Without wishing to go on an Ian Holloway-style rant the wages in my game are getting nuts!
I am in season 2016/17 - 7th season in. I'm playing as Spurs. At the beginning of the game I went into the editor and added £100m (greedy, I know - spent (most of) it on Dzeko, Jack Rodwell and Darijo Srna) and changed the expansion capacity on White Hart Lane to 200k without changing the current capacity.
I signed Christiano Ronaldo last season for £26m or so - he fell out with Real over something and they offered him to me! I nearly fell of my chair when I saw his wage demands - £350k/week! The maximum the board would allow was £215k/week and I finally managed to get him to sign with a £100k/appearance bonus.
I bought Dzeko in the first season and had him on something suitable like £150k/week. He's now 30 and his contract is up for renewal at the end of this season. I walked away from the table when he demanded £300k/week but ended up signing him in the January window at the maximum I could get the board to sign which was £225k/week and £45k appearance. To be honest he'd just had a 49-goal season and, as at 21st January, he's on 30 this season so there's no way I could let him go, but still...
Messi was the same. Barcelona offered him a few seasons ago for £20m which I immediately offered but then couldn't get anywhere near the £350k/week he was on at Barca!
It's not just the big names either, which would at least be not so bad. All my half decent youth players are on £30-£50k/week. The really good ones, still only 21 or so, are more like £70k/week. I remember the good ole days of having Super Mario Balotelli on £10k/week for the first 4 years or so in FM09!!!
The other thing that hurts is the signing on bonuses. The big names are requesting £15m as a bonus, with £7m for the chuffing agent! You can hammer them down a bit but not too much. I have apparently paid £71m to agents in 6 and a half years!
Now, I'm winning lots of trophies, and getting the payouts. I also have a ground that is being increased by 16k seats a year. But until this year I was never making a net profit (**** those shareholder dividends!). I wondered if other people with smaller grounds were having this issue or are the players only making the demands because they know I can afford it?
Rant over.
I am in season 2016/17 - 7th season in. I'm playing as Spurs. At the beginning of the game I went into the editor and added £100m (greedy, I know - spent (most of) it on Dzeko, Jack Rodwell and Darijo Srna) and changed the expansion capacity on White Hart Lane to 200k without changing the current capacity.
I signed Christiano Ronaldo last season for £26m or so - he fell out with Real over something and they offered him to me! I nearly fell of my chair when I saw his wage demands - £350k/week! The maximum the board would allow was £215k/week and I finally managed to get him to sign with a £100k/appearance bonus.
I bought Dzeko in the first season and had him on something suitable like £150k/week. He's now 30 and his contract is up for renewal at the end of this season. I walked away from the table when he demanded £300k/week but ended up signing him in the January window at the maximum I could get the board to sign which was £225k/week and £45k appearance. To be honest he'd just had a 49-goal season and, as at 21st January, he's on 30 this season so there's no way I could let him go, but still...
Messi was the same. Barcelona offered him a few seasons ago for £20m which I immediately offered but then couldn't get anywhere near the £350k/week he was on at Barca!
It's not just the big names either, which would at least be not so bad. All my half decent youth players are on £30-£50k/week. The really good ones, still only 21 or so, are more like £70k/week. I remember the good ole days of having Super Mario Balotelli on £10k/week for the first 4 years or so in FM09!!!
The other thing that hurts is the signing on bonuses. The big names are requesting £15m as a bonus, with £7m for the chuffing agent! You can hammer them down a bit but not too much. I have apparently paid £71m to agents in 6 and a half years!
Now, I'm winning lots of trophies, and getting the payouts. I also have a ground that is being increased by 16k seats a year. But until this year I was never making a net profit (**** those shareholder dividends!). I wondered if other people with smaller grounds were having this issue or are the players only making the demands because they know I can afford it?
Rant over.