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What previous decisions made you look back and feel like this?:
... I'll start off, my biggest rookie mistake was becoming too connected to my players.
When I first started playing this game I gave my strikers way too much credit. I thought one of my players was an absolute legend because he scored an incredible amount of goals in my first two seasons... Like every player could.
In the first few seasons it is important to remember you are pretty much against AI, bots. As long as you can slap a formation together on your tactics page then it should not be too hard to get to Division 4 in England with absolutely no sweat… but in your first experience of the game you don't particularly know that yet.
Anyway, it's important not to idolize players, think of them as data (unless it's Eden Schutt).
Glenn Downham was a striker that I owned that wasn't good enough to play for Division 4 but I kept him because of his performances in Div5 and Div6 while he was destroyed by maxings and deterioration:
I kept this player in my reserves out of some sort of gratitude, so he could retire at my club. This decision may sound innocently silly but it's worse than that, it also affected my finances as I was paying to keep him weekly.
Let's say there's just 10 weeks a season (which there isn't), with his current salary if I made him a coach (which I'm sure is lower than his last season as a player wages) he has now he cost me 25,330GBP a season, multiply that by the amount of seasons I've kept him in my reserves and… I leaked a lot of money from my club for no reason.
Hilarious thing is, now I'm pumping out players from my Youth Academy that are better than him, here's one example.
Reg Warrender has another season and a half to train in the Youth Academy and no maxings!
To avoiding doing what I did, to keep a memory of your player... Mention him in your WFO! Trust me I don't even want to use Downham as a Coach as I have better coaches in all his abilities, so he's totally worthless.
What about you guys, any Managerial Blunders you regret from your early days?
