Football Manager 2024 transfer budgets: Man Utd, Madrid, PSG & Europe's big clubs

Cameron Smith

• Updated: 4 Dec 2023 10:31 CST
• 5 min read

Football Manager 2024 is here, with an all-new rating database for fans of the popular game to get their hands on.

As ever, Football Manager is the go-to place for football fans to build a club in their image, signing young talents and watching them develop into world-beaters.

Starting with clubs such as Real Madrid or Manchester City will give you a huge budget in FM24, although most fans of the game prefer starting with a smaller club and helping them rise up the divisions to glory.

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While signing the best players in the world is possible with the biggest clubs, if you choose to manage a smaller team, then you’ll have to be far smarter with your transfer budget.

No matter what team you choose to manage, however, signing the right players for the right price is crucial.

Below, FootballTransfers runs through the transfer and wage budget of every Premier League club and the biggest teams in each of Europe’s top five leagues.

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Premier League budgets

Brighton & Hove Albion surprisingly have the biggest transfer budget of any Premier League team on Football Manager 2024. However, given their incredible ability to sell their stars for top fees (as seen by Moises Caicedo’s summer move to Chelsea), the Seagulls deserve their huge budget.

Liverpool (£64m) and Manchester City (£35.8m) also have huge budgets, while Chelsea and Manchester United both have £6m available to spend on new stars.

Bournemouth, Burnley and Nottingham Forest all start the game with a transfer budget of £0m.

In terms of wage budget, Man Utd lead the way with £4.86m, while Sheffield United have the lowest budget (£0.64m).

Serie A budgets

Of the five biggest clubs in Italy, Napoli have the highest transfer budget (£30m). However, they are known as Partnenope on Football Manager 2024.

Roma have the smallest transfer budget (£8.5m), while Milan have the lowest wage budget (£1.75m).

Ligue 1 budgets

Unsurprisingly, it’s Paris Saint-Germain who lead the way for both transfer budget and wage budget of Ligue 1’s biggest clubs. However, their transfer budget of £25.7m is the exact same as AS Monaco’s.

Lyon are a fallen giant in France and their £3m transfer budget reflects that, although it’s far better than Marseille’s mere £0.85m.

Rennes (£0.52m) have the lowest wage budget.

Bundesliga budgets

Bayern Munich are the Bundesliga giants with the highest transfer budget (£17.1m) and wage budget (£4.5m), which is little surprise following their stranglehold on the competition over the past decade.

RB Leipzig also have a £17.1m transfer budget, however, but can only afford £2.2m on their wage bill. Eintracht Frankfurt are bottom for both metrics.

La Liga budgets

Real Madrid have the largest transfer and wage budget of La Liga giants on Football Manager 2024. Los Blancos can spend £21.4m on new signings and £5.3m on wages.

By comparison, their El Clasico rivals Barcelona have just £2.2m transfer budget and £3.3m wage budget respectively, while their city rivals Atletico Madrid have £4.2m and £3m at their disposal.

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