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You can buy a Legoland based football club and battle against the nation's football establishment for the SuperLeague title. Ownership of a club allows you to select the team's starting line-up, hire and fire managers, delve into the transfer market, agree sponsorship deals, and publicly hit out at other rival clubs, managers and players. Best of all, however, owning a club gives you a team of your own to root for!
Prospective buyers can use Legoland's national currency, the Legoland Pound (L£), to buy a club. Real money is never required as Lego football is just for fun so theres no no risk on the buyer's part. Following the purchase of a club, a buyer can interact as much or as little* they wish with regard to team selection and buying and selling players.
*A buyer can go on "holiday" and leave the running of the club in the hands of an automatic board of directors who will select a team and buy and sell players as they feel is best.
Have no Lego money? Chill. If you have no Lego money you can borrow it from the Legoland banks.
If your bid for a club is accepted by the existing board of directors you will immediately be allocated a representative minifig who will live in Legoland. You will be asked to give this representative minifig a name - you and the representative minifig both may have the same name, if desired - and he or she will in effect be 'controlled' by you. The representative minifig shall be the "minifig owner" of the club with you being the human owner.
Through the representative minifig you can apply for a loan from one of Legoland's banks. The loan will be taken out in the name of the purchased club and the debts (sum borrowed + total interest) will be put onto the accounts of the club.
Currently Legoland's two main banks (Voluntary Bank of Legoland and the Bank of Legoland) offer 1 year or 2 year loans. For a 1 year loan the borrowed sum + total interest must be repaid 1 year to the day from when the loan was taken out. Similarly for a 2 year loan the borrowed sum + total interest must be repaid 2 years to the day from when the loan was taken out.
The best 1 year and 2 year rates currently on offer are:
A 2 year loan at 22.5% interest i.e. for each borrowed £1million you must pay £1,225,000 after 2 years.
A 1 year loan at 15% interest. i.e. for each borrowed £1million you must pay £1,150,000 after 1 years.
No. Buying a club is made using Lego money and you cannot lose any real money! (There is an option to buy a club using real money and avoiding the Legoland banks should you wish but only should you wish. The real money to Lego money exchange rate is: €1 : L£500,000).
Clubs earn Lego money through a number of sources, primarily from TV and sponsorship deals made with "companies" from Legoland and other toy nations, from season ticket sales and from selling football players.
The SuperLeague usually signs a 1/2 year TV deal with one of Legoland's major television companies and the money is split depending on a team's final league position in the previous season.
Season ticket sales are computed before the season kicks-off. The money earned is simulated and takes into account the current regulated ticket prices, the club's stature and final league position in the previous season, and the population and economy of Legoland, Wise forays into the player transfer market is very important as it can be the main way to bring in the funds. Trying to buy in quality players at good prices and selling others for a profit is key. It's important to note that a decent enough starting 11 is recommended to aid your club's on-field results so you should not be quick to sell all your talented players.
Yes. Results for the SuperLeague are simulated automatically for each round and take into account the 11 players ratings fielded in the starting line-up. The simulator also takes into account the team's manager's rating in addition to (a) the club's past results and (b) the club's Serie A history. A random factor is also included.
If upon the loan repayment due date, all monies owed have not been paid, the worst thing that can happen is that the club is repossessed by the Legoland bank from whom the loan was taken out from. In this case you would lose all ownership of the club.
An alternative bank may agree to give you a short term loan to repay the loan from another bank on time but this would be at the discretion of the bank.
It should be noted that only top division (Serie A) clubs make any big money so should you buy a club in a lower division paying off the loans borrowed on time may be tricky. Serie A is also where the fun starts.
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