PLEASE FIX FINANCES OUT FOR FM 2020 YOU CANT EVEN COMPETE IN SPAIN

[Aaron]

pick a club like athetlico madrid before you start you have a projected balance of - 300 million in 2 seasons this is ridiculous considering winner of league ONLY GETS 4 MIL!!! so if you want pick a lower team its eve nharder MOST TEAMS YOU PICK IN FM YOUR IN DEBT CONSTANTLY the prize pool for france is non existent the only way to have fun in this game is pick man u or liverpool or someone whos not going to be in debt BECAUSE OF TV REVENUE its ridiculous and its putting me off picking lower teams i refuse to do it because the money is so BADDD!!!

[AoD_lexandro]

Nothing wrong with the finances. You supposed to sell players regularly to make up the shortfall. Also winning a champions league match earns 2m+ each. Not to mention the gate receipts can be over 2m easily.

Your just not managing the finances properly.

[Aaron]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

Nothing wrong with the finances. You supposed to sell players regularly to make up the shortfall. Also winning a champions league match earns 2m+ each. Not to mention the gate receipts can be over 2m easily.

Your just not managing the finances properly.

actually i am managing my finances fine and been playing fm and champ manager longer than most people 15 years or so so i know wha tim doing im an expert lol . the finances are fked end of

[Aaron]

yes you can sell players but you would have to sell all your good players then you win nothing the game needs work french league has no winpayouts at the end thats not managing problem thats a game problem nuff said and spain is a joke unless your barca or madrid

[Big Baguette]

There is no prizepool in France.
The BPL is the only league with a Prizepool and huge TV revenue.

If you play for more than 15 years like me, then you would know there was no prizepool at all.

[Snorks]

Yep, the finances are pretty realistic in the game. However, if you only ever consider prizemoney, gate receipts an TV money as revenue then you are missing out.

Teams like the Madrids, Barca, PSG, Man Utd, Chelsea Arsenal etc get so much money from global merchandising they probably don;t even need to sell tickets to turn a profit.

Something like 18 out of the 20 Premier League clubs in England would turn a profit without selling a single home ticket.

There is a reason why Juventus are better off than Sassuolo, they are merketed better, have a global fan-base and sell millions of euros-worth of shirts, key rings, cups, mouse pads, posters, calender's etc.

If you are a 'small' club, first thing to do is get your finances in order, structure the player wages, don;t go silly in the TFR market buying players you can't really afford. Bulid slowly on the pitch - use the youth and loan system - then when seeing some success start to 'sell' the club, get some Affiliates for marketing, as your reputation grows, so will the extra revenue from elsewhere. Get into the Champions League regularly to develop a revenue stream.

It can be done, but the game keeps it realistic as well. It can be a long haul for smaller clubs. FM19 doesn't know your history with the game, and having played for 15 years, there are no allowances for your 'expert' status. The game has evolved to mimic/simulate the real world with a lot becoming more realistic than before - including the finances.

[Blackfyre]

I see it both ways.
Every club sells in football. The trick is, to have an adequate replacement lined up for purchase who is younger and cheaper. That way I make 10-30 million a year selling 1 or 2 players and still not really losing any quality.
I don't like buying or introducing more than 2 or 3 players a season to the 1st team and it works.

I took Leyton Orient to the Premier League and never went into debt. I sold at least 2 players a season, mainly talented youngsters or older players who I was not going to keep for long, and kept replacing them with good talented 20 year olds from everywhere.

You just can't play smaller or medium clubs the same as the big boys. At least not until you have that 60.000 seater stadium and are finishing in the C/L qualification places every year.

It doesn't bother me, in fact I consider it to be the only real challenge in this game.

[Neil Brock]

Originally posted by Aaron G:

yes you can sell players but you would have to sell all your good players then you win nothing the game needs work french league has no winpayouts at the end thats not managing problem thats a game problem nuff said and spain is a joke unless your barca or madrid

So the predicated finances project a loss - when you played for a season did you end up with a significant loss?

[Fusion]

the only real problem ive had doing the LLM to Premier in the past games is the sponsors. even after ive made a successful premier league and CL team for around 8 years my sponsor money was horrible. I really only made money off finding wonderkids and selling them off when the need arrived. (also there was still the friendly games gold mine back then to build up the cashflow which let me get up to premiership with a small piggy bank and get decent training facilities)

this year its been a bit harder but not sure yet about the sponsorship money
also brexit kind of screws up the brazilian wonderkid hunt. as i wont be able use them in my teams myself without paying for them a lot right from the start i think
im only about 5 seasons in just getting into L1 somehow winning L2 during same year i came up.