Esports Manager 2026 · build 24432700 · published
This update rebuilds the loan system from the ground up, gives retiring players a second life on the coaching staff, and makes the transfer screens tell you what is actually happening.
Retiring players can now become free-agent coaches or analysts — a familiar name leaving the server can show up again on the staff market.
Two-way profile links between a retired player and their new staff card, so you can follow a career across both roles.
Reworked retirement letters, and a retiring player now keeps their photo on the staff card.
Fixed retired-player profile links going dead after moving back and forth between profiles.
One rule, one price, one language. Five connected problems fixed:
One loan term rule. Loan length used to be decided in four different places at once — the popup, the AI, the pricing and the signed contract could all disagree. Loan terms are now a single 3–18 month. Old saves are repaired on load: loan offers are re-priced for the term they will actually be signed for.
Loan counter-offers are priced as loans. AI sellers used to answer a loan request with half the purchase price — an unpayable counter by design. Purchases keep their old minimum ask.
Loan e-mails speak about longer reply with purchase wording and accuse you of "undervaluing the transfer" after you asked to borrow a player. Every line that names the deal now has a loan variant in all 11 languages.
AI buyers accept an ask instead of mailing your own terms back at you.
Loan requests come from clubs that make sense. Borrowers are now filtered by caliber and squad size, so requests no longer arrive from near-empty clubs 250 places below you — and targets nobody could burn the whole request window in silence.
Loans are no longer disguised as purchases in the transfer list. Loan rows now carry a "Loan" caption under the destination club and the return date under the transfer date.
Upcoming agreed transfers are now shown on the World Transfers tab.
Fixed: a loaned player could be sold or loaned on to a third club by the club that only borrowed him.
Men can no longer join AI women's teams. Also added "Female" team option on EMDB to differentiate men teams from female teams even without players in them.
Added the IPL tournament.
Added career session analytics.
Test-suite corrections and internal housekeeping.