International Teams - Signing Fee - Release Clauses - Easy Clubs to manage - Sign Players for free - Good Player - Sell Players

International Teams

If you want to manage an international side you should perform well at club level or do this:
Add a manager to your game or start a new one with the competition of the country you want to manage. Type in your name and your password (optional). Your nationality should be the one of the country you want to manage. Click OK and go to a club which has a player of your nationality. Click on the player's name and then click on the player's nationality. If you have done everything right you should now see the national squad of the country you picked with a button with Take Control on it in the right top corner. Click on it and you are a international manager.

If you want to buy (or sign) a player and you offer him a contract, reduce the signing fee to nearly zero. If you fulfil his demands (except the signing fee) he will still accept the contract and join your team. It worked for me and saved me millions already.

If a player you want to sign wants to have a minimum fee release clause you can offer him a lower wage and he will still accept the contract. The only thing you have to do is activate the relegation release clause and the non-promotion release clause. These clauses will never be used as the minimum fee release clause is always active.

Some of the clubs in CM3 are easy to manage, because their chairmen are more patient than others. These clubs include Northampton (Div. 3), Chesterfield (Div. 2), Crewe (Div. 1), Wimbledon (Prem. League) and Manchester United (Prem. League). Crewe and Manchester are probably very easy because they have very good players. Of the non-English teams Glasgow Rangers (or Celtic), Porto (or Benfica and Sporting) and Ajax (or PSV and Feyenoord) aren't very hard because they are good sides in average leagues. Rushden Diamonds (maximum capacity 6600 visitors), Huddersfield (25,000), Manchester City (33,000), Reading (15,000) and Leyton Orient (14,000) are also easy because they have large stadiums, compared with the division they play in.

There is a major bug in CM3 which allows you to sign every player without any transfer fee. At first you must manage two teams, lets say Man Utd and Arsenal. The player you want is Michael Owen from Liverpool, and you want him in your Arsenal squad. This is what you must do:

1. Click on Change player on the menubar and choose the club which you want to have the player. In this example this club is Arsenal.
2. Click on Find on the menubar and then click on Player. Type the player's name, eg. Michael Owen and press ENTER. Now click on the player's name.
3. Open the Action menu in the upper-right corner and click on Approach to Buy.
4. Change the transfer fee to nothing and click on Offer in the lower-right corner.
5. Click on Change player on the menubar and choose the club which you don't want to have the player. In this example this club is Man Utd.
6. Click on Find on the menubar and then click on Player. Type the player's name, eg. Michael Owen and press ENTER. Now click on the player's name.
7. Open the Action menu in the upper-right corner and click on Approach to Buy.
8. Make a bid for the player. It doesn't matter how much you offer.
9. Go back to the player's profile and open the Action menu in the upper-right corner. Now click on Change transfer bid.
10. Click on the triangle in the upper-left corner and choose the club which you want to have the player. Now click on Accept in the lower-right corner.
11. Go back to the player's profile and open the Action menu in the upper-right corner. Click on Withdraw transfer bid.
12. Click on Change player on the menubar and choose the club which you want to have the player (Arsenal).
13. Offer the player a good contract (if the player doesn't want to go to your club this cheat doesn't work, eg. Ronaldo wouldn't sign for a First Division team).

Good Player

With the vast number of players on CM3 its often hard to decide which is the best player for your club, for example you are managing Everton who have a reputation for their inability to score a lot of goals, which striker should you buy? Names come to mind but be realistic, Ronaldo or Christian Vieri are not going to come to a English side battling against relegation, and also you must make sure that your maximum wage is not lower than the wage which the player receives weekly at his current club, and perhaps money is a problem, the Bosman ruling is perfect for those clubswith a shortage of cash. I was managing West Bromwich Albion in the English Division 1 when I came across a South African forward on a free transfer called Shaun Bartlett, I signed him on a 2 week trial and he played in 2 reserve games. In his first Bartlett scored 1 and assisted 2 goals for 18 year-old Justin Richards (a good buy for lower division clubs). In Bartlett’s second game he received the MOM award and scored 2 in a 3-1 win over Norwich reserves. I was very impressed and snapped him up for free on a small wage he finished the season with 28 goals and a regular place in the South African National side. He is a very good cheap buy.

Adam Gardner (dgardner@rmplc.co.uk)

Sell Players

If a club makes a bid for a player out of your team and they only offer money you can sell players for around £20m. Just follow this instructions:
Go to the message and click on Respond. Then go to exchange, select their 5 most expensive players (if it is a bigger club also add the value of your player in cash). If they accept your negotiation (they often want to trade 2 or 3 players) DON'T offer the 'exchange'-players a contract and you get twice their value on your bank account. This trick work the best with Man Utd, Chelsea or Arsenal as bidding club, but it also will work with other major clubs. I have sold many players between £15m and £25m this way.

Miel Moonen (moonenm@dds.nl)

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