The frustrations of being a lower league manager

[GoldenEagle]

I am playing as Kettering in my latest CM 4 game and I am sturggling in the Conference (not using any super tactics or the such). I think I am in 12th place. I work out a deal for a great young 19 year old midfieler who actually wants to come to my club. The transfer fee is $0. No other fees apply, just $0. He agrees to a contract and my board says no funds are avaliable. WTF?

He winds up going to a Norweigan club where his value sky rockets to $525,000. Thanks board, glad to see we want to win the Conference in the next ten years.

[PilotMan]

Yeah, I played as Kettering too until my player file got too big for my computer, and crashed the game. I would say 12th is a good position to be in for the first season. Are you over the wage limit?

[GoldenEagle]

I am under it by about $1k.

[GoldenEagle]

dola -

How much wage budget can I expect next year?

[Mac Howard]

and no I'm not getting at CM (I've had similarly idiocies in SaaP as a result of not anticipating all the circumstances that can occur). That's a beauty

Mind you, imagine how you would have felt had the sale gone through and you'd been sacked for bad financial management

[Axxon]

Originally Posted by GoldenEagle

I am playing as Kettering in my latest CM 4 game and I am sturggling in the Conference (not using any super tactics or the such). I think I am in 12th place. I work out a deal for a great young 19 year old midfieler who actually wants to come to my club. The transfer fee is $0. No other fees apply, just $0. He agrees to a contract and my board says no funds are avaliable. WTF?

He winds up going to a Norweigan club where his value sky rockets to $525,000. Thanks board, glad to see we want to win the Conference in the next ten years.

Was he requesting a sign on fee? That's on the contract page and is possible to miss. I know I've had deals killed because I couldn't afford the sign on fee.

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally Posted by GoldenEagle

I am playing as Kettering in my latest CM 4 game and I am sturggling in the Conference (not using any super tactics or the such). I think I am in 12th place. I work out a deal for a great young 19 year old midfieler who actually wants to come to my club. The transfer fee is $0. No other fees apply, just $0. He agrees to a contract and my board says no funds are avaliable. WTF?

He winds up going to a Norweigan club where his value sky rockets to $525,000. Thanks board, glad to see we want to win the Conference in the next ten years.

Did the player have a 'signing on fee' in his contract offer? - this is probably the cause.

[GoldenEagle]

I do no think so. I might have mised it though.

[druez]

Most likely he did.

All I play is LLM. I usually start with Scarbourgh and they are usually in the red and over the wage cap. It is a real struggle to get them promoted out of the conference. Took me two seasons my last franchise. I've finally gotten them up to Division I.

[GoldenEagle]

How may games do you play in the cofnerence a year?

[druez]

How many teams are there? You play everyone twice. I think there are 22 teams, so you would play 42 games.if that is true.

You also play in the FA Trophy tournament and the FA CUP and I think the Vans Trophy. A good way to make money as a LLM is to really focus on those tournaments.

[GoldenEagle]

I got beat out in the FA Cup by the freakin Stafford Rangers. I am not in the Vans Trophy so my last hope is the FA Trophy.

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally Posted by GoldenEagle

I got beat out in the FA Cup by the freakin Stafford Rangers. I am not in the Vans Trophy so my last hope is the FA Trophy.

Unlucky - if it makes you feel better my lower league management career in Football Manager hasn't involved any spectacular Cup runs yet ....

(although it has involved promotions )