter)
Saunier (FC Girondins de Bordeaux)
Savio (Brescia)
Schouw (Ajax)
Schwaab (Freiburg)
Sergio Mota (Sao Paulo)
Shea (FC Dallas)
Sidnei (Benfica)
Sinclair (Chelsea)
Situ (Racing Club de Lens)
Smolov (Dinamo Moscow)
Sneijder (Ajax)
Spence (West Ham)
Stancu (Steua)
Suchy (Slavia Prague)
Sukuta-Pasu (Leverkusen)
Sunny (Valencia)
Taarabt (Tottenham)
Tafer (Olympique Lyonnais)
Taison (Internacional)
Tales (Internacional)
Teaudors (FC Sochaux-Montbeliard)
Thiago (Barcelona B)
Thomson (Southampton)
Tiago Luis (Saontos)
Tore (Leverkusen)
Torje (Dinamo Buc.)
Traore (Arsenal)
Trecarichi (Sevilla Atletico)
Trellez (Velez)
Tuia (Lazio)
Ustari (Getafe)
Vagner Love (CSKA Moscow)
Vidal (Leverkusen)
Villaluz (Cruz Azul)
Vukcevic, Simon
Walter (Internacional)
Welbeck (Man Utd)
Wijnaldum (Feyenoord)
Willian (Shakhtar)
Wilshere (Arsenal)
Yildirim (Bursaspor)
Yoon Bit-Garam (Boo-Kyong High School)
Zebina
Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow)
Zuculini (Racing Club)
Saving time
Select "Manager" and choose your team. Select "Game Settings", then set "Assistant takes control of friendly matches" to on. You will still play friendly matches, but will save time and still allow your players can get match fitness.
Select "Manager" and choose your team. Select "Team Settings", then set "Let Assistant Manager take care of press conferences" to on.
Sports Interactive developer players
The developers from the Sports Interactive team are in the game as Regenerated players, some of which with funny personalities. To find all of them, type faceinthegame into the search box.