Subject: Lower salaries for home grown players

I think players that are "home grown", comming from a clubs own academy should have lower salaries than "imports" (-25%), this way trainers will have an advantage over "businessmen" that buy and sell constantly.
Cheers!

Maybe +5% for home grown as loyalty bonus?

Don't agree, because it just provides an additional advantage that large older clubs have over smaller, newer clubs.

Not true new teams have all own players older clubs have one or two own per season if lucky...
And not all teams keep it especially those that compete

new teams have all own players
Well...if you sign in for a new team, you indeed have all own and super useless players...
So they are replaced by...guess what? Yes... foreign players...
The 1 or 2 IF lucky own players is for new teams...not for old teams.
They have super staff, working youth and more than often input of new home grown players...

Wich simply can be fixed with a bit better start players that have low salaries

But it isn't at the moment, right?

The original players we get are all trash. I know, I just started three seasons ago.


Even IF new teams got players that were 100% better than now (which won't happen) that does nothing for me and all the others who have joined in the past year or so who both got garbage players and can't yet afford/justify the youth school system that's little more than an economic sinkhole 95% of the time in this game.

Even now, I basically have to choose between youth school or better assistants to train the guys I already know have talent. I can't do both. I'm bleeding out 150k/week right now, and my team's payroll is far from outlandish.
(edited)

You convinced me

You have a very low transfer income for a 8 month account

Obviously it's not easy in the beginning, but users who know what to do and are active can improve very fast in the game - but for that you need to make more transfers, it's the only way to progress together with training

only in the past month have I been able to optimize assistant coaches.
Besides that, I am choosing to play this as a football sim, not primarily a financial one. If I want a financial sim, I'll play that. I'm not going to flip and sell players just to be non-competitive for years.

I'm building a team to compete and win the Major League in a few years. I have 2-3 spots of adv training to try and flip guys, and have had mixed success with that.

Although what you say is true, this isn't really an argument against what I'm saying. Moreover, if you look at a lot of teams in USA A league, they have horrific balances - I'm not really sure how they aren't bankrupt.

I play the game similar to you "islander". My transfers status has a minus history, but that's is not the aim of the game. The aim of the game is to win games ! You win games you make money !
I started the game 2 years and 7 months ago, I have a competitive team, strong academy system (not the youth level as such , but my system that I developed on the side, taking notes and making statistics), I already promoted 2 x level [16] young players (talent is much more important than level), sold a few youngster for about 10m lei, I currently train 7 ,out of 10, players that I promoted from the academy (all very good, a nother superstar will join on Thursday... so it will be 8), developed my stadium nicely, I have a level [15] youth coach, 3x level [14] assistants, level [14] main coach and I'm financially sustainable and making some 10m lei each year profits, without transfers.
Patience is needed and nerves of steel, to play this game.... and perseverance, if you login every 3 days you will not succeed. I think that every morning, after the update, I'm the first to login and then log some another 20 times. I know the players and their skills by heart and I do lineups in my head when I go to sleep...

After a few seasons (8.. maybe) when all falls into place (if you've done the right things) all of you will get my point considering this matter.

As a disclaimer I have to say that I only talk from the experience I have had so far in the game, I don't know how I will have to play the game to reach the 2nd and 1st Romanian league, what the recipe is to be competitive and sustainable at the top , I might resort to hamstering money, trading.... no idea (plan is loading in my head though... :-)) ) !

Have a goo run this season!

You cannot ignore the fact he has a handicap on the TL...namely...his residence being the US while the transfer hot spot is central Europe.

It's a very important factor for being active on the TL. Australia time zone is the worst in this.

only in the past month have I been able to optimize assistant coaches.

what do you mean by that? ass coaches are not that important as people think...

I'm not going to flip and sell players just to be non-competitive for years.
I'm building a team to compete and win the Major League in a few years.

the best way to build a team to compete is by training. you don't necessarily have to flip them every month [although that's most profitable, usually] but it's good to actually invest in the youths - up to a point the more you invest in a 16-18yo, the more profit you make on him in the future. and you can train him for 3, 5, 8 months without a problem - but make sure it's worth to train that player... I see that some of your trainees were bought for 1-25k euro while you invest more in 30+ players, in my experience that's not a good long-term strategy

Moreover, if you look at a lot of teams in USA A league, they have horrific balances - I'm not really sure how they aren't bankrupt.

often they play for years, don't make any/much transfer profit from training, simply earn money from tickets/sponsors and then use them to buy old players.

Of course there is handicap [although he can also buy players at weird - for us - hours without EU rivalry] but it doesn't mean you have to train players bought for 1k-25k euro

and honestly whenever I go to transfer market looking for players, there's a huge market starting from 14 sk time till 23 sk time, while at weekends there's many youths being sold already at 8-12 in the morning

so while I agree that EU residency has it's benefits, I don't agree that being for North/South America makes you unable to compete on the market
(edited)

I have set more than once an alarm clock in the middle of the night to buy a player or a trainer... shouldn't be a problem.