Football Manager 2024: best players with expiring contracts

Don’t miss out on a golden opportunity with this list

Contents

1. What is an expiring contract in Football Manager 2024?
2. Best expiring players in Football Manager 2024

The world of soccer is constantly evolving and the latest trend in professional play has been for athletes to let their contracts at their current clubs expire, enabling them to freely choose the next station on their career journey. Being the authentic and detail-loving series it is, Football Manager 2024 has attempted to replicate this phenomenon, giving the existing expiring contracts feature a bit more spice.

Many sublime players go into the season with only a year on their contract remaining, freeing them to potentially make a deal with you – here are the best players with expiring contracts in Football Manager 2024 you should have your eyes on.

Expiring contracts are a great opportunity to snag up big names at a reduced price / Sports Interactive

What is an expiring contract in Football Manager 2024?

Players with an expiring contract are different from free agents – the latter have no more time left on their current contract, forcing them to look for a new club immediately and allowing you to pick them up for cheap. Check our guide on the best Football Manager 2024 free agents for that list.

Players in the category we’re dealing with at the moment still have some time left with their club, but so far failed to negotiate a contract extension – for whichever reason. You should definitely do your best to find out why. Older players may not be bothered to extend their contract because they are planning on retiring, so putting resources into negotiating with them may be a waste.

You’ll also need to be aware of the fact that some players will try and command a higher salary from you, knowing that you don’t have to pay their club a transfer fee. On the other hand, when you approach a player with an expiring contract you could force their club into negotiations for an immediate transfer at a lower price as well – if faced with the option of having to let the player go for free next year, they may be willing to let them go immediately for a reduced fee.

Best expiring players in Football Manager 2024

The list below contains the best players whose contracts will expire within 18 months from when you start your career in Football Manager 2024. As you will notice right away, these players will be listed by the number of stars in their rating.

• Kylian Mbappé - PSG - 24 years old
• Vinicius Jr. - Real Madrid - 22 years old
• Luka Modric - Real Madrid - 37 years old
• Manuel Neuer - FC Bayern - 37 years old
• Thiago - Liverpool - 32 years old
• Toni Kroos - Real Madrid - 33 years old
• Thomas Müller - FC Bayern - 33 years old
• Piotr Zielinski - Napoli - 29 years old
• Angel Di Maria - SL Benfica - 35 years old
• Koke - Atletico Madrid - 31 years old
• Olivier Giroud - AC Milan - 36 years old
• Sergio Ramos - Sevilla - 37 years old
• Thiago Silva - Chelsea - 38 years old
• Rafa - SL Benfica - 30 years old
• Dani Parejo - Villareal - 34 years old
• Mehdi Taremi - Porto - 30 years old
• Presnel Kimpembe - PSG - 27 years old
• Guido Rodriguez - Real Betis - 29 years old
• Pepe - Porto - 40 years old
• Sebastian Coates - Sporting CP - 32 years old
• Adrien Rabiot - Juventus - 28 years old
• Henrikh Mkhitaryan - Inter Milan - 34 years old
• Alvaro Morata - Atletico Madrid - 30 years old
• Nacho - Real Madrid - 33 years old
• Joel Matip - Liverpool - 31 years old
• Raul Albiol - Villareal - 37 years old
• Felipe Anderson - Lazio - 30 years old
• Mats Hummels - Borussia Dortmund - 34 years old
• Jorginho - Arsenal - 31 years old
• Alex Meret - Napoli - 26 years old
• Keylor Navas - PSG - 36 years old
• Stefan Savic - Atletico Madrid - 32 years old
• Marco Reus - Borussia Dortmund - 34 years old
• Wissam Ben Yedder - Monaco - 32 years old
• Lucas Vazquez - Real Madrid - 32 years old
• Erik Lamela - Sevilla - 31 years old
• Axel Witsel - Atletico Madrid - 34 years old
• Lucas Ocampos - Sevilla - 28 years old
• Adam Lallana - Brighton - 35 years old
• Miguel Almiron - Newcastle - 29 years old
• Marten de Roon - Atalanta - 32 years old
• Sofyan Amrabat - Manchester United - 26 years old
• Ivan Perisic - Tottenham - 34 years old
• Giacomo Bonaventura - Fiorentina - 33 years old
• Marcos Alonso - Barcelona - 32 years old
• Isco - Real Betis - 31 years old
• Matteo Darmian - Inter Milan - 33 years old
• Miralem Pjanic - Sharjah - 33 years old
• Ivan Rakitic - Sevilla - 35 years old
• Ever Banega - Al-Shabab - 35 years old
• Tyrone Mings - Aston Villa - 30 years old
• Fabian Schar - Newcastle - 31 years
• Sergi Roberto - Barcelona - 31 years
• Cesar Azpilicueta - Atletico Madrid - 33 years old
• Allan - Al-Wahda - 32 years old
• Aaron Wan-Bissaka - Manchester United - 25 years old
• Giorgio Chiellini - LAFC - 38 years old
• Riccardo Orsolini - Bologna - 26 years old
• Leonardo Spinazzola - Roma - 30 years old
• Iker Muniain - Athletic - 30 years old
• Kevin Kampl - RB Leipzig - 32 years old
• Victor Lindelof - Manchester United - 28 years old
• Idrissa Gueye - Everton - 33 years old
• Danny Welbeck - Brighton - 32 years old
• Francis Coquelin - Villareal - 32 years old
• Eric Dier - Tottenham - 29 years old
• Rafael Toloi - Atalanta - 32 years old
• Koen Casteels - Wolfsburg - 31 years old
• Kasper Schmeichel - Anderlecht - 36 years old
• James Milner - Brighton - 37 years old
• Jesus Navas - Sevilla - 37 years old
• Pedro - Lazio - 35 years old
• Simon Kjaer - Milan - 34 years old
• Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting - FC Bayern - 34 years old
• Lukas Klostermann - RB Leipzig - 27 years old
• Gabriel Paulista - Valencia - 32 years old
• Mikel Vessga - Athletic - 30 years old
• Juan Cuadrado - Inter Milan - 35 years old
• Rui Patricio - Roma - 35 years old
• Marko Arnautovic - Inter Milan - 34 years old
• Duvan Zapata - Torino - 32 years old
• David Lopez - Girona - 33 years old
• Alex Berenguer - Athletic - 27 years old
• Oliver - Sevilla - 28 years old
• José Luis Morales - Villareal - 35 years old
• Marius Wolf - Borussia Dortmund - 28 years old
• Robin Knoche - Union Berlin - 31 years old
• Nicolas Pepé - Trabzonspor - 28 years old
• Anthony Martial - Manchester United - 27 years old
• Quincy Promes - Spartak Moscow - 31 years old
• Oscar Trejo - Rayo Vallecano - 35 years old
• João Moutinho - Sp. Braga - 36 years old
• Santi Cazorla - Real Oviedo - 38 years old
• Ben Mee - Brentford - 33 years old
• David Ospina - Al-Nassr - 34 years old
• Marcelo Grohe - Al-Ittihad - 36 years old
• Alberto Moreno - Villareal - 30 years old
• Mario Hermoso - Atlético Madrid - 28 years old
• Rafinha - Al-Arabi - 30 years old
• Grzegorz Krychowiak - Abha - 33 years old
• Tomas Soucek - West Ham - 28 years old
• Martin Braithwaite - Espanyol - 32 years old
• Sheraldo Becker - Union Berlin - 28 years old
• Kenny Tete - Fulham - 27 years old
• Lucas Moura - Sao Paulo - 30 years old
• Douglas Costa - LA Galaxy - 32 years old
• Felipe - Nottingham Forest - 34 years old
• Ricardo Rodriguez - Torino - 30 years old
• Nemanja Maksimovic - Getafe - 28 years old
• Youssouf Fofana - Monaco - 24 years old
• Mohamed Elneny - Arsenal - 30 years old
• Andres Guardado - Real Betis - 36 years old
• Fernando - Sevilla - 35 years old
• Claudio Bravo - Real Betis - 40 years old
• Jonny Evans - Manchester United - 35 years old
• Mathew Ryan - AZ - 31 years old
• Marc Bartra - Real Betis - 32 years old
• Alexis Anchez - Inter Milan - 34 years old
• Andriy Lunin - Real Madrid - 24 years old
• Yuri - Athletic - 33 years old
• Ruben Garcia - Osasuna - 29 years old
• Pablo Fornals - West Ham - 27 years old
• Luis Muriel - Atalanta - 32 years old
• Yerry Mina - Fiorentina - 28 years old
• Christian Gunter - Freiburg - 30 years old
• Antonio Candreva - Salernitana - 36 years old
• Lukasz Fabianski - West Ham - 38 years old
• Leonardo Bonucci - Union Berlin - 36 years old
• Antonio Adan - Sporting CP - 36 years old
• Ivo Frbic - Atletico Madrid - 27 years old
• Frederik Ronnow - Union Berlin - 30 years old
• Nicolas Hofler - Freiburg - 33 years old
• Davy Klaassen - Inter Milan - 30 years old
• Alfred Duncan - Fiorentina - 30 years old
• Kevin Jeffries - Nice - 33 years old
• Gerard Deulofeu - Udinese - 29 years old
• Eric Bailly - Besiktas - 29 years old
• Rafael Carioca - Tigres - 34 years old
• Vladimir Coufal - West Ham - 30 years old
• Ryan Sessegnon - Tottenham - 23 years old
• Erick Sanchez - Pachuca - 23 years old
• Alexey Miranchuk - Atalanta - 27 years old
• Guillermo Ochoa - Salernitana - 37 years old
• Willian - Fulham - 34 years old
• José Luis Palomino - Atalanta - 33 years old
• José Fonte - Sp. Braga - 39 years old
• Dante - Nice - 39 years old
• Renato Augusto - Corinthians - 35 years old
• Alejandro Gomez - Monza - 35 years old
• Fraser Forster - Tottenham - 35 years old
• Guido Pizarro - Tigres - 33 years old
• Roberto Pereyra - Udinese - 32 years old
• Alex Sandro - Juventus - 32 years old
• Bruno Henrique - Flamengo - 32 years old
• Dani Garcia - Athletic - 33 years old
• Hugo Mallo - Internacional - 32 years old
• Adrian Embarba - Almeria - 31 years old
• Santiago Arias - Cincinnati - 31 years old
• Leandro Cabrera - Espanyol - 32 years old
• Tim Ream - Fulham - 35 years old
• Abdoulaye Doucouré - Everton - 30 years old
• Michail Antonio - West Ham - 33 years old
• Jan Paul van Hecke - Brighton - 23 years old
• Hans Hateboer - Atalanta - 29 years old
• Roberto Gagliardini - Monza - 29 years old
• Stefano Sensi - Inter Milan - 27 years old
• Angelo Ogbonna - West Ham - 35 years old
• Gaetano Castrovilli - Fiorentina - 26 years old
• Romarinho - Al-Ittihad - 32 years old
• Michy Batshuayi - Fenerbahce - 29 years old
• Yan Couto - Girona - 21 years old
• Michael Olunga - Al-Duhail - 29 years old
• Kelechi Iheanacho - Leicester - 26 years old
• Cristian Alvarez - Real Zaragoza - 37 years old
• Hugo Lloris - Tottenham - 36 years old
• Dries Mertens - Galatasaray - 36 years old
• Steve Mandanda - Rennes - 38 years old
• Ali Maaloul - Al-Ahly - 33 years old
• Pepe Reina - Villareal - 40 years old
• Raul Garcia - Athletic - 36 years old
• Javi Martinez - Qatar SC - 34 years old
• Sergio Araujo - AEK - 31 years old
• Christopher Trimmel - Union Berlin - 36 years old
• Aaron Cresswell - West Ham - 33 years old
• Tosin Adarabioyo - Fulham - 25 years old
• Bobby Decordova-Reid - Fulham - 30 years old
• Yussuf Poulsen - RB Leipzig - 29 years old
• Yacine Brahimi - Al-Gharafa - 33 years old
• Oliver Baumann - Hoffenheim - 33 years old
• Tasos Bakasetas - Trabzonspor - 30 years old
• Kostas Fortounis - Olympiacos - 30 years old
• Ruben Vezo - Levante - 29 years old
• Jesus Gallardo - Monterrey - 28 years old
• Pizzi - Sp. Braga - 33 years old
• Darko Brasanac - Osasuna - 31 years old
• Luka Jovic - Milan - 25 years old
• Robin Koch - Eintracht Frankfurt - 26 years old

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