Amaroq

Good advice, ZJ.

I think its actually inverted from what jed suggested: I think you are penalised for getting sacked, but if you just resign, you keep your reputation constant.

My manager who got sacked for declaring interest in / applying to too many other jobs has since had a real hard time getting a new job ...

jedclough

Just a quick update: I was offered a job at Crawley in March 2010 in BSS. I would have refused it, but I saw that they had a pretty decent team, though underachieving in 11th place. Anyway, I had 6 games left in the season, won them all (they really were a good team!) and went up through the playoffs. So' I'm a bit happier now!

SWaRFeGa

I've resigned from plenty of clubs in the same career :-
Workington
Everton
Seville
Real Madrid
Arezzo

Never affected my rep.

crouchaldinho

The definitive answer is as follows...

... you do NOT lose any of your reputation for resigning...

...BUT you DO lose reputation for giving your board an ultimatum and then being sacked.

Your current reputation is quite drastically reduced. I have just tested this and it was enough to send me down from a continental reputation to a low national one.

So the answer is, don't give the board an ultimatum, no matter how satisfying it may feel to throw all of the toys out of the pram. Just resign instead.

I think the ultimatum business needs changing for future FMs personally. It's fair enough that you should lose rep for getting sacked but you shouldn't lose rep for ultimatums. You are effectively resigning your position when you issue an ultimatum. Anyone agree?

C.