Third day - Jerry McGuire

Before getting into the transfer market, I assess my team to decide what players I need.

After one hour, I decide to change my approach to the problem. Instead, I start deciding what players I'll keep.

The list is awfully short, I could keep, as a last resort, a right defender (Stephen Reilly), a defensive midfielder (Fergus Tiernan) and maybe, being generous, a striker (Ian Watt).

The rest simply cannot play.

So I have 0 euros and 8 players to find, easy...

The most seroius problem is the defense, where i have no real DC and a shitty, shitty DL.

So I start looking for either very young or very old DCs and a fast DL.

I also need 2 goalkeepers, a whole midfield and at least one striker.

While the reports start coming, I realize that the others are controlling each other (and me) a lot, so there's some blocking of offers and the like. Sometimes up to 4 teams bid for the same player. The plot thickens.

I start to see patterns in the other player's projects.

Forfar is paying clearly too much for so-so players, he'll have problems.

Montrose basically tries to hire 40 players under 19 to get a very young and cheap team that will explode int he future. Sounds great, except that his 17 year olds are already better than my 24 year olds...

East Stirlingshire is going for quality, hiring players in the 120-160 euros band, as well as Montrose.

Meanwhile, Queen's Park cannot afford to pay 100 euros. and I'm looking more into the 30 euros band. Of course, the results suck.

However, after much dealing and rejecting and all that, I find myself with 5 new players that seem to give a lot of strength to my team:

2 new DCs (one of them 34 years old), a DL, a very young striker that has a lot of potential and a striker that has a little bit of everything and has a good overall, allround vibe.

The holes in the team start to become more and more obvious, my goalkeeper is horrible, my right midfielder is a drunkard, but there is no time for more, the first enemy approaches my field.

It's the Glasgow Rangers, the best team in Scotland.

I'm doomed.