Football Manager 2018: 10 Challenging Teams You Must Consider Managing

VfL Wolfsburg is a ship that desperately needs steadying. During the 2014–15, they established themselves as one of Europe's teams to watch after finishing in second place in the Bundesliga and winning their first DFB-Pokal title with a surprise victory over Borussia Dortmund.

But it's been all downhill for the Wolves ever since, and that hasn't come as too much of a surprise considering they've sold star players including Julian Draxler, Kevin De Bruyne, and Andre Schurrle in recent seasons.

Last term was a disaster for Wolfsburg. Just two seasons on from playing Champions League football, the German outfit was going through managers like Leeds United during the Massimo Cellino era and battling relegation - a fate they only avoided thanks to a playoff victory over Eintracht Braunschweig.

Make no mistake, Wolfsburg are a club in crisis and your job in Football Manager 18 is to stop the rot. With the experience of Mario Gomez up front and Jakub Blaszczykowski on the wing, there's a foundation for players to build on, but can you take them back to the heights of 2008-09 when they won the Bundesliga?

This is a bigger challenge than ever before, with Bayern Munich virtually untouchable, Dortmund never far away from the top three and the emergence of RB Leipzig as a new footballing powerhouse in Germany.