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Transfers: making and answering offers for players

How transfer requests work in both directions — the fifty-percent wallet rule for making an offer, what happens to incoming offers, and why a good reason genuinely improves your chances.

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July 30, 2026 7 min read 8

The Transfers tab handles permanent moves in both directions: offers you make for other clubs' players, and offers other clubs make for yours. Both sides run on the same request-and-response model.

Outgoing

Making an offer

To request a player from another club you need three things: the player, an offer amount, and a reason. The reason is required, not decorative — it is what the other manager reads when deciding.

Every transfer request is checked against these

  • You must have a club.
  • You cannot request a player you already own.
  • You cannot have an existing pending request for the same player.
  • You must hold at least 50% of your offer in your wallet.
  • You must have generated a wallet address.
  • A reason must be given, and it must not be too long.

The fifty-percent rule

You must already hold at least half of your offer amount in LONIDA before the request will even be sent. If you offer 10,000 LONIDA you need 5,000 in the wallet. This exists to stop speculative offers from clubs that could never complete, and the error message tells you the exact figure you are short by.

Write a real reason

You are asking a human being to give up a player. "Need a striker for my 4-3-3, can move quickly" gets answered. An empty-feeling one-liner gets ignored. The reason field is the whole of your negotiation, so use it.

Incoming

Answering an offer

Requests from other clubs arrive here and sit in one of three states — Pending, Approved or Rejected — with a count of each shown at the top of the tab. Pending is the only one that needs you.

Approving completes the move and the funds change hands. Rejecting closes the request. Either way the other manager is notified, and a completed transfer becomes a news story on the platform.

Do not leave offers pending

An unanswered offer blocks the other club from planning, and blocks you from a sale you might want. Even a rejection is more useful to everyone than silence.

FAQ

Common questions

My request was refused for insufficient funds, but I have the full amount.+
Check the wallet the request draws on is the club wallet and that your balance has confirmed on-chain. The rule needs 50% of the offer present at the moment you submit.
Can I make two offers for the same player?+
No. While one request for that player is pending, a second is refused. Wait for an answer, or withdraw and rethink.
Can I bid on my own player?+
No — the platform rejects it, both for transfer requests and for market bids.
Who in my club can make offers?+
Anything that spends from the wallet is limited to the owner, an Admin or a Finance member. See the team roles guide.
What is the difference between this and the Market?+
Transfers here are direct, negotiated requests to another club. The Market is the open listing board where players are put up for sale and bid on.

Written by lonida

Published July 30, 2026

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