Hey all,
I'm having issues with the max amount of wages I can offer a potential new signing.
My issue is that I'm trying to buy a much needed DM for £2.1m, for my club Bohemians Prague. This player is also being pursued by a larger club (PSV), so I'd like to offer the player a high wage of approx. £15-20k per week in order to entice him to us.
I should be able to afford this, because I've just sold a player for £7m. However, despite offering a playing time of star player, the most I can offer a star player is £11k per week. This appears to be because the "advised maximum basic wage" for our club (seen in the wages summary of FM23's finances section) is £11k, and this limits the max wage you can offer players.
My club's finances are as follows.
Overall Balance: £7.79M
Transfer Budget: £3.24M
Wage Budget: £256k per week (current spend is £133k)
This is with all transfer/wage budget slider all the way across to the side of wages, it can't be moved any further. I've also tried moving the slider to all possible positions, but the most I can ever offer a star player is £11k per week. I've asked the board for an increased wage budget in a vain attempt to rectify the issues, but they predictably rejected that.
I've previously been able to offer wages of £15-20k per week in past seasons, and I do have a player already on £15k.
I'm a bit stumped, and I don't know how to rectify this issue. I'd really like to sign this player, but due to only being able to offer a base wage of £11k, the financial package I'm offering isn't going to be enough to persuade him to come to us instead of a bigger club that are probably also offering a higher base wage than £11k. That's even with offering the wage increase after 5 games clause, bonuses (goals, assist bonuses, combined goal and assist bonus, competition bonuses, etc, etc), release clauses, and so on.
It does seem a bit silly that when I'm only using half of my wage budget (with £120k per week spare), the most I can offer a star player is £11k per week.
What I'd like to know is, given the information/situation above, how can I increase my "advised maximum basic wage"?Could any kind souls offer me advice on how I might achieve this?