retired_shikkab

idea for fm09. in the player interaction menu before the season starts you could set players targets, for instance you could say to Torres "i am giving you a target of 20 league goals this season" and maybe offer them financial rewards or something if they achieve it.

train

Seem's like a good idea. MAy be a bit more than.... Score 20 goals and I'll give you £50,000 .... but in principle, I do like the idea.

retired_mssa007

I'm not sure if this happens IRL. I know there was the much publicized "bet" between Ronaldo and Ferguson, but that's probably one of the only big instances. We already have a "goal bonus" and that's enough for me. Just my opinion

retired_shikkab

thanks... you could have assists for midfielders and say "concede less than 40 goals in the league this season" for defenders and clean sheets for keepers.

treeNinja

Good idea :thup: It can do with expanding on a little but the basic idea of it I like a lot.

Perhaps, as well as offering money as a reward/incentive you could instead tell them they will get a new contract if they reach the target.

retired_shikkab

benitez sets his players targets i think. In Gerrards autobiography the year liverpool won the FA cup benitez set gerrard a target of 25 goals and gerrard got 23 and benitez told him with a smile on his face "you missed your target" (or something of the likes)

retired_Kylie

When we signed James Beattie, Nobson set him a target of at least 20 goals, I reckon it does happen a lot but we never get to hear about it...
I love this idea :thup:

retired_sonu_dxb

Like the idea yeah but no financial reward. isn't that what they get paid for weekly and in bonuses?!?

retired_w0lfpack1

I'm not sure we have enough concrete here to say for certain whether it would be a pleasure or distressing.

Front Office Football: The College Years had a number of good points, but it also had a feature where you had to go through each player once per season and assign their "time usage", things like "weight room", "studying", "practice", etc. As a mechanic, it worked and was interesting - but the implementation forced you to do this for every player or bad things would happen.

That took it from "fun" to "time consuming nuisance". I'd worry about some implementations of this having the same thing.

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As for performance incentive clauses, they're the norm in American sports contracts: an American football player's contract might be:

In fact, a lot of contracts include "escalator" clauses, so maybe its:

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that football contracts had similar complexity, bonuses, etc.

My_Evo

Certainly according to UEFA, maybe FIFA, you cannot offer any player a financial bonus that is not part of their contract. So you can't offer someone £50k for reaching some target you set at the start of the season.

Rather than setting targets, I'd see this as something we can do through the media.


Improving contract clauses, bonuses etc would be a whole other thing, one I'd welcome.