[Sussex Hammer]

Won the Premier League Title with West Ham in my first season and signed a new contract in close season. Board Expectations are :

"The Board wants the team to Challenge for the League Title by the end of a two year plan."

Er, I've just won it, has my Chairman got Alzeimers?!

Ok, well I'll have to strengthen the squad to do it again.

Transfer Budget of £550 K,,!!! After winning the League and getting TV Revenue??

Especially confused with Spurs down the road signing G. Rossi for 34 Million!!

What is this all about SI? It's as confusing as England winning next years European Championships,,, erm, they did in my game!!

[Mike7077]

I've seen Giuseppe Rossi move clubs for some bizarre amounts of cash. I've even seen Man. United buy him back for about £30million. I know the guy's got talent, but surely this is ridiculous.

[andyinuk]

Well the expectation is basically mean they want to win the title again.

the transfer budget is a bit weird. is west ham got a massive loan or something?

[Starr_Man5]

Originally posted by Mike7077:
I've seen Giuseppe Rossi move clubs for some bizarre amounts of cash. I've even seen Man. United buy him back for about £30million. I know the guy's got talent, but surely this is ridiculous.

Typical "He-was-signed-by-United-so-he-must-be-brilliant!" nonsense.

[Sussex Hammer]

the transfer budget is a bit weird. is west ham got a massive loan or something?

Well, first season I had a budget of £30 Million which I spent wisely. Bizarrely towards the end of the season I was 13 Million in debt even though I was under my wage budget!!

I assumed that by end of the season considering my TV Revenue and Prize money things would be ok.

In around April I signed Mattias Fernandez for 14 Million but thats in installments for 24 months.

If Terry Brown was still in charge I could understand this but these are new owners these Icelanders and they are rich with a capital R!!

At the time of writing The Board are still concerned about the financial state. "Well, give the Club an injection of funds you b******!"

I can't get a decent feeder Club for merchandising and I can't offload players I want to offload for the value placed on them??

People seem to claim that West Ham's finances are like this because Curbishley spent a lot of money last summer but if you take into account who he sold West Ham actually only spent about 2 Million.

I think the researchers have got this one badly wrong!!

[spoonguardreturns]

Originally posted by Sussex Hammer:
"The Board wants the team to Challenge for the League Title by the end of a two year plan."

Er, I've just won it, has my Chairman got Alzeimers?!

Actually, I think that's a perfectly good expectation. If Derby County had had an excellent season this year and won the league, the expectation would not be for them to win it again next year. And West Ham are hardly title-challenging material at the moment. Basically, you've overachieved, and the board aren't considering it the norm. If they had said "You've won the league, now, in the next two years, win it twice more," that would be unreasonable. Whereas they'd be happy if, at the end of the two years, you'd challenged for the title again. That, I imagine, is all they're saying.

The only explanation I can think of for the transfer budget is the board taking money 'for the future', or you buying a lot of players, and the prize money is being used to pay off debts.

[spoonguardreturns]

Apologies - I hadn't seen your last post, but that confirms what I thought. The transfer budgets and wage budgets don't guarentee you stay debt-free - the opposite, in fact. If you spend all your budget and remain close to your wage budget, you'll still lose money. So, if you did spend £30 million on players, you probably have lost money.

[Gypsum]

When I got promoted to League 1 with Aldershot the board expected me to acheive a repectable place in League 2. It makes sense considering they expected relegation when I got promoted.

[MrPompey]

I suspect you may not be playing with the patch, this issue was fixed with the patch

[sirdez24]

Originally posted by Starr_Man5:
Typical "He-was-signed-by-United-so-he-must-be-brilliant!" nonsense.

Nine in 19 for Parma and eight in 14 for Villareal suggests he just needed regular starts to produce in real life.

Plenty of players are overrated on FM, but if they're considered good enough to be signed by a big club at a young age, how else are you supposed to program their potential?