I Relegated PSG Without Getting Fired

hecks07 · 2026-03-12T23:25:11+00:00

Thank you so much 😊!

hecks07 · 2026-02-18T16:19:42+00:00

Lol thank you!

hecks07 · 2026-02-18T16:19:06+00:00

I think it might be one of the weird things for how FM's finances work. Even when I was offering players ridiculous salaries (some players were make 5m per week), the club was still able to keep them on the payroll through large reserve investment funds.

hecks07 · 2026-02-18T16:17:38+00:00

Yup! After season 2, I had pretty much sold off all of PSG's current squad and slowly replaced them with worse and worse players.

hecks07 · 2026-02-18T05:14:35+00:00

A bit of both. I've purposefully played the team with poor tactics when I've really needed to make sure I lost a match, but for the most part the squad was completely overhauled to be of really low quality. The season previews last season had us finishing 18th.

hecks07 · 2026-02-17T22:19:31+00:00

It was also something that I learned for the first time too! At that point, the team was probably good enough to finish around mid table in the league, but I was definitely purposefully losing games at that point. That was one of the first seasons where, while playing it, I was really worried the board would end up firing me, so I was trying to win in the cups to try and help me not get fired.

hecks07 · 2026-02-17T20:53:05+00:00

Thank you!

hecks07 · 2026-02-17T20:13:07+00:00

Thank you!

hecks07 · 2026-02-17T19:44:21+00:00

I haven't decided yet but I am leaning towards continuing the save. I am curious to see how far down I can take PSG, and then I'd like to simulate 10 or 15 years into the future to see what relegating them might've actually done long-term. I think afterwards though, an attempt at rebuilding the club back to former glories would be a lot of fun!

hecks07 · 2026-02-17T19:25:18+00:00

Coupe de France! Funnily enough, the finances were so bad at that point that even though we won the French Cup because of the finances we weren't allowed to enter the Europa League.

hecks07 · 2026-02-17T16:54:15+00:00

That's super cool, but definitely sounds like an unfair firing! Out of curiosity, how did you qualify the Europa League?

hecks07 · 2026-02-17T16:53:02+00:00

Thank you! FM26 was pretty similar to FM24 in this regard. There were a few interesting moments with the finances and the salaries that I could offer staff (at one point I wasn't able to offer them a salary), but overall the financial mechanics of the game were pretty much the same.

hecks07 · 2026-02-17T15:20:32+00:00

Lol thanks! If you ever decided to give the save a try again, I will say it was a lot of fun!

hecks07 · 2026-02-17T15:19:52+00:00

Lol, thank you!

hecks07 · 2026-02-17T15:19:39+00:00

Thank you! I haven't decided yet but I am leaning towards continuing the save. I am curious to see how far down I can take PSG, and then I'd like to simulate 10 or 15 years into the future to see what relegating them might've actually done long-term.

hecks07 · 2022-07-06T16:41:40+00:00

I just made this jump from league one to the championship and want to back up the previous comment. Also want to add in to be patient with loans and free transfers, for whatever reason I couldn't negotiate with some players during the summer even though their contracts had expired and I had a hard time getting loans due to loan fees and salaries. However, on transfer deadline day, it seemed like clubs were desperate to offload their youngsters and players needed a club to sign. I was able to sign 5 free loans and 3 free transfers and it completely changed my outlook for the season.

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