First time poster here.
I wanted to start with a "sleeping giant" after turning Leeds into the greatest club in the world on FM2010, obviously bringing them up from League one making good progress season after season.
I was browsing League one to see who I was going to pick to take to the top, It was down to Charlton/Soton/Wedneday - I decided Wednesday was the team for me.
I coasted through league one finishing second behind a Peterborough team that didnt seem to lose, although I outplayed them twice, I only managed two draws. I headed in to the Championship with high hopes of getting decent cash for wages. How wrong I was, the board gave me £100k/week wages, funnily enough, my first game was against Newcastle who had Barton (£115k/week) Collocini (£70k/week) etc all playing – my top earner is on £8k by the way lol. I did ok and finished mid table. I released a lot of old players who I had signed for the one season
Third season, again hopeful of getting some cash - nothing. Not a penny to spend and a basic £100k wages, despite the clubs expectation raising. I scout through the free agents and pick up better experienced players and a few youngsters from the top clubs.
After an unpredictable season (30 games in) so far, I am within striking distance of the play offs and even automatic qualification. I must add that anyone worth loaning will not sign for me, and although my midfield and defence is strong, I have a serious lack of firepower up front i.e. Klasnic, Danny Ward & Fred Sears - none of which have captured any sort of form. We were subject of a take over bid last season, but nothing has come of it, I also turned down the Newcastle job who offered me a wage budget of £600k!!
The club has about £1.5m in the bank and loses money month on month. My main worry is that Wednesday are not a desirable club to take over, and despite having high gate receipts, I just cant seem to get any money together to make the next step, the thought of a painful season in the PL scares the **** out of me. Obviously I could sell a few players, but then I am worried about replacing them with sufficient talent without taking a backward step.
Has anyone else been in this position? I am a club punching way above my weight and really need funds to keep on growing. The issue I have is that the board just doesn’t have the funds available and I cant see where they could get funds from in the future. I may just have to move to a club with better potential/ambition/resources
I wanted to start with a "sleeping giant" after turning Leeds into the greatest club in the world on FM2010, obviously bringing them up from League one making good progress season after season.
I was browsing League one to see who I was going to pick to take to the top, It was down to Charlton/Soton/Wedneday - I decided Wednesday was the team for me.
I coasted through league one finishing second behind a Peterborough team that didnt seem to lose, although I outplayed them twice, I only managed two draws. I headed in to the Championship with high hopes of getting decent cash for wages. How wrong I was, the board gave me £100k/week wages, funnily enough, my first game was against Newcastle who had Barton (£115k/week) Collocini (£70k/week) etc all playing – my top earner is on £8k by the way lol. I did ok and finished mid table. I released a lot of old players who I had signed for the one season
Third season, again hopeful of getting some cash - nothing. Not a penny to spend and a basic £100k wages, despite the clubs expectation raising. I scout through the free agents and pick up better experienced players and a few youngsters from the top clubs.
After an unpredictable season (30 games in) so far, I am within striking distance of the play offs and even automatic qualification. I must add that anyone worth loaning will not sign for me, and although my midfield and defence is strong, I have a serious lack of firepower up front i.e. Klasnic, Danny Ward & Fred Sears - none of which have captured any sort of form. We were subject of a take over bid last season, but nothing has come of it, I also turned down the Newcastle job who offered me a wage budget of £600k!!
The club has about £1.5m in the bank and loses money month on month. My main worry is that Wednesday are not a desirable club to take over, and despite having high gate receipts, I just cant seem to get any money together to make the next step, the thought of a painful season in the PL scares the **** out of me. Obviously I could sell a few players, but then I am worried about replacing them with sufficient talent without taking a backward step.
Has anyone else been in this position? I am a club punching way above my weight and really need funds to keep on growing. The issue I have is that the board just doesn’t have the funds available and I cant see where they could get funds from in the future. I may just have to move to a club with better potential/ambition/resources