Buying Coaches

Your head coach needs to have "unearthly" in the skill in which you're training. His general appraisal doesn't matter that much for lower level teams. Your assistant coaches need to have as high a general appraisal as you can afford. For instance, if you can afford the wages for 3 x very good coaches, that might be a decent starting point for your team.

Startup money is tight! Want a money-saving tip? If you know that over the next two seasons, you will be training striker, technique, and pace, hire an assistant coach that has unearthly pace and an assistant that has unearthly technique. When it's time to change training, just move your assistant coach to head coach!

Your coaches' wages are going to be your biggest weekly expense. Budget for it! Plan on selling one trainee per season, and factor that money into your budget. You can go -$250,000.00 in the hole and still buy players and coaches, and you can go -$500,000.00 in the hole before you lose your team to bankruptcy. However... DON'T DO IT! Money is scarce when you first start, so only spend money on things that will make you money. If your money is running low, you can always sell a trainee to get back in the black. But you can't sell a part of your stadium, and you can't sell a brilliant head coach that's costing you $30k a week in wages (you can only fire him!). So if you want to splurge, splurge on trainees. Do not splurge on coaches or your stadium.