Wage dilema

I just got promoted to L2 with Bath City, which might have been a bit too soon, but can't complain about lack of success.

Now in the BSP I offered all my players and decent youngsters Full-time contracts (as well as the coaching staff of course). Now that we got in the Football League system, the wage demands suddenly sky-rocketed.

My two star players are complaining about their wages. They want around £700/week.

My problem is, that my wage budget is around £9000/week, and if I grant those two what they want, I am fearful that the rest of the team will follow suit with new wage demands. So far I have just told them both, that I will review their contracts at the end of the season, hoping that my Director will give me a boost in allowed wages.

But if not, then I feel I will have to sell them to keep the general wage demand down.

Any suggestions on how to proceed with this sticky situation?

I think that you have done right in telling them you will look into it at the end of the season!!

Do you have any transfer budget left? Is so you could reduce that to increase the wage budget

I also think you did the right thing.

If your stars start to disrup the team's morale, you should sell them. It makes things hard but that's just the challenge in managing small teams

No transfer budget ... that was the first thing I reduced to get more wage money. I also decided to announce fairly optimistic season goal, so they would give me more money. But it still only amounted to around 9k. So I guess I have to hope for more money at the end of season, or the two stars have to be sold off.

Sucks, but then again no doubt being Bath, you have the lowest income in that league. That + full time footy = big challenge

This is where your man management skills come into play.

Yeah I guess so .... I just have to hope for more money or sell them and find some decent replacements who are not too greedy ... and then just survive until such time as I get get a bigger budget.