retired_B_RAN

So, what makes you decide to leave a club and move on to your next job? What motivates you to take on a new challenge or bores you enough to make you abandon your once beloved team?

Did you ever leave a club and then regret your decision? Have you acted on an impulse only to curse yourself for making a bad move and ruinign your saved game?

Feel free to offer up your anecdotes, rants, quirks, anguished decisions, and anything else about what happens when you feel that you need to move to further your career.

retired_sargent

Ah yes. The second bottle of wine, the failed attempt at qualifying for the EUFA cup via the EUFA vase. The inability of my new signings to make an impact on my team and the reaction to a loss putting us at the bottom of the Premiership.

An enjoyable, long term save, starting with Hyde and finishing with Crewe as I resigned in a fit of pique.

Didn't seem so clever the next day.

retired_dvrsecuritylab

In virtually every game going back to the original Champ Man I've played as Cardiff and could never bear to leave them. Obviously in recent years the challenge has been a little lessened somewhat with them, so on FM 2005 I decided my challenge was to start at Grange Quins (my local side) and only jump to other Welsh clubs, hopefully ending up at Cardiff later in my save... It was still quite a wrench to leave each club though.

retired_mommy1

I find it quite easy to leave a club. after all, it's only a game

retired_davek

Playing as Montrose in CM01/02 and offered the St Johnstone job, it really was an absolute wrench to leave the 'Trose: I'd taken them as far as I thought I could, but I had an affinity to each and every player in that squad.

Luckily, I went on to win three Champions' Leagues on the bounce with St Johnstone, and never looked back

retired_livelife

In the days just before FM, I had a game with Barnet and took them to the premiership from the conference in 4 seasons. Jumped ship sitting in the relegation spots and took over a struggling Tottenham side only a few places above me. Tottenham stayed in the same position above the relegation spots. Barnet finshed above me!! I cried.

retired_mrsjb

I always decide to leave when I get offered the Norwich job. Otherwise something usually has to be going wrong (money, relegation etc) for me to jump ship.

retired_sofialong

I tend to get pushed rather than jump.

retired_B_RAN

I just left Club Marino de Luanco after three seasons. I developed a strong affinity for the club, and we had just finished second in the Segunda B1 and had made it into the promotion playoffs before crashing out.

But the board kept limiting the wage bill despite giving me €500k in transfer funds and having a bank balance of €1.3m. And it seemed unlikely that we could gain promotion and compete at the Segunda level without having more money for wages. Sure, the board increased the wage bill by a small amount each season, but it was never enough to offer anything like other clubs were paying their top players.

However, U.E. Sant Andreu earned promotion into the Segunda B in my game, and the team has a stadium with 15,000 capacity and good facilities, and it looked to have some quality players. So I decided to apply for the job and leave Marino.

I had to hire an entire staff when I arrived, as the club had no scout, physio, coaches, or assistant manager. And the wage bill is restricted for now, so we have to use the players we already have. But with the huge crowds we got for friendlies, I'm confident that finances will not be a problem in the future.

My only fear is that we won't get the results, and I'll end up regretting leaving a club that I had built into quite a successful operation. We'll see soon enough.

retired_kswansonwoolf

It depends really. Sometimes my glory-hunting alter ego gets the better of me. Generally, I get tired of whichever club i'm at around the 10 seasons mark.

And yes, it's many a time that I've regretted jumping ship, especially in the latter case.