Would you spend your budget for the sake of it?

I was telling my friend about my game and he told me to sign big name players and thinks I am stupid not to.

I have made a couple of signings in my Arsenal game but no one big. My wage budget is a lot lower than I am allowed which is good.

I have about £100mil to spend on players in my second season. I am doing quite well and beleive I can do much better if I change my tactics.

I am just wandering how many people out there would spend all that money just because you can? If I did bring in a big name that would mean leaving certain big name players on the bench and will eventually want to leave so I see no point myself.

No. I've accrued £100m in my Lazio game in transfer funds and with my squad being really quite good I'm only spending money on young italian players who I've scouted to the point of complete satisfaction.

I spend for the sake of it, I can't help it though.

I've got to the point where I buy players who are good, but not for the first team. Saldy they get angry due to I shift them in the reserves.

Part of my "management style" is to always keep the club in the black and endear to make as much profit as possible. So I don't spend for the sake of it, in fact I'm as tight as possible.

In FM09 there has only been one occasion when I took a financial risk. I had taken Fulham to heady heights, but a small stadium meant that the transfer budget was always far higher than the balance. Realistically, my budget should have been half the one I was given each season. I had already bought a promising Brazilian striker for £16m, so that was my spending done for the season, but come january a quality young, eastern european centre mid who plays in Italy was available for £18m, so I had to go for it.

No- spend it if you need to and can improve the team, but keeping a good bank balance gives big advantages later in the game.

no..i spend only for what i strongly need..now i'm leaving 233millions euro safe in the bank account,last year they were 286millions..instead of buying ronaldo,messi and benzema..

If you're at Arsnal it sounds to me like you're just continuing Arsene's transfer policy, and it works OK for him. I think it's about what the team needs. If you need a big-name player to improve the squad and have the cash then go for it. But I only ever buy what I need, and if that's a bunch of good youth prospects or a solid squad player then that's what I buy.

I'll normally spend remaining budget on young players, not ones I expect to make my first team, but ones I can sell later for profit

I'll bring in any cheap ones, montero the AMC that plays of ecuador for example is priced at 20k pounds, that's cheap for a lot of teams, send him on loan for a year or two maybe three then sell him for profit

I normally sell players with the payments coming over a 24 month period if I don't need money in the bank so I can have a constant revenue stream in case I need money later because I screwed up a season

It helps to have a bunch of clubs you can loan players to if you are gonna buy young players to sell

Not at all. Although when I don't need someone I still spend quite a bit on youngsters.

in my sheff wed game i sold 2 of my players for £1.5mil i knew my board would not give me that money back in the summer i a brought 10 youths

No, generally the first few seasons i buy to strengthen my match day squad. Once thats achieved i very rarely go into the transfer market unless its needed or unless there is a young star in the making somewhere i must have.

just bought cristiano rolondo. 82 million pounds.

I remember in older versions of the game if you didn't spend your board wold do it for you. In FM2005 a fried of mine was with Arsenal, and hadn't made major money purchases in about two seasons and had about £70m transfer kitty, so the board turned around at the start of the fourth season and bought David Villa for £35m.

If I have £100m to spend then yes, I will spend it to improve my team even if I think my team is already strong, as there is always room for improvement.

But in my current game I have just entered my 3rd season and have only signed free transfers, as the clubs bank balance isn't good so I'm ignoring the transfer budget to help get them back in the black.

I always feel that spending too much on one player leaves you in trouble when he gets injured or tired etc. I prefer to make sure I have balance over all areas of the team

Never. I only spend if I need to.

Depends on who I am managing at the time. I can't spend it all in my Nantwich Town game as they usually give me more to spend than is in the bank, due to the 12.5k stadium if I go in the red it would take until the following season to get back in the black.

No...

Even when I was managing Juventus and I had like £150M to spend, I never went on crazy shopping sprees.

Usually I spend a reasonable sum on a few players I may need, and then some more money goes to the youth team.

Other than that, I tend not to splash big money unless I'm absolutely forced to... A relatively small roster and a solid bank balance are the two laws I obey to ,)

I'm very strict with finances. I look over it carefully and I won't buy or sell players unless it's for the 'right price'. I try to match transfers in and our as close as possible, and have a small squad (although my latest season at Celtic has been a bit overboard with transfers, although I have balanced it very well ).

I agree with the majority consensus here, spend only if you need to, I generally spend quite a bit of my first few budgets, but then once I have assembled my team the spending slows down a lot.

I convert it to wage budget to stop myself buying what I don't need for the sake of it nowadays.

never , think of the club. If you don't need a player ? Why buy the dude?

Cause you're trying to ruin a club you hate?

just bought cristiano rolondo. 82 million pounds.

Don't know why, but that mis-spelling really made me laugh

Personally I don't see any reason to spend my budget except to bring new players in, either as first-teamers or as prospects for the future

Converting to wage as well I think.

I hate not buying players. I love the whole scouting for big names then convincing them to sign. Having a transfer window where you don't sign a first team player seems like a waste!

I've just spent -£16m, bringing in 5 and selling 3. My transfer budget has risen from £71m to £87m

So what, I've had -8% of something in some other game before.

I'm used to not having a budget to spend at all.

When i do have a budget, it's either spent entirely to significantly strengthen the squad, or I spend what is needed to bring in new players, so generally no, I don't spend it just because it's there.

The only time I'd ever do that is if my budget for the following season was likely to be less than my current balance (which once happened to me on FM07 - so I've always been very careful about that)

No, it sounds quite stupid to me. If you don't need a player, why buy him?

A lot of people said they spend a lot on youngsters. Thats sort of what I do. I have bought more reserves than first team players. I'm not sure if I can name players here I cant remember lol, but I have bought 2 centre mids for the first team. Fabregas is always on but I rotate the other position with the 2 signings.

I have spent 5mil on a reserve RM and a few million on a very young goalkeeper. But like I said in my original post I have never bought a huge name player. I do get the urge to sign a big name striker or something but I don't really need it, Just need a half decent sub since I sold one of my strikers.

I'm glad to see a lot of people also like to control the finances like me, I thought I was a rare breed lol.

I never spend for the sake of it, in my last game (Arsenal FM 08) I spent just over 30 mill (pounds) in 5 years, whilst continuing to consistantly dominate Europe.

I usually end up selling for far more than I could possibly spend due to my youth policy so no, I don't. In all of my saves my net transfer expenses are, at worst, down to zero.

I always spend my budget for the sake of it.

I'll normally spend remaining budget on young players, not ones I expect to make my first team, but ones I can sell later for profit

I remember in older versions of the game if you didn't spend your board wold do it for you. In FM2005 a fried of mine was with Arsenal, and hadn't made major money purchases in about two seasons and had about £70m transfer kitty, so the board turned around at the start of the fourth season and bought David Villa for £35m.

This was good, though poorly implemented. I'd like to see it return in FM2010 if properly tested first.

I reach the point where I still have a chunk of my transfer budget left, yet I cant decide on who to buy because I get very cautious because either Im obcecated in spend it wisely or because the player is costs lets say 2M of my 6M of the transfer budget, then I tend to be careful and search for cheaper targets, and then out of blue comes a message in my inbox saying 'The Transfer Window for the ------ league ends in a week'. Then I start buying players, I ended up buying 6 players to strengthen my squad.

I sometimes will spend it on youth players an staff if i'm at a club that pays an end of season dividend, if i spend the profit it often ofsets any amount to be paid out

i would only spend if i had to, with my liverpool team i got handed a £30m transfer budget but all i wanted to do was replace players rather than add to my squad so with every player i bought i covered the costs with a player that i sold and ended up making money out of the transfer window and ending up with a stronger team.

i usually spend most of it but this becomes more and more difficult as the years pass-am obsessed with filling my team with young prospects so i'll have a team with an average age of 20

So what, I've had -8% of something in some other game before.

You do realise that mine is -22.5%, right?

as my celtic team is currently in the black and has been for a while.i tend to not try and blow my budget on big nasmes, did a few season ago when i spent £12 each on Roque Santa Cruz and Freddy Adu, Roque has since went on to score constantly at the club and is club captain wheres Adu i have just sold to Man City for £20 mill. 4 seasons after buying him.

So i tend to buy if i know there a good chance i will get a profit but most my buys are players i know i can make into stars and help my squad a lot

I try not to because I have a solid team but I always find myself spending loads on all the good youngsters but never end up using them because the average age in my team is about 26 so after 3-4 years all the youngsters that I bought want first team football and get unhappy and I sell them for much less as I payed.

Managing a Peruvian team none of you will ever have heard of, I just got given a £12m budget. I think that's about six times the next highest budget. I decided to try and buy the league top scorer. Enquiry, not for sale. £500k on table, hand bitten off. Likewise for the best centre back and best goalkeeper in the league

Now I have no-one to spend my money on

No, I would not spend my money for the sake of spending it!

Only on kids.

With good young players that my scouts rate highly, i'll happily spend my entire budget. If I have 20 "future premiership star" reports, and they will all cost me 3 mil each, i'll drop my 60 mil budget on picking all of them up. In the long term, they actually end up making or saving me more than they cost anyway.

You'll find in a few seasons that certain players will want to leave because they've been at the club too long or want a new challenge.

Keep the money there, when a player wants to leave, sell him and buy a replacement player.

I use my transfer budget for primarily buying as many highly recommended young players as possible and then loan them out as much as possible. Even if I don't get to play the young player, by the age of 22 if there's no room in the team then I sell them for their current price and add a 50% of next sale to it. They always go for it and every now and then a few seasons down the road you can make a profit of 20 - 50 million yes 50 million from the selling on of another player.

I rarely spend much of my budget, if I do it's always less than I recieve. I'm at the point where my team is the best in the league, so when I do spend its only to replace a player whos getting old or wants a new challenge.