retired_maggie123

I have started a new game in the Spanish second b division, I choose to manage a team called Castelan and they only have a stadium that holds 800 people :eek: so the wage budget is a measley £3000p/w yet I went out and signed 18 spanish bosmans and now my wage bill is 24000p/w miles over my budget, First of all why the hell did the chairman let me sign so many players and second is this ok, going by the LLM rules as I want to make my game as realistic and hard as possible. Or should I restart my game and only sign a few bosmans for the sake of realism etc..

Thanks for your response in advance

retired_maggie123

The team is casetas sorry

retired_mrsjb

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by David Pagi:
I have started a new game in the Spanish second b division, I choose to manage a team called Castelan and they only have a stadium that holds 800 people :eek: so the wage budget is a measley £3000p/w yet I went out and signed 18 spanish bosmans and now my wage bill is 24000p/w miles over my budget, First of all why the hell did the chairman let me sign so many players and second is this ok, going by the LLM rules as I want to make my game as realistic and hard as possible. Or should I restart my game and only sign a few bosmans for the sake of realism etc..

Thanks for your response in advance<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Do you think that the real manager of this team would be able to sign 18 new players and vastly exceed the wage budget?

Remember the golden rule. If you have to ask if you are cheating, you probably are.

retired_kswansonwoolf

Nice to see people remembering their team's name

Why did you sign all these players? I find hard to believe that you would need an other 18 of them .

Btw, if you don't rectify the wage situation, the board might decide to fire you, even if you perform well in the field.

KingsbayYHPE

It's probably the least realistic thing I do in LLM, David, is sign loads of players regardless of the effect on the wage bill. The more the merrier is a fine adage

Is it not realistic, btw?

Look at the SPL. Livingston and Dundee in receivership pertially because of the ridiculous wages offered to average players, Hearts having to share a ground, Motherwell only just breaking even, in fact even Rangers are struggling.

Final word, you've had the reply from the Board regarding requests for Stadium Development, etc.? "You look after the Team and we'll look after the money!"

Eh?

KingsbayYHPE

Oh, and cups suck ass, btw.

retired_maggie123

I'm poor with names, I don't even know my first 11 half the time all the foreign names look the same to me.

Well yeah I have signed a few too many players, but how many is a realistic amount then?

BTW I did need to sign all the players cos the players I started with were rank

And how far can I go over my wage budget?

And what about if my chairman is very ambitous, thats why he let me buy so many players

KingsbayYHPE

Bottom line David, if you're going to agonize over it and have a guilty conscience, then don't do it.

I can live with the consequences. If they sack me, or we go into receivership, or if we win promotion and manage to handle the overspend, then I look for another job, or play on with the players we're left with, or just get on with the job.

A wee bit cavalier, maybe, but I tend to do all right

retired_kswansonwoolf

Sign as many as you need. Not one more, not one less (that is, if they will join you).

You can go as far over your wage budget as you like, but you'll be fired at some point unless you improve the financial situation.

In CM, the chairman and the board don't play any part in players transfers. So, he didn't "let" you, you're on your own there. But he will fire you, blah blah blah.

retired_mrsjb

I think in the seven seasons of my Stevenage game I've had the wages within the budget for a total of two, maybe three weeks I'm normally 10-20% over.

I would hope though, that the board might say something if my wages were 8x the budget :eek: At that point the board ought to get involved imho.