Board refuse to raise salary for staff even with unlimited money

[CZB]

Hi I'm managing Crvena Zvezda, FM23, 19th season now (2041). Everything great except for one thing that really bothers me.

In short: board refuse to change anything regarding staff even with unlimited money

Longer version: As we all know by now it's impossible to stockpile money, the game withdraws money into a non-existing "reserve fund". Some 10+ years into any save it's really easy to reach the level where money is not an issue. But what limits this save and my interest in continuing 10+ or 20+ years further, is BOARD'S STAFF POLICY, which can be described as "no need to change anything". Any request for adding new staff, like coaches and physios, gets rejected. Any request for raising salary for any staff, gets rejected. (To be fair I have managed to get it raised once or twice, but not for the last 10 seasons and I ask every month..so in general, impossible) This really limits the game, because no good staff want to join when I only can offer 1/5 of what they get in their other club. It's not really realistic to have unlimited money, but still only being able to offer approx. the same money as the club could back in 2023. I have released all "unneccessary" staff like loan managers etc but still can't add one single extra coach or physio, nor used the wages from the released staff for raising wages for other staff. I also have a feeling that staff in general worldwide worsen throughout a long save, and the few ones left with decent attributes are INTERESTED to join the club but leave negotiations quickly when they see what we can offer salarywise.

I have almost unlimited transfer budget (600M Euro atm) and wage budget (35M Euro/month) for PLAYERS (this has ofc increased as the club has grown in reputation and economy), but the budget for STAFF has hardly changed at all since 2023. I can offer around 13k euro/month to coaches and half of that to physios. It's really crap to see billion after billion get extracted from the game into this "reserve fund" when at the same I have to put hours and energy trying to get my 3.5 or 4 star coaches or physios with physio-attribute 16 to stay another year or two..when the club actually has the economy to recruit anyone from anywhere (and yes they are all interested to join). I can mention the president has been changed twice but the policy has been the same. Great save in any other aspect, but staff wise: horrible. Status quo.

After this wall of text, is there a way to solve this? Does anyone have any advice? Tried to upload pictures (of "investment fund" and board refusing anything with staff but didn't manage to do that, maybe later

[fc.cadoni]

Staff wages is being deducted from bank balance. Doesn't matter your transfer budget or wage budget. If you add money via In-Game Editor or external third-app like FMRTE; then does not count.

[CZB]

Thanks for the answer. I have never used any editor or FMRTE. Could I use it to fix my issue? Which and how? =) I have unlimited money in the bank (around 1.4B Euro) and everytime it increases it just goes to "investment fund" so the clubs economy is certainly not the issue in this. Just that some hidden setting refuse to use the money for staff.

[fc.cadoni]

5 hours ago, CZB said:

Thanks for the answer. I have never used any editor or FMRTE. Could I use it to fix my issue? Which and how? =) I have unlimited money in the bank (around 1.4B Euro) and everytime it increases it just goes to "investment fund" so the clubs economy is certainly not the issue in this. Just that some hidden setting refuse to use the money for staff.

The message of money going to "investment fund" happens, because financials use the 32 bit range limit. So, when you are close or hit that limit, then money is being deducted. Same happens with negative bank balance as well; if you go to minus 2 bil euros, then the debt will "clear".

Maybe, it's capped to reputation of nation or league; no idea. My recent save - story in Greece with FC Aris, around 204X year; I had around 200M in the bank and stable financial stream (not relying in transfer selling of players), but allowed me to offer 120.000 per week for staff - even not asking board to increase staff wages. Some staff, even being Top 10 in EU rank; they didn't want to come to my club, despite their contracts was like 8K per week. Maybe it's something between reputation (of all sides - parameters), ability and financial. Hard to tell to be honest why it's happening, since you don't use IGE or FMRTE. Yes, IGE and FMRTE can solve that, but takes the fun away.

[CZB]

OK thanks for the reply. Could be capped to nation or league as you write. It's not club reputation or economy. I have been ranked nr 1 club now for 10 years but that doesn't help me offering staff more than peanuts! Well I guess I can't have it all =)