So, I took over Braintree Town (THE IRON!!!!) in Skrill Premier. I won the FA Carlsberg Cup, and got the team into 4th place, good for the promotion playoffs, which, somehow, I won with an injury-depleted squad.
I lost the first leg of the semis at home 1-0 to a goal in the 90th minute, but had hope that I could snag 2 goals on the road and somehow my goal-deficient team managed 3 and I moved on. Played Southport in the final at Wembley, who had beaten me twice by 2-0 scores, but I moved 2 guys into my lineup that had fallen out of favor and one got 2 goals off 2 assists from the other.
However, I had to sell my soul to do it. I had to blow out the transfer budget and I'm already at my limit for salary and I'm about to start a League 2 season with basically no additions. I'll have to find some players on loan (had 2 help me last year, one I managed to sign) and hope I get lucky and they don't force me to sell anyone I need. I do have 3 decent strikers, and the one with the highest value is the one I would be most willing to sell, so maybe I can dump him, but then I'll have to switch to a 4-5-1. My goal is to simply stay up this season and next and hope some of the my youngsters develop. My board decided to break ground on a new 8000 seat stadium. I scheduled a number of pre-season friendlies strictly for the cash. Going to be a trying season.