
Player wages
Written by edu1878One of the most fundamental ways in which you can look after the finances of your club in football manager is to keep a very tight control over wages. This is mainly because wages will be every club’s (except for amateur clubs of course) biggest form of expenditure. Although, this is only really because they are paid every week. There are many ways to ensure that the wages of your chosen club don’t spiral out of control. For the purpose of keeping this guide short, I will look at the (in my opinion) three most important and valuable ways to keep your wages under control.
One of the most obvious, but for many players of the game hardest to stick to is creating a suitable wage structure. By this I mean splitting your squad into tiers (Key player, first team, backup etc.), and then deciding how many players you should have in each tier. The next, and hardest part, is how much of your budget you should allocate to each tier, and how much you should cap each player’s wages at. Once you have done this, you are well on the way to achieving strong financial control of your club.
Another way to keep financial prudence via wages is to keep a tight control of bonuses and clauses paid on top of contracts. A lot of players and agents like to be a bit sneaky and try and slip in a few clauses that they may want, but you most certainly don’t, and these clauses need to be looked out for. Two of the clauses that are often put into contracts that can hurt you the most are the match highest earner clause, and yearly wage rise clause. If you can avoid these two clauses, and many more others, then you are one step closer to financial greatness.
One final way you can keep wages down is with a simple concept- if they aren’t worth it, they don’t get it. By this I mean, if they aren’t worth the wages they want, or are on, don’t give them that much. One of the major failures many players of the game make is giving in to insistent players and agents. If at any time you think they aren’t worth what they want, then pull out of the deal, and if they are at the club, sell them. To do this, however, you need to be a very strong manager, but this strength can produce great financial rewards.
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