How to make a club self-sustainable?

currently managing swansea and want to know how to make the club self sustainable.

Easy.

Buy players young and cheaply, sell them for more at around 27-29.

Never be held hostage by agents/players over wage demands.

Sell players with sell-on fee clauses attatched.

Win things.

Increasing revenue and decreasing spending.

I play as Liverpool and after 5 years the majority of my team are players I bought young (15 to 17) and develop them in the youth team. I do not spend much on transfers and my net transfer spend is usually in the negative. I spend a lot of money on hiring good scouts and coaches, linking up with teams which give me financial benefits (US and Japanese teams usually). I currently have a transfer budjet of £200m in 2017

I always try to keep wages down.. often say no to better, but more expensive players and keep younger, cheaper players instead.. do that for a couple of years and keeps improving facilities.. soon enough you'll sh*t money

-Low total salary (I usually have 15-18 first team players, with 7-10 youth players making less than £1M in my registered 25)

--Sell/loan players you aren't using. If loaning, try to get the receiving team to 1) pay you 2) pay the players wages

-The lower the Net Transfer Spend, the better

--Sell more than you buy, value wise. Sell a player for £10M, find his replacement for less than that. Or better yet, recruit from within.

--Set your asking price high and decrease it slowly to receive as much as possible. I always try to portion in out so that I have money coming in monthly. I sold Alex Song to Barcelona for £24M over 24 months and Pedro to Man City for £35M over 30 months. Doesn't really make a difference when the money comes in, but during the two years of those payments, my monthly loss was around £1M instead of £4.5M. It just looks nicer.

-Next transfer clauses

--Always % of next transfer rather than % of profit of next transfer. If you're selling a top player for £20M, you won't make much money from the % of profit of next transfer, as the profit on that will be slim. But if he transfers in the future for £15M, you'll still receive whatever %.

--I rarely go below 25% of next fee, always start at 50%

--Nice to receive money on a player that you haven't had for years. This is especially nice if you sell a younger player for £1-2M and then he blossoms and gets bought for £15-20M

---I just sold my young homegrown back up for £2.5M with a 50% next transfer fee and a £7.5M buy back price. So, if I buy him back, I'll actually spending £3.25M (£0.75M if you subtract what was paid me for him), since half of the transfer will come back to me. It's win-win-win for me. 1) I don't have a talented goalie complaining about playing time 2) My goalie of the future is getting 1st team action at a Champions League club (Benfica) 3) If he continues to progress, I'll have my future goalie at a cut rate. 4) If someone else buys him before I want him back, I get 50% of that transfer, which could potentially be more than £7.5M.

-Win often, especially the big tournaments (EPL, CL)

--Prize money

--Rep increase --> Sponsorship value increase

thanks for the help guys i am clued up on most things fm but i still after so many years have grey areas where i dont know much this was definitely one of them.

---I just sold my young homegrown back up for £2.5M with a 50% next transfer fee and a £7.5M buy back price. So, if I buy him back, I'll actually spending £3.25M (£0.75M if you subtract what was paid me for him), since half of the transfer will come back to me. It's win-win-win for me. 1) I don't have a talented goalie complaining about playing time 2) My goalie of the future is getting 1st team action at a Champions League club (Benfica) 3) If he continues to progress, I'll have my future goalie at a cut rate. 4) If someone else buys him before I want him back, I get 50% of that transfer, which could potentially be more than £7.5M.

I'm not so sure that you get the 50% next transfer fee when you are the one buying him. At least in FM11 it didn't work like that to me.

I'm not so sure that you get the 50% next transfer fee when you are the one buying him. At least in FM11 it didn't work like that to me.

I haven't done it in FM12 yet, but I did do it in FM11. Is it possible your board had negotiated to buy the clause and you did?

I'm not so sure that you get the 50% next transfer fee when you are the one buying him. At least in FM11 it didn't work like that to me.

Once I get to the next transfer window, I'll test it out.

In the transfer window and the player doesn't want to negotiate with me. Will have to hold off on this.

I haven't done it in FM12 yet, but I did do it in FM11. Is it possible your board had negotiated to buy the clause and you did?

I've done it in past versions of FM. Quite handy at times.