Simple and realistic way of getting your favourite team to the top!

I always play FM with Bradford City and this year have found a great way to make things a little easier.

In FMRTE there is a lovely little dropdown menu entitled "sugardaddy"

Bradford City's Chairman is now a multimillionaire (as so many are) and so the clubs finances are looking amazing.

As im only using 2/3 of the wage budget now i have a message from the board saying "We almost expect you to be charging the players to play for you, your wage control is so good"

This one simple change is one i would strongly reccomend for anyone wanting a fun game of getting their favourite team good. Im lazy and so i also use the CA/PA figures in FMRTE but i get frustrated and then bored if i just loose every game because my scouts suck.....

well everyone hates loosing, but i like loosing because it makes me want to do changes and get back to winning. it takes time for me before i try anything drastic. i got patience as well. when i was younger i didnt have it.

# RedArmy20 : well everyone hates loosing, but i like loosing because it makes me want to do changes and get back to winning. it takes time for me before i try anything drastic. i got patience as well. when i was younger i didnt have it.

When you have no money you cannot do changes - Free transfers are great but no wage budget to get any good ones. Also with no money the training facilites are very poor and there arent enough coaches to have good training meaning players dont really get any better. I am by no means winning everything now but the extra money allows me to have a chance

Thats why when you have no money you sometimes have to make sacrifices and sell your best players and find alternative players who can do the same job.

FMRTE is basically a tool which obviously allows you to change an awful lot of things in a game therefore some might class it as cheating by making your chairman rich when he basically isnt.

Dont get me wrong i understand where your coming from about the fun bit, it certainly is when your team are one of the richest in the world by using FMRTE (not implying that bradford are one of the richest on your game), but i just dont get why people use it.

IMO it ruins the game when you use it.

Have fun though.

# lordmwa : When you have no money you cannot do changes - Free transfers are great but no wage budget to get any good ones. Also with no money the training facilites are very poor and there arent enough coaches to have good training meaning players dont really get any better. I am by no means winning everything now but the extra money allows me to have a chance

no that is not realistic. you have to learn to work with the current team. i love to make the most of the current team. obviously at times u need money to be able to bring the club forward.

but the most realistic part of the game is that you dont take a lower league club and make them the best. its that you make yourself a good manager and move up the ranks tbh.

but the feeling to take a club from nothing to something is just different.

obviously buying and selling is a huge part of modern football.

but when you dont have money u can always loan as well. its all about how much time you want to put into FM. personally i take lots of time playing it. time doesnt always mean you will do well though.

Who needs cheats to spend loads of money, I've done 3 seasons with NUFC and I've spent £553million on players

I see the fun in both editing and not editing, it's either the feeling of getting your club to be the best or just yourself, but let's be realistic, most of the teams in the real world get some extra money rather than the ones it produces its self, always the chairman, local council etc. will pump some extra money in the team, that's how things go, the game can't be 100% realistic but it's the closest football simulator to the real one.

I like the game to be realistic, doing something like that would take the fun out of I believe!

I don't see the point of taking over a small club and then cheating, it makes it way too easy and you may as well just take over at Man City or Chelsea.

I find scouts to be alright, sure there not as accurate as an actual ca or pa figure but its way more realistic.

Yeah, scouts are all right, CA/PA are not that important, I had players with around 150 Ca/pa at Barcelona, and they were doing more than fine, the point is...if you use your imagination, and just say, you are investing in a low club..otherwise yeah, no use for add-ons.

# lordmwa : When you have no money you cannot do changes - Free transfers are great but no wage budget to get any good ones. Also with no money the training facilites are very poor and there arent enough coaches to have good training meaning players dont really get any better. I am by no means winning everything now but the extra money allows me to have a chance

well, you can actually. I started my game with Bradford City and got promoted 3 times in 3 years up to Premier League. In my first year there I finished 7th, following year 4th and won EuroCup. Now in my third (sixth overall) year I am sitting at top of table and finished first in CH.L. group.
In my first three years I didn't spend anything on transfer fees (other than few cheap youngsters maybe); only free transfers. The tricks are:
1. sell your highest earners in the start of the game unless they are superb. Do it even for free. You need the margin in the wage budget.
2. Offer contracts to interesting free players immediately. Don't wait to complete a signing. If necessary, delay signings so that the margin in the wage budget will be available to you while offering contracts to all prospects. In the end you will spend more than the wage budget but this is not a big deal since you will be successful. You can even sign young players for free who will grow with your team. I signed Jacob Mellis in League1 and Donal McDermott in League 2 and both developed to play in Premier League.
3. Sign a lot of loan players (esp. in League 1 and 2), both short term and long term. This doesn't affect wage budget. Also you will build up relations with them so if they are released by their club, you will land on them easily (fav. club)
4. In preseason, arrange home friendlies for every second day with biggest teams available. Great way to boost finances. big mistake to leave friendly arrangements to AC.

The advantage of managing Bradford is that they have a big stadium capacity (25000) for that level. This was a pain in the ass ofr my Crewe Alexandra campaign in FM2010. The con is that their training +youth facilities suck and they have no youth rec. So no hot prospects from cantera.

# lordmwa : When you have no money you cannot do changes - Free transfers are great but no wage budget to get any good ones. Also with no money the training facilites are very poor and there arent enough coaches to have good training meaning players dont really get any better. I am by no means winning everything now but the extra money allows me to have a chance

Well there are ways to make money. I am playing with Darlington right now and I am on my third season and I am second in nopwer1 (started in BSP).At the start of my first season I had total wage budget allowed less than 1 mln(yearly) and my budget was more than 1.5 mln, and I never had mony problems. Just make home friendlies with big teams. Towards the end of the first season I had to make 3 friendlies a week but it wasn't a problem. I was able to get frindlies with scottish teams, every week I played with Rangers and Celtic (120k per game)
p.s. Darlngton's stadium is 25000 and they own it.