We decided to play twice a week on weekend mornings, as it seems to be a good format for everyone. We are blessed with a mix of newbies (me, Johnny, Lab and Gameon) and experienced players (Tokey, Dimmy and Daniel).
As we set up the game, I had already done quite a lot of familiarising with Queen's Park (QP) and had ben able to identify some weak points.
Queen's Park was at it's time one of the best football teams in Scotland, but was devoured by the arrival of professional sport. It stayed true to it's roots and went on as an amateur team, but it could not stay in the top levels and went down to the depths of the 2nd and 3rd division.
Still, it's an old team with a big stadium, it should be easy enough to set up some friendlies and get money, right?
Wrong, because no matter how much money I get, it won't be enough.
Queen's Park is a huge mess of a team.
QP owes around 9.5 million euros the day I step in as head coach. It has also around 2 million euros in the bank that it uses to pay the loan at a rate of 70K per month.
The normal cash flow of the team will bring roughly 1000 euros of profit before having to pay the 70K, so in order to clean he debt I'd have to play for around 10 years, give or take.
So I have great facilities, but I have a budget of 0 euros to buy players and a total wage budget of 1047 euros.
That means that I can pay less than half the salary than most of my rivals can pay.
To complicate things a little, I am going to stick to the spirit of the team, I will not hire full time players unless it's on a loan.
Not only things look bad, just wait, they get worse...
Queen's park does not have good coaches, meaning the team has 7 coaches split between the 2 squads but only one of them has 2 skills above 5. The most common coach is a 5-5-5-5-4-5-5-5 that leaves you wondering if it's worth the hassle. Of course, the directive board decides that a total of 2 coaches will be allowed in the team, so in order to hire a good coach, I'd have to fire 6 of them, and that sounds... risky.
The scout and physio are also of almost the minimum quality possible, as well as roughly 50% of the players.
Queen's Park needs a lot of cleaning to do, a lot of dead wood to cut and an awful lot of dealing in the back of the director's board to improve significantly.
The only real advantage of this team is the 2 million in the bank, so the first task is to find a way to get access to those funds without the board realizing it.
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