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The New Manager Experiment - Part 5

Published by   Fathima at 2022-01-17 14:41 (2 years ago)

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Our first season went good, everything got along as planned and we ended with a profit of just above $15 million. All our main players gained fair bit of rating and experience, and here we are - getting ready for our second season.

Season Expectations

The team is still not ready for the top division. My advice to new players is to make sure you have enough quality in your team before getting promoted so that you do not lose out a lot on league bonuses from your sponsor. But for me it became a bit boring playing against bots and so we decided to take up the challenge and get promoted this season.

League expectations: Champions
League Cup expectations: Champions
National Trophy: Win maximum number of games, if possible try to go further than Round 7 in which we were knocked out last season

Club Finances and Stadium

We started the season with $ 75,528,296 in the bank. Since we were planning to win the league this time, we went for a sponsor that gave us the maximum money for that $ 39,385,501. Our sponsor paid us $ 15,886,588 upfront and would also pay us $ 653,115 per round and a win bonus of $ 189,126 every round. The wage bill and stadium maintenance costs are $977,476 per round which is around $325K more than the per round amount, but we now have a 15K stadium which will give us $600K per home match in the league. So that combined with the win bonuses should be enough to cover the expenses every round.



The goals for this season is to build 10K more seats in the stadium (22 + 25 = 47 rounds) which will take our stadium capacity to 25K seats, and then to upgrade our youth academy to level 2 (13 rounds).
That would cost us around $ 30 million ($ 22.89 million for stadium and $ 7.34 for the youth academy). The expected prize money of $15 million and the sponsor upfront money will be used to cover these costs.

So that leaves us with approximately $40 million budget to spend if we are to end the season in profit.



Staff

We have still not invested in a training centre yet, so our training efficiencies are still slightly below the 50 mark. We have 1 physio and 1 scout and 4 coaches to cover all departments of training. As usual, we will always keep an eye on the staff market and try to upgrade our staff if possible, although it is very highly unlikely that we find new staff which are better than those that we currently have.



Players

Our key player CF Orville Dodd decided to retire at the end of this season, so it was top priority for us to find a new CF before end of season to replace him. However, we managed to bring in a similar CF 27 years old, early in the season without much competition in the transfer market for a transfer fee of $48 million. We were kind of lucky to buy him at a price lower that his estimated value, however his potential and learning are not very high and so is unlikely to improve much further. But a player who is 44 rated/50 experience and can play atleast 8 seasons for that transfer fee is still a bargain.

However since CF Orville Dodd will still be our main attacker and the team normally plays with only one central striker, we decided to loan him out until end of season so that he can gain a bit more experience before he becomes our main striker next season.
We also decided to loan out our CB Kermie Preston 26 yrs old since we have enough cover in the central defense position.

We also decide to sell our old WF Lindsay Sulaiman 57.80 rated/60xp for $75 million. Even though he was the best player in our team, we do not need such a highly rated player to win the league that we currently are in, and by the time we get promoted he will be very close to retiring age. So from that money, we will try to bring in another WF/WM who is close to 50 rating/50xp and another young player with high learning and potential during the season. Our scouts will be always on the lookout for players in the market as usual.



After the transfers, our squad size would be 21 players (23 owned, 2 on loan) which would be enough to get us through all regular matches and 60 friendlies.

Similar to the previous season, we will be focusing on the development on 3 youth players who will play every single minute possible alongside 5 key players. The remaining 3 spots in the lineup will be rotated between our 6 squad rotation players.

So that concludes our season's plans. Will be back with another episode of this blog soon. Keep posted!
Last updated by   Fathima at 2022-01-17 14:42 (2 years ago)
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