[sunn03]

I play a game in which I started in a minor semi-professional club playing in a lower scandinavian league with a huge financial deficit (that's the reality of many Scandinavian clubs IRL). I managed in the first season to sign some talented unattached players and in the second season I sold most of them for huge sums turning my finances completely around, making the board extremely happy.

Then in the beginning of the third season a unrealistic and honestly bad strategy decision was made by the board - ruining my time with the club completely. The stadium had a capacity of 6000 with 500 seats - my average in the first season was 500 and in the second season 1000.

In the beginning of the third season the board decided to spend all of the money I earned selling my players, and then some giving me a huge deficit (again), on increasing the seet capacity from 500 seets to 3000 seets (within the same overall capacity of 6000).

They spend all the money I made on expanding the seet capacity - leaving me with absolutely nothing left buying new players for - which I was in desperate need of since I sold almost all of my indispensable players to regain sound finances. In the third season the average had increased a bit but was still below 1500, making the expansion more or less worthless and a waste of money.

I couldn't do anything because the transfer budget was 0 and the wage budget had decreased enormously because of the poor and idiotic decision - the team feel apart, I was relegated in the third season and by the end of the third season sacked because of poor results and abilities to control the finances.

I have found a new employer since but I had signed a long deal with this club because I thought I could take it to the top (relatively speaking). That plan was completely ruined by the expansion plan because it left me struggling with not only the team but the finances again.

IRL we got good and poor business men running clubs all over the world - and frankly the chairman running this club was among the latter. Wouldn't be an idea just as you can interact with the board on issues such as traning facilities and affiliated clubs that the board asks you what you think about their plans for the future? In this case I would had said okey lets expand the stadium by some seets but not 2500 - lets keep it on 1000, considering the average being somewhere in between 1000 and 1500 spectators.

Which poor strategical poor decisions have you encountered in the game made by your board and what do you think of making it possible to interact with the board on their decisions for the future?