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The important question here though is what is a better player?

Obviously it is better skills. Just ask any national team if they would rather have a cheap player with wondrous skills or one with legendary? Obviously for clubs their weekly salaries are not worth what they bring to the club. No-one wants to go back to the bad old days where players with prominent skills cost $1 million but this is crazy.

One of my friends Naker Virus just sold his team off to avoid bankruptcy.

Miguel Bernardino bought $844k sold $45k.
Dimitri Batzu bought $733 sold $453.
Cheng Baoze bought $102 sold 102 hooray!
Damiano Fazzone bought $400 sold $100
Ingo Guará bought $300 sold $1
Zenon Miąsik bought $1,425 sold $346 (and he was actually good!)
Total losses nearly $3,000,000. A bad day for someone getting bankruptcy warnings.

He had the best record in his division II and may have won if not for injuries. For example look at just one guy:

Ingo Guará (9242042)
Center
Weekly salary: $ 113 726
Age: 29
Height: 6'9" / 206 cm
Potential: superstar

$1k for a $113k center with reasonable (not great) secondaries. Will anyone claim this isn't a problem?

$1k for a $113k center with reasonable (not great) secondaries. Will anyone claim this isn't a problem?

The counter argument - let's say there are about 1000 teams for whom it makes sense to have a 100k+ center. Now, obviously, many of these teams may already have the player. So if you look at the TL and see 257 centers with salary over 100k currently available, is it any wonder the prices are going to be dirt cheap? If you build a million houses "worth" a million dollars for a city of a hundred thousand people, there's no way conceivable you'll sell most of them at even a tenth their "Value".

The problem is that it's far too easy and surprisingly still popular for some reason to generate players with outlandish salaries exceptionally quickly. Of course, national teams have different priorities and so there will always be people lining up to keep on replenishing the donkey supply.

You are correct the input is still going at the same pace but the output is broken because of free agents. Now obviously if this player was a free agent he would retire but the free agent pipeline keeps bringing back GREAT players that you can get for $1 million. Would you rather an average player for $1 and $100,000 a week or a GREAT player for $1,000,000? In only one season the costs are getting close and you had a much better player every week.

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The issue is that there are too many of them. Let them retire please!!!

I think the issue is not that they are too many, but that demand for them is too low.
For example, I can use a $300k salary center, but I don't want to buy one because their salaries a too high!

There lies the biggest problem with the economy. Since player salaries increase with attribute improvement exponentially, players with skills above 16/17 become economically inefficient. The difference is quality becomes too small compared to the difference in salary. Therefore, it is way more efficient to buy 2 150k players, than 1 300k monster.

These players sell for 5x their current prices at the trade deadline
I bought one such Center for over $500,000 2 weeks ago
got just over $100,000 back today.
And he had some extra skills including 10 JS and 10 OD.
Same as any economy, supply and demand.
Nobody wants to pay these salaries next week and so many hit the market before financial update.
In a few days, all promoting teams will come into some extra cash
and those still around will be in demand once more as teams try for later Cup rounds,
and playoff positions and games late in season 21

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The 2nd guy, Tapia, is pretty awesome too. One of the top players in all of BB but his salary is enormous and he's almost 34 years old. He just put up a 19.5 rating over a full season. That's insane.

And since he was just purchases by a D5 team which will almost certainly bankrupt itself he'll be back on the market for $1 million in a couple of weeks. At age 34 he probably doesn't get bought for that price and quietly retires as Chile loses a NT player.

I think you're right, but I also think I'm right. I think it's both.