Promoted, Broke, and Building a £6M Stadium: What’s Going On?

[@lm6714]

Turning down St Mirren was a strange move. Much bigger club than Arbroath, and would have been favourites to win the Championship no doubt

[@win-nufc]

That’s exactly what I thought. Probably would of gave him a similar wage too and it’s only about 20 minutes away from Glasgow as well

[@choochter77gamer59]

St Mirren are a decent sized club. New stadium, decent crowd. Would have been interested to see their offer.

[@AnishVarma-m1f]

Were in Europa Conference league qualifiers this season! Crazy to reject that interview, would be the ticket to a larger job.

[@TheRealTrevStorm]

Kev: “We don’t need anymore attackers” Also Kev: *Signs more attackers minutes later* Never change Kev 😂

[@ThreeRunHomer]

And over budget before filling the holes in the defense. 😄

[@itsTiagoSilva]

we all knew that was going to happen even without the injury to the main striker haha

[@nsegura3]

It's the tycoon's fault!

[@MackeyD3]

Turning down almost triple the salary. Questionable decision

[@Billymortzz]

Think about it realistically. Triple the salary, but in a different country and far away from his family at a club where half the players work at Morrisons on a weekday. OR stay close to family, at a club where he’s loved with all the money he could want.. he’ll get a pay rise to around that soon enough it’s just about patience. He’s earning more than enough to live off at brackley

[@MackeyD3]

@Billymortzz The difference between 50k and 150k is a pretty huge lifestyle change. Also, the country change is England to Scotland. That is not particularly far, and isnt exactly coming with a big culture shock. Also, even though the standard is lower, Arboroath is still a fully professional team, so its not like going back to non league.

[@Billymortzz]

@ Englands 6th tier is better than scotlands 2nd tier…

[@ThreeRunHomer]

@Billymortzz not in real life, but FM hypes up everything in England.

[@Billymortzz]

@ trust me mate, as someone who follows a 6th tier English club home and away we would easily beat nearly every single Scottish championship team bar the top 3 maybe. The team he was going too was not a top 3 club

[@Chalks38]

Wow almost 3x the wages and much cheaper living in Scotland. In real life money talks

[@nsegura3]

I feel like the tycoon could give Kev a 1M in wage budget, and Kev will still be way over budget and having to fill holes in the team with loan players 😂

[@DM-vo2ke]

😂 So true. He did a bit when they announced some of the financial changes in FM24 and was very excited about it. Don't get why because if they actually made it vaguely hard to make money and punished you for spending it badly, Kev would lost the plot. £5.5k a week in L2 on a very average CB is quality

[@FraseThatPlays]

I'm a Scotsman living in England and I wouldn't have taken the Arbroath job either but I'd have done the St Mirren interview. You know your chairman is a tycoon and he has invested, so your own wages will go up next contract negotiation. The cynic in me has to mention that Arbroath and a SPFL badge in a thumbnail isn't going to get as many views!! 😂

[@dannydude8886]

Kev "we have 4 left backs, so we don't need anyone there" Signs 2 left backs. Think I know how you blew that wage budget mate 😅

[@StarbornQM]

Not taking the st mirren job was absolutely brain dead

[@FalseCredential]

You should definitely request a new contract due to all of the interest.

[@andrewwood7580]

This time the right decision. Yes, it's lots more money at Arbroath but the standard of football is way lower and the club lacks the resources to build. And as the "tycoon" has finally opened his cheque book - staying put is the right call.

[@tombardsley3081]

Kev has said plenty of times he'd move clubs for more money even if the league was less quality. He moved from the championship to the spl in fm17 for double the salary. It wasn't to Rangers or Celtic. It was to Hamilton!

[@jamesdrylie5584]

The chairman should definitely bump the transfer budget. I had a tycoon once give me a 2.5M transfer budget. I promptly spent that on two players so I asked him to give me more. 25.4M was provided.

[@ThreeRunHomer]

We all knew he’d sign strikers and wingers. 😄

[@BenSouthgate15Racing]

i think in football manager terms it makes no sense to move but in terms of the money our getting nearly 2.5 times more money and even if u get sacked u get a pay off.

[@O.F02]

Should have gone to Lincoln

[@FieldMedic4077]

This is going to be a one club save isn't it?

[@jameschristmas3206]

Hopefully not…

[@HuskersNeb24]

Nah eventually someone will bring out the big money and lure him away

[@tombardsley3081]

Spoilers This is a bit silly with your job changes now when you were offered more transfer budget, wage budget and the same salary in a higher reputation league in league one and turned it down because Brackley offered the same salary. But now turning down a club that’s offering over 2.5 times the salary because the transfer/wage budget isn’t as large, then goes against the reasons you turned Lincoln down.

[@itsTiagoSilva]

but the move was to arguably a worse league. and the team was expecting to figth against relegation, not for promotion

[@crowroadaw]

Arbroath was a lot more money for Kev, but a much weaker club overall. I think staying was the right choice, there. Not even *talking* to St Mirren, though, seems bonkers. Could have always said no if it didn't measure up.

[@mattyw1874]

Anybody who's saying they'd have went to Arbroath have clearly never been to Arbroath.

[@MattJames1958]

St Mirren are a much bigger club than Arbroath/Brackley, would have been interesting to see their offer. Scotland quite a nice country to manage in too for a journeyman, relatively easy to get European money

[@doctorstormchaser]

Declining Arbroath was indeed controversial, but the right call. But I think you should have at least taken the St. Mirren interview to see what they would have had - as I expect they'd have been the favourites for promotion. But keen to see the next chapter with Brackley.

[@Adwin1984]

A tricky one, that. A big payrise on offer, but to a division which I think can still have semi-professional teams. But after the chairman has flashed some cash, perhaps time to go back and ask for a new contract?

[@tombardsley3081]

Abroath were professional which in that scenario would have given Kev an advantage

[@Adwin1984]

@tombardsley3081 very true. Perhaps it comes down to "do I want to move to Scotland?"

[@AndySport]

I don’t think you made the “wrong” decision with Arbroath, but I think I would take the pay rise, personally. That’s a huge wage increase. *Very* difficult decision though

[@willjennings5252]

Arbroath is a beautiful part of the world. Just saying.....

[@steveburton8904]

Right decision this time, despite the increased salary. It would have been interesting to see the St.Mirren offer as a far more established Scottish club. That could have been the one

[@Realrocketdan]

Great episode Kev. Definitely the right call on the job offers, even the Arbroath and St Mirren ones.

[@ObviouslyKieran]

Ugh, this might as well be a new one club save...

[@MrFrazzelDazzel1]

You should try for st mirren job not my team at all

[@MattM1985]

I went to Arbroath v Queen’s Park a year ago. I think their ground is the one in the UK that is closest to the sea. Shame you didn’t go, you’d have enjoyed the meat pies they do.

[@tomwalsh6655]

I believe newer stadiums on FM cost less money to run, so a new stadium thats the same size may still be better financially.

[@Dom-wg8ne]

I disagreed with the Lincoln move but turning down the Arbroath job was the correct decision.

[@williamcross210]

Financial Fair Play The CFRU has remit over all the EFL’s Financial Fair Play Rules which are different depending on which Division a Club is in: Championship Clubs follow Profitability and Sustainability (“P&S”) Rules which dictate what losses Clubs are permitted to incur over a rolling three-year period. League One and League Two Clubs follow the Salary Cost Management Protocol (“SCMP”) These state that Clubs can only spend a fixed percentage of its revenue on player wages etc. This limit can also be added to or impacted by equity injections or net transfer spend. So SI did the Wage cap correctly

[@BLS5432]

In the EFL L1/L2- as a Birmingham fan new to the rules. I think you can spend 60% of your overall income on wages BUT that income can be inflated by cash injections/ gifts from the chairman.

[@tombardsley3081]

I believe Birmingham are exempt initially from the rules as a newly relegated side

[@reid566]

Kev you really have to keep the wage and transfer balance up in the middle it actually influences the contracts you are doing

[@kibworthbull2487]

I've been to Brackley, I've been to Arbroath. Correct decision was made

[@Jeffacakes21]

Anyone else notice Andy Rinomhota as captain of st. mirren. FM21 Barnsley NLTL goat

[@thehairy8840]

Kev wants to show off his shiny new Brazilian, ooh err. 😅

[@jayhynes6301]

Should have went to Arbroath

[@thegrumpyraccoon]

Stay in the club just for the madness sake😄

[@tomrobertson5020]

As someone from Reading, I can promise you that you wouldn’t be more comfortable living in Reading 😂

[@ZeroStrykr]

This is starting to sound like what happened to Darlington

[@RK_Gaming___]

Arbroath right call - backward step. St mirren would have been cool, nice club in glasgow and you would have been favourites to promotion again, then you’d be a season or 2 away fom bigger scottish job hearts/aberdeen maybe old firm!

[@MrQuisling]

Think of all the chairs you could have in Scotland with £140k

[@acleedsunited]

If you followed your own realism rules, you'd have gone to Arbroath.

[@lollujo]

My realism rules are that I make the decision I would make in real life. And I can’t think of a situation in real life where I’d choose to live in Arbroath.

[@Frostypower]

@@lollujo So money doesn't talk after all!?

[@gsutters4121]

Ive got a maye who moved to Arbroath and he has not enjoyed the experience

[@stiggyt19]

if you build it, they will come!

[@danielsbkr]

Yay

[@dominicsu4501]

The game is realistic isn't it?? Tycoons will turn down all your requests and just do what they want. Thats why they are tycoons.

[@Motlier]

How much Lego did you just turn down from Abroath?

[@samwalker8821]

STAY PUT

[@MaciejKlosinski]

Ihi-o-vien(like in vienna)

[@nikecapgames2931]

Ask for a u21 team!

[@FeitePetter]

NEW STADIUM = CORPORATE FACILITIES = MONEY Jez gaffer. You never wear a suit, do you?

[@DM-vo2ke]

If you dont get promoted with that wate budget you need fo uninstall FM and delete your YT 😂