Too much money, can it be a bad thing.

Hi

During my first season as Man united there was takeover rumours of the club, anyway to cut a long story short the club got takenover.

Anyway move on to the close season and the new owners give me my transfer budget for the season......£150 million, I had to check becuase I had never seen that before.

Well straight away I was like a women at the January sales...I went crazy, sold some players got some new ones in...in total spent £211 million.

Now this is where the problems started, I had a team which was nothing like a Man U side, players I had bought I didn't need and on a personal level felt that I had ruined my game.

The questions are...was that too much money, what would you have done, has anyone else had this happen to them?

I look forward to your responses

I would of brought all the young best English Talent, upgraded everything the board would do.

I would spend carefully, since that money could last for ages. NO point blowing it.

And I would spent no money on anyone over the age of 25.

Yep, youngsters FTW.

yeah too much money can go to your head mate lol. clearly it did. I am in season 5, 3 at rangers and 2 at spurs and have spent £210 million in all season lol, recouped a total of £260 million though. I would not know what to do if my board gave me that cash . Not going to happen anytime soon though .

Gelling is very important, so buying too many players will cause problems I believe

Every team has areas, which could be improved. Improvement of these areas could cost a lot of money for ManUre:

1. GK

2. RB

3. DMC

4. LW

I would invest to better players for these areas and also to future stars in order to cover all other areas.

Simple as that.

In my 08 save i've had a £200m transfer budget for the last 6 seasons. I tend to spend the money that I have made through sales and not touch the rest.

I hate having that much money.

I much prefer to be forced into bargain signings or being forced to let one target go because I can only afford one.

With my well documented, and stupid rules that I play by, I usually find that players don't stay at my club for more than two seasons So I usually end up selling quite a few players each season for considerable profit and then buy cheaper players to replace them.

too much money is bad, I know this too. transfers in fm are so good and massive part of the game, when you have a big budget you go crazy and end up with like 2-3 different teams in 1 squad and no link to players. also i have found you play worse cos they dnt gel straight away!

I hate having that much money.

I much prefer to be forced into bargain signings or being forced to let one target go because I can only afford one.

Exactly, when I get that amount of money the OP mentioned, I feel like a child in a candy store and buy everything and eat is, then becom sick. Happens to me in FM, buying many players which in the long run I don't use them at all and sell them for less money.

Normally I jump ship in such a case.

I'd have probably blown it tbh!! :o

It's a fantastic situation to find yourself in, I would have really enjoyed shopping around for the super stars. I don't usually get the opportunity as I play with Wigan.

Seriously though, I suppose my head would have overruled my heart at the end of the day and I would have bought youngsters etc as I usually play long term games

Even if i have loads of money,I tend to spend only half of it

Most,75% of it,not more than that

I think it was in FM07 I started as Norwich and spent about £3.5m over two seasons, one in the Championship and one in the Prem. I then moved to Newcastle, did the typical Newcastle thing (buy a new defence and still leak goals) and didn't enjoy it nearly as much.

This time round I had £0 budget so had to sell to buy (which thankfully you can do now) and then given £6.5m for the January transfer window, which I will have to plan very carefully. I think I am better at finding value for money on a small budget.

I ended up with some great young players, I kept the age to below 25 except for the goalkeeper who I bought ( Seb Frey £39 million).

I got Zapata in at right back to take over from Gary Nevile, Benzema ( £42 Million, never worth that) came in to the strike force plus 4 midfields.

The other clubs knew I had money and just wouldn't give up their players. I even bid £80 million for Kaka and got no where ( I wouldn't have gone though with the deal)

Thanks to everyone who posted back:thup: