I'm going to make a prediction that as season #2 starts the economy is going to go through a massive depression. Transfer fees and MV is going to drop and the number of transfers is going to go down dramatically with swaps dominating the big transfers.
Having done a spot check it looks like around 75% of clubs or even more are currently in debt. I'd love to see what the average balance is in the GW - I bet it's a negative value ! I'm on a quite staggering -£1.5m balance right now although my wages are decent, i'm predicted profit and I hopefully have some good youth assets.
Due to the initial pools being unlocked at the end of the first season a huge amount of money has gone out of the GW. It's not been transferred from one team to another, it's just vanished. The 20x signing on fee for teenagers is a killer too.
It's not all doom and gloom, obviously everyone must currently be projected to be back on an even keel within 28 days and we will see prize money coming into the projected toward the end of week 2 or 3. But those teams who don't earn a strong league finish are going to be struggling for money going into season 3 and we are going to start seeing player reputations/wages going up too so some teams could have financial problems.
My second prediction doesn't really come from any fact basis but i'm going to predict most academy graduates are going to be awful next season.
We have been told the database is supposed to be kept in check with a consistent PA balance so have a database resembling something like what we started with. Due to financial restrictions there's thousands of youths retiring right now because they haven't found a club but all the good ones have been picked up.
So in one swoop a massive proportion of the lower quality youth players have just been effectively deleted by the database. Some of these youths are far from awful too, it's just there's that many youth teams around yet. So i'm guessing to compensate, it's going to generate more poor players than you would see normally.
I've just managed to cobble together a youth team ready for the season too. No injuries in youth games has allowed me to get away with a small squad. I'm going to need a lot of luck to win big money in the seniors I think.
It surely will be a lot closer this season for sure. Finances could drop, BUT there are some people who got 2M on their accounts and aren't afraid to pay lots of money. So crisis - maybe, but it all will be surely balanced.
ReplyDeleteYeah but the people who got £2m, like me, have probably spent most, if not all of it!
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