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So if you aren't able to afford (or are not willing to afford) these 200k players now, you definitely won't want any of these guys come next year, and even worse, in the following seasons. And it you don't want them, who will?
Who is the richest team in BB? Tòròòò maybe? Will he want them? I don't know...and even if he will, he sure as hell won't want more than one..and where will the others end up?

I'm very curious to see who will end up buying the latvian dude..

Let me ask a question to the general public...is there ANYBODY out there who is willing to buy, now or in the near future, a 300k salary guy?

I am sure that I am no longer the richest, but I would agree with Superfly, I could not see adding any players with above $150k salaries. The only teams that would likely ever by these $300k freaks would be clubs saving up for a short playoff run or important cup/bbb games. Even if these guys sell for $1k, the salary hit for a season would be too much if you cared about not ruining your team.

Exactly.

And there's the problem: the best players aren't the best anymore, they are freaks (and your definition is absolutely accurante IMO: any player that can bankrupt an entire team in a couple of weeks is absolutely a freak).
I'm curious to know if the BBs think that this evolution, like in HT, is inevitable, or if something can be done to make sure that the best players are, in fact, the players everyone would want to have, as opposed to the ones everyone wants to avoid.

apparently, as in HT, salary optimization is going to become more important at the highest levels of the game. "the best" will not be the most expensive, but the ones with the best performance at still tolerable cost. not sure this is a bad development, although it may not be very realistic as you point out. but what could be an alternative?

a more worrying aspect of this might be an additional incentive to "hoard-and-rally", which probably won't get as bad as people relegating on purpose, but still I can see contenders for an important title or a promotion performing a bit below their potential for a season or two in order to save on team salary, then make a push for which they are willing to take temporary losses on "freaks". this is a bit annoying since I at least find the jostling for sustainable progress more pleasing, but again, I don't see what can or should be done against it. and taking somdetsfinest's Celtics example, this even has some realism.

I agree with you, and I'm not sure there is an alternative. It's just a bit sad that in the end, the players with the highest skills won't be the ones that everyone is trying to get there hands on, and those lucky owners who have them won't sell them unless an unbelievable offers comes around.

I am by far not good enought to buy these players. But I totally agree with you. Now the players that only have 3 high skills are not the most wanted anymore because their high salary. Now the time came to invest in multi skilled players that are trained on many skills (like 7 times a 14). Then they are cheaper in salary and more effective in the games.

And all the players with a monster salary will get selled to teams anyway, look at HT. The players with the high salary go to farm teams or get sold every two weeks. That's what happen and they still stay in the game (don't retire), but just get less popular and are not getting sold for a lot of money.

So I don't think the salary should be lowered. To be a good team you need to think about the multi skilled players with "low" salary. I'm happy I don't have to deal with these problems yet...

It's just a bit sad that in the end, the players with the highest skills won't be the ones that everyone is trying to get there hands on

True, a bit disappointing that this issue will be here like it was in HT (isn't HT making changes to reduce this though?), but it's far from the biggest issue.

Though, it'll be important for top teams to avoid the temptation of buying these players if they want to do well in the long run. I bet a few of these centers will cause some turnover at the top which maybe isn't such a bad thing to happen.

As to teams laying low and saving up, not sure I can see that becoming a major problem like it is in HT. Still pays to be a winning team, and laying low will just risk a drop to a lower division and noticeably lower revenue streams.

If anything I'm seeing some teams do really well going the other way and adding more decent players for depth rather then a handful of high priced players and weaker backups.

IMO the salary formula should be lowered for the high skills

a player like ikstens is not a freak, his higher skill is only a 17
i think a well trained player should never have an unaffordable salary

Well this thread and the farm thread are long enough now with enough people raising concerns that if a BB wanted to comment I think they wouldve done.

Either there is an announcement in the pipeline about the stance on escalating wages and how they view that in the long run of the game OR we are going to be left to work it out for ourselves.

One thing is for sure though is that it will further complicate any TPE or dubious transfer as there are now even more variables to add to the equation.

Im sure some managers would pay more for a high ID/RB with little IS & SB ( i would) to save 30-50k on salaries.

It will hopefully promote more specialist players that fit certain tactical systems but for farm teams the caps wont apply... these players will just bounce about and sadly when a team wants to depart the game they can choose to just disturb the balance of their league with a couple of cheap purchases before going out in a blaze of glory.

It sort of makes the trainer prices even more out of whack cos its possible to create players by the age of 21 that wont ever have to be trained again. There seems to be zero value for a lvl 6 and lvl 7 trainer if its only going to take marginally longer.

the problem is how much the formula could be lowered...i think that the level of salary of fanesi and ikstens afteri the updating of end season is however well proportionate to the strenght of these player,the problem will be in the future,when the increase of the salary will be not proportionated with the improvement of the level of the players.
And there is also a problem about incomes of tv games,that could be proportionated to the level of the league and not equal for all the teams,from II Dominican division to the Italian Serie A o the Deutschland Bundesliga