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Re: Cannot Re-sign Players with Expiring Contracts

@EA_BlueberryWell sorry its hard for you to believe Blueberry, but swallow it you will. I was playing as the Eagles. And no, I could not sign a single player that had an expiring contract. Every offer I made left me negative cap space. I couldnt offer enough to get anyone to stay. I tried stretching every contract to minimize cap hit, but nothing worked. Every single player with an expiring contract in the first season was lost to free agency. Start a season as the eagles and sim it to week 6 or 7 and try to re sign players.

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    EA_Blueberry
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    6 years ago

    @Insta_Buzz wrote:

    @EA_BlueberryWell sorry its hard for you to believe Blueberry, but swallow it you will. I was playing as the Eagles. And no, I could not sign a single player that had an expiring contract. Every offer I made left me negative cap space. I couldnt offer enough to get anyone to stay. I tried stretching every contract to minimize cap hit, but nothing worked. Every single player with an expiring contract in the first season was lost to free agency. Start a season as the eagles and sim it to week 6 or 7 and try to re sign players.


    @Pol_AccoDM 

    Did you sim to some point in the season as well?

  • Insta_Buzz's avatar
    Insta_Buzz
    6 years ago

    @EA_BlueberryI did not. I played every game, didnt sim a single one. I suggested a sim so that you can get to a point in the season with a few players to re-sign.

  • Same problem with jags have 26 mil in space on finance screen resign screen shows negative 3mil .

  • piersbarton's avatar
    piersbarton
    6 years ago

    This has happened to me as well on Both Madden 19 and Madden 20.  your salary cap remaining is the same on all screens except for when you are negotiating with an existing player, which seems to give you much less space. This therefore makes it difficult to re sign your own players.  I can cope with trading out my lesser players, but not my bigger ones.  It took down my Eagles save on Madden 19 before I realised it was a bug.  many of my fringe players left because I couldn't re sign them.  it said I was tight on cap, so I traded out Nick Foles for Mitch Trubisky, which saved about 8 million dollars on cap but I still didn't have any more cap room on the contracts screen than I had before I did this.  thus I had to move on to a different team because I couldn't re sign anyone even after I had had two brilliant seasons and was really enjoying the save.  The same has happened with my Chiefs on Madden 20, so I have had to turn the salary cap off on this occasion, because I can't not have the ability to re sign players.  It needs to be EA's top priority to fix this, to ensure that the salary cap remaining is equal on all screens.  Not wildly different when offering a player a contract, because this completely destroys the realism of franchise mode.  I can't understand how salary cap remaining could be one thing when trading for a player and something else entirely, when offering a contract or why trading a big player out doesn't give you any more room

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