Thema: Finances

Hi, I've just been trying to balance the books for my club and finding it fairly difficult, I'm not sure whether it's because I'm new and not bringing in much for sponsors or tickets atm but any advice on how to be in the black each week would really help. My sponsor has paid £18,000 for both of the opening two weeks and my wages total £20,865 for players and coaches and an extra £1,305 for stadium maintenance.

From what I'm looking at from my first two weeks, it's looking like I'm going to be losing around £3k-4k a week unless ticket or sponsor revenue improves and I wouldn't mind actually making enough money to grow... any advice is really appreciated :)

have you read the newbie guide at the top?

Buy and sell in transfer market , train young players and sell them, It's not easy to start with, as soon as you have some money get an incredible coach for juniors and get a few good juniors make more money... have a small squad to start with, bare in mind older players normally loose you money.

Wanna post your coaches here? This'll probably be where the problem lies.

I wouldn't rely on Bryan Robson's advise there at all. It is usually very difficult to balance the books in the first few seasons. Normally, away friendly matches are your biggest saving grace for valuable ticket income.

ahahahahaha hilarious Jim

I forgot to say it's hard at first for everybody.

Until i got my 1st ever junior and sold him for 5.2 million after training [yes with nice coaches] the game was hard to balance books, only other way is transfers, look through mine and nothis teams statistics/transfer same thing happened with him, only he gets junior after junior, some people get all the luck :D

So right now I've only got 2 coaches because I don't want to start a junior school until I've got eniugh funds for it but...

Aurél Zsolnyánszki, age: 69
wage: 4 005 £
club: Black Pearl FC, country: Magyarország,
solid [8] coach
Training effectiveness as head coach:
magical [15] of stamina adequate [6] of keeper
outstanding [12] of pace solid [8] of defender
good [7] of technique tragic [0] of playmaker
excellent [10] of passing very good [9] of striker


Orest Zioło, age: 49
wage: 3 150 £
club: Black Pearl FC, country: Polska,
good [7] coach
Training effectiveness as head coach:
very good [9] of stamina poor [3] of keeper
brilliant [14] of pace poor [3] of defender
very good [9] of technique incredible [13] of playmaker
tragic [0] of passing weak [4] of striker

not sure if their wages are too much or if I need coaches like that yet but I've gone for a really young squad with an average age of 20.8 so hopefully they'll begin to grow and I'll be able to make use of both of your advice, cheers :D

I think you need to sack both of those. For your head coach, you want him to be 'unearthly' in the skill you plan to train, and low in all the other skills to keep the wage down. Then you want 3 probably 'good' assistant coaches with low wages. You can usually buy these, but basically for assistants you are looking in kinda the opposite way to a head coach. You want the individual skills to be low, but the coach skill to be as high as you can afford. At this stage, 3 good/solid coaches is recommended.

This topic here explains it in more detail and i am sure it is still relevant today, almost 10 years on.

Okay replacing them now because I've just realised how bad their wages are for their coaching ability, as for funds I think I'm just gonna keep training youngsters and trying to get friendlies against good teams, didn't realise it would be this tough to begin with XD cheers for the advice.

also please read the newbie guide made sticky at top of this forum. It will help lessen the mistakes we made as newbies.