Football Manager 2021 Bargains Shortlist | FM21 Cheap Players

Here's the ultimate shortlist of best bargains that you can find in Football Manager 2021. More than 220 best cheap players for your FM21 save.

Here's the ultimate shortlist of best bargains that you can find in Football Manager 2021. More than 220 best cheap players for your FM21 save.

Who are FM2021 bargain players?

Bargain players are the ones that won't cost you much of your transfer budget money, although some of them may have wage demands that you can't meet if you're managing a lower-tier club. 

Other criteria for a player to be considered a bargain buy and to be added to this FM21 shortlist they had to be at most 31 years of age, cost no more than £10M, and have a minimal potential ability of 150. Also, their current ability mustn't be lower than 100 at the start of the save.

Related: Football Manager 2021 Free Agents Shortlist

Football Manager 2021 Bargains Shortlist - Download

(Added to Premium Member downloads)

After you've downloaded the shortlist file, move it from your download destination to this location;

Windows OS users:

C:\ Users \ <username> \Documents \Sports Interactive \Football Manager 2021 \ Shortlists \

Mac OS users:

/ Users / <username> / Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2021 / Shortlists /

Please note that if there is no ‘Shortlists’ folder at this destination, simply right-click in the folder > make new folder > name it ‘Shortlists’ (without the quotations ‘’).

Start Football Manager 2021

• Load your save game and navigate to Scouting > Shortlists
• Now on the right side of the screen click on the icon > select 'Load Shortlist...'
• Now highlight FM2021 Bargains shortlist and click the 'Load' button.

The installation process is shown in steps in the image:

Follow the steps from 1 to 5, and your shortlist file will load in the game. Click to enlarge the image.

If you've done everything correctly from this short tutorial, then all the bargain players that have been loaded in your save game setup will show on the shortlist screen.

How many of them show depends on how large database you've selected at the start of your save, the bigger the database, more bargains will show up for you.

Related: Football Manager 2021 Wonderkids Shortlist 

Football Manager 2021 Bargains Shortlist - Online

If you wish not to download the shortlist file you can always take a look of the players included online, with our FM2021 bargains online shortlist.

Players have been divided according to their asking price at the start of the save, from £0 to £10M.

FM21 Bargains 0-1M

Name	Position	Age	AP	Wage	Nat	Club
Mario Balotelli	ST (C)	29	£0	-
Daniel Sturridge	ST (C)	30	£0	-
Alexandre Pato	AM (L), ST (C)	30	£0	-
Moisés Caicedo	M (C)	18	£975K	£825 p/w		Independiente del Valle
Kwadwo Asamoah	D/WB/M (L)	31	£0	-
Brahima Ouattara	AM (C)	17	£220K	£110 p/w		RC Abidjan
Sandro	DM, M (C)	31	£425K	£8,250 p/w		Goiás
Jack Wilshere	M/AM (C)	28	£0	-
Jores Okore	D (C)	27	£475K	£6,250 p/w		AaB
Álvaro Montero	GK	25	£275K	£3,800 p/w		Deportes Tolima
Leonardo Lelo	D (L)	20	£825K	£230 p/w		Portimonense SC
Djibril Touré	AM (RL), ST (C)	17	£18.25K	N/A		CEFOMIG
Giovani dos Santos	AM (RC), ST (C)	31	£800K	£10,500 p/w		Club América
John Guidetti	ST (C)	28	£475K	£3,800 p/w		Alavés
Eyal Golasa	DM, M (C)	28	£775K	£8,250 p/w		Maccabi Tel Aviv
Aubrey Modiba	D/WB/M (L)	25	£675K	£3,900 p/w		Mamelodi Sundowns
Teboho Mokoena	M (C)	23	£350K	£3,400 p/w		SuperSport United
Phakamani Mahlambi	AM (RC)	22	£250K	£2,900 p/w		Mamelodi Sundowns
Jean N'Guessan	M (C)	17	£220K	£110 p/w		RC Abidjan
Yuriel Celi	AM (LC)	18	£275K	£900 p/w		Cantolao
Wilfried Bony	ST (C)	31	£0	-

FM21 Bargains 1M-2.5M

Name	Position	Age	AP	Wage	Nat	Club
Viktor Fischer	M/AM (L), ST (C)	26	£2.1M	£15,250 p/w		FC København
Jack Butland	GK	27	£2.3M	£35,000 p/w		Crystal Palace
Marcos Leonardo	ST (C)	17	£1.8M	£325 p/w		Santos
Wuilker Fariñez	GK	22	£1.1M	£10,000 p/w		RC Lens
Holger Badstuber	D (C)	31	£1.3M	£70,000 p/w		VfB Stuttgart
Jaminton Campaz	AM (C)	20	£1.3M	£4,700 p/w		Deportes Tolima
Youssef Msakni	AM (R)	29	£1.5M	£78,000 p/w		Al-Duhail
Pablo Piatti	M/AM (L)	31	£1M	£15,500 p/w		Toronto FC
Saido Berahino	ST (C)	26	£1.8M	£6,500 p/w		Charleroi SC
Yeison Guzmán	AM (C)	22	£1.4M	£4,400 p/w		Envigado
Christopher Schindler	D (C)	30	£1.7M	£25,000 p/w		Huddersfield
Tim Rönning	GK	21	£1.9M	£1,200 p/w		IF Elfsborg
Ron-Robert Zieler	GK	31	£1.6M	£17,500 p/w		1. FC Köln
Mario Vuskovic	D (C)	18	£2.1M	£625 p/w		Hajduk Split
Martín Montoya	D/WB (R)	29	£2M	£50,000 p/w		Real Betis
Aleix Febas	M (C)	24	£1.8M	£9,000 p/w		RCD Mallorca
Joe Allen	DM, M (C)	30	£1.9M	£50,000 p/w		Stoke
Jesé	M/AM (L), ST (C)	27	£1.7M	£105,000 p/w		Paris Saint-Germain
Rodrigo Tarín	D (C)	24	£2.1M	£9,000 p/w		CD Leganés
Jeffrey Bruma	D (C)	28	£2M	£57,000 p/w		VfL Wolfsburg
Jasurbek Jaloliddinov	M (C), AM (R)	18	£2M	£2,000 p/w		Tambov
Matías Arezo	ST (C)	17	£1.3M	£1,600 p/w		River Plate Montevideo
Adam Taggart	ST (C)	27	£1M	£4,500 p/w		Suwon Bluewings
Lucas Fernandes	M/AM (C)	22	£2.1M	£1,600 p/w		Portimonense SC
Phelipe Megiolaro	GK	21	£2.3M	£6,250 p/w		FC Dallas
Patrick Roberts	AM (RC)	23	£1.9M	£40,000 p/w		Middlesbrough
Liel Abada	AM (R)	18	£1.3M	£160 p/w		Maccabi Petah Tikva
Ivan Petryak	AM (L)	26	£1.8M	£3,800 p/w		Videoton FC
Manuel Ugarte	DM	19	£1.4M	£1,600 p/w		Centro Atlético Fénix

FM21 Bargains 2.5M-5M

Name	Position	Age	AP	Wage	Nat	Club
Sávio	AM (R)	16	£4M	£775 p/w		Atlético Mineiro
Anel Ahmedhodzic	D (C)	21	£3.6M	£1,700 p/w		Malmö FF
Maximilian Meyer	M/AM (C)	24	£4M	£125,000 p/w		Crystal Palace
Andrea Papetti	D (C)	18	£3.2M	£200 p/w		Brescia
Caio Lopes	DM, M (C)	19	£3.6M	£700 p/w		Vasco da Gama
Jakub Kamiński	AM (RL)	18	£2.7M	£400 p/w		Lech Poznań
Javier Pastore	AM (C)	31	£3.7M	£145,000 p/w		Roma
Sékou Koïta	ST (C)	20	£4.7M	£4,400 p/w		Red Bull Salzburg
Lucas Vázquez	M (R)	29	£4.9M	£115,000 p/w		Real Madrid
Ivan	GK	23	£2.8M	£5,000 p/w		Ponte Preta
Gustavo Assunção	DM	20	£4.8M	£2,000 p/w		FC Famalicão
Gonzalo Villar	M (C)	22	£4.1M	£32,000 p/w		Roma
Guido Pizarro	DM	30	£4.4M	£28,000 p/w		Tigres UANL
Cenk Tosun	ST (C)	29	£4.4M	£67,000 p/w		Everton
Pione Sisto	M (R), AM (RL)	25	£4.8M	£11,750 p/w		FC Midtjylland
Álvaro Fernández	GK	22	£3.7M	£7,500 p/w		SD Huesca
David Ayala	M (C)	18	£4.4M	£1,000 p/w		Estudiantes (LP)
Marco Varnier	D (C)	22	£3.1M	£10,500 p/w		Pisa
Gabriele Zappa	D/WB (R)	20	£3.2M	£5,250 p/w		Cagliari
Bosko Sutalo	D (C)	20	£4.2M	£6,750 p/w		Atalanta
André Horta	M/AM (C)	23	£4.9M	£6,750 p/w		SC Braga
Dani Martín	GK	22	£4.1M	£5,000 p/w		Real Betis
Diogo Queirós	D (C)	21	£3.2M	£1,800 p/w		FC Famalicão
Danny Rose	D/WB (L)	30	£2.5M	£60,000 p/w		Tottenham
Franco Tongya	M/AM (C)	18	£4.6M	£230 p/w		Juventus
Robin Le Normand	D (C)	23	£3.8M	£10,750 p/w		Real Sociedad
Mattia Perin	GK	27	£3.7M	£82,000 p/w		Genoa
Miguel Silveira	AM (C)	17	£3.6M	£675 p/w		Fluminense
Nicolas Nkoulou	D (C)	30	£4.2M	£49,000 p/w		Torino
Valentino Lazaro	D/WB/M (R)	24	£4.7M	£40,000 p/w		Borussia Mönchengladbach
Ganso	M/AM (C)	30	£3.4M	£13,750 p/w		Fluminense
Ionuţ Radu	GK	23	£4M	£32,500 p/w		Inter
Genaro	DM, M (C)	22	£4.2M	£1,400 p/w		CD Mirandés
Johan Hove	M (C)	19	£4.2M	£1,000 p/w		Strømsgodset
Eden Kartsev	M/AM (C)	20	£3.7M	£220 p/w		Maccabi Tel Aviv
Maxym Chekh	DM, M (C)	21	£3.7M	£700 p/w		Illichivets
Nicolás Benedetti	AM (C)	23	£2.6M	£7,750 p/w		Club América
Nathaniel Clyne	D (R)	29	£3.2M	£20,000 p/w		Crystal Palace
Juan Iturbe	AM (R)	27	£2.9M	£12,500 p/w		Pumas de la UNAM
Joel Campbell	AM (RL)	28	£2.9M	£26,000 p/w		Club León
Simone Zaza	ST (C)	29	£3.6M	£45,500 p/w		Torino
Domagoj Bradaric	D/WB (L)	20	£3.6M	£8,500 p/w		Lille OSC
Jonathan Rodríguez	AM (L), ST (C)	27	£4.2M	£15,750 p/w		Cruz Azul
Simon Tibbling	M (C)	25	£4.3M	£3,100 p/w		FC Emmen
Ivonei	AM (C)	18	£4.7M	£900 p/w		Santos
Ramiro Funes Mori	D (C)	29	£3.6M	£36,500 p/w		Villarreal
Yunus Mallı	M/AM (C)	28	£4.2M	£79,000 p/w		VfL Wolfsburg

FM21 Bargains 5M-7.5M

Name	Position	Age	AP	Wage	Nat	Club
Javi Martínez	D (C), DM	31	£6.5M	£105,000 p/w		Bayern München
Ibañez	D (C)	21	£7.25M	£9,000 p/w		Roma
Armel Bella-Kotchap	D (C)	18	£6.75M	£3,500 p/w		VfL Bochum
Pedro De La Vega	AM (RL)	19	£7.25M	£3,100 p/w		Lanús
Svetozar Markovic	D (C)	20	£5.5M	£6,250 p/w		FK Partizan
Christian Benteke	ST (C)	29	£5.25M	£120,000 p/w		Crystal Palace
Zaydou Youssouf	M (C)	21	£6.75M	£6,250 p/w		AS Saint-Étienne
Juan Manuel Gutiérrez	ST (C)	18	£7M	£2,800 p/w		Almería
Gabriel Brazão	GK	19	£5.75M	£3,700 p/w		Real Oviedo
Ali Akman	ST (C)	18	£7.25M	£200 p/w		Bursaspor
Fran Pérez	M/AM (R)	17	£7.5M	£2,400 p/w		Valencia Mestalla
Óscar	AM (LC)	22	£7.25M	£25,500 p/w		Sevilla
Stevan Jovetic	ST (C)	30	£6.25M	£59,000 p/w		AS Monaco
Ljubomir Fejsa	DM	31	£5.25M	£19,000 p/w		Al-Ahli (KSA)
Thiago Almada	AM (C)	19	£7M	£22,500 p/w		Vélez
Yacine Brahimi	AM (LC)	30	£5.25M	£75,000 p/w		Al-Rayyan
Peglow	AM (C)	18	£7.5M	£2,700 p/w		Internacional
Joe Aribo	M/AM (C)	24	£7.5M	£7,500 p/w		Rangers
Younes Belhanda	M/AM (C)	30	£6.75M	£69,000 p/w		Galatasaray SK
Javi Ontiveros	AM (RL)	22	£5.5M	£15,000 p/w		SD Huesca
Iván Martínez	GK	18	£7M	£1,200 p/w		Subiza
Mathias Jørgensen	D (C)	30	£7M	£41,500 p/w		FC København
Riccardo Calafiori	D/WB (L)	18	£5.75M	£13,000 p/w		Roma
Davie Selke	ST (C)	25	£6.75M	£26,500 p/w		Werder Bremen
Matija Nastasic	D (C)	27	£7.25M	£70,000 p/w		Schalke 04
Franco Vázquez	AM (C)	31	£6M	£66,000 p/w		Sevilla
Ishak Belfodil	AM (C), ST (C)	28	£5.75M	£26,500 p/w		TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Ben Gibson	D (C)	27	£7.5M	£40,000 p/w		Norwich
Matías Palacios	AM (C)	18	£5.75M	£1,800 p/w		San Lorenzo
Stefan Bajic	GK	18	£5.5M	£1,000 p/w		AS Saint-Étienne
Victor Wanyama	DM, M (C)	29	£6M	£50,000 p/w		Montreal Impact
Sergio Escudero	D/WB (L)	30	£6.5M	£30,500 p/w		Sevilla
Iago Falqué	AM (RC)	30	£5.25M	£32,500 p/w		Benevento
Renyer	AM (R)	17	£7.5M	£35 p/w		Santos
Mattia Zaccagni	M/AM (C)	25	£7.25M	£16,250 p/w		Hellas Verona
Yéremi Pino	AM (RL)	17	£5.5M	£3,200 p/w		Villarreal
Mateo Musacchio	D (C)	29	£6.5M	£65,000 p/w		Milan
Robert Navarro	AM (C)	18	£6.25M	£1,500 p/w		Real Sociedad
Aaron Hickey	D (L)	18	£6.5M	£13,250 p/w		Bologna
Iván Muñoz	D (C)	18	£6.25M	£2,400 p/w		Valencia Mestalla
Marco Carnesecchi	GK	20	£7.25M	£3,600 p/w		Atalanta
Sebastián Vegas	D (C)	23	£5.25M	£4,700 p/w		CF Monterrey
Gabriel Strefezza	WB (RL), M (R)	23	£6.5M	£4,400 p/w		SPAL
Mykyta Burda	D (C)	25	£5.5M	£9,250 p/w		Dynamo Kyiv
Andreas Cornelius	ST (C)	27	£6.75M	£28,500 p/w		Parma
Carlos Cuesta	D (C), DM	21	£5.75M	£6,750 p/w		KRC Genk
Martín Campaña	GK	31	£6.75M	£19,500 p/w		Al-Batin
Modibo Sagnan	D (C)	21	£6.25M	£3,900 p/w		Real Sociedad B
Bernard Mensah	M (C)	25	£7M	£22,000 p/w		Beşiktaş
Alexandr Maximenko	GK	22	£7.25M	£14,500 p/w		Spartak Moscow
Hany Mukhtar	AM (C)	25	£5.25M	£7,750 p/w		Nashville
Hicham Boudaoui	M (C)	20	£5.75M	£9,750 p/w		OGC Nice
Stephan Ambrosius	D (C)	21	£6.75M	£3,100 p/w		Hamburger SV
Elseid Hysaj	D (RL)	26	£6.75M	£52,000 p/w		Napoli
Luka Sucic	M (C)	17	£7.5M	£1,400 p/w		Red Bull Salzburg
Eray Cömert	D (C)	22	£6.75M	£3,500 p/w		Basel

FM21 Bargains 7.5M-10M

Name	Position	Age	AP	Wage	Nat	Club
Matteo Lovato	D (C)	20	£7.75M	£2,800 p/w		Hellas Verona
José Juan Macías	AM (L), ST (C)	20	£9.75M	£10,250 p/w		Deportivo Guadalajara
Lucien Agoume	M (C)	18	£9M	£7,000 p/w		Spezia
Nicolò Rovella	DM, M (C)	18	£9.25M	£230 p/w		Genoa
Theo Walcott	AM (R), ST (C)	31	£9.75M	£110,000 p/w		Southampton
Manuel Gasparini	GK	18	£7.75M	£2,100 p/w		Udinese
Dominik Livakovic	GK	25	£9M	£14,000 p/w		Dinamo Zagreb
Jiri Pavlenka	GK	28	£8.25M	£44,000 p/w		Werder Bremen
Santiago Cáseres	DM, M (C)	23	£9.75M	£11,500 p/w		Club América
Zakaria Aboukhlal	AM (RL), ST (C)	20	£8.25M	£2,400 p/w		AZ
Daniel Maldini	AM (RC)	18	£7.75M	£10,750 p/w		Milan
Alejandro Pozo	M (R), AM (RL)	21	£9M	£15,250 p/w		SD Eibar
Aimar Oroz	AM (LC)	18	£8.5M	£325 p/w		CA Osasuna
Rubén Blanco	GK	25	£9M	£18,750 p/w		Celta Vigo
Nail Umyarov	DM	20	£7.75M	£14,500 p/w		Spartak Moscow
Uğurcan Çakır	GK	24	£8M	£7,750 p/w		Trabzonspor
Altay Bayındır	GK	22	£9.5M	£10,250 p/w		Fenerbahçe
Sofiane Feghouli	M/AM (R)	30	£8M	£80,000 p/w		Galatasaray SK
Steven Nzonzi	DM	31	£9.5M	£100,000 p/w		Stade Rennais
Federico Bernardeschi	AM (R)	26	£8M	£130,000 p/w		Juventus
Georgiy Tsitaishvili	AM (R)	19	£8.75M	£2,700 p/w		Dynamo Kyiv
João Mário	M/AM (C)	27	£8M	£88,000 p/w		Sporting CP
Evander	M/AM (C)	22	£9M	£8,000 p/w		FC Midtjylland
Carles Pérez	AM (RC)	22	£7.5M	£53,000 p/w		Roma
Moi Gómez	M/AM (C)	25	£8.25M	£16,250 p/w		Villarreal
Davide Bettella	D (C)	20	£9M	£1,600 p/w		Monza
Pierluigi Gollini	GK	25	£8.5M	£26,000 p/w		Atalanta
Matteo Pessina	M/AM (C)	23	£8.75M	£5,250 p/w		Atalanta
Lars Bender	D (R), DM, M (C)	31	£9.5M	£70,000 p/w		Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Alessio Cragno	GK	26	£9.5M	£32,500 p/w		Cagliari
Lucas Zelarayán	AM (C)	28	£8.75M	£11,750 p/w		Columbus Crew
Michael Olise	M/AM (C)	18	£8M	£2,500 p/w		Reading
Galeno	AM (RL)	22	£9M	£6,750 p/w		SC Braga
Romano Postema	ST (C)	18	£8.25M	£1,000 p/w		FC Den Bosch
Fausto Vera	DM, M (C)	20	£7.5M	£1,300 p/w		Argentinos Juniors
Frank Onyeka	M (C)	22	£8.5M	£3,100 p/w		FC Midtjylland
Jordon Ibe	AM (RL)	24	£7.5M	£10,000 p/w		Derby County
Rubén García	AM (RLC)	27	£9.25M	£21,000 p/w		CA Osasuna
Sam Lammers	ST (C)	23	£9M	£23,500 p/w		Atalanta
Koba Lein	M (C)	18	£9.25M	£3,200 p/w		Valencia
Maarten Vandevoordt	GK	18	£9.25M	£4,100 p/w		KRC Genk
Matías Vecino	M (C)	28	£9.75M	£81,000 p/w		Inter
Nicola Sansone	AM (L)	28	£7.75M	£52,000 p/w		Bologna
Wendell	D/WB (L)	27	£9.75M	£35,000 p/w		Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Manuel Lanzini	AM (C)	27	£9.25M	£70,000 p/w		West Ham
Marcão	D (C)	24	£9.5M	£16,500 p/w		Galatasaray SK
Bruno Fuchs	D (C)	21	£7.75M	£1,600 p/w		CSKA Moscow
İrfan Kahveci	M/AM (C)	25	£9.25M	£15,250 p/w		İstanbul Başakşehir
Andrea Cistana	D (C)	23	£8.75M	£3,300 p/w		Brescia
Roberto Alvarado	AM (L)	21	£8.75M	£13,250 p/w		Cruz Azul
Jony	M/AM (L)	29	£8.5M	£29,500 p/w		CA Osasuna
Samu Castillejo	M (R), AM (RL)	25	£9.5M	£49,000 p/w		Milan
Morgan Schneiderlin	DM, M (C)	30	£8M	£45,500 p/w		OGC Nice
Faouzi Ghoulam	D/WB (L)	29	£9.25M	£78,000 p/w		Napoli
Maximilian Arnold	M (C)	26	£8.5M	£70,000 p/w		VfL Wolfsburg
Yann M'Vila	DM, M (C)	30	£9.75M	£38,000 p/w		Olympiakos
Adrià Pedrosa	D/WB (L)	22	£8.5M	£15,250 p/w		RCD Espanyol
Jordan Lotomba	D (RL), WB (R)	21	£9.5M	£11,250 p/w		OGC Nice

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