Tips on making a Profit

[Shahzal]

I only read op - first post.

One thing Ive noticed is that ,if a player you want to sign/renew contract with and it comes in red - means your board wont allow you then you should lower it , until it becomes normal and then suggest terms, once they say its not acceptable etc etc then you should change the - rotation/backupplayer/youngster/full time, that way you can give him how much we wants or lower/give more and you can get that player - sign him or renew the contract, its not basicaly helping u on how to make profit but if you browse through the youngster/backup/rotation player and try different wages you can make some profit.

 

[JonoMUFC]

A lot of good ideas, little pieces of information that can make a difference for sure, i have in my experience to Raf had players drop wage demands after offering a higher sign on fee

 

[Vroteier9]

"Put money from the transfer fund into the wages fund, that way you earn more interest on it."

Can u explain how this works, i know how to ajust the budget but were does the interest come from exactly?

 

[WonderManager]

Haha, good guide, but if we argue with their contract too much, we will lose a star player instantly.
The wages there you can also put one more point.
If you want lower their wage, simply increase the contract length. Sometimes they'll agree.

 

[Raphael.]

Haha, good guide, but if we argue with their contract too much, we will lose a star player instantly.
The wages there you can also put one more point.
If you want lower their wage, simply increase the contract length. Sometimes they'll agree.

Thanks mate will put it in

 

[Mike.]

Very good stuff, not sure its been mentioned but i find its best to buy up front, but sell over monthly installments.

Though I'm less keen on the quotations

 

[Raphael.]

Very good stuff, not sure its been mentioned but i find its best to buy up front, but sell over monthly installments.

Though I'm less keen on the quotations

OK mate thanks for the feedback!

Also you missed the transfer saga but Bredn posted a great summary with pro's and conz of both so I just posted that instead.

 

[Riddick87]

Great guide, learned something incredibly simple. It had never even occurred to me to get rid of fringe players from reserves/youth, just got rid of 34 players doing this, think im saving about 450K a week, and still got some more players i want rid of, but going to have to sell because there release fee's are far too pricey!

 

[JRothy]

Say you have a transfer budget of 10mill and you buy a player for 5mill over 24months, doesnt this take the 5mill from the transfer budget.. so you dont actually have any greater spending power (so you have 5mill left)?

 

[Raphael.]

Say you have a transfer budget of 10mill and you buy a player for 5mill over 24months, doesnt this take the 5mill from the transfer budget.. so you dont actually have any greater spending power?

No just the first payment you would have to make.

 

[CorvetteC3]

Say you have a transfer budget of 10mill and you buy a player for 5mill over 24months, doesnt this take the 5mill from the transfer budget.. so you dont actually have any greater spending power (so you have 5mill left)?

It will take each payment month-by-month from your transfer budget. If your transfer budget goes to zero the money will come from other sources but you will still lose it.

Also think selling and buying transfer clauses through. With Boro I made 3.5M from Adam Johnson's 10% profit of next transfer fee clause. It's always good to calculate how much you could get by letting the clause activate and compare it to what you could make when selling the clause. In my case City would have to sell Johnson for 45M+ for me to have a better deal.

 

[Raphael.]

It will take each payment month-by-month from your transfer budget. If your transfer budget goes to zero the money will come from other sources but you will still lose it.

Also think selling and buying transfer clauses through. With Boro I made 3.5M from Adam Johnson's 10% profit of next transfer fee clause. It's always good to calculate how much you could get by letting the clause activate and compare it to what you could make when selling the clause. In my case City would have to sell Johnson for 45M+ for me to have a better deal.

Thanks will add when selling get a future transfer clause, and if you have to give one do it for profit as if you make no profit you don't pay the team.

 

[Gink]

Sign decent young players either cheap or for free, develop them/loan them out for a couple seasons, then sell them.

I don`t know how well this works in FM11, but in FM10 I could make millions in profit each season once I got into the flow of it.
You won`t make anything the first 2-3 seasons, but as soon as you start selling off the first round of youngsters, the cash just keeps flowing in.

This might be considered cheating by some, but it is (or was in FM10 at least) very profitable.

 

[Irish Scouse]

Go to your finances page to view how much interest you are making on the money you have in the bank.

For some reason, more interest is generated if you move all your transfer budget into the wage budget.

So between windows you should move the money over and you will generate more money? Will need to keep this in mind.

 

[Niall]

Another thing I noticed; when you select the bonus your players get for winning competitions before each season, the amounts offered to you are relative to your wage budget, so just before you have to select the bonuses move all of your wage bill money to the transfer fund, then you can give the players the higher amount so their morale will be sky-high but it will actually still be less than if you had left the wage fund as before! Then change the money back from transfer fund to wages afterwards.

Trust me it works!

 

[Raphael.]

Another thing I noticed; when you select the bonus your players get for winning competitions before each season, the amounts offered to you are relative to your wage budget, so just before you have to select the bonuses move all of your wage bill money to the transfer fund, then you can give the players the higher amount so their morale will be sky-high but it will actually still be less than if you had left the wage fund as before! Then change the money back from transfer fund to wages afterwards.

Trust me it works!

Thanks will add this to it.

 

[Matty]

When im a lower league team and needing to generate money, i cancel all my friendlies if i have some arranged in the first year and organize loads of friendlies with foreign teams away from home, most times you can earn 140k a match up past 200k

on occasions if your lucky the teams that are available on the shortlist from less reputable sides have around 100k, so your team can get some good wins in at the same time.

with 7 or 8 friendlies that is a lot of money!!

 

[danichese]

You can also sell clauses, so say if you sold a striker and they had 20% sell on clause, you can usually sell them for a cut price, usually not alot. and vice versa aswell, if you agreed a clause with a club, you can usually buy the clause back.

also

if you have any players 30 or over, look at his long term plans, and if he is thinking about being a coach, have a private chat with him, and suggest that role to him, so coach if he wants to be a coach, scout if he wants to be a scout, most time they will say i could start right away, then offer them a new contract, they will usually take a lot less money, i got ferdinand to go down to 30k a week as player/coach

 

[Lazaru5]

you do realise that, generally, the fee a player asks for when you terminate his deal is the same amount you would end up paying him if you kept him till his contract runs out, don't you?

and if you release them you can't SELL them... if they are no good to you, transfer list them at 50% of value or something stupid... make money with them rather than paying them off.

youth players are worth keeping to the end of their deal to 'make the numbers up' in the youth team meaning you can play your prospects at a more suitable level to their abilities which will help them develop better.

Your wage/transfer budgets are usually set so that the club will at least break even over the season PROVIDED THAT YOU KEEP WITHIN THEM! If you go over budget, the club will struggle to meet it's financial commitments...

Buying players should be a mixture of up-front payments and monthly instalments... don't overdo either and you can build a strong squad with a sound financial base.

The moving of money from wage -> transfer budgets and vice-versa for bonuses/interest is good advice though, although I personally always give the standard bonuses - I don't see the point in risking the club's finances for a trophy...

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It will take each payment month-by-month from your transfer budget. If your transfer budget goes to zero the money will come from other sources but you will still lose it.

Also think selling and buying transfer clauses through. With Boro I made 3.5M from Adam Johnson's 10% profit of next transfer fee clause. It's always good to calculate how much you could get by letting the clause activate and compare it to what you could make when selling the clause. In my case City would have to sell Johnson for 45M+ for me to have a better deal.

actually, it takes your first years payments from the transfer budget, the next years budget will be adjusted to compensate...

 

[Raphael.]

you do realise that, generally, the fee a player asks for when you terminate his deal is the same amount you would end up paying him if you kept him till his contract runs out, don't you?

and if you release them you can't SELL them... if they are no good to you, transfer list them at 50% of value or something stupid... make money with them rather than paying them off.

youth players are worth keeping to the end of their deal to 'make the numbers up' in the youth team meaning you can play your prospects at a more suitable level to their abilities which will help them develop better.

Your wage/transfer budgets are usually set so that the club will at least break even over the season PROVIDED THAT YOU KEEP WITHIN THEM! If you go over budget, the club will struggle to meet it's financial commitments...

Buying players should be a mixture of up-front payments and monthly instalments... don't overdo either and you can build a strong squad with a sound financial base.

The moving of money from wage -> transfer budgets and vice-versa for bonuses/interest is good advice though, although I personally always give the standard bonuses - I don't see the point in risking the club's finances for a trophy...

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actually, it takes your first years payments from the transfer budget, the next years budget will be adjusted to compensate...

1) Reserve and fringe players usually don't have a high wage, and in the short term it may be bad but in the longer term you benefit.
2) You cant sell any players anyway because of the bug.
3) If your never gonna use your youth players what's the point of having them. Also no-where did it say anything about youths IT SAID UNWANTED/FRINGE PLAYERS!!!!!
4) What is the point of having a transfer budget if your not gonna use it. You might aswell make money from it, shouldn't you?
5) If you read the section about transfers it didn't say you must do that. If gave the pro's and cons of each and it said do what suits your financial situation.

I HAVE COUNTERED ALL YOUR AWFUL POINTS. SHOWS YOU DON'T KNOW A LOT MR SMARTY PANTS.