How about a combination of both. Each club could improve facilities by buying upgrades internally to there shops/merchandise one stage at a time but could only have so many improvements per season. You could also then have occasional auctions available where clubs can bid, these could be slightly better deals where you could perhaps upgrade two stages at once or even temporary merchandising promotions that would perhaps improve shirt sales or offer other merchandise for a period of time (half/full season). 

Just an idea as I think the auction idea is a good one but really all clubs should have the chance to improve facilities if they have funds that they can invest.



-- Edited by mg1 on Sunday 7th of February 2010 02:00:38 PM

i agree with simon, i dont think you have to worry about people improving the shops quickly, if you can only do 1 a season for example, and the first stage cost 3m (another example) then people are just going to accumilate wages that they wont be able to spend