How to keep your staff in your club?

[billyblenx]

How to maintain your staff when some other club makes an approach?

I remember when I used to play FM 11 in the good old days, it was easy to hold your best staffers, just when some club offers a contract all I had to do was renew the contract with the staffer and he ALWAYS accepted my terms and remains in the club.

But now in FM 15 I try to renew in the same circumstances but most of them leaves the club either way.. so frustrating, you hire the best staffers earlier in the game and then few years later they left and there is NO REPLACEMENT as good as they were.

[billyblenx]

Anyone has tips?

[c.ronaldo7]

Sometimes there'll be no way of keeping them at all. I had Jaap Stam as my Defending Coach in the first season and then in the second season Fulham hired him as their Manager. Something like that is realistic and is extremely hard to stop. The flip side to that is I've had multiple Scouts and Coaches be approached for the same role at various other Clubs and offering them slightly increased terms on their contracts has always made them stay.

It's worth noting that Staff are similar to Players in that the more skilled they are, the more in demand they will be and it shouldn't be taken as a given that once you've hired them they'll remain at your Club throughout.

[Chase Failey]

Make sure they're on long juicy contracts, at least you'll get a few ££ for them

[jcw163]

When the other team offers them a contract you should be able to talk to them and try and persuade them to stay, though often they tell you it's their decision and they don't care what you think.

The alternative is to offer them new contracts when the other team does. If they accept your contract over the new club's then they will stay with you.

[stotty1982]

I'm chelsea in season 2022/23 and ive been trying to get Toni Jimenez since my first season as the club which 2016/17 and every time I try to offer him a contract he says he's got a good relationship with pochentino and wants to stay at Spurs. This is more realistic than other versions,how many time irl do you see staff moving clubs to stay with a manager? It happens all the time.

[billyblenx]

I understand the reasons for them to leave when they take part in a function like Manager or Assistant Manager in other club. But when I have a coach and they leave to become a coach in another club it bothers me, specially because the wage offered by the other club is equal. Yes, I'm trying to offer a new contract as soon as other clubs approach my staffers but it isn't working. I'm gonna try to renew the contract of all my staffers 2 years before expires, I think I'm losing the staffers with 1 year left on their contracts, I'm gonna try to renew earlier and see what happens.

Yeah, when they have my name on the 'Favoured Personnel' they generally stays with me, it seems correct.

[Bigpapa42]

If the other club is bigger, why wouldn't they go?

[billyblenx]

I'm with PSG, and I lost a World Class Physio for Wolfsburg, my Head of Youth Development for a club named RB Leipzig from Germany, the excellent René Meulensteen for Hamburger, lost Andy Renshaw for QPR and another coach for AS Roma. There was another coach that went for Chelsea too. All in the same transfer window. Very frustrating to lose great staffers for smaller clubs. (except for Chelsea)