[Chipawah]

A question for anyone that can answer:

When signing a new staff member the board recommends a certain limit of coaches/ scouts/ physios etc.

Being quite far below the wage limit and having no trouble with the size of the squad I considered signing a coach or two a sound investment (especially since I don't have any coaches that can coach goalkeepers). So I went ahead and signed a second coach even though my board recommended only one coach. I checked the board room and their impression of me hadn't changed at all, they were still very pleased.

Does anyone know how, if at all, signing staff members affect the boards view of the manager?

[The Lambs]

I always ignore the boards recommendation and I have never seen a change in my standing with them.

There does come a point where they will put their foot down and cancel the contract offers to the staff. But you can usually get yourself 7 coaches and an Ass man to get 5 stars in each training area before that happens.

[Strategy]

I haven't seen that happen. I have however experienced that the Board cancelled my contract proposal to a Coach because they felt I was taking on too many.

[The Lambs]

Originally posted by Strategy:
I haven't seen that happen. I have however experienced that the Board cancelled my contract proposal to a Coach because they felt I was taking on too many.

Thats what I mean.

[Imperius]

In my experience the board will only cancel contract offers to potential staff if you're over budget on salaries.

As long as you're under you can get away with anything, it would seem!

[paulinho]

Originally posted by Imperius:
In my experience the board will only cancel contract offers to potential staff if you're over budget on salaries.

As long as you're under you can get away with anything, it would seem!

Not true, I had 16 coaches when the board reccomended 8 & despite being well below the wage budget they wouldn't let me sign any new staff.

[Strategy]

Originally posted by paulinho:
Not true, I had 16 coaches when the board reccomended 8 & despite being well below the wage budget they wouldn't let me sign any new staff.

Same here - though I had (from memory) 7 coaches and was only allowed 3. Once I fired a coach, I was able to hire the new coach I wanted. I was also recommended 1 physio (despite the team already having 3), and 1 scout (employed 2).

I think Board recommendations should be viewed as just that - recommendations. As long as you are not being completely excessive, then one has nothing to worry about (and the board will clearly signal when they think you are going too far).

Perhaps not following the board's recommendations may cause trouble if you are in danger of being fired, but it stands to reason that as long as you are delivering results and the finances are in order, the board isn't going to worry about whether you have 10 or 12 coaches.

[Grafton83]

I snapped up four coaches at once and went over the boards reccommendation of 5. When my goalkeeping coach retired i couldn't sign a replacement even after sacking my next weakest coach as well.

Its quite an annoying feature seeing as i was well under budget. It did let me sign maldini as a player coach in the end but i still get cancelled contracts if i approach anyone else.