Depending on your selected team, transfer funds can be hard to come by in Football Manager 26. Most clubs have to make do with limited budgets, which all but kills the notion of going on spending sprees. The best solution for this problem is recruiting on the cheap and acquiring one of the many bargain buys on the transfer market. To save you from hours of tedious scouting, we’ve put together the best bargain players in FM26 in this guide.
Top 50 Bargain Players in FM26
Our list of the best bargain buys in FM26 features wonderkids, aging veterans, underrated journeymen, and many other profiles. They’ve all been organised based on their current rating, and are well worth their transfer values:
| Player Name | Age | Position | Club | Transfer Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lionel Messi | 38 | AMR, AMC, ST | Inter Miami | £3m |
| Mateo Retegui | 26 | ST | Al-Qadsiah | £8m |
| Yann Sommer | 36 | GK | Blu-Neri Milano (Inter) | £9m |
| Dani Ceballos | 28 | MC | Real Madrid | £8m |
| Karim Benzema | 37 | ST | Al-Ittihad | £10m |
| Ruben Neves | 28 | DM, MC | Al-Hilal | £6m |
| Malcolm | 28 | MR, AMR, AML, AMC | Al-Hilal | £6m |
| Steven Bergwijn | 27 | MR, ML, AMR, AML, AMC, ST | Al-Ittihad | £6m |
| Francesco Acerbi | 37 | DC | Blu-Neri Milano (Inter) | £6m |
| Kieran Trippier | 34 | DRC, WBR | Newcastle | £8m |
| Aleksandar Mitrovic | 30 | ST | Al-Rayyan | £1m |
| Yassine Bounou | 34 | GK | Al-Hilal | £3m |
| Franck Kessie | 28 | DM, MC | Al-Ahli | £6m |
| Roger Ibanez | 26 | DC | Al-Ahli | £5m |
| Marten de Roon | 34 | DC, DM | Bergamo (Atalanta) | £7m |
| Luuk de Jong | 34 | ST | Porto | £7m |
| Stefan de Vrij | 33 | DC | Blu-Neri Milano (Inter) | £4m |
| Piotr Zielinski | 31 | AMC | Blu-Neri Milano (Inter) | £3m |
| Otavio | 30 | DM, AMR, AMC | Al-Qadsiah | £4m |
| Fabinho | 31 | DC, DM | Al-Ittihad | £4m |
| Memphis Depay | 31 | AMC, AML, ST | COR | £9m |
| Danny Welbeck | 34 | AMR, AML, ST | Brighton | £4m |
| Danilo Pereira | 33 | DC, DM | Al-Ittihad | £1m |
| Matvey Safonov | 26 | GK | PSG | £5m |
| Houssem Aouar | 27 | MC, AMC | Al-Ittihad | €5m |
| Yeremay | 22 | ML, AMR, AML, AMC | Deportivo | €2m |
| Yacine Adli | 24 | DM, AMC | Al-Shabab | £4m |
| Julian Weigl | 29 | DM | Al-Qadsiah | £4m |
| Allan Saint-Maxmin | 28 | AMR, AML, AMC | Club America | £8m |
| Daniel Podence | 29 | AMR, AML | Olympiacos | £5m |
| Amadou Haidara | 27 | DM, MR, MC | RB Leipzig | £4m |
| Marcin Bulka | 25 | GK | Neom | £3m |
| Philippe Coutinho | 33 | AML, AMC | VDG | £5m |
| Raheem Sterling | 30 | AMR, AML | Chelsea | £1m |
| Giovanni Simeone | 29 | ST | Torino | £4m |
| Daniel Rugani | 30 | DC | Juventus | £4m |
| Stefan Ortega | 32 | GK | Manchester City | £8m |
| Deiver Machado | 31 | DLC, WBL | RC Lens | £5m |
| Patrick Berg | 27 | DM | FK Bodø/Glimt | £8m |
| Callum Wilson | 33 | ST | West Ham | £9m |
| Yannick Carrasco | 31 | AML | Al-Shabab | £1m |
| Albert Sambi Lokonga | 25 | DM | Hamburg | £6m |
| Merih Demiral | 27 | DC | Al-Ahli | £3m |
| Riyad Mahrez | 34 | AMR | Al-Ahli | £863k |
| Presnel Kimpembe | 29 | DC | Qatar Sports Club | £792k |
| Wilfried Zaha | 32 | AMR, AML, ST | Charlotte | £844k |
| Pedro Malheiro | 24 | DRC, WBR | Al-Wasi | £718k |
| Tyrell Malacia | 25 | DL | Manchester United | £500k |
| Timo Werner | 29 | AML, ST | RB Leipzig | £893k |
| Mahmoud Dahoud | 29 | DM | Frankfurt | £838k |
And that wraps up our guide on the best bargain players in Football Manager 26. Do you know of any other players that belong on the list? Be sure to let us know in the comments.
The best bargain buys in Football Manager 26 include Mateo Retegui, Dani Ceballos, Yeremay, and Ruben Neves, to name a few.
Yes, you can negotiate with the selling club to lower the transfer cost of a player, but navigating through these discussions can be quite tricky.
