Hattrick manager blog

I have been making offers on young players. The goal is to start growing our first real field of playmakers. In this field, wingers and inners have their secondary skills tuned to the maximum. Project will run for 5 seasons and this is the first. During this season we will just focus on rearranging our material so that it is possible to form composed team.

Our strategy on finances has also showed some remarkable progress. We have bit over 600k euro in the bank and that sort of money is a good vehicle in earning interest. The reasoning behind this kind of money pool is that some day interest earnings will pay for the investments into our youth team. Tight budgeting will take us there...

I have invested 5000 euro into development of our youth team and this has been going on for just couple of weeks. Now we already got our first payback as the level of the youth team rose into wretched. Plans are to invest further and increase the amount after they will rise again.

Training improves the material. Improved material garners better sales income. This is the basic formula that one must follow as a hattrick manager. Train yourself a better income.

One dilemma in player sales is the timing, because as we sell our valued assets, we take huge leaps backwards in the team quality. Many people solve this by steadily recycling the material they have in the team.

Let me tell you, this is the key to mediocrity. If you handle your team with steady acquisitions and sales, you will manage to keep it in constant flux, and you will never reach your true potential. Set yourself a goal that you must reach and schedule it. This way, you will know what needs to be done to reach that goal. Let me give you and example.

You train several midfielders to be sold in the beginning of the next season. During the current season, games are going better and better. You just might win your division if you would just continue to play your current formation during the next season. But you need the money, for what? New generation of players that you plan to invest in. This new generation will be trained even higher and make even more money for you.

Let me ask you, why are you playing this game? Is it because you want to get into higher divisions and get success and admiration of others or is it because you like this way of spending your free time, making secure money and secure standings in your good old division?

To get promotions you need to drive your players bit longer and you also have to plan the correct timing for promotion. Only if you face diamond hard competition, it might make sense to let go your treasured players and start training young blood. They shine just at the right time for qualifications couple of seasons later.

Go in cycles. This will make sure that you get peak performance at crucial moments of promotion fights and steady low performance on times when you only need to remain in the division.

The most important commodity in the game is time. It is important to manage time in an effective way to get most of this precious resource. Why time management is so important?

Young seventeen year old talents develop and train their skills at phenomenal rates. As they age the development slows down and their total skills peak at some certain level. The more you invest on these youngsters the more you will reap in return.

Goal setting and persistance are the keys to managerial success here. These are the basic rules to follow in training:

Simple and effective. Later you can elaborate these strategies further, but for starters just power-train as instructed above.

We pulled a rookie from our youth squad and he turned out to be complete looser. No more loosers for us it is investment for the youth squad. This should benefit us in the long term and on the short term we can handle increased costs so future looks bright.

This step had to be taken, I was thinking to take it bit later, but this is fine too. Coming goals for this season remain the financial frugality and some cautious player acquisitions. I already have positions all figured out it. First we need money for purchases and therefore the next step will be the sell of few players.

We managed to take the first victory in the first game of the season. These important points launch us directly for the road of status quo. It is totally unacceptable for us to be demoted.

Crew is feeling enraged after tough and lost cup match. Unfortunately there was no chance for relaxing in this first game as the points are very important to secure at this point of the season. In coming few games we can take it easy and focus on attitude management.

Creative game has arrived. This will be a turning point for those who play in an aggressive manner. Midfield players and forward guys now get tremendous boost. It really pays off to have those multi-skilled players instead of now-so-popular "two trick" guys that master one area and have good supportive talent.

For the attacking oriented managers this is a gift because there is lot of money to be made with entertaining and goal-rich game. Who wants to sit there watching the game for two hours and see a game with no scoring? Creative playing brings more goals and more attending audience and sponsorship money, hence the teams can afford to invest more on the material development. Star power, you know.

Now we had our first taste of those big money games. Side note to self: we stink, but don not make any management changes. After the first experience we must conclude that it is our own management, leadership and training that we have to watch. Therefore I declare that during the coming weeks we shall keep the chosen method of training. Furthermore we shall stop any outside-training activities and play it cool at all times.

Our situation is quite good, because we should be in a place where we can maintain our position with ease, hence the room to focus on building strategic monetary reserves for the future with slight tactic modifications with the crew lineup. What are the goals? Can we cut them into stone? Sure we can, but it takes time so we use this digital space instead.

Simple and short. I shall report on our success concerning these items.

Did I grow old or something? Why the official attitude? As our ranking improves we must add appropriate business credibility. Hasta luego.

How to manage the situation if you are down on the score? There are two choices that one can make. Firstly, one can put everything on one card and pray for the best. Secondly, one can take the safe route and conserve some energy for the more manageable situations. What ever you do, try to stick with the choice that you have made, this way you will avoid confusing your subordinates with changed strategy and maintain that slight possibility of pulling through with the chosen plan. However, you must always consider the decision from both sides, because sometimes stubbornness will lead to sure demise. Here’s one for good leadership.