Reputation should be more flexible. reflect money , celebrity owners etc.

[McBride]

Every year people try the "give a National league club a billion pounds" and the outcome is always the same. Nothing happens. They don't spend any money and it takes them 20 years to get promoted. The club don't know what to do with the money and the world seems not to notice of care. I think this is because the "reputation" is unchanged and the club doesn't become more attractive to players and staff even though it's fantastically rich.

In the real world we see that a large influx of money, celebrity owners (or those of football royalty) raises the profile of and interest in the clubs. Everyone is paying attention. The reputations grow, even if only temporarily.

You can write these individual things into the game year by year (Newcastle, Wrexam) but the game should have strategy for these things. The world of the game should know how to act if a club in the National league finds itself with a billion dollars.

Edited November 18, 2021 by McBride

[Michael Sant]

I can't really offer too much insight into what these mock-up tests do but in game there are high worth individuals who will takeover clubs and spend aggressively while pursuing higher reputation managers and players. These do confer some advantages when trying to sign players, but keep in mind it's not an immediate or guaranteed thing. Newcastle still seemed to hit a few dead ends with managers being linked to the job. Manchester City and Chelsea weren't immediately taken seriously and signing the top players. 

Can you expand upon this a bit further and believe what you think should happen?

[McBride]

On 01/12/2021 at 20:14, Michael Sant said:

I can't really offer too much insight into what these mock-up tests do but in game there are high worth individuals who will takeover clubs and spend aggressively while pursuing higher reputation managers and players. These do confer some advantages when trying to sign players, but keep in mind it's not an immediate or guaranteed thing. Newcastle still seemed to hit a few dead ends with managers being linked to the job. Manchester City and Chelsea weren't immediately taken seriously and signing the top players. 

Can you expand upon this a bit further and believe what you think should happen?

I think reputation should be a little more flexible (at least in the short term) and react to these changes. Wrexam was able to get some players in the first division for isntance. It was money but it was also, "here's the project we have." They're the same team but all of the attention has raised their profile, at least temporarily. Reputation should react to at least temporarily to these smaller moves.

[Sunstrikuuu]

On 01/12/2021 at 20:14, Michael Sant said:

I can't really offer too much insight into what these mock-up tests do but in game there are high worth individuals who will takeover clubs and spend aggressively while pursuing higher reputation managers and players. These do confer some advantages when trying to sign players, but keep in mind it's not an immediate or guaranteed thing. Newcastle still seemed to hit a few dead ends with managers being linked to the job. Manchester City and Chelsea weren't immediately taken seriously and signing the top players. 

Can you expand upon this a bit further and believe what you think should happen?

Maybe not the top players immediately, but City immediately broke the British transfer record by signing Robinho, who'd scored 15 goals in 42 games for Real Madrid the season before.  And the next summer, they signed Carlos Tevez, who at the time arguably was one of those top players, Kolo Toure, Emanuel Adebayor, and England internationals Jolean Lescott and Gareth Barry.  They finished 5th that year, and haven't been outside the Champions League places since.  Meanwhile Chelsea bought Joe Cole, Juan Sebastian Veron, Adrian Mutu, Hernan Crespo and Claude Makelele.   Mutu'd just scored 22 in 38 for Parma; Makelele was I think widely considered the best defensive midfielder in the world, and Crepo's transfer fee was considered so low that it was investigated for potentially fraudulent accounting practices.  Again, maybe not the top-top level of player, but not too much later they bought Ashley Cole, the best left back in world football, from a direct rival just through sheer financial power.

[Abdullah Patel]

Thanks for the feedback and input, we appreciate you expanding. Your suggestions have been reviewed and may yet be rejected or end up in a future version of FM.