Any way of getting higher attendances?

[Barb]

It's 2023 now (at least in my game) and I've been playing with my rl fav team Vitesse now for 4 years won cups and championships now and did well in the CL but the attendances just won't get any higher... Vitesse start with a lousy 12k supporters in 2001 (25k in real life) and they are still on that annoying 12k even though winning prizes and stuff.

This way there ain't any possibility of getting a better financial status. Including season tickets I get like 18m euro a year gate receipts, but half of that is from away games in the CL. It seems kind of impossible to get a decent amount of income this way.

I've played with Espanyol and Betis for instance and their attendances kept growing with the years so that the board would expand the stadium. But as now vitesse's attendances don't even get near the 26k capacity of the stadium the board won't improve the stadium and the only way of generating a decent income (highest wage is about 700k now) is performing well in the CL to get prize money and money from away matches gate receipts (television & prize money in the dutch league isn't a lot either ).

Is there anybody who has had similar experience with a not too big club and has a solution for it?

 

[voetballiefhebb]

If the board agree to enlarge a stadium, and the neighbourhood protest, there is no way around it, stadiums, like players have a potential on how much they can be built up. Could you really see your neighbourhood who have a non league team, and that 1,500 seat stadium being scrapped and deciding to have a 120,000 seater national stadium there instead.

Ways of generating money:

• Buy cheap, sell expensive.
• Buy free transfers, sell them on
• Don't offer a high signing on fee
• Keep wages at a minimum
• Use the attributes filter, there are players like Shevchenko 25m cheaper.

 

[Áļéאָ]

This could be a cash trapped clubs walkthrough.

 

[voetballiefhebb]

Originally posted by mixafendis
This could be a cash trapped clubs walkthrough.

I actually wrote up aims to produce more money with West Ham.

Also get rid of the reserves who eat your money for warming the bench up.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Also, it is never a good idea to sign anyone but the best on a long contract - especially in the lower divisions as you will probably want to release them on a free as you move up. For lower division teams I recommend you only offer 1 or 2 year contracts to all but your best players as you probably wont want them in 2 years time.

-C

 

[Barb]

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I've already slashed the wage bill and keep selling the players who represent large transfer fees who I could replace with a cheap as good as the original guy other player. It indeed helps you to get a big transfer fund.

But you will never become a club like Real Madrid, Roma, Arsenal, Bayern, or even the 2020 Espanyol which was a club as big as the other examples then. A team which can now and then buy one of the world's big players and build a team of not only future stars (by using scouts to find cheap great players) but also buy Italy's #1 striker for instance. And that's impossible without getting more ppl to watch your games so that your current stadium is filled 90% and the board allow you to expand it. And that's kind of the problem.

But I guess it's impossible for certain teams to get to that point

 

[voetballiefhebb]

Well I started off 100k in debt in the conference, 10 years later I had 130m in the bank. Those ways work easy, also, get a scout and go sniffing round the French and Italian U21's.

 

[Áļéאָ]

From what I know the only way to have higher attendances is to start winning titles. Usualy when a team is promoted from a lower league, your team also has much higher attendances

 

[Raith Rovers]

by taking a risk and signing a player that the fans celebrate can also increase attendances. It just takes time and success. Or if you are Man U, to live outside manchester

 

[monkeyhappy]

is it true buying players with flair increases the attendance; :s i want to know because that would make a great and "fairly" easy way to make the gate receipts plentyful

 

[Áļéאָ]

The worse thing with big name signings is the FACT that many players are unhappy when you shell such players to another team. This really can piss me off when it happens!

 

[monkeyhappy]

Originally posted by mixafendis
The worse thing with big name signings is the FACT that many players are unhappy when you shell such players to another team. This really can piss me off when it happens!

yeh especially when other players ALSO want out when u sell such a player that is like one of the most infuencial players in your squad

 

[Áļéאָ]

Yeah, but what should we do keep them with their ****ing high wages, till they get 36 and retire? I usually sell every player at 30. I always buy players not older than 26, and I prefer young talents at the age of 17-20.

 

[monkeyhappy]

Originally posted by mixafendis
Yeah, but what should we do keep them with their ****ing high wages, till they get 36 and retire? I usually sell every player at 30. I always buy players not older than 26, and I prefer young talents at the age of 17-20.

so do i, (like the youth)
but with the wages keep a short contract so you dont have a long burden and if they are crap then u dont have long to be able to set them on a free

 

[Áļéאָ]

I'll tell u what I do. (with big names e.g. Vieri) I sign long contracts, and wait till players get 30. Then I put them on transfer list, and sooner or later someone will make big offer to buy him. Money ; the key to success!

 

[monkeyhappy]

Originally posted by mixafendis
I'll tell u what I do. (with big names e.g. Vieri) I sign long contracts, and wait till players get 30. Then I put them on transfer list, and sooner or later someone will make big offer to buy him. Money ; the key to success!

but usually u get less than you bought them for bcause they dont want to pay as much for a oldieish great sadly

 

[Áļéאָ]

As I said, I sign long contracs. And sometimes even renew them. So I use players for 4-6 years, maybe even more. So I don't have such a big problem. Bacause they somehow repay the money all these years. If I buy a player for 20m and then after one season sell him, for 15m. Well, this is a big loss. But if he plays for many years I don't think it's a loss