Hints & Tips

More money
Just set the salary of your worst player to £99.9 million. Then spend all of your funds and the board will start to complain. Then release your player and you will then have millions of pounds.

Lose all your money by signing bad players on large contracts. Take out a loan that you can only barely repay. Give everyone a £1 million win bonus, but value your worst player at £99.999 million. When you hit minus money, the game will automatically sell him for that, leaving you with plenty to play with. This is hard to do in the Premiership, but will work well in the conference.

If another team offers for one of your players, "think about" the offer. Then, set the value of that player as high as you like. The other team will then bid all the cash they have for him. If you really want to rub it in, after they have made their bid, set the player's value down to £0. He will then be sold every other week or so and never play. The bad to this is that you will never be able to re-sign players you have sold in this way.

Good players
A player that must be bought no matter who you are is Barcelona's Javier Saviola. With a sell-on clause, you can get his value down to £1.5 million. Play him on the left wing (although he is a striker). Look for a player in any position with good pace and power stats (the most important stats for a winger) and play him on the right wing. The quality of crossing will not always be the best but they will get past their men easier, and Saviola will not run the ball out very often down the left.

Upfront, there are a number of quality players available. There are the obvious ones: Batistuta, Trezeguet, Owen, Ronaldo, etc, but watch for pace, power, control and agility in your forwards (shooting does not really matter). A good cheap player with potential if you start a default game is 16 year old Paraguayan F. Torres. He should have 92 on pace and about 50 on shooting. You can get him (without sell-on) for about £140 thousand. Also, if you can afford it, buy Pascal Zuberhuler (Leverkusen) as your goalie.

A good player for not much money is Sammy Baumgart of Wolfsburg.