Hi guys,
Downloaded the game 2 days ago and am now in season 7th of my third game.
My first and second game started extremely well with double promotion to 1st divisin in successive years, but by the 3rd season, my account has done bottoms-up. Debt of -$2 million pounds. Ended up being relegated back to division 3, bankrupting my club.
I started game 3 with a bit more strategy and took an enormous risk. I realise that i was able to get promoted easily and also i know that gates receipt is where the bulk of my income will derive. Here was the risk i took:
1) I took a $1 million pound loan from the bank at the start of my season in div 2.
2) I spent the majority of the loan on upgrading the stadium capacity to 30000, facilities and condition to "Good".
3) Trim my squad to 14 players only. (Yes, 14 only. I found that positions does not matter. My make my FWD plays as GK whenever my GK gets injured or suspended. The trick here is to train them regularly, as stated in the next point.)
4) Training Camps after training camps.
The season was extremely difficult. Although i was easily on top of the table (due to the increment in skills from the effort spent in training camps), i constantly have to look out for my account and look out for the dateline of my bank loan. It almost gave me high blood pressure/hyper tension.
On the dateline of the bank loan, i was in real panic. I know that i was only 6 months away from the end of season 2, my debt was now -$400,000 after paying off the bank loan - this could mean that i can be relegated straight back to Div 3 even though i may have won Div 2. For the next 6 months, i stopped all training camps, sold off my high wages players and replaced them with low wages ones, suffered hooligans attacks, reinstalling the condition of my stadium (it dropped once. you have to maintain it in order to keep the fans coming to your games.). I further trimed my side to 12 players (YES ONLY 12!!!, but the team was so good by then, it had no problem winning 2-0 even though i started a game with only 9 players.)
Through good fortune, i had a good run in the FA Cup and won it! That gave me the gate receipt of the Wembly turn out (82000 full turn out!) and it saved my season. I was in the black by the skin of my teeth of the last day of the season ($13,000).
I repeated the same strategy in my next season in Div 1. However, this time taking only a $500,000 loan. I did the same thing - add seats to generate income, training camps, a team of 13 low wages players, aim for a good cup run, maintain the stadium. I finished the season on 3rd place, but i was thankful that the stress of staying in the black was not as bad as the previous season.
So the next season, i didi the same thing, taking another smaller loan, and fast forward to season 7 today, i am $1 million dollars in black and winnning championship easily. I have money now to spend on floodlights, scoreboards, seats, covered stands.seats. All this while keeping my squad to a size of 13-14 players.
There you go. I shall post my save game some day.
Am now keeping my fingers cross that the "ask for password" issue will not occur - i do not have a manual.
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