I think after the bumper payments at the start of this season there's a bit 'too' much money sloshing about it's hard to get a look in. All my clubs have at least £50m in the bank but I'm not sure I'll get chance to spend it (I've tried!) Usually you'd have clubs running out of money just before the second sponsorship money comes in and the market would favour those who wait but I'm not sure it'll happen this time round.

P.S. If anybody has any 33+ rat emergency loans available in League One Alpha Wild are interested!

Good idea though Darren! If it could be incorporated into what the Promotions Officer does already that could work? If you sent him off to look for sponsorship he could return with three options that you'd pick from (rather than just say the outcome was good and he returned with £200k)

Steve said

Yes you're right, it would need a software change.

The amount of money sloshing around in the game is quite closely monitored and I can make adjustments to make sure it's about right with various tools such as Russian external bids for players.

I understand Tom D saying there is too much money and he can't spend it but I see the whole picture and I can tell you there are quite a few clubs now who are struggling or who have no spare cash. We have had some long term unmanaged clubs with oodles of cash taken over in the past few months which has probably inflated auction prices but I predict that will calm down somewhat now.

You can of course spend the money if you want to as there is no limit on auction bids so that isn't a game fault as it's you the managers that decide how much these players are sold for.

Yeah I can completely see where you're coming from - I'm not saying it was a bad idea to inject cash into the game like that, far from it. But things will surely return to normal at the end of this season? There have been some absolutely mental bids going around, and so there SHOULD be teams broke right now... the only problem is in a couple of turns everyone is going to get another £25m. It's encouraging crazy bids because the usual 'silly season' of bids in the first 3-5 weeks of a season has now become the first 15 weeks... with sponsorship to come a week later to start it all over again....

I don't really think the wages point is a starter... I've had four of my clubs just over a season and only ONE breaks even. Your clubs will make a loss for a long time if you take a team in Division 2 or 3, all the more reason NOT to go and spend £60m on 4 players.

Just my two pennies worth anyway, I think any impression I get from my end will be different from the reality that Steve can see with a birdseye view of the game.