Too many interviews!

[IbrahimAliMaher]

Not wanting to brag or anything, but atm I'm getting regular interview offers from PL clubs which I don't think I really deserve.

My career highlights so far have included:

• Started out at relegation threatened Crawley Town in league two
• Comfortably survived in season one
• Play-off final in season two
• Promoted via 2nd spot in season 3
• Narrowly missed out on automatic promotion to Championship in season 4, lost in play-off SF
• Took Crawley to joint top of league one in November, poached by Championship Bristol City
• Met aim of top half finish in first season in Bristol, 5th round of FA Cup
• Second season I'm pushing towards the play-offs (8th currently) with a board aim of top half, media predicted 10th

Whilst I overachieved massively with Crawley, I don't feel I've really pulled up any trees in just over a year in the Championship so far. I've picked up a few good results but struggled for consistency, and made a few cracking signings off a very limited transfer budget.

First Newcastle offered me an interview, then Wolves. Whilst both are good clubs they've both had recent issues with failing PL FFP (didn't think this was possible!) and only offered about £10m transfer budget. I asked for a bit more which cost me both jobs apparently.

Then mid-table Everton with 'rich' finances offered me an interview, again didn't want to give me any money to spend so I missed out. Bournemouth were next, they didn't want to upgrade training facilities so I walked away. Most recently Huddersfield who got won the Champo last season came calling, they've offered a 1.5 year deal with a £2m(!) budget. I don't really want to go as I'm building a good young squad at Bristol and I think I can make them a bigger club than Udders or Bournemouth given the potential catchment area, so I've asked the chairman to offer me a new deal.

Seems a bit unrealistic given how hard it is for LLM to get PL jobs that I'd have all these clubs chasing after me when I haven't even got a trophy against my name. Is this normal?!

[DaveMac]

I find this quite interesting. I’ve found LLM is always weighted a bit in favour of the player in making your career interesting. I’ve taken non league teams up a couple of divisions and then been offered championship jobs etc. Otherwise I think you could end up spending your entire life just toiling away in the lower leagues. 
I guess in your situation the less well off clubs could be looking for a cheaper alternative for a manager. I guess the part I find most telling is you get the interviews but not the job. I’m sure in real life prem teams do interview a lot of candidates. If you were getting offered all those jobs might be a bit weirder. 

[LeeWHU888]

What did you set as your previous experience when setting up your manager?

If you chose Sunday league/ semi pro then I agree it's a bit strange, however, if you had a high reputation within the FM world to start with, them prem clubs would look at who your managing and believe they are bigger and that they'd have a good chance of poaching you away from Bristol. 

[Russiandude]

This is just a complete speculation but I'd imagine if your database is small you'll get approached a lot more because of less available alternative with proven experience. A database of just all english leagues have about 340 managers and a database with 30 nations and 50 leagues have more than 5000 potential managers plus a lot of active clubs that can be used as stepping stones for managers.

[alanschu14]

Also because you get an interview doesn't mean that they'll give you the job either. My Hereford to Preston game, I was approached and interviewed with 5 or 6 clubs before Preston actually agreed to take me on.

[CityAndColour]

Nothing out of the ordinary there. If you had gotten Crawley to the top of L1 and then had Bristol City competing for the playoffs in the Champ, you'd be hot property for a number of "smaller" EPL and bigger Champ clubs.

[IbrahimAliMaher]

On 02/05/2020 at 07:40, DaveMac said:

I find this quite interesting. I’ve found LLM is always weighted a bit in favour of the player in making your career interesting. I’ve taken non league teams up a couple of divisions and then been offered championship jobs etc. Otherwise I think you could end up spending your entire life just toiling away in the lower leagues. 
I guess in your situation the less well off clubs could be looking for a cheaper alternative for a manager. I guess the part I find most telling is you get the interviews but not the job. I’m sure in real life prem teams do interview a lot of candidates. If you were getting offered all those jobs might be a bit weirder. 

You could be right, I only had a year and a half left on my contract so perhaps I was a cheap option. I asked for a new contract at Bristol City and they gave me a 50% pay rise so apparently they thought the same!

[IbrahimAliMaher]

11 hours ago, LeeWHU888 said:

What did you set as your previous experience when setting up your manager?

If you chose Sunday league/ semi pro then I agree it's a bit strange, however, if you had a high reputation within the FM world to start with, them prem clubs would look at who your managing and believe they are bigger and that they'd have a good chance of poaching you away from Bristol. 

Semi pro

[IbrahimAliMaher]

10 hours ago, Russiandude said:

This is just a complete speculation but I'd imagine if your database is small you'll get approached a lot more because of less available alternative with proven experience. A database of just all english leagues have about 340 managers and a database with 30 nations and 50 leagues have more than 5000 potential managers plus a lot of active clubs that can be used as stepping stones for managers.

Think I have a decently large database - England all the way down to National League, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands top flights at least. I may have turned off Russia and Denmark by now.

[yolixeya]

You get job offers based on your reputation not how successful you have been in your previous jobs. Your reputation is obviously suited for that level.