LMA Manager 2004

The wage budget will increase by 20% every season as long as you complete the objective (promotion, avoid relegation etc. etc), have a healthy bank balance and the sponsors are providing a steady income.

As such... if your starting a career from division 3 here is a list of starting wage budgets for all the teams.

Hull City................£22700
Huddersfield Town........£21781
Northampton Town.........£20400
Oxford United............£18883
Mansfield Town...........£18791
Boston United............£17181
S****horpe United........£15410
Torquay United...........£14605
Swansea City.............£14536
Macclesfield Town........£14559
Rochdale.................£13892
Lincoln City.............£13340
Cheltenham Town..........£12466
York City................£12443
Darlington...............£12374
Bury.....................£12236
Kidderminster............£11523
Bristol Rovers...........£11224
Southend United..........£10833
Doncaster Rovers.........£10833
Cambridge United.........£8260
Yeovil Town..............£6830
Leyton Orient............£6370

To enter each code, from the LMA 2004 frontend, select New Game, then One Player, then Full Game, then Normal, then Full, then select any team, and in the Enter Name field input the bonuscode you have recieved. Return to the Bonus Codes screen to switch Bonuses on or off.

To enter each code, from the LMA 2004 frontend, select New Game, then One Player, then Full Game, then Normal, then Full, then select any team, and in the Enter Name field input the bonuscode you have recieved. Return to the Bonus Codes screen to switch Bonuses on or off.

Enter LMA2004MA as a name (any ID).

Start a new game and enter "LMA2004A" as your name. In the options there'll be a bonus codes section for you to activate the 'cheat'.

Enter the following at the Enter Name section when starting a new game, then activate or deactivate them by selecting yes or no in the Bonus Codes area of the Options section.

I find it amazing how many people don't do this simple thing to make money... especially for lower-league clubs.

If you have spare places in your squad then towards the end of the season promote as many of your youth players into your first team. You cannot sell any players in their first year of their contract... but come the start of the next season when the transfer window opens they can be put up for sale.

Depending on value you can make quite a bit of cash easily and quickly... and more importantly promoting youth team players usually means their wages are on the low side (so you don't have to worry about paying a huge wage bill until they're sold!).

Pro's : Potential quick increase in money.
Pro's : The size of the youth squad is always replenished at the start of the next season... so this isn't just a one-season increase!
Pro's : Wages for youth-team promoted players are negligible, so there's no worry about blowing your wage bill.
Con's : You will not be able to buy anyone else until there is some free spaces in the first team! (but this has never happened to me and I've played about 30 seasons [not the same game mind!].

You only actually pay for a scout when you use them... so there's little point in sacking a really good scout because you're not guaranteed that they will be available again when you really need them.

Keep them employed, rest-assured that they're not costing you anything unless you actually use them!

Also... you can have multiple scouts on the same scout mission (i.e. scout next opponent), and they will all provide different results for you to look at before the game. BUT, there is only one scout report available on the actual match-day and that goes in order from scout#1 thru to scout#5... so make sure your best scout (full player full tactical awareness) is scout#1..!