Football Manager 2017: 20 Free Agents You Must Sign

Age: 35

Position: DMC/MC/AMC

Having spent his entire career (bar loans at Carlisle and Derby) at Everton, this summer must feel like a whole new frightening world for Leon Osman. He does not have the legs to play 38 games a season in a team aspiring to qualify for Europe (hence his contract at Everton ending), but he's still more than capable of chipping in and has good stats for a veteran.

Just make sure if you're signing him that you've got more energetic, fitter players around him: he can play an anchoring role, and he does seem to work if you try and get the ball to him a lot (without making him run too much), but asking him to play every game will just result in injury.

Potential Value: £11k

A spread of 6.6-7.1 seems to be where he'll come in for seasons of around 20 games even in the Premier League, but it really depends on how you use him as to how he performs. This is no spring chicken, but his experience is a good thing to use as long as you've got someone to do his leg work for him.

In the Championship, he's the kind of player to build a promotion season around.