Why is it so hard to get assistant managers?

[Micky Pain]

Just a quick question, if you please.....

I started a new Leeds game, and unchecked "Add Key Staff" in the hopes of having a few less useless coaches at the start .
Basically, with Leeds, you can't hire any more coaches as you have at the beginning, and sacking one already breaks the transfer budget.
So, after it took so long to set up the game, I thought I run with it fire them as I go along. However, I was left without an assistant manager.
No team report, no assistant friendlies, no nothing, so I really needed one.
Adverts only produced ****, so I tried to get some manually.
I found a few decent ones, but no-one was even remotely interested.

The strangest part is, there were youth coaches that I could have hired for $250 a week as youth coaches, but demanded " a very large amount of money" to become my assistant. I offered up to $5000 a week and was still refused.

So, why does someone refuse thousands a week as an assistant but is willing to work with kids for a pittance....wait....don't answer that.....

(P.S. I got an assistant in the end, but he's a placeholder at best....)

 

[livipunk]

Some coaches don't like being Assistants... as simple as that, no amount of money will make someone do a job they don't want to do. Look at the "Staff Roles" bars at the bottom of their profile, they tell you what jobs they want to do, and how good they are at said jobs.

With a team like Leeds all you need for an Assistant manager is Judging player Ability & potential, and Tactical Awareness all above 14/15. Someone like Trevor Peake, Youth Coach at Leicester, or Dan Ashworth, West Brom Youth Coach - if he wants to go to you that is - will do fine.

 

[Micky Pain]

Thanks for the reply.
I think I hired Peak in the end (can't check, am at work now).
But even though, some guys I tried to hire were specifically listed as assistant coaches, yet had "no intenesion in the role I was offering" (for lots of money) and would still have been available for far less in the role of youth or regular coaches.
Just strikes me as weird, as I would think assistant would be the second highest staff role anyone would aspire to.....