Football Manager 2017: 15 Essential Challenges You Need To Tackle

The Challenge: Do what Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt and Phil Neville are trying and turn Salford City FC into Premier League big boys.

Here's one for the patient players in the game: start in the National League North and build Salford City up through the leagues until you get to the Premier League.

This is basically a blank sheet challenge and one designed for players who have a lot of commitment to give and a lot of expertise on tactics, exploiting lower league loan markets and researching the opposition. Because there's no way you can rely on picking up Wonderkids for cheap and watching them blossom in your first team until you're closer to the top divisions.

You'll have no money to work with, a player base of limited talent and comparatively huge expectations for a small club side. But boy will you have bragging rights if you succeed.