I'm thinking already if it's a good idea to get into debt to build a club shop! By my Calculations I'll be something like $16,000 or so in debt if I select this option! Does anyone think it'll be a good idea for a club that's two days old to get this level of debt? will I be albe to choose what type of Products to buy and sell? Will I be able to set the selling price?

I'm only asking...that's all before I make a final decision....any adivce I get would be appriciated ....Thanks

sissco

Absolutely not!

I worked out the cost of the shop, and likely incomings based on a decent performing team.
The cost of building is $350,000.
You then pay $3,000 per week in maintenance.
At the top level, the estimated basic earnings are $7,000. I'm in III.2 which appears to be the 6th division. Earnings decrease 10% for each division below the top one - $7,000 with 10% rolling reductions 5 times over results in $4,133.
So I could reasonably expect get a minimum of this each week.
BUT, this increases 10% for each week you are above the previous week's position. If you keep winning, you can rise a maximum of 9 places (from bottom to top), which results in $9,745 per week.
That's on the basis you win each week.
Income (9745) - Maintenance (3000) = Turnover of $6,745.
Just to earn the initial cost of building back, would take 52 weeks - a calendar year.
But there's only 18 weeks in a season. Even if you allow a handful of weeks for an offseason, you'd be looking at about 2 1/2 seasons before you'd even make your investment back on the shop.

Where it becomes very profitable is if you get a couple of upgrades, as the proportion of earnings against maintenance becomes greater. By that time, you'd have spent $450,000 minimum.

Hey, in four seasons time you could buy the top coaches and train up the best players.
Or you could just save a bit of cash and do it right now instead of buying a shop.

There is a couble of things here that i disagree with. 1. Just because its III2 does not mean its 6. division. If it was like that it would be better to be in III1 then II2 and that would seriously be weard.

2. These first season are to build up your team, stadium and INCOME. In other words then an upgrade like that may not look like the best thing now but in the future the managers like me that has bought the club shop will be really delited and those who have not will be regreding that they didn`t invest in it!