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.
