FD 27 Direct Your Football Club How to Hire Staff in FD 27

Hiring in FD 27: Direct Your Football Club is the closest thing you get to a tactics screen. You do not draw a shape. You choose the people who will, and you live with their wages when the table turns. This page is the contract layer. The ranking lives on staff hire order. Read both. One tells you which door to open. The other tells you what the CV is lying about.

Version 0.1 already contains more than 1,500 staff names. Tables highlight on hover so you do not click twice. Keyboard shortcuts exist. None of that helps if you rank glamour over delay. Medical is delayed. Sporting direction is visible. That difference is the whole article.

Read the seat before the name

Each department has attributes, a performance score and a salary. A brilliant name on a League One wage bill can still be a bad hire because the number does not fit. A pre-launch pass removed a 10,000 minimum that wrecked tiny clubs, then made the floor dynamic. Employee pay was also lowered for very small divisions after losses piled up. Still: do not hire a celebrity physio if it starves the rest of the medical wing.

Medical decides how quickly players return and how many single-day knocks become a revolving door. Traumatic injuries and short muscular ones both exist. A poor department is not the occasional absentee. It is a treatment room that never empties in February. Hire here first on a teaching save. Details of why sit on the priorities hub.

The sporting director is your right hand in the market. A good one opens better signing options. A barren shortlist is often a person problem, not a database problem. Fix this second because you can see the damage this week. How to negotiate transfers is useless if the list itself is empty.

The head coach sits beside that seat in spirit. You do not pick the eleven, but you hired the brain that uses three substitution windows. Repeatedly stupid changes are a coach verdict. After a mutual termination an interim appears so you can hire a replacement; older demo bugs left people at work after a handshake, later patched. Match day is how you read that verdict without shouting at a missing panel.

Marketing, finance, and the locked jobs

Marketing changes which brands will talk to you. It pays for itself, but it is useless if you have no attractive slots yet. Fill medical and a competent sporting director before you chase a flashy commercial director on a small budget. Shirt, sleeve, shorts and stadium are explained in how to get sponsors.

Finance keeps the books honest. In League Two you can stall a window. At the top of the pyramid you cannot. Promote this seat when television, loans and assembly fines stack. Fines now forecast in the yearly balance, so the finance lead is how you see June coming. Pair with how to manage finances.

Youth coaches and the youth coordinator are tied to the academy facility. They will not appear until you build it. Do not hunt a post you have not unlocked. That is a brickwork problem first: facilities. Staff reports on players gained thousands of situational lines in a v0.1 update. Read them. Scouts no longer recite generalities. Scouting reports is the companion page.

Contracts, slots, and patience

Use a monthly save before you sign a star wage. Three slots exist. There is no rewind for a contract already inked. Wage resistance on players dropped; most will at least talk. Staff still price like professionals. If someone is clearly above your club’s level, the number matches.

Responsibilities chosen at setup apply in-game. If you delegated a department as flavour, it will later feel mute and you will blame a bug. Controls explains those toggles. Difficulty also gates which chairs you sit in, which changes how rich your first medical hire can be. Campaign mode removes the purchase budget, so the staff market is already a constraint before you open it.

A brilliant name on a wage that starves medical is still a bad hire. Rank the seat, then rank the contract, then sleep on it using a monthly slot. The market will still be there in the morning. February will not wait if you skipped the treatment room in August. That is the hiring philosophy of version 0.1, and it will survive the next patch better than a favourite wonderkid.