5. Crystal Palace Barclays Premier League
Transfer Budget: £4.55m
Wage Budget Available: £35.85k
The Good: A sizable budget considering the amount of players who have already been brought in, enough for one fairly solid acquisition at least.
The Bad: A horrendously bulky squad with numerous passengers and journeymen, many of whom will prove difficult to sell on until January at the earliest. Lacking a real presence in the centre of defence, and a 15 goal minimum striker.
Advice: Spend big on a centre half, create a few interesting backup tactics for when you inevitably hit a quagmire of bad form, and pray Marouane Chamakh can score. At all.
Best Suited To: A Headlines Manager Someone who can handle the media scrutiny and constant cries from the players that the team is under-performing and that theyre starting to lose confidence in you. Must be tactically astute rather than the one tactic fits all approach, and gear up for a long, dreary season fighting it out until the very end. If you make it to April and can still mathematically stay up, youve done a remarkable job.