[Suggestion] Manager Contract Negotiations - Broken Promises

[Butlee]

In general, when you (the Manager) are negotiating your own contract, things need to be more fleshed out. For example you should be able to get them to agree to let you study for a new badge if you re-sign with them.

But what I wanted to talk about specifically is the Board agreeing to certain promises when you sign a contract and then not meeting them.

The two most common examples I know are finding affiliates and increasing the percentage-of-profits-retained-for-transfer-budget. Sometimes the Board increases the budgets but drops them just a month or financial update later. The affiliate one has varying degree's of impact, but if you're using your contract re-sign as a bargaining chip to get a new affiliate (parent or feeder) it must be quite serious. You could be a lower league club who desperately needs both the money and access to cheap/free loans from a bigger club. You could be a higher league club who needs suitable feeders to loan out players to help manage your home grown registration issues over time.

 

The point here is that if the Board flakes on a promise there's NO course of action for the Manager to talk to the Board about it. Well there is 1 option = quit!
Trouble is, after you've just signed a new deal you're the least attractive prospect to other clubs and often you'll have re-signed when a lot of other managers have re-signed... so it's the worst possible time to just quit and to try find another job. And to be fair most Boards that have just offered you new contract don't actually *want* to lose you. So there needs to be some kind of middle ground or negotiation that the manager can engage if a promise is broken.

At one extreme, the Manager should be able insert a 'waive x% of financial compensation' clause if other clubs want to hire him. In general the Manager should be able to bring the conversation of his promises back to the table - with the added weight of "this is strike #2". And/or it's up to the Manager if, at this point, he gives the ultimatum (which he essentially did while negotiating his contract in the first place) to re-agree to the promises or let him walk away. 
This conversation should also let the Board or Manager propose some other features as a kind of compromise. Maybe you can't get a senior affiliate, but the Board can promise a bigger transfer budget instead or something similar. 
Maybe the Board can at least give their reasons why a promise was not kept - maybe circumstances changed. Then it's up to the Manager if he accepts the reasoning and continues as is.

The whole thing really needs a good fleshing out. Considering how much depth goes into keeping players happy from the moment you first engage them, it's crazy how there's little to no protection for the Manager during his contractual negotiations. 

[月光下告白]

good idea

[Neil Brock]

Reviewed so locked.