charlie_doyle

i dont understand why my board wont update the stadium.

im now in 2013 with woking, and playing in the championship.

iv been filling out my stadium and selling all my season tickets every year for the last 3-4 years

at the start of the season i usually have about 2 million in the bank. but that very rapidly decreases over the season as im not making enough profit through gate receipts.

im still stuck in my 6000 capacity stadium, while all the other teams in the league and ones bellow have 3-4 times bigger stadiums.

and yet the board every season complain about a disappointing bank balance about 3 quarters of the way through the season.

ITS NOT MY FAULT YOU RETARDS!

it cant be the money because they give me a very healthy transfer and season budget, yet continue to ignore the fact that we cant get any bigger until they increase the stadium or move?

is there anything i can do, or do i simply have to be patient?

rinso

what do they say when you request they expand the stadium?

charlie_doyle

"we don't have enough funds"

but i cant make any money with a tiny stadium

rinso

try bringing in some freebies and selling them on, arrange some friendlies against high-profile clubs etc.. that will help the bank balance along...

charlie_doyle

iv done all that, i make about £1.5 million a season from transfers.

and play about 12 friendlies every season against prem clubs, but it just isn't enough

t_i_n_o2001

Its a catch 22. The board can't expand because they don't have the money to do so.

The only way around would be to cut the wage bill and sell some assets while remaining competitive on the field, as to increase the balance enough for them to build

playmaker

Portsmouth first announced plans to expand Fratton Park some where around 1989 if memory serves me correctly. 19 years later and we are still trying to sort out planning permission for about he fifth or sixth different scheme.

Then again, I suppose we do have a large population squeazed into a very small space and surrounded by water, so perhaps we are not the best real life example.

Bottom line - as someone else said, it's a catch 22. You need a bigger stadium to earn more money, but you need more money to get a bigger stadium.

Even if you had the money, would Woking have a big enough population to warrant a 20-25k seat stadium?

Tarik Ajanovic

Well,what I would do is to "sacrifice" one season if they don't have high requests for that particular one...Sell your 2-3 players for a couple of millions and try to find decent freebies to replace them...

charlie_doyle

i think sacrificing a season as you said will probably be the best best solution.

annoying though, why cant they just take out a loan?

snugglecakes

Bugger. I'm at the top of League One in 2010/11 as Woking with the same problem. Looks like I'm going to be stuck at Kingfield for a while.