The FM Gaffer
10 years ago
2 years ago
39
First of all, I loaded every league in Oceania plus 10 levels of England and down to the National 3 league in France. I holiday-ed to the 1st July 2018, to give all the tiny nations with limited datatbase to hire mangers etc. It seems Kiribati, FS Micronesia and Wallis and Futana have a tiny or non-existent database as they were unable to fill many/any mangerial postions, possibly due to the lack of FIFA membership. I applied for all jobs in Oceania.

https://imgur.com/a/tmteE

As you can see, I wasn't the most popular candidate and this confirms my suspicions that the lowere the levels that you load in, the harder it is to get a job than if you were to leave the base leagues.

https://gyazo.com/c371865f808ffe3aec3f6892a497b346

I did, however, recieve 2 interviews from the second divisions of Tahiti and Vanuatu.

Having advanced a day, I had another interview, over Skype of course as I am still livnig in home in England at this point, this time with a 3rd division New Zealand outfit.

I recieved my first offer from AS Taravao from Tahiti. This was the inital offer:

https://gyazo.com/9741f7ac40be784b7e3ce3f6b62366b5

I managed to negotiate for this:

https://gyazo.com/180fc2a30e4588d6999c8d560f1e908f

Not bad for a first wage, Tahitian football must be very lucrative. My parents agreed to loan me enough for my flight but after that I'm on my own so money is important. I've delayed for a week to see if I get a better offer.

The Vanuatan club, Westtan Broncos FC did offer me the job but their initial age was tiny as as you can see they could get nowhere near Taravao so I rejected them instantly.

https://gyazo.com/30886d8de4c67d21daea030b9f88f1b3

I made it 3/3 for interviews to job offers and it looks like we are gonna end up at Maycenvale United as this was their inital offer:
https://gyazo.com/5bd4b0824b3fb985b18dd0862667591a" class="embedly-card" data-card-controls="0">
https://gyazo.com/5bd4b0824b3fb985b18dd0862667591a

I negotiated it to this:

https://gyazo.com/5751376e07b9c0341d280a8f9a1d682e

And I accepted the offer. I was expecting to have to manage in the Pacific, and I still might but working my way up in New Zealand also sounds pretty appealing.
So £350 per week is an amazing first wage. So, naturally, I went house hunting. The club is in the city of Hastings on the North Island of New Zealand. Our monthly income will be around 2700 NZD. Around 1000 of this will go into spending and savings which leaves us 1700 for rent.

I managed to find this beauty:

https://gyazo.com/b436add2d7910c7d92ddbf9282155840

That's 800 NZD left over per month and having been giving my first month's wage in advance, I managed to pick up this bad boy:

https://gyazo.com/ffb5821a5e63427f1b0153512c1a7642

It was the only one aound the Hawke's Bay area and I managed to pick it up for 400NZD on bid.

So car and house sorted, it's time to get on a plane, have a bunch of meetings and have a look at the squad.


The FM Gaffer
10 years ago
2 years ago
39
More to come...

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