Subject: What to expect

I'm not sure how to make a go of this game: each week I lose money, whether I have a home league match or not. I was allotted an unbalanced squad, and I had no choice but to buy players, especially as both my goalkeepers were injured in the first fortnight. Each time I lose a league match I lose members, and as a new team I would expect to lose most of my matches for some time to come. With three significant injuries in my first four matches It doesn't look as if I can afford to cut my squad size. Selling players is not really an option, as the values given are usually far higher than the amount you can get on the open market, for example I have a keeper who is supposed to be worth 48,000 who I bought for 5,000.

Obviously lots of people make a go of the game, but how?
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very, very slowly...

And by reading all the guides you can get that are posted on here.

Obviously, you've been a bit unlucky with the injuries, but you need to forget about the value of the players because as you have stated, it doesn't reflect the market value.

As a start, do you mind posting your coaches here, as this is normally the route of losing money every fortnight?

Tarquin Abley, age: 52,
wage: 4 950 £
club: St Andrew`s Nottingham, country: England
good coach

Training effectiveness:
adequate of stamina, incredible of keeper
average of pace, average of defender
good of technique, average of playmaker
average of passing, very good of striker

Vinay Willison, age: 54,
wage: 675 £
club: St Andrew`s Nottingham, country: England
average coach

Training effectiveness:
average of stamina, hopeless of keeper
good of pace, solid of defender
average of technique, solid of playmaker
weak of passing, hopeless of striker

Lane Hagger, age: 50,
wage: 1 110 £
club: St Andrew`s Nottingham, country: England
average coach

Training effectiveness:
solid of stamina, solid of keeper
hopeless of pace, good of defender
weak of technique, tragic of playmaker
unsatisfactory of passing, solid of striker


Cihad Şanlı, age: 55,
wage: 705 £
club: St Andrew`s Nottingham, country: Türkiye
average coach

Training effectiveness:
solid of stamina, poor of keeper
adequate of pace, average of defender
poor of technique, good of playmaker
tragic of passing, solid of striker

Bogdan Karpowicz, age: 51,
wage: 1 200 £
club: St Andrew`s Nottingham, country: Polska
good coach

Training effectiveness:
weak of stamina, weak of keeper
solid of pace, excellent of defender
solid of technique, average of playmaker
solid of passing, good of striker

Dude, they're not great!

On FRIDAY, definately sack Abley, he is costing you a fortune and is rubbish for what you need at this stage, (and if you're training 'keepers change your mind!).

Also sack Willison, Hagger and Sanli. They are either too poor or are costing you too much in wages for what they will do for you.

Set Karpowicz as an assistant, and see if you can buy 2 more "good" general appraisal coaches like him with similar wages. Do not spend more than £1500 in wages for these!

What are you training by the way? And do you have a junior coach and school?

You're going to need a new head coach, but i need to know what you train first...

what the dognut said.

You could probably do with a mentor...

I am training 4 Juniors right now. I think the issue - once I have a cheaper head coach- is how long it takes before i make money. leaking cash means improving the squad is a tough thing to do and, as you know, when you lose matches you lose members.

OK, will you be my mentor?

At best you have a junior school with a "good" coach...not good.

Can you list your juniors? You're either gonna wanna close this and save £2400 or see them through, but really you want a "very good" coach for your juniors.

You don't need to worry about improving your squad, with the amount of players you have i hope you are training pace (what are you training?) but you have crap coaches for a pace trainer. If you choose something else then you can whittle down your squad.

If you sort your coaches out, and also very importantly, stop playing home friendlies and look for an away one preferably in a stadium with rooved seats, you will make a profit every 2 weeks.

yep.. just send me a list of your players, your coaches, your credit cards details and a pot noodle and the mentoring will begin.

careful... the last person who stole jaize's identity and bank details found themselves mortgaged to the hilt and with balifs at the door

hey! that IS the real me!

I don't need jaize's identity for that :(