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I hate to sound stupid when I ask this but I'm really stuck and hoping some kind soul can help me out.
Anyway, I usually play to LLM rules but I usually do it with a Blue Square South or North team so that I know the logistics.
On my only previous FM08 game I managed an Irish team and so when I started a new game just now I decided to do the Irish league again because I'm half Irish and enjoy the league.
So I decided to choose the team predicted to come bottom of the First Division (lowest playable league).
When I started I saw I had no wage budget and that's because we're an amateur team. I've only ever played as semi-pro before so don't know how managing an amateur team works.
How do I ask to become a semi-pro team? If we remain as amateurs does that mean I can't sign anyone and just have to work with the players I've got? The staff get a wage which isn't registered on the wage budget but no players have wages.
I know I'm just basically asking for help rather than contributing to discussion but if anyone can help me I'll be so grateful.
Well, I can't say I've had massive experience with 08 yet, but if Amateur is a step down from Semi-Pro and Semi-Pro a step down from Pro and the Semi-Pro to Pro gets sorted by getting promoted and/or having enough money in the bank, I'd say there's a good chance you might end up as Semi-Pro by getting promoted with your team.
All theoretical and no real facts to prove it, but worth a try I guess.
Thanks a lot for the advice, makes a lot more sense now.
Having looked at the team a bit it should be quite interesting and I guess it means you basically have no financial worries which is pretty great. And being able to release players without paying compensation is great although of course that works in reverse too.
I don't suppose either of you know how scouting works with amateur sides - ie will the scouts only tell you of players willing to sign on amateur terms?
Again guesswork Georgie, but if when at Semi-Pro teams my scouts deliver suitable targets I must supose the very same thing would happen at Amateur level.
Originally posted by I'm Brian (and so is my wife!):
I think it's up to you to decide which contract to give a player: if your scout comes up with one: you decide which contract he's worth...
That must be hard as f*** when you have a massive wage budget consisting of zilch sterling pounds and a bag of marshmallows.
I think the major constraint in signing players from an amateur team is convincing them. As for the promotion, as Brian said, usually you need several years of success (mostly financial), before you can make the jump to semi-pro. Managers don't usually last this long though,
I'm starting to see the difficulty. My keeper, star player and a midfielder have all been poached (one by a team without a league, well I assume an offer of £1 a week makes them more tempting), my scout can't find anyone worth signing in the whole country and on top of all that I'm a crap manager anyway. I'm just signing the grey players in my Under 21s cause I can't use the few decent Under 18s as they are ineligible.
At least in the Irish league even if you come bottom you have a play-off to decide if you go down!
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