It is the winter transfer window. You are sitting in the top four.

So, you're essentially the club owner, in this scenario. You make your team, draft and/or hire players. Hire a manager and up to two assistants. Renew contracts, upgrade facilities, train players, etc.

The actual games are simulated by the mods via a complex mathematical formula which includes things such as luck.

We've recently opened a division 2, /r/wflleaguetwo, and promotion and relegation will be featured this season.

It's not too late to get a team designed and owned by you into division 2 for season two.

I know it can get confusing, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Edit: Jakarta FC just dropped out, if anyone just wants to take over that club.

Which player you will sign or sell to strengthen each position and depth in the squad ?

how do you avoid relegation and grow the team

Which player('s) do you bring in to your squad? You must finish in the top 4, even that may not be enough. Cup success plus a top four finish is your only guarantee to keeping your job.

You are the manager of your favoured club (In my case Liverpool), and have provisional control and advisory roles over the youth teams and academies that you have. Identify the main prospects of your club and how you would use them through out the season.

For example for Liverpool,

Suso to be used as a sub throughout the regular season. Sterling fighting for first team

etc.

Following a disappointing season you are given a transfer budget of €30M with the objective of forming a long-lasting team in order to challenge for the league title and subsequently for the Champion's League in following seasons. You are allowed to sell any player in the current squad and re-invest 80% of the selling prices into new signings.

For transfer costs use: http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/

Current Squad

Assume you can have a squad of 25 players from the Championship, League One, League Two and below in the English League system. They can be any nationality as long as they are attached to a club in England. Loan players from Premier League or abroad cannot be signed.

How do you stay up in the Premier League?

Alternatively, if you don't like English football use the same rules for any foreign league.

Your budget is €200 million. Also, what are your goals for the 2013/2014 season.

let's say your budget is £50mil

Luis Suarez has told you privately that if he is still here come August, he will skip training and refuse to play. The manager of RM says the following:
"You are to make the first offer. We will consider a swap+cash deal, but the only players that are off limits are Varane, Casillas, Ronaldo, Ozil, and Ramos. All other offers, we will consider."

Who and how much money do you ask for in exchange for Suarez?

http://www.reddit.com/r/youarethemanager/comments/1ffp3t/ya_manuel_pellegrini_newest_manager_of_manchester/calkom8

What do you do to keep Sheikh Mansour happy and provide success in the league and in Europe? After this year's embarrassing second place finish, 11 points behind Manchester rivals United, you are told to finish within 3 points of first place and advance to the knockout stages of the CL or you will lose your job.

Your squad currently consists of:

GK Joe Hart - £21m
GK Richard Wright - £225k
GK Costel Pantilimon - £2.6m
DF Vincent Kompany - £31m
DF Joleon Lescott - £10m
DF Matija Nastasic - £15m
DF Wayne Bridge - £1.3m
DF Aleksander Kolarov - £11m
DF Gael Clichy - £13m
DF Micah Richards - £14m
DF Maicon - £4.4m
DF Pablo Zabaleta - £14m
MF Javi Garcia - £15m
MF Jack Rodwell - £13m
MF Gareth Barry - £7.5m
MF Yaya Toure - £31.5m
MF James Milner - £15m
MF Samir Nasri - £18.5m
MF David Silva - £38.5m
ST Scott Sinclair - £6.6m
ST Carlos Tevez - £24m
ST Edin Dzeko - £24m
ST Sergio Aguero - £39.5m
ST John Guidetti - £6.2m

Sheikh Mansour allocates you £100m to help improve the squad, plus 100% of any player sales. However, he says that you cannot sell Joe Hart, Kompany, Nastasic, Yaya Toure or Sergio Aguero. He would like to see you build a young, but still competitive squad.

He will allow you to play the squad in any formation you wish, with any tactics you wish to deploy - you have free reign.

Also name the team.

Consider you got 60 million from his sale plus 20 milion regular. You get 60% from each sale counting the Falcao one(that makes 36 million). The board is giving you the following objectives:

Finish top 3

Make it to Copa Del Rey semi finals

Make it to Champions League Quarter Finals

This is your squad:

1ASENJO 13COURTOIS 2GODÍN 3FILIPE LUIS 12PULIDO 15DOMINGO CISMA 18CATA DÍAZ 20JUANFRAN 22INSÚA 23MIRANDA 4MARIO SUÁREZ 5TIAGO 6KOKE 8RAÚL GARCÍA 10ARDA TURAN 11CRISTIAN RODRÍGUEZ 14GABI 7ADRIÁN 19DIEGO COSTA

The currency is euros and you are using www.transfermarkt.co.uk for player prices

June 1st. The football world is in crisis, after it has been discovered the top divison of every league in the world is part of some international conspiracy. Every single player signed to these clubs is banned from football for life.

In to this gap, a middle eastern multi-billionaire decides to invest in your club. You are the manager. You have unlimited funds. However, with so many top divisions wiped out, your pick of talent is limited to what was formerly second division sides. English Championship, Serie B, Liga Adelante, Bundesliga 2 etc. Your goal is to build a 25 man squad from scratch from these players, with a good mix of talent and future prospects, and create a dynasty in the wake of this footballing crisis.

you get 60% of any money from sales to reinvest. also, all player values must be taken from http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/

The board has decided to give you $40Mill for transfers while you also receive 60% from all sales to reinvest. All transfer amounts should come from http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/

Give a description of why you bought who you did and why you sold who you did. Then give an opening day First XI with 7 subs.

There are no restrictions on who can be bought so long as you remain within budget.

Current First Team Roster

• GK: Hugo Lloris, Brad Friedel, Heurelho Gomes
• Def: Kyle Walker, Younes Kaboul, Jan Vertonghen, Michael Dawson, Bennoit Assou-Ekotto, Danny Rose, Kyle Naughton, Steven Caulker, William Gallas
• Mid: Gareth Bale, Aaron Lennon, Moussa Dembele, Sandro, Scott Parker, Tom Huddlestone, Andros Townsend, Clint Dempsey, Lewis Holtby, Gylfi Siggurdson, Jake Livermore, Tom Carrol, David Bentley
• ST: Jermaine Defoe, Emmanuel Adebayor

• Valon Behrami
• Marek Hamsik
• Omar El Kaddouri
• Lorenzo Insigne
• Paolo Cannavaro
• Blerim Dzemaili
• Edinson Cavani

The owner has promised upgrades to infrastructure and facilities but will not 'go crazy' during summer.

Let's be favourable and assume that Zaha will be loaned out again from Man United.

Your squad, then, consists of [age, value]:

GK: Julian Speroni [34, £450k], Lewis Price [28, £450k]

CB: Patrick McCarthy [27, £875k], Damien Delaney [31, £450k], Peter Ramage [29, £650k], Danny Gabbidon [33, £450k]

LB: Jonathan Parr [24, £1.3m], Dean Moxey [27, £650k], Matt Parsons [21, £250k]

RB: Joel Ward [23, £1.1m], Darcy Blake [24, £650k]

DM: Kagisho Dikgacoi [28, £875k]

CM: Alex Marrow [23, £225k], Mile Jedinak [28, £1.3m], Stuart O'Keefe [23, £225k]

AM: Owen Garven [25, £1.1m], Jonathan Williams [19, £650k], André Moritz [26, £1.3m]

LW: Yala Bosalie [24, £875k]

RW: Wilfried Zaha [20, £10.5m]

CF/SS: Stephen Dobbie [30, £875k], Glenn Murray [29, £2.2m], Aaron Wilbraham [33, £225k]

Let's say that your budget is somewhere around £10m.

Your owners expect the team to have an immediate impact and challenge for an MLS title in your first season.

Because the owners of your team are two of the richest franchises in all of sports (Manchester City FC and the New York Yankees), you have virtually limitless financial resources.

However, because you play in the MLS, you can't bring in the biggest players in the world because of the salary cap.

Here are the rules:

1. Cannot have more than 3 players with transfer fee worth £5 million or more.
2. Must have at least 6 players from the US and/or Canada.

EDIT: If you choose to buy players from the parent club (Manchester City), they'll be willing to take off up to £2 million from the transfer fee.

You are expected to make Europa League next year with £20m in transfer funds. Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines will be highly sought after and you could make lots off of them, what do you do?

Your reputation is in tatters after Fulham and QPR, fans of any club you are linked with beg for you not to be hired, despite the fact that you were once touted to replace Fergie.

how do you rebuild your stock and become greater than you ever were?

You only get 50% of any income generated via sales, and obviously certain players won’t be interested in joining WBA. Assume that you’re offering standard wages, not QPR money.

You have a 50 million spending budget+money from the players you sell.

• Replacement
• Media
• Team spirit
• Ivans Relatives

Of course this question is asked because of recent events. To put it in its context: AIK is one of the biggest clubs in Sweden, and finished highest in the table among the Stockholm-teams last year.