Hey
Basically my question is how much are people prepared to pay players for success? I'm not talking about being Man City and splashing £100m+ on transfer fees and 150k+ per week on ages, I mean people who are playing as a not-so-rich side and have gotten to or started in higher leagues and now have a decent-sized budget to spend.
Having got to La Liga from the Segunda B3 with a shoestring budget and had relatively good success in the league with two top-four finishes in a row I find myself resigned to the fact that I now probably should spend big for success. For three years the wage bill offered to me has been £400k and my transfer budget is £16m, yet I have always kept it under £275k and spent merely £11m maximum on several players at best in a single season. It's kinda like the Wenger approach.
However I have just hit a patch of games where I lost 3-0 to Arsenal in the Champions League, 2-0 to Real Madrid and 3-2 to Sevilla with Marseille next in Europe and think that it is probably time to break open the treasure chest I have been hoarding. Pre-season I could have signed Garay from Madrid for £2m, which was a bargain for me except he wanted £45k wages and I instantly reclined in horror at that and cancelled negotiations. I've also had the chance to sign Adebayor, Honda and Vermaelen but they all wanted around £45k-£55k and I turned them down, the greedy swines!
My highest-paid player is on around £24k and this seems reasonable to me, but it looks like I've hit a brick wall where I can't sign better players without a serious increase in the wages paid. I've got a good youth setup but those players need at least four-five years to turn into world-beaters and I can't wait that long for success after playing for so long.
Have I been too stingy and miserly or am I justified in not signing these greedy players? I'm on my seventh season and despite promotions and good league form I would really like a trophy or to go pretty far in the Champions League and while I can do awesome against poor clubs I just can't beat those bigger clubs like the Arsenals or Madrids who spend big.
Basically my question is how much are people prepared to pay players for success? I'm not talking about being Man City and splashing £100m+ on transfer fees and 150k+ per week on ages, I mean people who are playing as a not-so-rich side and have gotten to or started in higher leagues and now have a decent-sized budget to spend.
Having got to La Liga from the Segunda B3 with a shoestring budget and had relatively good success in the league with two top-four finishes in a row I find myself resigned to the fact that I now probably should spend big for success. For three years the wage bill offered to me has been £400k and my transfer budget is £16m, yet I have always kept it under £275k and spent merely £11m maximum on several players at best in a single season. It's kinda like the Wenger approach.
However I have just hit a patch of games where I lost 3-0 to Arsenal in the Champions League, 2-0 to Real Madrid and 3-2 to Sevilla with Marseille next in Europe and think that it is probably time to break open the treasure chest I have been hoarding. Pre-season I could have signed Garay from Madrid for £2m, which was a bargain for me except he wanted £45k wages and I instantly reclined in horror at that and cancelled negotiations. I've also had the chance to sign Adebayor, Honda and Vermaelen but they all wanted around £45k-£55k and I turned them down, the greedy swines!
My highest-paid player is on around £24k and this seems reasonable to me, but it looks like I've hit a brick wall where I can't sign better players without a serious increase in the wages paid. I've got a good youth setup but those players need at least four-five years to turn into world-beaters and I can't wait that long for success after playing for so long.
Have I been too stingy and miserly or am I justified in not signing these greedy players? I'm on my seventh season and despite promotions and good league form I would really like a trophy or to go pretty far in the Champions League and while I can do awesome against poor clubs I just can't beat those bigger clubs like the Arsenals or Madrids who spend big.