jamiehex Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I'm in a long term game with Belgian side Torhout. Never played a Belgian side that much but they are in Euro Cup and starting to challenge for the top. I got a feeder club in the USA....Columbus. I pay them 5.5 mil a year for financial/marketing benefits. It's been a year. My merchandising intake was 1.1 mil total. A whopping 100k more than the year before WITHOUT Columbus. Do you think this will increase cos it's a huge drain right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arsenal_2111 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Maybe if you sign a couple of American players, because the extra shirt sales. Thats what happened to me as Arsenal, got a Japenese club, signed Nakamura, got about £8mil more. Try for Donovan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcidBurn Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I had a problem with this as Crewe I have a Chinese feeder club and I tour there every year but see hardly any merchandising benefit. If I sign a Chinese player would this increase? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelicanstuff Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Sign the national team's best player, if you can. Nakamura is very good for this for japan, as mentioned above. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nots Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 nakamura becomes available on a free at the start of the third(??) season. I just get him always as a big club for merchandising. He normalyl wants like 20k per week in wages and backup status does him well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Ultimate_Red_Devil Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Tour them. In the off-season do a tour of that country making sure to play a friendly against your merchandising feeder club. That'll boost your £ intake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
18-WATP-73 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Tour and sign seems the best method for this. How much affect does it have once a player has been at your club for so long? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiehex Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 Will try a tour. Not seeing how to arrange a friendlies in the US at the moment. It's not giving me the option for teams outside Europe........ Again I've never played a Belgian team for very long are there some quirks with rep to overcome? Rep changed to Continental this summer which is pretty good for a Belgian team right? n/m I'm an idiot forgot to select "tour" not friendly. got one arranged now. Thanks for the input folks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glamdring Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 £5.5 million per year?!! Even if you mean Euros (as I suspect you do) that is still a huge amount and far more than any of my big clubs have ever paid for such a linkup. You should never get a Merchandise feeder club in those circumstances though. Common sense says that when your total Merchandise income is only 1 million it makes no sense to pay a club 5.5 million for financial benefits! I did this (although not at that cost, but I still made a loss) with Kilmarnock in Scotland in FM07 for a year before binning my merchandise feeder club because I just didn't sell enough merchandise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelicanstuff Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 I'm not bloody surprised you didn't sell enough merchandise in the US and China and Japan - come on, it's Kilmarnock... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
18-WATP-73 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 they have the best pies you need a butchers as a merchandising club 5.5 million is a bit much..mines was 1.4 million i think Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarbanrael Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 It may just be that the prospect of Belgian football is not attractive enough to the rest of the world... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glamdring Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 I'm not bloody surprised you didn't sell enough merchandise in the US and China and Japan - come on, it's Kilmarnock... Precisely, that's what I meant - same is true with Torhout in Belgium. I pretty much knew when I signed up for the feeder club that it was probably a waste of money, but I was happy enough to see for a year what it did, esp. since I had more than enough money for the purposes I needed. Then, after a year of inevitably small financial benefits I cut the link. Regarding the original post, the merchandise feeder club link did produce (assuming all other factors were equal) an increase of 10% which is not bad, it's just that 10% of a small amount is a very small amount Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelicanstuff Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 It will be interesting to find out whether club rep or league rep have more of an effect on merchandise feeder income.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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