The second day - Financial Engineering

Right, let's get to the task.

The first move is to use the money in the bank to change all the contracts of every coach in the team to a full coach status. That way I'll have one coach per role and although the are really, really bad, they'll give me a minimum 2 star training rate. If I could get good trainers, coupled with my installations, I could really, really profit at the end of the season, specially because I know others have worst coaching stats because they cannot afford so many coaches. However, they can choose good ones...

The team is not going to have a deep bench, my limitations in the transfer market are too big, so I really need to keep my team in perfect shape and have little injuries, so I fire my physio and hire a new one with 15 skill.

After that, I also fire my scout and hire 2 good ones I can trust.

The new scouts and physio are quite competent, as well as the goalkeeper coach, so I'm less worried there.

Then it's on to the team. I basically fire every player who has less than 2 stars and start looking for everything, defenders, goalkeepers, midfielders, the lot.

The total count goes up to 15 people fired in one day.

This leave the QP reserve team almost empty, but I have a big cushion of 300 euros of salary to spend.

Firing is easy for me, as the money comes from the great 2 million pot, as well as paying staff. The next move for coaching will come a little bit later, when I try to promote all my coaches to assistant managers and hire 2 real coaches, but for the moment, I'm covered.

Next, time to set up a good friendlies calendar. Here comes my first tricky move of the game.

Although the rest of the coaches know of my debt, they do not really understand how it works and think I do not have money at all. However, I'm the richest team in the league.

So I decide to play a little mind trick. I set up a "desperate for money" type of calendar, I prepare matches against Celtic, Rangers, Nottingham Forest, Middlesborough, Fulham and Motherwell. In theory this would give me a lot of money but destroy my morale or, if I play with only reserves, make my team start the league completely green. It's a shity tactic, on purpose.

In fact, the plan is to lose horribly the first 2 matches but tighten a lot the defense and learn from it. Then change the calendar saying it's too much and get shitty teams so the morale goes better. This way I'd give the impression to the other teams that my team is green at the beggining of the league. Maybe someone will try to attack me...

The money I get or lose is aboulutely meaningless to me at this stage. I need time to play and players, not money. The plan is to get this without the others realizing.

Reality, as always, has her own ideas.